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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Aug 2019
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      Epstein’s pattern of inveigling himself into power networks is strikingly familiar. I’ve met too many such operators both close-up and from a distance. Most are merely after money, but now I can’t help doing an unconscious double-take, looking for signs of darker currents.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Aug 2019
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      Working networks with that level of desperation suggests a drive at work far stronger than ordinary greed for money or power. Which isn’t to say the drive has to be dark, but it has to run deeper than mere ambition.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Aug 2019
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          Networking in general is a tedious chore which is why most of us do the minimum we can get away with. To want to do a lot of it is like wanting to do a lot of laundry. Something weird there which doesn’t add up.

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        2. Diane Foley‏ @Tantele 29 Aug 2019
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          Narcissistic personality disorder. I can almost imagine what delight he took in tricking and trapping scientists. How their falling prey to the same desires that ruled him lessened the shame.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Aug 2019
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          Yeah but I’m guessing in most cases of NPD that sense of control is just a side dish. The main course is whatever that access and entryism enables. In this case apparently laundering reputation and buying a sort of force field around his predatory activities.

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        1. Matt Guttman‏ @RealtimeAI 29 Aug 2019
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          Whoever gets in the room gets in the room.

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        1. Cameron Boehmer‏ @camron 29 Aug 2019
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          Seems like lovelessness mislabeled as powerlessness would be sufficient

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