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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian  · 4 Apr 2023  · 360pp  · 107,124 words

://propertyandfreedom.org/2013/11/pfs-2014-annual-meeting-speakers-and-schedule/.   67.  Robert Grözinger, “Freie Stadt in Südafrika,” Eigentümlich Frei (May 2013), 18.   68.  Agenda, Wayback Machine capture, June 4, 2016, https://propertyandfreedom.org/; and Brandon Thorp and Penn Bullock, “Peter Thiel Cancels Appearance at Fascist Conference,” Towleroad, July 29, 2016.   69

geschikt voor Somalia,” de Vrijbrief, no. 166 (March 1992): 11, 16.   33.  Van Notten, From Nation-State to Stateless Nation: The Somali Experience (2000), draft, Wayback Machine capture August 16, 2020, http://www.awdal.com/awdalp13.html.   34.  Van Notten, Law of the Somalis, 56.   35.  Van Notten, 70.   36.  Van Notten

and the City: How Charter Cities Could Transform the Developing World, 16.   34.  Stanford Institute for Economic Policy, “SIEPR Economic Summit 2009,” March 13, 2009, Wayback Machine capture September 11, 2016, https://siepr.stanford.edu/events/siepr-economic-summit-2009.   35.  Paul Romer, “Governance in Developing Countries,” SIEPR Economic Summit, March 13

.ufm.edu/coleccion/the-future-of-free-cities/theory-of-free-cities-and-seasteading/.   42.  Friedman, “Theory: Competitive Government, Practice: Seasteading.”   43.  Future Cities Development, Wayback Machine capture, September 11, 2012, http://futurecitiesdev.com/about-us/; and “Honduras Shrugged,” Economist, December 10, 2011, Gale OneFile. South Korean investors were also involved. For

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

by Megan Kimble  · 2 Apr 2024  · 430pp  · 117,211 words

: Jay Blazek Crossley, “It Took 51% More Time to Drive Out Katy Freeway in 2014 Than in 2011,” Houston Tomorrow, May 26, 205, accessed via Wayback Machine, web.archive.org/​web/​20150530015933/​http:/​www.houstontomorrow.org/​livability/​story/​it-took-51-more-time-to-drive-out-katy-freeway-in-2014-than-2011

,” City of Houston, www.houstontx.gov/​ecodev/​tirz/​15.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT luxury urban living: Lofts at the Ballpark, accessed via Wayback Machine, web.archive.org/​web/​20200809014037/​https://loftsattheballpark.com/​#. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “no further actions”: Achille Alonzi (FHWA division administrator) to Marc Williams

-35-expansion-to-20-lanes/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Israel told Rethink35: “Candidates’ Positions on I-35: Celia Israel,” Rethink35.com, accessed via Wayback Machine, web.archive.org/​web/​20221018224505/​https://rethink35.com/​candidates-positions-on-i-35/​celia-israel. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Whether you like cars

”: “Candidates’ Positions on I-35: Kirk Watson,” Rethink35.com, accessed via Wayback Machine, web.archive.org/​web/​20221019102433/​https:/​rethink35.com/​candidates-positions-on-i-35/​kirk-watson. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT nine hundred votes: Joshua

The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

by Laura Shin  · 22 Feb 2022  · 506pp  · 151,753 words

, September 15, 2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-merrill-idUSN1546989520080915. 3. Tim Paradis, “Stocks End Worst Week Mixed After Wild Session,” Associated Press via Wayback Machine, October 11, 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20081015170539/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gHs5OM3gFG_DytQQZFbWfgPT08MAD93NULL80. 4. Satoshi Nakamoto, “Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper,” metzdowd

School, accessed April 3, 2021, https://www.abelardschool.org/quick-facts. 3. Steven Leckart, “The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever,” Wired via Wayback Machine, March 20, 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20140421091649/https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_aiclass. 4. @kiba, “Bitcoin Weekly Looking For Writers,” BitcoinTalk

, 2011, https://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160. 7. Vitalik Buterin, “Bitcoin and the Goldbugs,” Bitcoin Weekly via Wayback Machine, June 12, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110617050611/http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-and-the-goldbugs. 8. Vitalik Buterin, “Social Democracy Enforced in Currency

,” Bitcoin Weekly via Wayback Machine, August 15, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110828021149/http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/social-democracy-enforced-in-currency. 9. Bitcoin Weekly (@BitcoinWeekly) Twitter page, Twitter

