He could have founded a race of super…whatevers
Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch.
Mr. Epstein over the years confided to scientists and others about his scheme, according to four people familiar with his thinking, although there is no evidence that it ever came to fruition.
Mr. Epstein’s vision reflected his longstanding fascination with what has become known as transhumanism: the science of improving the human population through technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding.
Probably because that’s what it sounds like.
The Times says he lied about himself a lot, but got away with it. Trumpy much?
Interviews with more than a dozen of his acquaintances, as well as public documents, show that he used the same tactics to insinuate himself into an elite scientific community, thus allowing him to pursue his interests in eugenics and other fringe fields like cryonics.
Not to mention compulsive fucking.
The lure for some of the scientists was Mr. Epstein’s money. He dangled financing for their pet projects. Some of the scientists said that the prospect of financing blinded them to the seriousness of his sexual transgressions, and even led them to give credence to some of Mr. Epstein’s half-baked scientific musings.
Nope, I don’t believe that one. I’m betting the scientists – all men, to the surprise of no one – didn’t give a good god damn about the sexual transgressions aka rapes and pimping.
At one session at Harvard, Mr. Epstein criticized efforts to reduce starvation and provide health care to the poor because doing so increased the risk of overpopulation, said Mr. Pinker, who was there. Mr. Pinker said he had rebutted the argument, citing research showing that high rates of infant mortality simply caused people to have more children. Mr. Epstein seemed annoyed, and a Harvard colleague later told Mr. Pinker that he had been “voted off the island” and was no longer welcome at Mr. Epstein’s gatherings.
Well yeah. Arguing against letting the poor starve? Who does that? No more parties with Epstein for Steve!
On multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s, Mr. Epstein told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to use his New Mexico ranch as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and would give birth to his babies, according to two award-winning scientists and an adviser to large companies and wealthy individuals, all of whom Mr. Epstein told about it.
It was not a secret. The adviser, for example, said he was told about the plans not only by Mr. Epstein, at a gathering at his Manhattan townhouse, but also by at least one prominent member of the business community. One of the scientists said Mr. Epstein divulged his idea in 2001 at a dinner at the same townhouse; the other recalled Mr. Epstein discussing it with him at a 2006 conference that he hosted in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.
The idea struck all three as far-fetched and disturbing.
I hope they all asked him, in loud flat unimpressed voices, “What’s your point, Jeff? What makes you think your babies would be such a gift?”
Once, at a dinner at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mr. Lanier said he talked to a scientist who told him that Mr. Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe. Mr. Lanier said the scientist identified herself as working at NASA, but he did not remember her name.
According to Mr. Lanier, the NASA scientist said Mr. Epstein had based his idea for a baby ranch on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool.
Wait wait wait wait! Problem! Jeffrey Epstein is not a Nobel laureate.
I mean it’s also absurd to think Nobel laureates are automatically some kind of genetic whizbang, but even if you did think that…why would you waste any time on Jeffrey Epstein?
Mr. Epstein did not hide his interest in tinkering with genes — and in perpetuating his own DNA.
One adherent of transhumanism said that he and Mr. Epstein discussed the financier’s interest in cryonics, an unproven science in which people’s bodies are frozen to be brought back to life in the future. Mr. Epstein told this person that he wanted his head and penis to be frozen.
I see a whole forest of hands shooting into the air! We’ll do it! We’ll freeze his penis right now! Never mind the head, nobody wants that, but we’ll be delighted to chill that excitable willy of his. Hand it over!
This is hilarious, Ophelia! Had me laughing at the end! Thanks so much for softening such a terrible tale!
The jokes write themselves with this guy.
Freeze his dick and gonads in liquid nitrogen, then hit them with a very large hammer.
Homo Novus is brown; pale pink skin is an environmental liability.
GG you arrogant prick.
So, comes the big Day of the Unfreezing: actually two possible ways spring to mind. 1. The power fails, the refrigerator warms up, and the contents turn to the same sort of mush we usually get, good only for chicken feed.
Both head and prick go to the neighbour’s dog.
2. Great ceremony, brass bands and all the works. A pre-recorded speech perhaps from Donald Trump. Then someone asks, ‘what good are just these two bits without the rest of him? How does he eat, drink and be merry as a disconnected head and donger?’
So they call for a volunteer for the world’s first head transplant, but they do not want to risk a double transplant, so another volunteer gets the donger.
Then Hollywood gets involved.
KHAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!
”…eugenics…”
That doesn’t fly at all. Eugenics’ goal is supposedly improving the genetic stock of humanity.
For some reason I am reminded of this: http://web.archive.org/web/20060110063244fw_/http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc263.gif
I’ve been doing what I promised myself i wouldn’t, which is trying to work out why Epstein wants his penis frozen along with his brain.
I can think of only one possible reason: when they (he imagines) upload his mind into a robot, he wants that penis sewn on to it too. It seems totally consistent with everything we’ve learned about him and is a nightmarish scenario I want to inflict on you all because it’s already haunting me.
Not as nightmarish a scenario as what he actually did of course, and only partly because brain uploads and robotic cock interfaces ain’t happening any time ever. But now I have a mental image of Metal MIckey fully endowed with Epstein’s legacy and my parents taught me to share.
Might be time for a new play. Only, I haven’t finished writing all the others that come to mind from the news/comments on this site.
Epstein needs to be coldcocked.
Are there… lots of billionaires who want their heads and penises frozen?
Because I have to tell you, dudes, workers in the cryonics place are going to swap them around.
This article sheds some new light on the New Yorker’s recent Dershowitz article, in which Dersh insists that he didn’t pal around with Epstein because of the girls or his money. No, Dersh insists, Epstein’s ideas were just fascinating and he was such an intelligent conversationalist.
Of course, this article shows that Dersh was hardly the only one; Pinker was one of the exceptions who wouldn’t play ball and gush over Epstein. It’s a nice glimpse into the life of the rich and powerful, who have supposedly smart scientists and other academics telling them how brilliant they are. It’s no wonder so many of them become convinced that the public is positively crying out for them to run for president.
Is this narcissism? Or sociopathy? Is there any real difference?
A guy who thinks like this has outed himself as a bigtime sexual predator. He should never have been released the first time.
Latsot, I have a much simpler explanation. He wants to come back as the apotheosis of what he is now: A dickhead.