When REDACTED wrote: "In my own experience of such things, skeptics and fence-sitters will pounce upon any inaccuracy in even the smallest detail as 'proof' that an entire story is invalid (the infamous 'deboonking') as an excuse to perform any cognitively-costly worldview reshuffling."
I think he must have meant "...as an excuse to AVOID any cognitively-costly worldview reshuffling".
I think this is a key reason it's so hard to "wake people up". Part of them sees how much work it will be to integrate the new information into their now-incorrect worldview, and decide it's too much work, and too painful to face the extent that they were mistaken, and implies that they must change too much about their lives if they embrace the consequences of facing this new evident truth. So they close their eyes and turn away.
If this is true, how ought we best work with this "feature" of our brothers and sisters?
In many cases, people encounter a challenge to their worldview and look for trivial mistakes as motivation for dismissing the whole. By not participating in the erection of the scaffolding for an alternative model, they participate in the modeling equivalent of antiscientific behavior (though antimodeling just doesn't have quite the best ring to it).
Mathew, one of areas I focused on early in the pandemic was the research on SARS-CoV vector vaccines. I followed a thread as far as I could that tied NIH funding to primate studies at WUHAN between 2004 and 2009. The funding for this work flowed through Tulane National Primate Research Center, which strangely received Bioterrorism Research funds during this time in amounts that exactly matched the amounts going toward the primate studies on SARS-CoV vaccines. Furthermore, I found evidence that Tulane was funded by NIH to provide support services for primate studies on SARS-CoV at Lovelace Biomedical in NM, a PRIVATE research facility that received funding from Bill Gates himself. Please, it would make me very happy if you and JJ could review this information. I have had little luck so far in getting it seen. Here's the link:
I just want to respond insofar as saying that due to the creation and delivery of two presentations since I woke up at 1 AM today that it is unfortunately that I can't yet respond to what looks like a potentially valuable thread, but hopefully can after the holiday.
But one more urgent thing: Please don't miss the Twitter poll today posted by Elon Musk about the return and amnesty for all the banned accounts. I have my fingers crossed for many including Drs. Rose, McCullough and Couey and Edward Dowd. Share and vote! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595473875847942146?s=20&t=hqO8adFOnSiTmjjfKM00Uw
Wow. That is an intense trail of bread crumbs. Back well over a decade and now we are hearing about Albuquerque for the first time. Maybe Mathew can interview you on his podcast. I still can't get over the sheer amount of funds and academic effort devoted to these strange pursuits. Resources and careers that could have been devoted to something much more positive and productive entirely.
I've seen assertions that the Epstein fortune needed a place to go and the timing was right for transfer into FTX just around the time of his death August 2019. I recall some executor being "surprised" to be named in his role. Then there was a fight with Virgin Islands over some of the funds and whether the executor was involved in crimes and so forth. Seems this thread is worth chasing down as there are a lot of people perplexed about where the initial capital and fast growth came from.
Loads of detailed analysis is taking place on Twitter by all kinds of people with various expertise and vantage points, so much so Elon Musk commented multiple times about how much faster and better the details were than any mainstream coverage.
Mathew you seem uniquely positioned with expertise in multiple worlds to keep digging deep into this monstrous story. Your bonus round was funny, but how does one explain Caroline Ellison? Another clown world mockery, this time of all the accomplished and hard working women out there in finance. I loved the dry wicked humor that Patrick Boyle deployed in his description and early takes on FTX, and hope he does more. Worth the watch.
Nov 22, 2022·edited Nov 23, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford
Reading the linked Authur Hayes article, I can't help but notice that he avoids noticing the common characteristic of those allowed in the most powerful subgroup of the current caste system in the so-called "West". I doubt Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Larry Fink, Gary Gensler, Volodymyr Zelenzky, Glenn Ellison, Jeffery Epstein and Danial Friedburg were unaware of what they have in common besides Ivy-league degrees.
I have more quibbles with this particular article of his than usual. He is a great writer, often. But this is a topic that is more challenging to write about, and he chose some particular bones to pick that ran him askew of some important aspects of the Bigger Picture (and if we had a sit down conversation, I give him enough credit that he would probably show self-awareness about that).