, accessed April 3, 2021, https://twitter.com/BitcoinWeekly. Bitcoin Weekly homepage via Wayback Machine, static for months after September 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110601000000*/http://bitcoinweekly.com. 10. Mihai graduated with a degree in cybernetics and economy

still exist. 14. Matthew N. Wright, “September 2012 Bet Resolution,” BitcoinTalk, February 2, 2013, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140654. 15. Ripple homepage via Wayback Machine, April 8, 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20130408174039/https://ripple.com. 16. Vitalik Buterin, “Mastercoin Suggestion: Contracts for Difference,” November 4, 2013, https://bitcointalk

, audio posted to YouTube by The LTB Network, June 9, 2013, 0:24, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBrQ07aPsL0. 21. Inside Bitcoins homepage via Wayback Machine, December 10, 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20131210091116/https://www.mediabistro.com/insidebitcoins. 22. James Ball, “Silk Road: The Online Drug Marketplace That Officials

—January 2014,” TimeandDate.com, https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/miami/historic?month=1&year=2014. 2. “BTC Miami Program Final Preview 5,” Scribd via Wayback Machine, February 8, 2014, http://web.archive.org/web/20140208025634/http://www.scribd.com/doc/201301458/BTC-Miami-Program-Final-Preview-5. 3. “Background on the

foundation at the crowdsale price for up to 20 percent of their salaries. 6. “Terms and Conditions of the Ethereum Genesis Sale,” Ethereum.org via Wayback Machine, July 23, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20140723212709/https://www.ethereum.org/pdfs/TermsAndConditionsOfTheEthereumGenesisSale.pdf. 7. “Dan Larimer and Vitalik Buterin at the North

, May 9, 2015, https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/05/09/olympic-frontier-pre-release. 18. Gavin Wood, “Another Ethereum ÐEV Update,” Ethereum Foundation Blog via Wayback Machine, June 15, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150629033357/https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/15/another-ethereum-dξv-update. 19. “What Is Ether?,” Ethereum

.org via Wayback Machine, August 7, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150807141640/https://ethereum.org/ether; “Ethereum Frontier Release,” Ethereum.org via Wayback Machine, August 2, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150802035735/https://www.ethereum.org. 20. Stephan

Team,” Slock.it (blog), November 6, 2015, https://blog.slock.it/former-ethereum-cco-stephan-tual-joins-slock-it-team-9fd956f2408. 16. Ethcore homepage via Wayback Machine, November 23, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20151123010243/https://www.ethcore.io. Chapter 5 1. Gavin Wood, “The last Blog Post,” Ethereum Foundation Blog

://laurashin.com/cryptopians/05/11-A-Primer. 12. The forum was moved to forum.daohub.org. 13. Homepage of The DAO at daohub.org via Wayback Machine, April 27, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160427120234/http://daohub.org. 14. Homepage of The DAO at daohub.org via

Wayback Machine, April 30, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160430204625/https://daohub.org. 15. Stephan Tual, “Daohub.org gets a facelift, full scope of The DAO

://blog.slock.it/daohub-org-gets-a-facelift-full-scope-of-the-dao-is-revealed-4d4c43eaf7b. 16. “The Curator: World-Class Signatories,” daohub.org via Wayback Machine, April 27, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160427071543/http://daohub.org/curator.html. 17. This code was called the open-source “Standard DAO Framework

.” 18. MyEtherWallet homepage via Wayback Machine, April 28, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160428051624/http://www.myetherwallet.com. 19. Judy Gordon, “11 Questions for Blockchain Community Manager, Auryn Macmillan,” Medium

/10/smart-contract-security. 5. Stephan Tual, “No DAO funds at risk following the Ethereum smart contract ‘recursive call’ bug discovery,” Slock.it (blog) via Wayback Machine, June 12, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160617173409/https://blog.slock.it/no-dao-funds-at-risk-following-the-ethereum-smart-contract-recursive-call

the DAO: “Transaction Details,” Etherscan, June 17, 2016, https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0ec3f2488a93839524add10ea229e773f6bc891b4eb4794c3337d4495263790b. 16. Stephan Tual, “DAO Security Advisory: live updates,” Slock.it (blog) via Wayback Machine, June 17, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160622212451/https://blog.slock.it/dao-security-advisory-live-updates-2a0a42a2d07b?gi=e1baac16ac65; Vitalik Buterin, “CRITICAL UPDATE

left: a hardfork only affecting TheDAOs, or doing nothing…,” Twitter, https://twitter.com/feindura/status/747836161452875776?s=20. 23. “TheDAO Proposal_ID 242,” Etherscan via Wayback Machine, July 8, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160714055313/http://etherscan.io/token/thedao-proposal/242. 24. “TheDAO Proposal_ID 243,” Etherscan via

Wayback Machine, July 13, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160713002933/http://etherscan.io/token/thedao-proposal/243. 25. “TheDAO Proposal_ID 263,” Etherscan via Wayback Machine, July 11, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20170722132438/https://etherscan.io/token/thedao

