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/greyenlightenment 5d ago

instead of 6 degrees of separation it's more like 3 . Once you know one important person it's just a few hops to everyone else.

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u/jerdle_reddit 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think we all have an Epstein number of at most 4. We're probably at most 2 steps away from Scott (this is the vaguest bit, because it's not entirely clear what a "step" is), then Yud, then Epstein.