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