I would once again like to gloat that I called it.

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?

people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for

I swear that this is a form of AI psychosis or something because the attitude is suddenly ubiquitous among the AI obsessed.

What's the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven't switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

This is actually a really damning article. Despite the carefully constructed facade, Scott simply isn't curious about anything that might broaden his world.

The article on GamerGate is also awesome, but my favorite part is probably that it contains the very best article about Trump you're ever going to read.

“Real” musicians turned their nose up at digital music when it first came out

You got any evidence for that? What do you even mean by "digital music?" That's not a category I think musicians recognize. You may he confusing digital with electric which was not exactly as you're describing it.

People playing too many Paradox games.

It almost reads as a threat... 'don't stop our gravy train, or we'll lash out and reveal what we know!'

[Request]: Use "Breeding humans like livestock" instead of "Eugenics" in most circumstances.

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.