Nathan Radke

And the odds were very slim at that point.

So those bets made a lot of money.

And we don't know who made those bets because of crypto.

So we don't know if there were people who had inside knowledge, but they easily could have been.

But the most disturbing possibility of all, what if people in positions of power start making decisions that cause events to happen in order to clean up on Polly Market?

Because then at this point, it's not that these markets are predicting the future.

They're incentivizing people to make specific futures happen.

So what I've just heard from you is, hey, can't we use this monkey's paw to maybe wither some good things?

Well, I mean, the answer is probably going to be regulation, unfortunately.

And I say unfortunately because, of course, then the people who have to decide about the regulations are going to be the people who benefit from the lack of regulations.

Yeah, but here's the thing.

Like, we're already living in very perilous and frightening times.

Sometimes it feels like we're just like a few minutes away from some kind of disaster.

And I know you're very even keeled and stiff upper lip, but many people are feeling a bit anxious these days.

But to that end, because we're feeling anxious, because things feel like they're on a knife's edge, I feel like it can almost be a little reassuring to know that we've been close to disaster before and we've survived.

And so to cheer everybody up, to cheer up the listeners, let's talk about some doomsday devices.

Strange and perilous.

I mean, today we got them all.

We've got some extraordinary engineering.

We've got some biological know-how.