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On the Jeffrey Epstein Affair - Joscha Bach

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I am writing this at a turning point in my life, a moment of great distress, pain and anguish. In the hope of clearing up a dark chapter of US history, the personal emails of the notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein were opened to the public. We did not get much more clarity so far, but anyone ever exchanging private emails with Epstein entered the spotlight, including myself. While my friends and coworkers understand the context of these messages, many people in the general public do not, and I find myself attacked by strangers, even subjected to death threats, and many people who take an interest on my work on the philosophy of cognition, consciousness and artificial intelligence feel taken aback, shocked and distressed. How I met Jeffrey Epstein As many people know, during the years of 2013 to 2017, a part of my work at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics was funded by Jeffrey Epstein. I met him through several well-known scientists from the fields o

I am writing this at a turning point in my life, a moment of great distress, pain and anguish. In the hope of clearing up a dark chapter of US history, the personal emails of the notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein were opened to the public. We did not get much more clarity so far, but anyone ever exchanging private emails with Epstein entered the spotlight, including myself. While my friends and coworkers understand the context of these messages, many people in the general public do not, and I find myself attacked by strangers, even subjected to death threats, and many people who take an…

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