Danny Crichton
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Danny Crichton
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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