Supplementary Material 46: Epstein Did Microtransactions, Grok Did Nothing Wrong, and Murder is Bad

Supplementary Material 46: Epstein Did Microtransactions, Grok Did Nothing Wrong, and Murder is Bad

In our never-ending quest to alienate all potential online audiences, we finger-wag about rampant Epstein conspiracism and explain why we are, on balance, anti-murder.

The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (2 hours, 42 minutes).

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In our never-ending quest to alienate all potential online audiences, we finger-wag about rampant Epstein conspiracism and explain why we are, on balance, anti-murder.

00:00 Intro

03:39 Flooding Adventures

06:54 Eric's Troubles with his Silicon Friend

13:09 Peter Boghossian's Hardcore for Grok

17:16 A Promising Paper on reducing AI Hallucinations

22:17 Statistical Consults

23:12 Epstein Discourse Lollapalooza

27:24 Eric Weinstein thinks Epstein is connected to UFOs

29:09 Rogan Plays Apologist for Trump on Epstein

32:21 Emma Vigeland and Joshua Citarella engage in Conspiracy Hypothesising

35:07 Reasonable Conspiracy Theorising

42:24 The Real Conspiracy

44:26 Epstein and Ghislaine puppeting the culture wars

48:18 The Joy of Conspiracy Theories

53:29 Epstein and Bannon created QAnon as a Psyop

01:01:37 What about ritual child abuse, dissolving bodies and cannibalism?

01:09:05 Lurid Cannibal Fantasies

01:15:56 Emma's UFO theory

01:20:08 The Joe Roganification of Podcasts and some strategic disclaimers

01:24:14 A dichotomy in contemporary American attitudes to Wealth?

01:28:32 The Mainstream Media won't focus on Epstein's connections with Israel and Mossad

01:32:08 The REAL Epstein scandal that no one wants to talk about

01:34:36 Behind the Bastards coverage of Epstein

01:36:01 Epstein's alleged role in creating microtransactions in games

01:40:46 Epstein's cringey Edutainment ideas

01:50:53 What Robert Evans Got Wrong

01:54:08 There are No Coincidences

02:00:57 The Danger of Appealing Narratives and also... Michael Tracey

02:06:00 The Anti-Murder Podcast

02:07:47 Warren Smith highlights Violent Rhetoric aimed at Konstantin

02:14:12 Justifying Murder is Bad... M'Kay?

02:17:55 Experiences of Violence and Naivety

02:21:16 Levels of Political Violence

02:23:49 Destiny's Community and Edgy Political Violence Takes

02:27:56 Alienating online audiences 101

02:30:14 Eric talks wormholes with a UFO maniac

02:35:28 Lord of the Idiots

02:36:18 Does Matt know Snorlax?

02:39:43 A failed disclaimer outro

Links

  1. Erik arguing with Grok
  2. Boghossian’s hardcore rules for Grok
  3. H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs (Gao et al., 2025)
  4. YouTube comment under our NXIVM video about Epstein
  5. People article claiming Epstein was Putin’s Wealth Manager
  6. Taylor Lorenz – Panic World: How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet
  7. Garbage Day: “Here’s How Epstein Broke the Internet”
  8. Eric Weinstein on Piers Morgan connecting Epstein to UFOs and his “research”
  9. Triggernometry’s 7th appearance on Rogan
  10. American Alchemy: Eric Weinstein & Eric Davis on Wormholes
  11. BBC: Ex-police chief said Trump told him in 2006 “everyone” knew about Epstein’s behaviour
  12. Joshua Citarella & Emma Vigeland – Epstein, Conspiracy & Right-wing Media | Doomscroll
  13. Pew Research: Demographics of the Progressive Left in the United States
  14. Debunking claims about Ghislaine Maxwell being a Reddit power mod
  15. Obama did not say aliens are real – PBS NewsHour
  16. NBC News: Epstein’s relationship with Ehud Barak
  17. Al Jazeera: What were Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Israel?
  18. Warren Smith’s post about threats from Digital Gnosis
  19. Digital Gnosis Substack statement
  20. Destiny’s Head Mod Confronts Him On His Rhetoric
  21. Eric Weinstein Demands UFO Secrets From Pentagon Scientist

Epstein email documents

  1. Email from Pablos Holman to Epstein (document 1)
  2. Email from Pablos Holman to Epstein (document 2)
  3. Email from Pablos Holman to Epstein (document 3)
  4. Epstein forwarding Holman’s email to Bobby Kotick
  5. Pablos Holman responding and dunking on Kotick

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