-proposal/263; “TheDAO Proposal_ID 265,” Etherscan via Wayback Machine, July 10, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160710103342/http://etherscan.io/token/thedao

-proposal/265; “TheDAO Proposal_ID 266,” Etherscan via Wayback Machine, July 7, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160710103139/http://etherscan.io/token/thedao-proposal/266. 26. White Hat DAO recursive calls with 25.4

on Karapetsas, “DTH: Voting request.” 29. Stephan Tual, “Why the DAO robber could very well return the ETH on July 14th,” Medium Ursium blog via Wayback Machine, July 9, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160709150904/https://medium.com/ursium-blog/why-the-dao-robber-could-very-well-return-the-eth-on

, 2021, https://poloniexus.circle.com/press-releases/2015.05.19-Open-Letter. 59. “24 Hour Volume Rankings (Exchange) Week of March 11, 2016,” CoinMarketCap via Wayback Machine, March 11, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160311200242/http://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour; “24 Hour Volume Rankings (Exchange) Week of February 21

, 2016,” CoinMarketCap via Wayback Machine, February 21, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160221144920/http://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour. 60. “Responses to Common ETC Questions,” Poloniex, press release

Classic. Will report more later,” Twitter, July 27, 2016, https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/758277705766989830?s=20. 14. “Ethereum Classic,” BTC-e News via Wayback Machine, July 27, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160729025821/https://btc-e.com/news/230. 15. Barry Silbert (@BarrySilbert), “Given number of people calling me

on “Follow Up Statement.” 36. WhalePanda, “Ethereum: Chain of liars & thieves.” 37. Stephan Tual, “On a personal note, from Stephan Tual,” Slock.it (blog) via Wayback Machine, August 18, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20170623155231if_/https://blog.slock.it/on-a-personal-note-from-stephan-tual-710f32e6eeb. 38. This blog post

, 2016, https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/532523/the_dao_extrabalwithdraw_contract_has_now_been. 3. “Directors,” IC3: The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts via Wayback Machine, September 10, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160910051422/https://www.initc3.org/people.html. 4. “Founder of the Apache Software Foundation Joins Linux Foundation

/CM.MKT.LDOM.NO?locations=US&year_high_desc=false. 6. Kosala Hemachandra (@kvhnuke), “Ether Wallet: Open Source JavaScript Client-Side Ether Wallet,” GitHub via Wayback Machine, August 17, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150817002506/http://kvhnuke.github.io/etherwallet/#. 7. “Whois Record for MyEtherWallet.com,” DomainTools, accessed April 2, 2021

, https://whois.domaintools.com/myetherwallet.com. 8. MyEtherWallet homepage via Wayback Machine, September 1, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150901202109/http://www.myetherwallet.com. 9. Taylor Monahan (@insomniasexx), “MyEtherWallet Chrome Extension: The Beta Has Arrived,” Reddit

NOW!),” Reddit, April 30, 2016, https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/4h3xph/how_to_participate_in_the_dao_creation_via; “Withdraw DAO,” MyEtherWallet via Wayback Machine, October 3, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20161003170011/https://www.myetherwallet.com/#the-dao. 11. Alex Sunnarborg, “Blockchain for CPU? Analyzing Golem’s Ethereum

,” CoinDesk, November 11, 2016, https://www.coindesk.com/analyzing-golems-blockchain-token-sale. 12. “Golem: Will It Enable the P2P Computing Market?,” Smith + Crown via Wayback Machine, November 5, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20171105091745/https://www.smithandcrown.com/golem-will-enable-p2p-computing-market. 13. “Enterprise Ethereum,” Trademark Electronic Search

-february-19-2017. 16. Jules Kim’s Twitter profile: ScoobyDoo (@CointrolFreak), Twitter, accessed April 2, 2021, https://twitter.com/CointrolFreak. 17. “Margin Trading,” Poloniex via Wayback Machine, August 17, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160817225211/https://poloniex.com/support/aboutMarginTrading. 18. Laura Shin, “The Emperor’s New Coins: How Initial Coin

/blockchannel/a-look-at-the-aragon-ico-investment-distribution-a78f601229d8. 21. “Consensus 2017: Making Blockchain Real,” CoinDesk via Wayback Machine, May 21, 2017, https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2017. 22. MobileGo homepage via Wayback Machine, May 20, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170520190735/https://mobilego.io. 23. @aknnig, “Stability of myEtherWallet during

2, 2021, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvenzverschleppung. 29. $525 million in 2017 versus $7.5 million in December 2016: “CryptoCurrency Market Capitalizations,” CoinMarketCap via Wayback Machine, June 19, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170619185948/https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour; “CryptoCurrency Market Capitalizations,” CoinMarketCap via

