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The Decline of Human Cognition
The full essay: all eight theses.
On October 29, 2026, $6.3 billion left Binance, most of it in about twenty minutes. Binance’s first finding: no private key leaked, no cipher broke, one engineer’s laptop. By the time an attacker reaches a human or an AI agent, it is already too late.
Eight theses on why security has to move before delivery: humans are the last unpatched system, training is a category error, and pre-delivery interception is the missing primitive.
Chapters
0:00 Title and epigraph
0:21 Twenty minutes
1:15 How the money actually moves
3:51 Two frontiers
4:42 The theses
8:36…
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