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I was trying to see if Paul Graham was in the Epstein files (seems to mostly be due to Twitter spam) but then I found this email from 2016 with Scooter's powerword:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00824072.pdf
The context is that AI guy Joscha Bach wants to "have a brainstorm" on "forbidden research" (you best believe IQ is in there, but also climate change prepping which in phrased in a particularly omenous fashion) and there's a long list of people at the end. Besides slatescott it includes
Epstein Himself Paul Graham Max Teigmark Stephen Wolfram Stephen Pinker (ofc) Reid Hoffman
It's unclear if this brainstorm ever happened or if Astral Scottdex was even contacted. The next email features Epstein chastising Joscha Bach for not shutting up in a discussion with Noam Chomsky and Bach's last email is just groveling and trying to smooth over the relationship with his benefactor.
I think this is (at least a little bit) interesting because it's back in 2016, a year before 'intellectual dark web' was coined and that whole ball got rolling.
Has Scooter addressed his presence in the files the way other-scott did?
this is some of the most shameful groveling I've ever seen. what a pathetic toad
given how epstein ignores his proposal in favor of slapping him down i would be surprised if any of it came to fruition
Did he?
Now I'm wondering if 'third Scott' (Guess he didn't fake it, his dream of being hunted in the streets as a conservative didn't come to pass) was in the files. Would be very amusing if it turned out Epstein was one of the people hypnotized.
But this was after people coined ‘Dark Enlightenment’, which I don't know when it started, but it was mapped in 2013. Wonder how much the NRx comes up. But for my sanity I'm not going to do any digging.
(people already discovered some unreadable pdf files are unreadable because they are actually renamed mp4s (and other file types), fucking ~~amateurs~~ podcasters. And no way im going to look into that).
Yeah!
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9534
Thanks!
Previously discussed here.