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I'm not sure if this is self-aware or not, but Ito's fund is called:"Neoteny", meaning "the retention of child-like attributes through adulthood". Apparently, E
by nickpinkston 7y ago
I'm not sure if this is self-aware or not, but Ito's fund is called:"Neoteny", meaning "the retention of child-like attributes through adulthood". Apparently, Epstein's funds / projects were named with innuendos. (edited)
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neoteny#section-overview https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neoteny#section-over...
- gojomo 7y agoNo, 'neoteny' doesn't "usually" mean "animals with childlike features", but rather "the retention of juvenile features into adulthood". It's conjectured that a lot of humanity's advanced intelligence & culture has been achieved with the help of our species' extended retention of juvenile learning-capacity & neural plasticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny_in_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny_in_humans
- nickpinkston 7y agoChanged for clarity, but my point stands. It's kind of funny in retrospect.
- gojomo 7y agoFunny in a 'Beavis and Butthead', "heh, heh, we can find a prurient way to interpret this" way, sure.
- nickpinkston 7y agoSee parent, but it was a theme of Epstein's projects to be named with innuendos.
- gojomo 7y agoI don't think it's appropriate to imply, without evidence, that Ito's 'Neoteny Ventures', founded in 1999, was in any way an "Epstein project". (Of course, if there's evidence Epstein was involved at its founding, I'd change my mind about this.)
- nickpinkston 7y agoI'm not claiming anything, just that it's interesting. I'm not going to feed the troll anymore.
- kragen 7y agoI've flagged your comment as a completely unprovoked personal attack on Gojomo. It's not okay to call people names because they point out your misconduct.
- nickpinkston 7y agoHa - fine. I guess you take my criticism of the "well actually" behaviors are more of a threat to a good community than those behaviors themselves. Thanks for your concern. Edit: Interestingly, it looks like you guys are friends, so this is just favoritism on your part. So much for your concern... haha.
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- sitkack 7y agoThe word I found that you may have dropped is, "disgusting".
- anigbrowl 7y agoEt tu, gojomo?
- gojomo 7y agoWhat do you mean? (If you're alleging some rhetorical misconduct or hypocrisy on my part, could you be more specific?)
- nickpinkston 7y agoI think he means you're just being annoying and not constructive. Try being nice like you were talking in person.
- rhizome 7y agoNeoteny was a concept within the smart drugs, pronoia, raver-woo mysticism in the early-mid US rave culture.
- nickpinkston 7y agoOh interesting!
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- tempsy 7y agoOn his website it is defined as "the retention of child-like attributes through adulthood."
- freyr 7y agoIto reminds me of Epstein in that I have no idea how either got their money. Wikipedia must be skipping over some important details, but it describes him as a two-time college dropout, a nightclub manager in Japan, (EDIT: nevermind, mystery solved! His MIT bio says he was the founder of Japan's Digital Garage and CEO of its first ISP [1]), then he's the president of MIT Media Lab, visiting Harvard Law School professor, on several boards of directors, and runs a VC fund. I'm not implying he got his money by nefarious means, just that it's interesting to see people who find success (and in this case, downfall) within these institutions despite their unconventional backgrounds. [1] https://www.garage.co.jp/en/company/ https://www.garage.co.jp/en/company/
- crabasa 7y agoI believe Ito was instrumental in helping to launch Yahoo Japan. That may be where some of his wealth came from.
- freyr 7y agoFrom his MIT Media Lab bio: In Japan, he was a founder of Digital Garage and helped establish and later became CEO of the country’s first commercial Internet service provider. Probably netted him enough to set the rest in motion. Still, landing professorships at MIT and Harvard without a college degree is pretty wild.
- paggle 7y agoThe Media Lab in particular is a corporate PR/money vehicle, it’s not really an academic lab like a cancer research institute. There is some real research there but also a lot of “stick 25 Arduinos in something and make a video for a Fortune 50 company who will give you $10 million”
- rolltiide 7y agoand/or a random portfolio investment of one of the VC funds he is an LP of and/or a lottery ticket and/or employment from multiple sources and picking stocks and/or a particularly lucrative real estate holding and/or it probably wasn't linear at all just like your wealth probably doesn't materialize linearly either so doesn't that make this whole discussion rather odd and clickbaity? I saw similar articles regarding Epstein and thought "thats not how any of this works?" if I was ever put under similar analysis nobody would know anything accurate, they would just google me and see a big crowdsale I was on the executive team of and saw that it collected several million dollars and assume "thats how I made my money" even though they have zero transparency on who was paid what and how, or how the organizations made its revenues or not, or the investing patterns and homeruns and leveraged losses I had - which resulted in a useful exemption from capital gains tax on my next homerun, and would have zero information about what partnerships I'm part of, what hedge funds I'm invested in, how any of those things perform, etc.
- knolax 7y agoI guess Paedomorphic would be too on the nose.
- joewee 7y agoNot sure what you are insinuating? Neoteny existed long before Joi had any involvement with MIT or Epstein.