Wayback Machine, December 19, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20161219192347/https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour. 30. [deleted user], “IMPORTANT: Bancor’s terms state that

transfers): “Address 0x3fff90bF314673194c3A265Ed1c0aA68f59550C4,” Etherscan, June 15, 2021, https://etherscan.io/address/0x3fff90bF314673194c3A265Ed1c0aA68f59550C4#analytics. 18. Homepage of the World’s First 100% Honest Ethereum ICO via Wayback Machine, June 27, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170627123240/https://uetoken.com. 19. “SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION; SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934; Release No. 81207

Internal Update,” Ethereum Foundation Blog, January 7, 2016, https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/01/07/2394. 35. “About the Ethereum Foundation,” Ethereum.org/foundation via Wayback Machine, September 6, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150906200827/https://www.ethereum.org/foundation; “About the Ethereum Foundation,” Ethereum.org/foundation via

Wayback Machine, March 4, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212822/https://www.ethereum.org/foundation. 36. June (@JUN_SYNQA), “Omise is now official Special advisor (Thomas)

, https://www.coindesk.com/consensys-confidential-ethereum-builder-is-back-in-growth-mode-document-reveals. 18. “Etherchain coin vote on EIP 999,” etherchain.org via Wayback Machine, April 25, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20180425010204/https://www.etherchain.org/coinvote/poll/35. 19. Transaction showing devops199’s address had received 0

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker  · 14 Jun 2025  · 381pp  · 119,533 words

Adam Fisher, “Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex—and Maybe You Should Too,” Sequoia Capital, September 22, 2022, archived October 27, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/; Nicholas Kulish, “How a Scottish Moral Philosopher Got Elon Musk

://futureoflife.org/; Max Tegmark, “Elon Musk Donates $10M to Keep AI Beneficial,” Future of Life Institute, January 15, 2015, archived November 22, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20191122175152/https://futureoflife.org/2015/10/12/elon-musk-donates-10m-to-keep-ai-beneficial/; “Future of Life Institute,” EU

Transparency Register, archived May 26, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230526011529/https:/ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=787064543128-10; Future of Life Institute, private communication. 35

.org/10.1007/s10677-013-9433-4. 56 William MacAskill, personal communication. 57 “Sam Bankman-Fried,” 80,000 Hours, archived June 13, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20210613111013/https://80000hours.org/stories/sam-bankman-fried/. 58 Fisher, “Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex.” 59 Reed Albergotti

.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HjsfHwqasyQMWRzZN/ev-updates-ftx-settlement-and-the-future-of-ev. 64 “Who We Are,” Future Fund, archived November 9, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20221109230958/https://ftxfuturefund.org/about/; “Our Grants and Investments,” Future Fund, archived November 9, 2022, at the

Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20221109231205/https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/. 65 “Support Future Perfect,” Vox, August 18, 2022, www.vox.com/2020/1/7/

/business/ftx-caroline-ellison-sbf.html. 69 Tarpley Hitt, “Are These Caroline Ellison’s Tumblrs?,” Gawker, November 14, 2022, archived March 28, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230328082349/gawker.com/money/are-these-caroline-ellisons-tumblrs. 70 “worldoptimization,” archived November 11, 2022, accessed March 28, 2023, https

Machines (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), 133. 7 AP, “Gates: Get Ready for Chip Implants,” CNN, July 5, 2005, archived July 8, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20050708012222/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/07/04/gates.implants.ap/. 8 Ray Kurzweil, How My Predictions Are Faring

/2012/03/20/ray-kurzweils-predictions-for-2009-were-mostly-inaccurate/; Daniel Lyons, “I, Robot,” Newsweek, May 16, 2009, archived April 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20100413081045/http://www.newsweek.com/id/197812; Dan Luu, “Futurist Prediction Methods and Accuracy,” September 2022, https://danluu.com/futurist

-name-means-progress; Michael Kanellos, “Moore’s Law to Roll on for Another Decade,” CNET News, February 10, 2003, archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20110719150309/http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html. 19 Kurzweil, Singularity Is Near, 40. 20 Ibid., 12. 21 Ibid

-home-to-newly-launched-singularity-university/; Nokia Research Center, “Nokia Supports Singularity University as Fifth Corporate Founder,” news release, archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20130127224419/http://research.nokia.com/news/11357. 61 David J. Hill, “Exclusive Interview: Ray Kurzweil Discusses His First Two Months

mine). 71 Ibid. 72 Manek Dubash, “Moore’s Law Is Dead, Says Gordon Moore,” Computer World, April 13, 2010, archived June 13, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20200613232824/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3554889/moore-s-law-is-dead-says-gordon-moore.html. 73 Liu interview. 74

