Robert Trivers

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Epstein or otherwise, Silicon Valley’s techno-elite know what they’re doing

6 min read
Analysis Culture effective altruism Elon Musk eugenics extropianism Jeffrey Epstein John Brockman libertarianism longtermism morphological freedom posthumanism Robert Trivers Silicon Valley TESCREAL transhumanism William MacAskill

The science writer Philip Ball has described “nerd tunnel vision” as the rationalisation scientists who maintained ties with Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting underage sex offer…

Toppling Epstein's intellectuals network

4 min read
Op-eds Science Cesar Hidalgo Elementary Evgeny Morozov Jeffrey Epstein John Brockman Joi Ito Martin Nowak Marvin Minsky Max Brockman Miami Herald MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte Patrick McCray Peter Aldhous Robert Trivers Ronan Farrow Xeni Jardan

While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias submitted their resignations, the lab’s students had been demanding its director Joi…