This is off topic for HN. Please don't submit articles like this.
Celebrity gossip gratifies curiosity too, but that's different kind (you could call it social curiosity) than what we're looking for here.
I identify myself as a transhumanist. My transhumanist goals are : anti ageing, enhancing human intelligence, furthering robots and AI, utopia and to a certain extent genetic engineering of the human DNA.
While there are transhumanists of various stripes, characterisations like this give the other transhumanists a bad name..as it’s already considered fringe’y and weird.
I honestly don’t understand why I’d be downvoted for identifying as a transhumanist.
Sometimes downvoting because of a headline kind of defeats the purpose of discussion any topic. I wish people would read the article before flagging/downvoting/deleting threads.
I think discussion of transhumanism and what it means to different people..and how it would be accepted is a valid topic for discussion.
As far as I can tell, Epstein was so rich he paid the foremost scientists to attend dinner so he can troll them. Or worse, he actually believed in what he says, but only his closest associates can vouch for him.
But men do it all the time with religious polygamy, affairs, rape..even sperm donation banks where they are willing to ‘seed’ random women who will pay for it.
It has nothing to do with whether he is rich or not. If one has 19 kids and is in a religion, he is a reality show star. If it’s in Utah, it’s a constitutionally protected right. If the same person is rich and wants 30 kids, transhumanism becomes a fringe movement.
Meanwhile..women all over the world..remain unamused.
It all makes me think that the United States was defeated by the Nazis at some point.
Some rich and powerful guy wanting to plant his ‘seed’ in as many women as possible is a story as old as time.
Beckoning Nazis is really not helpful.