Danny Crichton
@dannycrichton.com
Write and design Riskgaming scenarios on tech, science and politics. Partner, Research at Lux Capital.
A former FBI agent just spent years tracking down a North Korean hacker who ransomed a Kansas hospital. Then he offered them a job building a crypto casino.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A former FBI agent just spent years tracking down a North Korean hacker who ransomed a Kansas hospital. Then he offered them a job building a crypto casino.
www.riskgaming.com/i/179468812...
www.riskgaming.com/i/179468812...
Check out Brian Moore's new project: Every minute, nine different AI models are asked to generate a new analog clock showing the current time. The results have me puzzling over what, exactly, makes this exercise so complicated.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Check out Brian Moore's new project: Every minute, nine different AI models are asked to generate a new analog clock showing the current time. The results have me puzzling over what, exactly, makes this exercise so complicated.
www.riskgaming.com/i/179468812...
www.riskgaming.com/i/179468812...
Internet writing needs more feedback. If you’re an intellectual and someone tells you you’re wrong, it galvanizes you, it goads you.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Internet writing needs more feedback. If you’re an intellectual and someone tells you you’re wrong, it galvanizes you, it goads you.
www.riskgaming.com/p/how-to-be...
www.riskgaming.com/p/how-to-be...
Lessons from a new wargame: By forcing players to take on the Chinese perspective, the exercise exposed a blind spot in U.S. military planning — we neglect China’s incentive to pursue coercive strategies that exploit American political hesitancy
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November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Lessons from a new wargame: By forcing players to take on the Chinese perspective, the exercise exposed a blind spot in U.S. military planning — we neglect China’s incentive to pursue coercive strategies that exploit American political hesitancy
www.riskgaming.com/i/178807966...
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Fascinating new war game from Syracuse University: What would happen if you were forced to inhabit the Chinese calculus on Taiwan. www.riskgaming.com/i/178807966...
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Fascinating new war game from Syracuse University: What would happen if you were forced to inhabit the Chinese calculus on Taiwan. www.riskgaming.com/i/178807966...
My latest interview: Kirby Ferguson and Ale Matamala Ortiz on the economics of the film industry and the recession in Los Angeles; why filmmaking would have changed even without the rise of AI; how to think about remixing; and the future of art.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My latest interview: Kirby Ferguson and Ale Matamala Ortiz on the economics of the film industry and the recession in Los Angeles; why filmmaking would have changed even without the rise of AI; how to think about remixing; and the future of art.
open.spotify.com/episode/13V...
open.spotify.com/episode/13V...
Read more about Majestic and what they are doing here: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Read more about Majestic and what they are doing here: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/...
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Does AI "think"? Robin Sloan says we cheapen the term when we say it does.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Does AI "think"? Robin Sloan says we cheapen the term when we say it does.
www.riskgaming.com/i/177567986...
www.riskgaming.com/i/177567986...
Christopher Leonard's deeper dive on the problems in the U.S. defense manufacturing sector is a real-life version of our Riskgaming scenario “Hampton at the Cross-Roads.”
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Christopher Leonard's deeper dive on the problems in the U.S. defense manufacturing sector is a real-life version of our Riskgaming scenario “Hampton at the Cross-Roads.”
Contra the Trump team, modern wars are won through industrial production capacity and logistics rather than battlefield valor. www.riskgaming.com/i/177567986...
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Contra the Trump team, modern wars are won through industrial production capacity and logistics rather than battlefield valor. www.riskgaming.com/i/177567986...
The Economist has declared “the end of the rip-off economy.” You know who is benefitting besides consumers? Sabatuers for hire and their patrons. www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Economist has declared “the end of the rip-off economy.” You know who is benefitting besides consumers? Sabatuers for hire and their patrons. www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...
The problem with aging is that you eventually become out-of-sync with the youth. Like, if you had told me that a panel on VC secondary transaction mechanics and legalities would sell out, I'd ask to see your fentanyl dealer in Washington Square Park. Secondaries are the new primaries!
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The problem with aging is that you eventually become out-of-sync with the youth. Like, if you had told me that a panel on VC secondary transaction mechanics and legalities would sell out, I'd ask to see your fentanyl dealer in Washington Square Park. Secondaries are the new primaries!
Democratic countries can’t keep taking blow after blow from adversaries with nary an attempt at a hybrid-war response. Here's what we have to do: www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Democratic countries can’t keep taking blow after blow from adversaries with nary an attempt at a hybrid-war response. Here's what we have to do: www.riskgaming.com/p/make-gray...
More on EnduroSat via Reuters: www.reuters.com/science/sat...
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
More on EnduroSat via Reuters: www.reuters.com/science/sat...
Get ready for “EtherHiding,” a novel technique that stores malware in blockchain smart contracts to make it nearly impossible to take down through traditional methods. North Korea is apparently all over it. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
October 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Get ready for “EtherHiding,” a novel technique that stores malware in blockchain smart contracts to make it nearly impossible to take down through traditional methods. North Korea is apparently all over it. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
This seems like a worthy effort: GiveDirectly is piloting a program that uses Google’s AI-powered flood forecasting system to deliver cash payments to vulnerable Bangladeshi farmers up to four days before floods hit.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This seems like a worthy effort: GiveDirectly is piloting a program that uses Google’s AI-powered flood forecasting system to deliver cash payments to vulnerable Bangladeshi farmers up to four days before floods hit.
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
We've lost the war on terrorism and war on drugs. Next up: cognitive war.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We've lost the war on terrorism and war on drugs. Next up: cognitive war.
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
Another things to stress out about in interviews: North Korea’s is exploiting tech hiring processes to steal sensitive data, cryptocurrency, and gain persistent access to corporate networks. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Another things to stress out about in interviews: North Korea’s is exploiting tech hiring processes to steal sensitive data, cryptocurrency, and gain persistent access to corporate networks. www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
Today’s Lux AI Summit is focused on the power of AI to express humanity’s most creative and powerful thoughts, whether through music, art, writing or more
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today’s Lux AI Summit is focused on the power of AI to express humanity’s most creative and powerful thoughts, whether through music, art, writing or more
And we are underway!
October 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
And we are underway!
The AWS outage might be the least surprising thing to happen this month. It was practically built into the Amazon business model.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The AWS outage might be the least surprising thing to happen this month. It was practically built into the Amazon business model.
www.riskgaming.com/p/the-inter...
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There are no incentives for preventing the kind of outage we saw with AWS today, and the consequences are getting more and more dangerous.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
There are no incentives for preventing the kind of outage we saw with AWS today, and the consequences are getting more and more dangerous.
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-inter...
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-inter...
I’m a strong nuclear energy advocate, but if you are curious why so many people don’t believe humanity could ever safely run a complex technical system that could melt down, today's AWS outage is why. riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-inter...
October 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I’m a strong nuclear energy advocate, but if you are curious why so many people don’t believe humanity could ever safely run a complex technical system that could melt down, today's AWS outage is why. riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-inter...