RE: https://aus.social/@trif/116003918888226428

OMG! A wild ride… “Based off the newest tranche of emails and texts released by the Justice Department this weekend, Epstein, at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s. In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel, writing, “Brexit, just the beginning.” He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish. “Return to tribalism,” he wrote. “Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances. You and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, and as I said in your office. Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.” 😮

Read that again: “Epstein… believed… he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order”.😐

Been wondering ever since I read that terse email “Brexit, just the beginning” implying that #Epstein & #Thiel think they caused it. Now this rationale. ☝️

Can this really be so? Or is this #billionaires delusion? How could we know, how could we test for the truth of this hypothesis?🤔

#USPol #UKPol #brexit #tribalism #globalOrder #globalisation #globalization #delusions #downfall #EpsteinFiles

I'm all for challenging received wisdom and assumptions, and I think magical thinking can be quite good if practiced well. But this is something else. To me this feels like the celebration of a dangerous kind of induced ignorance.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #delusions #MagicalThinking