Altman (@sama), Twitter (now X), February 3, 2023, https://twitter.com/sama/status/1621621724507938816. 5 Sam Altman (@sama), Twitter, archived October 18, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20231018095623/twitter.com/sama (lack of capitalization in the original). 6 Eliezer Yudkowsky, “There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial

, “AGI Ruin.” 19 Yudkowsky, “AGI Ruin.” 20 Yudkowsky, “Fire Alarm.” 21 Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Eliezer, the Person,” August 31, 2000, archived February 5, 2001, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20010205221413/http://sysopmind.com/eliezer.html. 22 Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Bookshelf,” 1999, archived February 5, 2001, at the

Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20010205060700/http://sysopmind.com/bookshelf.html. 23 Vernor Vinge, True Names… and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 47.

Yudkowsky, “Eliezer, the Person” (emphasis his). 25 Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Staring into the Singularity 1.2.1,” August 31, 2000, archived January 25, 2001, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20010125023900/http://sysopmind.com/singularity.html (emphasis his). 26 Extropians listserv archive, July 25–December 31, 1996, https://extropians.weidai

–December 31, 1996. 29 “Engines of Creation 2000 Confronting Singularity” (Foresight Institute, Palo Alto, CA, May 19–21, 2000), archived April 28, 2001, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20010428233716/https://foresight.org/SrAssoc/spring2000/. 30 “About the Institute,” Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, archived December 10, 2000, at

the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20001210004500/http://singinst.org/about.html; Luke Muehlhauser, “AI Risk and Opportunity: Humanity’s Efforts So Far,” LessWrong, March 21

of posts he called “Sequences” that lie outside that time period. 47 “Bay Area Overcoming Bias Meetup,” Meetup.com, archived February 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20090214184817/https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Overcoming-Bias-Meetup/; Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Selecting Rationalist Groups,” LessWrong, April 2, 2009, www

31, 2019, www.lesswrong.com/posts/S69ogAGXcc9EQjpcZ/a-brief-history-of-lesswrong. 49 Archive of Eliezer Yudkowsky (@ESYudkowsky), Twitter, archived March 22, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20180322173754/https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky. 50 Roko Mijic, “Solutions to the Altruist’s Burden: The Quantum Billionaire Trick,” LessWrong, July

York: Grove Press, 1996), 307. 133 Anders Hove, “Extropians Take Their Cue from Bigotry,” The Tech, August 20, 1997, archived March 1, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230301090204/http://tech.mit.edu/V117/N30/anders.30c.html (via Thorstad, “Belonging”); Anna Dirks, “MIT Extropians Anger Many,” MIT

in original). 142 Mencius [Curtis Yarvin], comment on “Nationalist Moral Chauvinism,” by Will Wilkinson, WillWilkinson.net, February 11, 2008, archived August 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20130812042830/http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/02/09/nationalist-moral-chauvinism/. NB: The genetic superiority of the minds of Ashkenazi

/race-genetics-and-pseudoscience-an-explainer.html; Joseph L. Graves, “The Biological Case Against Race,” American Outlook (Spring 2002), archived November 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20061115040049/http://www.heartland.org/pdf/12721n.pdf; Jordan, interview with author; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Using

—or denied—that the email Brennan posted was genuine. 158 Topher Brennan (@TopherTBrennan), Twitter (now X), February 17, 2021, archived February 17, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.com/TopherTBrennan/status/1362108632070905857; screenshots posted to Imgur at: https://imgur.com/a/gWeIK6c; “Aster” (@ArsonAtDennys), Twitter

.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362. 41 “Carrick Flynn,” Future of Humanity Institute, archived February 3, 2024, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20240203043647/https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/team/carrick-flynn/; “Carrick Flynn,” CSET, accessed June 16, 2024, https://cset.georgetown

.gov.uk/government/speeches/boris-johnsons-final-speech-as-prime-minister-6-september-2022. 51 The Guardian, front page, archived May 26, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20230526150343/theguardian.com/uk. 52 Kiran Stacey and Rowena Mason, “Rishi Sunak Races to Tighten Rules for AI Amid Fears

interview, May 29. 80 Thorstad, interview with author, April 26, 2023. 81 Brian Weatherson (@bweatherson), Twitter, August 9, 2022, archived August 9, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20220809194042/https://twitter.com/bweatherson/status/1557035220855099392. 82 Ord interview. 83 Thorstad interview, May 29. 84 Thorstad interview, April 26

-the-leader-of-effective-accelerationism-eacc/. 8 “swarthy,” “Effective Accelerationism—e/acc,” swarthy’s sensibles (blog), May 31, 2022, archived June 2, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20220602164803/https://swarthy.substack.com/p/effective-accelerationism-eacc?s=r. Republished as “zestular” et al., “Effective Accelerationism—E/acc

