As the One Source of Truth puts it: This guy is "an American podcast host and a managing director of Thiel Capital" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstei

As the One Source of Truth puts it: This guy is "an American podcast host and a managing director of Thiel Capital" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein). For one thing this matches more or less one of the author's own disclaimers under one of his papers (quoted by https://www.cantorsparadise.com https://www.cantorsparadise.com, link of OP), for another his affiliation is highly problematic to put it mildly.