Weekend Reading: 18th / 19th April 2026

Apr 17, 2026

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery by John Carreyrou & Dylan Freedman
- “Mr. Back was likely correct: To this day, there is no evidence to indicate the email was a forgery, and no other emails from that account have surfaced”.
The AI Trilemma by Sebastian Elbaum & Sebastian Mallaby
- “If one agrees with this mental model, the resolution to the AI trilemma becomes rather simple. If a singularity is approaching, short-term efforts to deploy AI for national security are futile; once superintelligence arrives, it will vastly supersede current systems. Similarly, the short-term pursuit of economic security through today’s corporate AI adoption efforts is pointless: superintelligence will invent revolutionary ways of boosting productivity, perhaps even rendering obsolete contemporary understandings of how economies function”.
Behold, the ‘Experts’ in Media and Academia Who Insist Iran Is Winning by Armin Rosen
- “The Iranian “upper hand” is a rhetorical invention, unless one thinks it’s worth a country losing its largest natural gas field, generations of senior military leadership, and perhaps as many as 7,000 security personnel in order to inflict such mild losses on its enemies”.

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