Assassination Markets Debate
Conversation veers into dark prediction market territory
Jun 26, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 17 segments
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I don't want to take full credit for it, but I think I will take full credit for exploding it in some very interesting ways.

A lot of what I like to do is around memetic R&D, if you will, and how to make ideas spread and how to incept an idea into someone else's mind.

And a lot of my best work is actually things that were other people's ideas originally.

And that was the term that was going around crypto for a while and going on Twitter and the AI guys that got in on it, especially my friend Atlas, who is Creatine Cycle.

He's the other person that I will shout out as being a really big part of this one.

He is also much more on the anti side and I'm on the pro side of the peptide debate.


And a lot of my branding for it was really just what the heck is a Chinese peptide rave? And to that, I say you have to read the New York Times article about it.

I don't want to take full credit for it, but I think I will take full credit for exploding it in some very interesting ways.

A lot of what I like to do is around memetic R&D, if you will, and how to make ideas spread and how to incept an idea into someone else's mind.

And a lot of my best work is actually things that were other people's ideas originally.

And that was the term that was going around crypto for a while and going on Twitter and the AI guys that got in on it, especially my friend Atlas, who is Creatine Cycle.

He's the other person that I will shout out as being a really big part of this one.

He is also much more on the anti side and I'm on the pro side of the peptide debate.


And a lot of my branding for it was really just what the heck is a Chinese peptide rave? And to that, I say you have to read the New York Times article about it.
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