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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

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A New Interpretation of Information Rate

J. L. Kelly Jr., 1956

Technological Singularity

Vernor Vinge, 1993

Meditations on Moloch

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Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk

Daniel Bernoulli, 1738

Portfolio Choice and the Kelly Criterion

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Of Miracles

David Hume, 1748

On the Origin of Species: Introduction

Charles Darwin, 1859

Life Is Short

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I, Pencil

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Cargo Cult Science

Richard Feynman, 1974

Class Project

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The Last Question

Isaac Asimov, 1956

Portfolio Selection

Harry Markowitz, 1952

Harrison Bergeron

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1961

The Arithmetic of Active Management

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Twelve Virtues of Rationality

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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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Attention Is All You Need

Google Brain, 2017

Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case

Robert C. Merton, 1969

A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform

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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Paul Graham, 2019

Live vs. Dead Players

Samo Burja, 2018

Competent Elites

Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2008

Prior Probabilities

E. T. Jaynes, 1968

What You Can't Say

Paul Graham, 2004

On the Origins of Money

Carl Menger, 1892

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, 1486

Common Sense

Thomas Paine, 1776

My techno-optimism

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Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform

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The Case for American Seriousness

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Newcomb's Problem and the Regret of Rationality

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Einstein's Arrogance

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Libertaria in Cyberspace

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The Fallacy of Grey

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Science: Conjectures and Refutations

Karl Popper, 1962

The 2 Sigma Problem

Benjamin S. Bloom, 1984

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

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Experiments in Plant Hybridization

Gregor Mendel, 1865

High-Frequency Trading in a Limit Order Book

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The Replacing Guilt Series

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The Strenuous Life

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Productivity

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Beware The Man Of One Study

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The Primacy of Winning

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Friedrich Nietzsche, 1874

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CZ's Principles

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Hackers and Painters

Paul Graham, 2003

IT'S TIME TO BUILD

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Trying to Try

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Proof of an External World

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Federalist Papers No. 10

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The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?

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The Use of Knowledge In Society

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Immanuel Kant, 1784

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Books vs. Cigarettes

George Orwell, 1946

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Alexia Fernández Campbell, 2016

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Victor Haghani and Richard Dewey, 2017

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup

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Bubble Logic: Or, How to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Bull

Cliff Asness, 2000

Deep Learning

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott, 1884

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Paul A. Samuelson, 1967

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The Antichrist

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Vitalik Buterin, 2021

Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking

Farnam Street, 2020

From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 27 August 1786

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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

John Perry Barlow, 1996

Smart Contracts

Nick Szabo, 1997

Optimism Shapes Reality

Alexandr Wang, 2022

Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery

Thomas Hobbes, 1651

How to Think for Yourself

Paul Graham, 2020

Formal Mathematics Statement Curriculum Learning

OpenAI, 2022

If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare

Robin Hanson, 2021

Why Decentralization Matters

Chris Dixon, 2018

How do elite groups form?

Cremieux Recueil, 2023

Walking

Henry David Thoreau, 1861

The Lesson to Unlearn

Paul Graham, 2019

Occam's Razor

Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2007

How Should Relative Changes Be Measured?

Leo Tornqvist, Pentti Vartia and Yrjo O. Vartia, 1985

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Piotr Wozniak, 2001

If I Were the Devil

Paul Harvey, 1965

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

James D. Watson & Francis H. C. Crick, 1953

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Paul Graham, 2009

What Sort Of Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear

Alexis De Tocqueville, 1835

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Balaji S. Srinivasan, 2013

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Shuruppak, -2500

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Carver Mead, 2001

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Benjamin Franklin, 1757

Floor Perps

Dave White, 2021

Learning to Fight

Amjad Masad, 2021

Attention is your scarcest resource

Ben Kuhn, 2020

Applause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2007

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Scott Alexander, 2014

Cached Thoughts

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The Making of a Modern Market: eBay.com

KA Kashkooli, 2010

Nightfall

Isaac Asimov, 1941

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Smith and Pell, 2003

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Think Fast!

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The Straussian Moment

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Terry Bisson, 1991

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MMAcevedo

QNTM, 2021

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Albert Camus, 1942

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

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The Conscience of a Hacker (Hacker Manifesto)

The Mentor, 1986

The Shape of Things in a Currency Trio

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John F. Nash, 1950

The Egg

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George Orwell, 1946

Of the Original Contract

David Hume, 1752

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The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software

Jesse Waldan, 2020

The Ideology is Not the Movement

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Fermat and Pascal's Letters on Probability

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973

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Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, 2022

Governance Minimization

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Timeless Decision Theory

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Bit Gold

Nick Szabo, 2005

The Great Online Game

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Founder Mode

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The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

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Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen, 1995

