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Wow, one might have expected Edge to take a little break, given recent news. https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-2004 https://www.edge.org/

• emmelaich 7y ago
  Can you elaborate?
  • mcshicks 7y ago
    "and Jeffrey Epstein, who recently endowed The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University which is involved in researching applications of mathematics and computer science to biology."
• gjm11 7y ago
  Maybe a better explanation of the issues is this article by Evgeny Morozov https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-intellectual-enabler https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte... . In short, allegedly John Brockman (the guy behind Edge) had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein, and there's some reason to suspect he had a pretty good idea of at least some of the bad things Epstein got up to but continued to take his money and promote him as a scientific philanthropist and interesting thinker. (It is entirely possible that Morozov has axes of his own to grind, and I don't know how accurate that article is. But it's probably fairly representative of why some people might think Edge should at least be keeping a low profile for a while.)