Mathew, appreciate all the time and thought you invested in this topic (and all others too). I especially like how you painted the forest and made sense of the trees in it.
"FTX creditors, including rich investors who don’t want their names made public, can remain anonymous and still participate in the company’s bankruptcy case for now, a judge ruled at the company’s first court hearing Tuesday.
US Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey agreed to let the fallen crypto exchange redact the names of the 50 biggest unsecured creditors owed a total of $3.1 billion. The US Bankruptcy Code normally requires the names be filed in documents available to the public. Representatives for FTX argued those creditors are also customers and disclosure would allow rivals to steal their business."
If you were deep state or WEF or whomever it is in charge of the global plan to put together an enormous fake enterprise as a cover for money laundering, why not have fun with it? Use lots of stereotypes and market the story to fools. Exploit young people out of college, with their parent's collusion. Play clown world antics and mock hard working people with credibility at doing something--a tactic deployed just about everywhere now. We are at a level of madness portrayed in the classic war movie Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. I watched a lot of Kevin O'Leary footage and am convinced he is completely in on it. He keeps repeating the script claiming how "nice" all the players are. The story is different from other frauds and scandals as it has all the signatures of the evil jokers who are enjoying the purposeful destruction of world economies and societies.
I would love to hear what Dr. Jay J. Couey's take is on all this because he has had the best and the earliest BS detector capacity of anyone I have been following for the last three years.
When REDACTED wrote: "In my own experience of such things, skeptics and fence-sitters will pounce upon any inaccuracy in even the smallest detail as 'proof' that an entire story is invalid (the infamous 'deboonking') as an excuse to perform any cognitively-costly worldview reshuffling."
I think he must have meant "...as an excuse to AVOID any cognitively-costly worldview reshuffling".
I think this is a key reason it's so hard to "wake people up". Part of them sees how much work it will be to integrate the new information into their now-incorrect worldview, and decide it's too much work, and too painful to face the extent that they were mistaken, and implies that they must change too much about their lives if they embrace the consequences of facing this new evident truth. So they close their eyes and turn away.
If this is true, how ought we best work with this "feature" of our brothers and sisters?
In many cases, people encounter a challenge to their worldview and look for trivial mistakes as motivation for dismissing the whole. By not participating in the erection of the scaffolding for an alternative model, they participate in the modeling equivalent of antiscientific behavior (though antimodeling just doesn't have quite the best ring to it).
Mathew, one of areas I focused on early in the pandemic was the research on SARS-CoV vector vaccines. I followed a thread as far as I could that tied NIH funding to primate studies at WUHAN between 2004 and 2009. The funding for this work flowed through Tulane National Primate Research Center, which strangely received Bioterrorism Research funds during this time in amounts that exactly matched the amounts going toward the primate studies on SARS-CoV vaccines. Furthermore, I found evidence that Tulane was funded by NIH to provide support services for primate studies on SARS-CoV at Lovelace Biomedical in NM, a PRIVATE research facility that received funding from Bill Gates himself. Please, it would make me very happy if you and JJ could review this information. I have had little luck so far in getting it seen. Here's the link:
https://entropywave.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/evidence-of-nih-funding-to-support-sars-cov-vaccine-research-at-wuhan-institute-of-virology-and-a-private-u-s-research-organization-research-as-early-as-2004/
I just want to respond insofar as saying that due to the creation and delivery of two presentations since I woke up at 1 AM today that it is unfortunately that I can't yet respond to what looks like a potentially valuable thread, but hopefully can after the holiday.
Take a rest!! All the threads will come together in your mind as you relax and you will be fresh when you come back after the Holidays.
I have no doubt I'll crash well after my next presentation tonight. We'll have a good low stress Thanksgiving with good food.
Cheers!
