epstein in tech pyramid

Jeffrey Epstein: Transhumanist And Technocrat At The Top Of The Pyramid? (aug 4 2025) article on technocracy (patrick wood) news site [https://www.technocracy.news/jeffrey-epstein-transhumanist-and-technocrat-at-the-top-of-the-pyramid/]

actually intro’d to this post because it refs redefineschool (to jim rutt.. though in glancing thru the bibliography.. i’ve taken notes on many listed).. so reading article and taking it in here:

Jeffrey Epstein’s role in Technocracy and Transhumanism has been overshadowed by his apparent lust for young girls and has led to gaping holes in the history of both. Perhaps Epstein was removed before the world found out what the plan was all about. Read and decide for yourself… ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.

Imagine unlocking the secrets of human “source code” to rewrite our destiny—transcending scarcity, competition, and even death itself. Sounds like a sci-fi utopia, right? But what if this vision is a Trojan horse for elite control, funded by Jeffrey Epstein and amplified by Silicon Valley titans? Dive into the shadowy origins of Game-B, a movement promising collective flourishing but potentially delivering a dystopian nightmare of genetic engineering, AI overlords, and spiritual eugenics. If you’ve ever wondered how the Intellectual Dark Web, Santa Fe Institute, and Epstein’s billions connect to a plan for “conscious evolution,” keep reading—this exposé will blow your mind.

Short Breakdown of Each Section

• Introduction: The Last Questions and the Hidden Game
  Sets the stage with the Edge Foundation’s 2018 “last questions” series, highlighting the Weinsteins’ contributions and introducing Game-B as a response to Game-A’s flaws. Teases the movement’s seductive promise of conscious evolution while revealing its dark ties to Epstein, SFI, Thiel, and technocratic risks, including Pierce and Bannon connections.
• Section 1: The Game-B Origin Story: From Santa Fe Think Tanks to Civilizational Redesign
  Traces Game-B’s roots at SFI (with Epstein funding), the 2009 Economic Manhattan Project, and 2013 gatherings. Details key figures (Rutt, Hall, Weinsteins, Schmachtenberger, Landry), internal conflicts, evolution into a memetic tag, and a timeline from 2002 to 2025, questioning if it’s a paradigm shift or technocratic rebrand.

jim rutt.. jordan (green)hall.. daniel schmachtenberger.. et al

• Section 2: The Epstein Nexus: Funding the Future of Human Enhancement
  Examines Epstein’s foundational role in funding institutions like Edge, Harvard, MIT, SFI, and transhumanist groups (e.g., Humanity Plus). Highlights ties to figures like Church and Goertzel’s AI for Good/UN links, Epstein’s eugenic ambitions, and amplifiers like Thiel’s ventures and Brock Pierce’s crypto overlaps, with a timeline of donations.

edge.. john brockman .. ben goertzel.. et al

• Section 3: Ideological Roots and Dangers
  Explores conscious evolution’s roots in Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere and Hubbard’s spiritual eugenics, linking to genetic eugenics and Darwinism. Critiques risks of surveillance and elite control, drawing parallels to historical technocracies like Technocracy Inc. and Wells’ World Brain, warning of hubris in AI-driven systems.

noosphere ness.. barbara marx hubbard

• Section 4: The Intellectual Dark Web as Influence Operation?
  Analyzes the IDW (coined by Eric Weinstein) as an incubator for Game-B ideas, evolving into the IDWeb. Discusses overlaps with Game-B language, figures like Schmachtenberger and Hall, podcasts, and speculations on intelligence ties, critiquing it as manufacturing consent through complexity.

intellectness as cancerous distraction

• Section 5: Benevolent Intentions, Unintended Consequences: The Philosophical Roots Leading to Transhumanism and Technocracy
  Acknowledges proponents’ good intentions but critiques Game-B’s roots (ontological, teleological, metaphysical, epistemological) for leading to transhumanism/technocracy. Details defenses (e.g., Schmachtenberger on anti-rivalrous tech), critiques decentralization illusions, and ties to ventures like Qualia Life and CosmoErotic Humanism.

daniel on non rivalrous structure et al

• Conclusion: Game-B as a Technocratic & Transhumanist Trojan Horse
  Summarizes Game-B’s origins, roots in eugenics/technocracy, Epstein/Thiel ties, and IDW influence. Warns of risks in conscious evolution becoming control, urging resistance through education, local action, and rejecting enhancements to preserve human agency.

