File 029163
Email Chain About Scientific Mailing Lists and Intellectual Communities (File 029163)
Email correspondence between David Haig, Robert Trivers, and Jeffrey Epstein discussing participation in intellectual circles and mailing lists, with commentary on scientific advancement and political figures.
Summary
David Haig declines Robert Trivers' offer to add him to another mailing list due to time constraints. Trivers discusses adding both Haig and Epstein to what he refers to as the 'Gruterites' (Gordon Getty's intellectual circle), while comparing it to other scientific communities like EDGE. The email includes Trivers' observations on Trump as a narcissistic psychopath and brief characterizations of Haig as a top evolutionary geneticist and Epstein as having exceptional financial and mathematical abilities.
From: Haig, DavidSent: 3/19/2018 9:10:54 AMTo: Robert TriversSubject: Re:Importance: HighHi Bob (and hello Jeffrey),; Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]I would be happy at the moment not to be on another mailing list. There are just too many different things I am trying toattend to (including imprinted green beards),DavidFrom: Robert TriversDate: Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 11:22 PMTo: "Haig, David" <=111, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>Subject: <no subject>dear meni am writing you both because i am attaching a still not-quite-complete response to Peter Richerson, a gene-culture co-evolutionist—without the genesi do so because four lines down i tell the "Gruterites"—Gordon Getty's echo chamber—that i have added you two to thelistso here is your chance to say "no way" and i will delete that from the message and likewise not ask Gruter's assistant toadd your names to the listhaving said that, i find Gordon's missives much less burdensome than those from EDGE and certainly without theegomaniacal nonsense that infects John Brockman—the key is to get the brightest minds in a room and have them telleach other what they think is most important—or some such nonsenseneither David nor i can think of a single scientific advance achieved that way—most of what we do is simplyconcentrated sustained thought directed toward the foundations of a problemi doubt Jeffrey has made a huge amount of money via the EDGE programunless you say otherwise, i will shortly send you the key Getty missives in which he asserts, i believe correctly, thatTrump is an archetypal narcissistic psychopath—or whatever the precise term is—and that he must be opposed with fullforce on that basismeanwhile, David has heard plenty about you Jeffrey, a financial/mathematical mind of exceptional quality and youshould know that David is one of the very top evolutionary geneticists still breathing and my teacher on every detaillarge and smallin haste and all bestHOUSE OVERSIGHT 029163bobHOUSE OVERSIGHT 029164