Structured Procrastination

John Perry, 2009

The Humanitarian with the Guillotine

Isabel Paterson, 1943

Ron Conway Explained

Ben Horowitz, 2010

The Strength of Weak Ties

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

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Rare Historical Photos, 2022

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Invisible Hand Explanations

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Best Ideas

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Crony Beliefs

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Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems

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How to share a secret

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High Resolution Fundraising

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Fast Computation of the Median by Successive Binning

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Membership NFTs

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Bitcoin and Me

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Collapse Postulates

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Book Review: Antifragile

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More Dakka

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How You Know

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Fear Is The Mind-Killer

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Objections to Government Interference

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Chapter 22: The Scientific Method

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Fish - Now By Prescription

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Pericles' Funeral Oration

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How to Win the Future

a16z, 2021

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Information Compression

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Christopher Allen, 2005

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Richard Feynman, 1985

Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions

William Chopik, 2018

Ethereum Blockspace - Who Gets What and Why

Georgios Konstantopoulos, Leo Zhang, 2021

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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large

John W. Pratt, 1964

The End of History?

Francis Fukuyama, 1989

How to Interview Engineers

Slava Akhmechet, 2020

Why Web3 Matters

Chris Dixon, 2021

Signaling as a Service

Julian Lehr, 2020

Chase Your Reading

Robin Hanson, 2010

Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges

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Bruce Mizrach, 2010

Evidence on the Growth-Optimum Model

R. Roll, 1973

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H. A. Latané, 1959

Consciousness and the Brain

Anonymous, 2022

Power Perpetuals

Dave White, Dan Robinson, Zubin Koticha, Andrew Leone, Alexis Gauba, Aparna Krishnan, 2021

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Sequoia Talent, 2020

Doing Well in Your Course: A Guide

Andrej Karpathy, 2023

Heuristics That Almost Always Work

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How To Get Promoted

Slava Akhmechet, 2020

Driving with the Rear-View Mirror: Will we see a repeat of the past decade of U.S. equity returns?

Cliff Asness and Jordan Brooks, 2023

Don't! The Secret of Self-Control

Jonah Lehrer, 2009

All It Takes Is All You Got: Your assets are the government's collateral

Balaji Srinivasan, 2024

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johnswentworth, 2021

1997 Letter to Shareholders

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Optimal Investment and Consumption Strategies under Risk for a Class of Utility Functions

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Charlie Noyes, 2021

The Founder from Merna

Felix Stocker, 2023

Your CAC Math is Wrong, Too

Jeff Bussgang, 2016

Why We Should Not Make Mean Log of Wealth Big Though Years to Act Are Long

Paul Samuelson, 1979

Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin

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Fake Explanations

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One Year Later

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City Upon a Hill

John Winthrop, 1630

Monadology

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Sense and Reference

​​Gottlob Frege, 1892

The Mirror Table

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Uniswap v2 Core

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Yes, You May Need a Blockchain

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Martingale Shares

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Optimal Gambling Systems for Favorable Games

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On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry

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On Becoming a Quant

Mark Joshi, 2007

The Passage of Polymarket

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Fundamental Law of Learning

SuperMemo, 2017

Compound: The money market protocol

Robert Leshner, Geoffrey Hayes, 2019

Happy Birthday to Me

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Having Kids

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porby, 2022

Hitchhiker

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Raising the Bar

Sam Bankman-Fried, 2020

Soulbound

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UI, UX, and Introspection

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Why Does Private Equity Get to Play Make-Believe With Prices?

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Generative Adversarial Networks

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Learning representations by back-propagating errors

David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Ronald J. Williams, 1986

How Elon Musk Is Making Engineers Cool Again

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How Not to Talk to Your Kids

Po Bronson, 2007

On Proof and Progress in Mathematics

William Thurston, 1994

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Jay Drain Jr., 2021

Human's Are Not Automatically Strategic

Anna Salamon, 2010

Let's run on-chain decentralized exchanges the way we run prediction markets

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Is 60 the New 50? Examining Changes in Biological Age Over the Past Two Decades

Morgan E. Levine and Eileen M. Crimmins, 2019

Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning

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Levels of Action

Alyssa Vance, 2011

Fizeau's experiment: The original paper

Dr. SkySkull, 2008

Book Review: The Origins of Woke

Scott Alexander, 2024

My Life Philosophy

Paul A. Samuelson, 1960

Making History Available

Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2007

Bartleby, The Scrivener

Herman Melville, 1853

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Scott Alexander, 2024

The Three Sides of Risk

Morgan Housel, 2020

The Playing Field

Graham Duncan, 2021

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Ian Hickson, 2023

The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline

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Politics isn't about Policy

Robin Hanson, 2008

On Denoting

Bertrand Russell, 1905

A Crypto Future

0xsmac and Compound Crypto, 2023

NFTs and A Thousand True Fans

Chris Dixon, 2021

Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning

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Move on – this isn't true here

