A series of talks in the Epstein documents - awful.systems

Does anyone know what this June 2019 text from Epstein [https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00508126.pdf] is about? I have added some links to RationalWiki and Wikipedia but not corrected spelling. Was it at one of the institutions he sponsored like MIT Media Lab? Or more like his conference in the Virgin Islands? It seems to mix mainstream figures and people in the Libertarian/LessWrong network. Another correspondent in 2016 suggested inviting Scott Alexander Siskind [https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00824072.pdf] to speak at a different event Epstein was involved in. The correspondent has a Substack [https://joscha.substack.com/p/on-the-jeffrey-epstein-affair] which cites Siskind in 2025. Obviously just because Epstein had heard of a public figure does not mean that they knew him. Epstein’s words begin below: * List for summer talks. avid Pizarro [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Pizarro]. Professor of Psychology and Philosopher at Cornell Univcrsit * Eric Weinstein [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein], Mathematician * Matthew Putman, Scientist * Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster, and Professor of Engineering * Lori Santos, Professor ofPsychology and Cognitive Science * Janna Levin, Theoretical Cosmologist * Ev Williams, Internet Entrepreneur * Phoebe Waller-Bridge [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge], Author * Heiner Gocbbels, Composer, and Director * Martine Rothblatt, Lawyer and Entrepreneur * Peter Thiel [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel], Venture Capitalist, and Entrepreneur * Richard Thaler, Behavioral Economics * Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology * Michael Vassar [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/MetaMed], Futurist, Activist * bret Weinstein [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein], Biologist, and Evolutionary Theorist * Susan Backfield, MIT President, Professor of Neuroscience * David Deutsch, Physicist * Eliczer Yudkowsky [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky], Al Researcher * N. Jeremy Kasdin, Astrophysicist * Carl Zimmer, Science Writer * Douglas Rushkoff, Media Theorist * Eric Topol, Cardiologist * Dustin Yellin, Artist * Sherry Turkic, Professor of Social Studies * Taylor Mac, Actor * Stephen Johnson, Author * Martin Hagglund, Swedish Philosopher and Scholar of Modernist Literature * Thomas Metzinger, Philosopher, and Professor of Theoretical Philosophy * Bjarke Ingels, Danish Architect, Founder of BIG, currently working on Floating Cities/Sustainable Habitats project * Kai-Fu Lee, Venture Capitalist, Technology Executive, and Al Expert, developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system * Poppy Crum, Neuroscientist, and Technologist, Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories, Adjunct Professor at Stanford University (Computer Research in Music) * Neil Burgess, Researcher, and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, investigating the role of the hippocampus in spatial navigation * Paul Sloom, Psychologist, and Researchvr exploring how children and adults understand the physical and secin’ world, with a special focus on language, religiom and morality * Brian Cox [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Brian_Cox], Physicist, and Professor of Particie Physics, Presenter of Science Programs * Eythor Bender. CEO of Berkeley Bionics, I nnovator and Business Leader in human augmentation (bionics and robotica) * Gwynnc Shotwell President. and COO at SpaceX, Engineer. lista! in 2018 as the 59th most powcrful woman in thc world by Forbcs * Jaap de Roodc. Associatc Professor of Evolution (of parasites) and Ecology, facusing on how parasites attack monarch butterflies and in return how butter0ies have the ability to self-mcdicatc * Jim Holt, American Philosopher, and Contributor to the Ncw York Times writing on string theory, time, thc universc, and philosophy * Vijay Komar, Indian Roboticist and UPS Foundation Professor in School ofEngineering & Applied Science:. became Dean of Penn Engineering, studies flying and cooperativc robots * Hugh Hcrr, Biophysicist, Engineer, and Rock Climber, builds prosthetic knces, legs, and onkies that fusc biomechanics with microprocessors at MIT * Gabriel locman, French Economist at UC Berkeley. best known for his research on tax havens, inequalities, and global wcalth * Fci-Fei Li, Professor of Computer Science, Director of Stanford’s Human-Ccntered Al, worIcs as Chief Scientist of Al/ML of Google Cloud * Dennis Hong, Korean Amcrican Mechanica! Engineer, Professor and Founding Director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of thc Mechanica) & Acrospace Engineering Dcpartment at UCLA * Misha (Mikhail) Leonidovich Gromov, American