Danny Crichton
@dannycrichton.com
Write and design Riskgaming scenarios on tech, science and politics. Partner, Research at Lux Capital.
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.
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
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.
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
www.riskgaming.com/i/176924823...
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...
www.riskgaming.com/p/the-inter...
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...
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...
We need chaos engineering: let's carefully and intentionally break technical systems and see what fails for the end user.
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
October 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We need chaos engineering: let's carefully and intentionally break technical systems and see what fails for the end user.
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
In Seoul, I rode the new segment of the GTX-A high-speed line, which whisks travelers at 110 miles per hour between their destinations. That’s Penn Station to JFK Airport in about 10 minutes.
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In Seoul, I rode the new segment of the GTX-A high-speed line, which whisks travelers at 110 miles per hour between their destinations. That’s Penn Station to JFK Airport in about 10 minutes.
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
In South Korea, a decade’s worth of work by an estimated 750,000 civil servants vanished up in smoke in minutes. In some ways, this may be just the kind of stress test we need. riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
October 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In South Korea, a decade’s worth of work by an estimated 750,000 civil servants vanished up in smoke in minutes. In some ways, this may be just the kind of stress test we need. riskgaming.substack.com/p/the-machi...
English spelling is so complex that we’ve made mastering it into a competitive sport: what would be the point of a spelling bee in a language with a predictable spelling system?
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October 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
English spelling is so complex that we’ve made mastering it into a competitive sport: what would be the point of a spelling bee in a language with a predictable spelling system?
www.riskgaming.com/i/175718567...
www.riskgaming.com/i/175718567...
Everyone’s focused on data centers and how much water is being used.
What they’re not focused on, though, is the complexity around water rights in the American Southwest. riskgaming.substack.com/p/riskgamin...
What they’re not focused on, though, is the complexity around water rights in the American Southwest. riskgaming.substack.com/p/riskgamin...
October 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Everyone’s focused on data centers and how much water is being used.
What they’re not focused on, though, is the complexity around water rights in the American Southwest. riskgaming.substack.com/p/riskgamin...
What they’re not focused on, though, is the complexity around water rights in the American Southwest. riskgaming.substack.com/p/riskgamin...
Did you know that humans have been doing cataract surgery for about 4,000 years, and that the procedure used to involve using a curved needle to push the cataract toward the back of the eyeball?
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October 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Did you know that humans have been doing cataract surgery for about 4,000 years, and that the procedure used to involve using a curved needle to push the cataract toward the back of the eyeball?
www.riskgaming.com/i/175718567...
www.riskgaming.com/i/175718567...