then it will be same song

This idea crystallized in Game~B, a movement the brothers founded and helped popularize alongside thinkers like Jordan Hall, Jim Rutt, and Daniel Schmachtenberger, Forest Landry. Game-B positions itself as the antidote to “Game-A,” our current zero-sum societal operating system: the cutthroat capitalism, environmental exploitation, and power asymmetries driving us toward collapse. Instead, Game-B envisions “omni-win” dynamics—scalable, anti-fragile systems built on collective intelligence, advanced technologies like AI and blockchain, and psychotechnologies for enhanced sense-making.

Imagine a world where decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) replace corrupt governments, where algorithms curate “optimal” decisions from vast citizen inputs, and where evolutionary traps like arms races are preempted by game-theoretically stable incentives. It’s a protopian dream—not utopia, but a steady upgrade toward sustainability and flourishing. As Schmachtenberger often puts it, “If technology gives us something like the power of gods, we have to have something like the love and wisdom of gods to be able to rightly wield it.” Hall, in a nod to ancient myths, calls for “Promethean” innovation, stealing fire from the gods of old paradigms to forge new ones. Rutt, drawing from his Santa Fe Institute roots, sees social media evolving into “premier sense-making platforms” for the human race.

dao ness.. et al

as i’ve written on the notes on all these pages.. nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making..

because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

Currently Game-B remains more conceptual than concrete, a “loose network of individuals and groups” per the P2P Foundation Wiki, inspiring experiments in “Proto-B” communities, drawing comparisons to Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project—a resource-based economy vision. Online forums buzz with discussions of transitioning away from the “metacrisis state,” while the @GameBMovement X account promotes collaboration and sustainability. A planned video series on Game-B projects hints at growing momentum, yet the movement’s allure lies in its ambiguity: It’s not a rigid ideology but a “memetic tag” aggregating visions for a non-rivalrous civilization.

p2p foundation et al.. venus project.. prometheus project.. resource based economy.. et al

nonrivalrous et al

Peel back the layers, to examine the ramifications of the connections, intellectual and spiritual foundations and a darker underbelly emerges. The Edge Foundation, where these “last questions” were aired, wasn’t a neutral agora. From 2001 to 2015, it received at least $638,000 from Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and financier whose web of influence snared scientists, billionaires, and politicians. Epstein wasn’t just a donor; he was often the sole benefactor, attending exclusive “Billionaires’ Dinners” to cultivate ties with the likes of Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, and George Church—pioneers in AI, genetics, and transhumanism. His funding extended to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics ($6.5 million), MIT’s Media Lab ($525,000 post-conviction), and transhumanist outfits like Humanity Plus ($100k + $20k + $100k), all while he harbored eugenic fantasies of “seeding” humanity with his DNA via a New Mexico “baby ranch.”

Epstein’s empire intersected Game-B’s origins at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), where he donated $275,000, and where Rutt chaired the board (2009-2012) while Hall served as a trustee (2007-2011). SFI’s complexity science—modeling emergent systems and evolutionary dynamics—forms Game-B’s intellectual spine. More provocatively, Epstein invested $40 million in Valar Ventures, a firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, ..

We will explore how Game-B, echoes historical technocracies—from 1937’s Technocracy Inc., which advocated “social engineering” sans politicians, to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere,” a planetary mind merging humans into a tech-mediated superintelligence. It draws on Barbara Marx Hubbard’s “spiritual eugenics,” where “unevolved” elements are culled for planetary progress, and H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” of expert-curated knowledge. In 2025, amid AI booms and trust deficits, Game-B’s promise risks entrenching power in code-masters—designers of algorithms that process us as data, not sovereign agents.

noosphere ness.. barbara marx hubbard

What if “conscious evolution” isn’t liberation, but a blueprint for control? By teasing these threads—Epstein’s funding as incubator, SFI as birthplace, Thiel’s orbit as amplifier—we reveal Game-B not as escape from Game-A, but its sophisticated evolution: A potential technocratic, transhumanist takeover disguised as salvation.

everything to date is perpetuating sea world (disturbance ness).. as long as it’s not sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

i don’t think i’ll read the rest..

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