-management-in-singapore/; Robin Hicks, “How Will Singapore Defuse a 16-Year Waste Timebomb?,” Eco-Business, May 25, 2019, archived May 25, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20190525082946/https://www.eco-business.com/news/how-will-singapore-defuse-a-16-year-waste-timebomb/; Martin Abbugao, “Singapore Races

4, as well as Adam Mann, “Who’s in Charge of Outer Space?,” Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2017, archived June 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20170601130235/www.wsj.com/articles/whos-in-charge-of-outer-space-1495195097. 90 Walkowicz interview. 91 “It Is Difficult to

, 37; Young, Russian Cosmists, 151–152. 39 Stross, “We’re Sorry.” 40 Elon Musk (@elonmusk), Twitter, June 2, 2021, archived June 2, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20210602083709/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1400008467822399490. 41 Stross, “We’re Sorry.” 42 Thiel Fellowship, accessed June 12, 2024, https

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

by Kashmir Hill  · 19 Sep 2023  · 487pp  · 124,008 words

running. Skip Notes * These are real Venmo transactions from around the time Ton-That was scraping the site, as captured by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, an invaluable crawler that preserves old versions of web pages. Chapter 8 THE ONLY GUY WHO SAW IT COMING (2006–2008) In 2006, James Ferg

he more than deserves it, David Enrich. The Internet Archive provided access to reference texts that were otherwise seemingly unobtainable, and I relied on the Wayback Machine countless times. Thank you, Brewster Kahle, for that essential digital library. The public records center MuckRock was another godsend. I had hoped to make my

Valley Startup (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT The company’s online presence: Clearview.ai, December 5, 2019, via Wayback Machine. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Business filings: Certificate of Incorporation of Smartchecker Corp, Inc., August 3, 2017; Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation

-Transexual’ Hacker Returns with New Scam Site,” Gawker, March 10, 2009. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT An FAQ: Fastforwarded.com, March 13, 2009, via Wayback Machine. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT a handful of forgettable apps: Cam-Hoan Ton-That, publisher summary page, Sensor Tower, retrieved in December 2019. Hoan

condition of anonymity, 2020–2021. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “I’ll stop using”: Hoan Ton-That Twitter page from January 2016, retrieved via Wayback Machine. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT an opportunity to launder money: After Bill Clinton adviser John Podesta’s inbox was hacked, WikiLeaks published the contents

-ridden press release: GraphCo Technologies / Barry Hodge, “On January 28th, Criminals No Longer Another Face in the Tampa Stadium Crowd,” Viisage Technology, January 29, 2001, Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20030811214704/http:/www.viisage.com/january_29_2001.htm. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “not everyone comes”: The press

REFERENCE IN TEXT “This is crazy”: Author’s interview with Hoan Ton-That, 2021. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Out of 10 million faces”: Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20170623075224/http://terencezl.ngrok.io/facesearch/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Check out this cool app”: Davis King, @nulhom

-Semitic Tweets,” Washington Post, December 27, 2017. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT The brochure: “Smartcheckr Consulting Group,” on file with author and available on Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20190423184841/https://christophercantwell.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Smartcheckr-Paul-Nehlen-Oct-19.pdf. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN

TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT It had been acquired: “We are happy to announce that Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition has been acquired by Google!” PittPatt via Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20110824231552/https:/www.pittpatt.com/. See also James Niccolai, “Google Buys Facial Recognition Company PittPatt,” CSO Online, July 22, 2011

, “I’m the Duke University Freshman Porn Star and for the First Time I’m Telling the Story in My Words,” xoJane, February 21, 2014, Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20140301125826/http://www.xojane.com/sex/duke-university-freshman-porn-star. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “We’re not

–14 Warren, Elizabeth, 94 Warren, Samuel D., Jr., viii Washington Post, The, 93, 237 watch lists, 217, 219 Waxman, Samuel, 80, 95–96, 248–249 Wayback Machine, 78 weaponization concerns, xv–xvii WeChat, 224 welfare “reform,” 28 Wessler, Nathan, 202, 203, 205 WeWork, xi, 132, 161, 164 “What They Know” series, 140

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

by Tamara Kneese  · 14 Aug 2023  · 284pp  · 75,744 words

wife, Julie Lindner, and other mementos from their long life together. Julie died of breast cancer in 2019, and Paul used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to revive the digital remnants of their shared life.1 In a video produced by the Internet Archive and featured on its website, Paul describes

