Until a few months ago, I hadn’t given much thought to Moloch, the ancient figure associated in historical texts with extreme and costly sacrifices. But as I prepared for a conversation at SXSW with World Series of Poker champion turned game-theory evangelist Liv Boeree, I found myself going down a Moloch rabbit hole. In her TED Talk and Win-Win Podcast, Boeree talks about something called “Moloch’s trap,” a concept that originates from Scott Alexander’s seminal 2014 essay “Meditations on Mo...
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