Astral Codex Ten

SEC

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SEC

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SEC is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 10 times across 10 issues between February 12, 2021 and January 13, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “SEC controlled by vampires”; “we thought we would violate the SEC rules on insider knowledge”; “the SEC wants to be able to comb it over for evidence of crimes”. It most often appears alongside Bay Area, Bob, effective altruism.

Metadata

  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 10
  • Issue count: 10
  • First seen: February 12, 2021
  • Last seen: January 13, 2026

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

List Of Fictional Cryptocurrencies Banned By The SEC
February 12, 2021 · Original source
Banned because: SEC controlled by vampires
Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That For You
December 20, 2021 · Original source
VARIAN: Right. And we had a prediction market [referring to Prophit in 2007]. I’ll tell you the problem with it. The problem is, the things that we really wanted to get a probability assessment on were things that were so sensitive that we thought we would violate the SEC rules on insider knowledge because, if a small group of people knows about some acquisition or something like that, there is a secret among this small group.
Another Bay Area House Party
October 19, 2022 · Original source
“Like, one JP Morgan analyst talking to another JP Morgan analyst. It’s all got to be done over special recorded channels, because the SEC wants to be able to comb it over for evidence of crimes. And we’re not pro-crime, but - you know what they say, even model citizens commit three felonies a day by accident. And it’s more like thirty when a dour government bureaucrat is reading everything you say verbatim. The big banks used to solve this by holding all their important discussions in person, but now remote work makes that impossible and they’re having to follow basically impossible compliance standards. That’s where we come in. We’re going to leverage CA Bill 2799 for legal security enhancement. You heard about it?”
Open Thread 250
November 13, 2022 · Original source
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Your Book Review: Lying for Money
May 26, 2023 · Original source
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Your Book Review: Public Citizens
June 23, 2023 · Original source
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23: Room Temperature Superforecaster
August 01, 2023 · Original source
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Son Of Bride Of Bay Area House Party
December 12, 2023 · Original source
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ACX Grants Followup Impact Market
March 07, 2024 · Original source
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SOTA On Bay Area House Party
January 13, 2026 · Original source
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