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William M Briggs's avatar

On the other hand, there's a well known theorem that shows (for most) that the more money a person has, the deeper he will sound to the audience hoping to get some.

Scott Locklin's avatar

dude couldn’t even spell his own name

Matt Forney's avatar

If Jeffrey Epstein was 20-30 years younger, he'd be one of those pricks who watches Andrew Tate in the gym, spends half his workout ineffectually hitting on women, and pisses off the staff by forgetting to re-rack the weights.

Al's avatar

Just proves GMax was the more important of the two and why she's still alive.

Seth Wynter's avatar

There's a part of the interview where he's retelling Feynman's quip about people not understanding quantum mechanics. I'm paraphrasing but it was something like 'if you think you understand quantum mechanics Jeffrey, you don't understand quantum mechanics'... insinuating he must have had a conversation with Feynman before he died in 1988. Bizarre.

Steven's avatar

Blog question: are you moving over here full time? If so I'll drop you from my RSS reader.

Scott Locklin's avatar

All the WP content will be posted here for free. I may eventually do a paid tier where I talk about other things here. I will also troll people who deserve it.

Keith's avatar

Criminals are almost always stupid people. He’s just a pimp for the technocrats at the end of the day.

phf's avatar

i've lived in DC therefore i met a dozen of these epsteins. i couldn't sit through the whole interview, i had to turn it off on the first few sentences. it was obvious right away what was about to happen: succesful beyond his stature genx, who did everything in his power to both loot and scorched earth american dream, was about to badly retell me half remembered parts of western canon.

growing up in soviet union, i spent summers at our space intelligentsia dacha, we had epstein neighbors. pronounced ep-shtein. they were wonderful people, in the best tradition of a lot of grownup i was surrounded by, you know they'll sneak you a book that you "absolutely have to read", asimov or zamyatin or lem or ..., gently correct you when you're being stupid, their son taught me zilog assembler on a homebrew spectrum, "mathematics is the only proper pursuit", etc.

practical question, i pull you in a feed, looking at substack it has all the new articles from wp, but also the epstein article is not on wp. would just pulling substack be enough to get complete locklin experience?

Scott Locklin's avatar

The WP will remain science focused and I'll put a few extra things on substack.

George Menyhei's avatar

Nice to see you on Substack, man. Doesn't have the anachronistic patina of a wordpress blog, but the potential reach is a plus.

Joshua Erwin's avatar

Why the hell was Bannon of all people interviewing him? And right before he got arrested. Why would Epstein agree to that?

Scott Locklin's avatar

I mean look at how many times he's mentioned in the files. I put an image here demonstrating this, but substack comments appear to be broken.

Anyway they were friends, Bannon is one of them, not one of us. That's how things work. People with power and influence have power and influence on all "sides" which are mostly a puppet show put on by people with power and influence.

silentsod's avatar

Substack comments being broken is a running theme. There's another substack which routinely hits 400+ comments on articles and it is impossible to use in the app, cannot properly open links to comments from emails, and even using the desktop browser still sucks because there's no user facing way to show all comments and ctrl+f to find what one wanted