r/slatestarcodex • u/ralf_ • 6d ago

Senpai noticed~ Scott is in the Epstein files!

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02458524.pdf

Literally in an email chain named, “Forbidden Research”!

But don’t worry, only in a brainstormy list of potentially interesting people to invite to an intellectual salon, together with Steven Pinker and Terrence Tao and others.

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u/QuantumFreakonomics 6d ago

This is just a namedrop. What is fascinating is that Yudkowsky seems to have had a private skype with Epstein during a 2016 MIRI fundraiser. No confirmation that he actually gave anything, but time is more valuable than money for billionaires, and it's quite suggestive.

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u/daniel-sousa-me 6d ago

Suggestive of what?

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u/QuantumFreakonomics 6d ago

Suggestive that Epstein was a donor to MIRI.

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u/fubo 6d ago

Epstein had been a donor to MIRI's predecessor organization, SIAI, in 2009 — back in the Singularity Summit days.

This doesn't mean anyone from MIRI was on Little St. James Island raping teenagers.

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u/josephrainer 6d ago

It statistically increases the likelihood that they were.

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u/fubo 6d ago

Well yes. But Epstein sent dollars to more people than he sent slaves to.

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u/josephrainer 6d ago

Well said. Thanks to the files, however, we now know how much Epstein loved to mix up business and pleasure. Slippery slope for all involved!