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Why Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Epstein’s money

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Re: Why Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Epstein’s money

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I saw another article like this about MIT recently. I have a really hard time taking the discussion as a whole seriously, because it kind of feels like bike-shedding as compared to "How are we going to grill some of the people who really, actually deserve it?" On the list of priorities, reprimanding labs and schools for taking donations seems like it should not be coming first.

I don't think violations should be ignored simply because more egregious ones exist. There's no reason both can't be pursued. For example you don't ignore muggings just because some people are commiting murder. In this case, Joi deliberately violated policy in accepting donations from Epstein. I agree the University shouldn't devote significant resources to policing donations that in all likelihood are legitimate in…

I think that mentality is really easy to take advantage of. Essentially, anyone is allowed at any point to push something to the top your stack. If at any point your stack is topped with something they don't like, it's a simple matter of pushing more things.

I strongly urge anyone who cares about this Epstein case at all to not let the guards or schools take a higher position in the stack than the clients themselves.

Re: Why Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Epstein’s money

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He took money from this guy after going to prison for rape, attended multiple events where underage prostitutes almost certainly were present... where do you get 95% confidence that his intentions were good? Here’s a question: if we had a list of everyone who ever attended one of those parties, would you estimate 95% of them had good intentions?

I think this is some special pleading though, since you could make similar statements about any of the many many high-profile people who commingled with Epstein. Is it all one large conspiracy? Or were they all just chumps?

I feel quite certain there is a large conspiracy? Do you have some doubt that he was at the center of a large conspiracy?
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