Tyler Cowen, 2008

A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems

R. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adleman, 1978

Principle Based Hiring: Focus on What Matter

Michael Morgan, 2014

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova, 2018

The Do-Calculus Revisited

Judea Pearl, 2012

The days are long but the decades are short

Sam Altman, 2015

Everlasting Options

Dave White, Sam Bankman-Fried, 2021

Please Build More Silly Things

Varun Shenoy, 2023

Pratfall Effect

Wikipedia, 2022

Ethereum is a Dark Forest

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Escaping the Dark Forest

samczsun, 2020

Semantic Stop Signs

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Kenneth Arrow's Contribution to Economics

Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, 1972

Proxy Measures, Sunk Costs, and Chesterton's Fence

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Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear

Scott Alexander, 2014

Reflections on Trusting Trust (Turing Award Lecture)

Ken Thompson, 1984

The ICO Bubble Explained in Three Moments

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Horizontal History

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The Mathematics of Doodling

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A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches

Hasu, Anish Agnihotri, 2021

Understanding Automated Market-Makers, Part 1: Price Impact

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3 Ways Blockchain Is Already Delivering on the Hype

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Pearls Before Breakfast

Gene Weingarten, 2007

Pi Is Wrong!

Bob Palais, 2001

Ricardo's Difficult Idea

Paul Krugman, 1996

Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided

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ROOFS OR CEILINGS? The Current Housing Problem

Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler, 1946

Stirling's Formula in Words

John Baez, 2021

Why FinTech is the WORST

Savneet Singh, 2016

Yes … I Read the Whitepaper

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Yak Shaving

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​​Principles of Panarchism: The philosophy of political coexistence

Adam Knott, 2009

I Still Can't Draw a Line

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Various techniques used in connection with random digits

J. Von Neumann, 1951

Rationality is Systematized Winning

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Crypto's Consumer Era

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How does Optimism's Rollup really work?

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Megathread

6529, 2021

Max Bidding

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Reporter Degrees of Freedom

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Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs vs Chairs

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The Risk of Discovery

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Study: Ritalin Works, But School Isn't Worth Paying Attention To

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GOO (Gradual Ownership Optimization)

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Temples Are Built For Gods

writing-prompt-s, 2018

Polymaths Are Late Bloomers

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The Right Kind of Ambition

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10 Types of Odd Friendships You’re Probably Part Of

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Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit

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You Are What You Own

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Reductionism

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Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks

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New Directions in Cryptography

Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman, 1976

The Trouble with Books

Nick Szabo, 2016

Digital Pseudonyms

David L. Chaum, 1981

Fact, Fiction, and Momentum Investing

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Ethereum: A secure decentralised generalised transaction ledger

G. Wood et al, 2014

30 one-sentence views on the venture industry

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50 brutally honest takeaways about my time in venture capital

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The Dark Triad personality: Attractiveness to women

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The Fractal-Summary Method: How to Fully Digest Great Books

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The Gold Bug

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The Individualistic Model vs. The Jouvenelian Model

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Kierkegaard and Entrepreneurship

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Jane Street & The Arbitrage Royal Family

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The Lottery of Fascinations

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Greg

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9/26 Is Petrov Day

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The Parable of Talents

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Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency

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Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

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RICKS

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Optimal Gambling Systems for Favorable Games

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Constant Rate Issuance Sales Protocol

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And What Has the Blockchain Ever Done for Us?

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The Pancake at the Bottom

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Teach Me Daddy

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It's Hard to Build a Durable Business Selling Durable Goods

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A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

Matthew O. Jackson, 2011

Anonymous Credit

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Praying for Rain

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Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn’t is Who Benefits

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The Right to Read: A Dystopian Short Story

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Shelling Out: The Origins of Money

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Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency

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Jorge Luis Borges, 1983

The Dangers of Surprising Code

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Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift

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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto

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The Life Goals of Dead People

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The Simple Truth

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Pumping Iron

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Gradual Dutch Auctions

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The Strongest Crypto Gaming Thesis

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Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch

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Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for Euclidean Traveling Salesman and Other Geometric Problems

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The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning

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The Virtue of Silence

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Wordplay: Man, Market, and Language

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The Well-Posed Problem

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Understanding Edge

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Dreams of a Peasant

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The Cartoon Guide to Perps

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The Bargaining Problem

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Toward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower

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Declaration of Independence - Atomic Cross Chain Asset Standard

jl777, 2016

Vicious Traps

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The Everything Bubble and TINA 2.0

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Product Led Growth: Fueling the fastest growing software companies

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Ulysses, Order, and Myth

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Weak Men Are Superweapons

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A Cosmos Thesis

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The Rainbow Network: An Off-Chain Decentralized Synthetics Exchange

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