’s death, Lipner experienced grief, including real tears.47 The hyperlinks in the Women and Performance issue are now dead, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine provides a glimpse of Michael Current’s Future Culture memorial, which displays a grainy black-and-white photograph intended for those who had never met

research have now vanished, with my screenshots and pulled quotations acting as their only physical records apart from scattered captures from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. What started out as a timely project based in fieldwork and web ethnography has become a cultural history of digital remains. Ambiguity between ethnographic and

members by Tuesday morning.”15 Facebook provided the scaffolding for widespread, even global, participation. Facebook’s landing page from 2004 (Image from Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine) Student mourners created new rituals using the platform. Facebook users created virtual badges, each with the letters VT and a black ribbon, to commemorate those

a simple blue-and-white background to mimic other insurance and estate-planning websites. Legacy Locker’s homepage in 2013 (Image from Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine) Even if people do not want to plan for their own deaths, death is still unavoidable, and sorting out digital accounts after the fact is

Archive, headquartered in San Francisco, strives to preserve the entire web, including internet history, and to digitize every book and other media object available. Its Wayback Machine uses a web crawler to capture websites at various points in time, preserving web pages’ former appearances, deleted posts, and defunct platforms. 2. Wendy Hanamura

story “Burning Chrome,” published in 1982. 47. Senft and Young, “Hearing the Net.” 48. The image of Current endures thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20070521203343/ and www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/futurec/michael.html. 49. Wernimont, Numbered Lives. Wernimont traces how bodies are fundamental to both

badges, (i) virtual cemeteries, (i) The Virtual Community (Rheingold), (i) Vivint Smart Home (Provo, Utah), (i) Wall Street Journal (newspaper), (i) Washington Post (newspaper), (i) Wayback Machine (Internet Archive), (i), (ii), (iii) Weapons of Math Destruction (O’Neil), (i) Weatherby, Leif, (i)n58 WebCease, (i) websites. See memorial websites Web 2.0

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman  · 20 May 2020  · 562pp  · 153,825 words

public education system”: The accent in “spikéd” and the confusion of “its” and “it’s” are from the original. See “Profile: Ed Snowden,” Ryuhana Press, Wayback Machine, April 27, 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20031018021255/http://ryuhanapress.com/ed.html. “I’m from the Los Alamos National Laboratory”: Family confidant, interview

Emporium & Petting Zoo, April 16, 2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20030608093220/http://www.katiebair.com/news.html. a web design company: “Clockwork Chihuahua Studios,” Wayback Machine, July 8, 2002, https://web.archive.org/web/20030604101959/http://clockworkchihuahua.com/index.html. In his memoir, Snowden disguises the name as “Squirreling Industries.” See

Snowden, Permanent Record, 70. online showcase for anime: “Ryuhana Press,” Wayback Machine, November 3, 2001, http://web.archive.org/web/20020408171636/http://ryuhanapress.com/home.html. brought a lot of money: Snowden, interview with author, July 1

, 2015, Moscow. “Editor/Coffee-Boy”: Ed Snowden profile, Ryuhana Press, Wayback Machine, April 27, 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20031018021255/http://ryuhanapress.com/ed.html. “Ed is positive”: “Ahhh . . . Birthdays Are a Blessed Time,” Ryuhana Press

, Wayback Machine, June 21, 2002, http://web.archive.org/web/20031008215713/http://ryuhanapress.com/edbirthday.html. otaku for obsessive fans: Annalee Newitz, “Anime Otaku: Japanese Animation Fans

!,” TheRuse.net, May 22, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20030620031441/http://www.theruse.net/. “Edo begging every last fool”: Jodon Bellofatto profile, Ryuhana Press, Wayback Machine, July 9, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20030709083138/http://www.ryuhanapress.com/jodon.html. move-by-move reaction times: See Edward Snowden, writing as

.org/web/20100324173658/https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/copy_of_telecommunications-information-systems-officers.html. no substantive changes: Archived pages on the Wayback Machine are at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/copy_of_telecommunications-information-systems-officers.html. six-month training

The Art of SEO

by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola and Rand Fishkin  · 7 Mar 2012

and access previous versions of your competitors’ home pages and view the HTML source to see which optimization tactics they were employing back then. The Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org) provides an amazingly extensive archive of web pages. Assessing Historical Progress Measuring the results of SEO changes can be challenging, partly

a log of changes that you can match up with analytics data to gauge impact. If no such log exists, you can always check the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org) to see whether it has historical logs for your website. This offers snapshots of what the site looked like at various

be able to simply and rapidly prove that you are the original author of the content. One tool that can help with that is the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org). This site keeps copies of websites over time. You enter a website name, click Search, and get a screen that may

