alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
People I normally respect have bought in on some crazy-ass conspiracy theories. Elon, Balaji, PMarca... all super smart, and all tweeting crazy shit. I did some research to see why people get hooked on conspiracy theories: https://www.charterless.com/p/do-your-own-research-the-psychology
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Examples of crazy conspiracy theories (minus Elon)?
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alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
sure, - Balaji on SBF's delayed-arrest (it must be because he donated money and not because a massive financial fraud case takes longer than 24 hours to generate a winning case for...). - Marc Andreesen on WEF paranoia. And claiming that there was some kind of mainstream alliance in favor of Ehrlich's pop bomb theory.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
SBF: do you think his political donations affected his post-FTX implosion treatment at all? WEF: can argue over semantics, but elites love overpopulation fear-mongering: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome twitter.com/landnoli/status/1340180992255008770 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
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alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
For his media coverage? 100% it did. For the US justice system -- not a chance. Every prosecutor wants that win. It's high profile and career making. (And I'll admit, I hate Gary Gensler enough that I assign some bad intent to failing to investigate before the collapse...)
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Dan Romero
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> For the US justice system -- not a chance Do you clear evidence to prove this? Otherwise, it's just a spectrum of how politicized the DOJ and US Attorneys are. I've had conversations with former US Attorneys who say that the show 'Billions' captures some of the political calculations quite accurately.
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alex @ charterless.com
@alexstein
Ha! I'm a big Billions fan so I was referencing the point on prosecutor incentives from that show :) I don't know what they would "like" to do, but I think the implicit assumption Balaji makes is that the US system is not amenable to public pressure because it is so corrupt. That -- I just don't buy.
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