But one more urgent thing: Please don't miss the Twitter poll today posted by Elon Musk about the return and amnesty for all the banned accounts. I have my fingers crossed for many including Drs. Rose, McCullough and Couey and Edward Dowd. Share and vote! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595473875847942146?s=20&t=hqO8adFOnSiTmjjfKM00Uw
Thanks for the response. Hope you have a chance to relax over the holiday. I really appreciate your willingness to review the information.
Wow. That is an intense trail of bread crumbs. Back well over a decade and now we are hearing about Albuquerque for the first time. Maybe Mathew can interview you on his podcast. I still can't get over the sheer amount of funds and academic effort devoted to these strange pursuits. Resources and careers that could have been devoted to something much more positive and productive entirely.
I've seen assertions that the Epstein fortune needed a place to go and the timing was right for transfer into FTX just around the time of his death August 2019. I recall some executor being "surprised" to be named in his role. Then there was a fight with Virgin Islands over some of the funds and whether the executor was involved in crimes and so forth. Seems this thread is worth chasing down as there are a lot of people perplexed about where the initial capital and fast growth came from.
Loads of detailed analysis is taking place on Twitter by all kinds of people with various expertise and vantage points, so much so Elon Musk commented multiple times about how much faster and better the details were than any mainstream coverage.
Mathew you seem uniquely positioned with expertise in multiple worlds to keep digging deep into this monstrous story. Your bonus round was funny, but how does one explain Caroline Ellison? Another clown world mockery, this time of all the accomplished and hard working women out there in finance. I loved the dry wicked humor that Patrick Boyle deployed in his description and early takes on FTX, and hope he does more. Worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0&t=506s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrMpk4lGjA
Reading the linked Authur Hayes article, I can't help but notice that he avoids noticing the common characteristic of those allowed in the most powerful subgroup of the current caste system in the so-called "West". I doubt Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, Larry Fink, Gary Gensler, Volodymyr Zelenzky, Glenn Ellison, Jeffery Epstein and Danial Friedburg were unaware of what they have in common besides Ivy-league degrees.
Indeed.
I have more quibbles with this particular article of his than usual. He is a great writer, often. But this is a topic that is more challenging to write about, and he chose some particular bones to pick that ran him askew of some important aspects of the Bigger Picture (and if we had a sit down conversation, I give him enough credit that he would probably show self-awareness about that).
The virtue signaling and woke club membership is costing people real money. Maybe some of the investors who got burned will wake up now.
Mathew, appreciate all the time and thought you invested in this topic (and all others too). I especially like how you painted the forest and made sense of the trees in it.
Titled 'Part 7ish' is lovely it feels like recognition in the computational world for meish math! <3
"Meish Math" <3
Next "disaster": Tether
https://www.revolver.news/2022/11/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-on-steroids-is-cryptocurrency-tether-joe-biden-crypto-bcci/
"FTX creditors, including rich investors who don’t want their names made public, can remain anonymous and still participate in the company’s bankruptcy case for now, a judge ruled at the company’s first court hearing Tuesday.
US Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey agreed to let the fallen crypto exchange redact the names of the 50 biggest unsecured creditors owed a total of $3.1 billion. The US Bankruptcy Code normally requires the names be filed in documents available to the public. Representatives for FTX argued those creditors are also customers and disclosure would allow rivals to steal their business."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-22/-substantial-ftx-assets-are-stolen-or-missing-attorney-says
If you were deep state or WEF or whomever it is in charge of the global plan to put together an enormous fake enterprise as a cover for money laundering, why not have fun with it? Use lots of stereotypes and market the story to fools. Exploit young people out of college, with their parent's collusion. Play clown world antics and mock hard working people with credibility at doing something--a tactic deployed just about everywhere now. We are at a level of madness portrayed in the classic war movie Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. I watched a lot of Kevin O'Leary footage and am convinced he is completely in on it. He keeps repeating the script claiming how "nice" all the players are. The story is different from other frauds and scandals as it has all the signatures of the evil jokers who are enjoying the purposeful destruction of world economies and societies.
I would love to hear what Dr. Jay J. Couey's take is on all this because he has had the best and the earliest BS detector capacity of anyone I have been following for the last three years.
They may have to hide if their economic blows up, which is reasonably possible in the near future.