. Sample data from Archive.org You can then click on one of the dates to see the state of the website on that date. The Wayback Machine does not always keep complete site copies, but a lot of data is available there, and you can use it to provide clear proof that

easy; you can do it by checking the domain’s Whois records. Obtaining the age of the site is trickier. However, you can use the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org) to get an idea of when a site was launched (or at least when it had enough exposure that Archive.org

with Compete or Quantcast. Also, think about doing your own sleuthing. Find out what site the consultant worked on for the reference. Then use the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org) to see prior versions of the site. Contact other past clients Look at the SEO firm’s site and see if

search engine friendliness mobileOK Checker, Other mobile SEO tools Web Accessibility Initiative Page on website, What Content Can Search Engines “See” on a Web Page? Wayback Machine, Previous SEO Work, Content Theft weaknesses, identifying, Combining Business Assets and Historical Data to Conduct SEO/Website SWOT Analysis Web Accessibility Initiative Page, W3C website

for this book, How to Contact Us complexity of, impact on SEO workload, The Impact of Site Complexity on SEO Workload copies of, over time (Wayback Machine), Content Theft maintaining search engine visibility during and after site redesign, Maintaining Search Engine Visibility During and After a Site Redesign mobile subdomain, Setting up

Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee  · 23 May 2016  · 383pp  · 81,118 words

-alibaba-winter-nie.cfm. 15. Kwok, “Alibaba.com Says Asia Needs E-Business” 16. Alibaba.com’s home page (archived February 8, 2000), Internet Archive Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20000208125348/ http://www.alibaba.com/. 17. Alibaba Group, “Alibaba.com Celebrates 1,000,000th Member,” December 27, 2001, http://www

’m a [blank] seeking [a blank] between [the age of blank] and [the age of blank].” YouTube home page (archived April 28, 2005), Internet Archive Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.Org/web/20050428014715/ http://www.youtube.com/. 3. This chapter focuses on situations like that faced by YouTube, in which more participation

We Know (New York: Free Press, 2009), 116. 8. As of April 28, 2005. This does not appear in Wayback Machine screenshots after this date. YouTube home page (archived April 28, 2005), Internet Archive Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/ http://www.youtube.com/. 9. Karim, “YouTube: From Concept to Hypergrowth.” 10

. Stross, Planet Google, 116. 11. YouTube home page (archived September 1, 2005), Internet Archive Wayback Machine. 12. Under US copyright law, a site is supposed to take down copyrighted material when it is notified. YouTube was eventually sued over whether it

same as shown in Karim’s presentation. 14. Steve Chen, quoted in Stross, Planet Google, 116; YouTube home page (archived September 1, 2005), Internet Archive Wayback Machine; “YouTube Services Up 100 Million Videos a Day Online,” USA Today, July 16, 2006, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-views

-jobs-announces-3rd-party-sdk-for-iphone-for-february-2008/; Apple Hot News (archived October 18, 2007), “Third Party Applications on the iPhone,” Internet Archive Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20071018221832/ http://www.apple.com/hotnews/. 44. Nielsen Informate, “International Smartphone Mobility Report,” March 2015, http://informatemi.com/final_download

MySpace, 126. 42. Ibid., 181. 43. Gillette, “The Rise and Inglorious Fall of MySpace.” 44. MySpace, “Is MySpace Free?” (archived August 22, 2008), Internet Archive Wayback Machine, http://web.archive.org/web/20080822094142/http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Help/Pages/HelpCenter.aspx?Category=1&Question=33. 45. Janet Kornblum, “Facebook Will Soon

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein  · 15 Sep 2014  · 829pp  · 229,566 words

Species Came to Grief,” Washington Post, May 5, 2003; “Texas City Prairie Preserve,” Nature Conservancy, http://www.nature.org, version saved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on February 8, 2013, http://web.archive.org. 6. Richard C. Haut et al., “Living in Harmony—Gas Production and the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken

Oregon, April 5, 2011. 32. “Corporations,” Conservation Fund, http://www.conservationfund.org; “History,” Conservation International, http://www.conservation.org, version saved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on December 3, 2013, http:// web.archive.org. 33. Ottaway and Stephens, “Nonprofit Land Bank Amasses Billions”; Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway, “Nonprofit Sells

.S. Biofuel Policy (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2011), 130–34. 27. “Our Companies: Gevo,” Virgin Green Fund, version saved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on September 28, 2013, http://web.archive.org; “Our Companies: Seven Seas Water,” Virgin Green Fund, version saved by the Internet Archive

Wayback Machine on April 4, 2014, http://web.archive.org; “Our Companies: Metrolight,” Virgin Green Fund, version saved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on October 30, 2013, http://web.archive.org; “Our Companies: GreenRoad,” Virgin Green Fund, version

saved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on November 29, 2013, http://web.archive.org; personal interview with Evan Lovell, September 3

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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

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Ajax: The Definitive Guide

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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

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