Jeffrey Epstein: Transhumanist And Technocrat At The Top Of The Pyramid?

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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Last Questions and the Hidden Game

Section 1: The Game-B Origin Story: From Santa Fe Think Tanks to Civilizational Redesign

Section 2: The Epstein Nexus: Funding the Future of Human Enhancement

Section 3: Ideological Roots and Dangers

Section 4: The Intellectual Dark Web as Influence Operation?

Section 5: Benevolent Intentions, Unintended Consequences: The Philosophical Roots Leading to Transhumanism and Technocracy

Conclusion: Game~B as a Technocratic and Transhumanist Trojan Horse?

Bibliography: Source list and links

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bibliography
  Lists sources cited throughout the essay, including books, articles, podcasts, and websites.

Introduction: The Last Questions and the Hidden Game

In the summer of 2018, as global anxieties simmered over climate collapse narratives, technological disruption, and geopolitical instability, the Edge Foundation—an elite intellectual salon founded by literary agent John Brockman—hosted its annual series where it posed what it billed as humanity’s ultimate challenge: “What is the last question?” This wasn’t just another thought experiment; it was framed as the final inquiry that could define our species’ trajectory, a call to arms for the world’s brightest minds to confront existential perils. Among the over 150 contributors, including psychologists, physicists, and philosophers, two brothers stood out with queries that cut to the core of human evolution and self-mastery.

Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist and podcaster known for his contrarian takes on culture and science, submitted: “Can humans set a non-evolutionary course that is game-theoretically stable?” His brother, Eric Weinstein, a mathematician and former managing director at Thiel Capital, offered: “Does something unprecedented happen when we finally learn our own source code?” These weren’t idle speculations. They echoed through salons attended by Nobel laureates and Silicon Valley titans, questions that implied humanity stood at a precipice: decode our biological and social programming, or succumb to the chaotic forces of natural selection run amok.

On the surface, the Weinsteins’ provocations captured a seductive promise—a vision of “conscious evolution,” where humanity transcends its primal instincts for competition and scarcity, engineering instead a cooperative, resilient future. 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.

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.

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, the PayPal billionaire and transhumanist patron who funds longevity research and “liberal eugenics” via embryo-selection startups like Orchid. As of June 2025, that stake has ballooned to $170 million, the largest asset in Epstein’s estate—profits that, per reports, victims may never see. Peter Thiel’s orbit serves as a powerful amplifier for these technocratic visions, channeling Epstein’s investments into transhumanist frontiers like anti-aging research (via SENS), AI development (through the Singularity Institute), and cryonics (Alcor). Thiel’s recent backing of the Enhanced Games, a “doping Olympics” for superhuman performance, further echoes the movement’s pursuit of transcending human limits, potentially entrenching elite control under the guise of innovation. Eric Weinstein, during his tenure at Thiel Capital (2013-2022), worked under the umbrella that housed Valar, raising questions about indirect ties—though Weinstein has publicly called Epstein a “constructor,” likely an intelligence asset steering science.

Brock Pierce, a cryptocurrency pioneer and co-founder of Tether and Block.one, intersects with Jeffrey Epstein’s network through his attendance at Epstein’s 2011 “Mindshift” conference on Little St. James island, where he spoke on blockchain technology alongside scientists and Nobel laureates, despite Epstein’s recent conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Pierce has also been reported to have counseled Epstein on cryptocurrency investments, overlapping in the emerging crypto economy that Epstein funded through ventures like his DNA data-mining firm Southern Trust. Pierce later expressed regret over the association, claiming ignorance of Epstein’s full role as sponsor and stating he would not have participated knowing Epstein’s history. This Epstein tie extends to Pierce’s collaborations with Steve Bannon, whom Pierce employed at his company Internet Gaming Entertainment in the mid-2000s (focused on virtual gold farming in World of Warcraft), with Bannon eventually replacing him as CEO; Bannon later assisted Pierce’s 2022 independent U.S. Senate bid and has been involved in crypto projects alongside him. Pierce’s independent political ambitions, including his 2020 presidential run, align with broader movements like United Independents—emphasizing decentralized governance and systemic reform—which share ideological overlaps with Game-B’s anti-rivalrous visions through figures like Christopher Life, though Pierce’s direct involvement centers on crypto-driven civic activism.

Recent discussions amplify suspicions: podcasts, articles and posts on social media link Epstein to Mossad honey-traps, CIA replicas, and elite blackmail networks, with vague nods to “game designers” on flight logs. While direct Game-B-Epstein smoking guns are elusive, the overlaps suggest a technocratic agenda: Using evolutionary rhetoric to justify elite oversight, where “decoding source code” enables god-like reprogramming of society and biology.

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.

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.

Section 1: The Game-B Origin Story: From Santa Fe Think Tanks to Civilizational Redesign

The seeds of Game-B weren’t sown in a revolutionary uprising or a viral social media campaign, but in the rarified air of elite think tanks and private gatherings among systems theorists, tech entrepreneurs, and evolutionary biologists. At its core, Game-B emerged as a response to what its proponents saw as the fatal flaws of “Game-A”—the dominant societal paradigm characterized by competition, short-termism, and destructive externalities like ecological collapse and social inequality. Instead, Game-B promised a “new operating system” for civilization: one rooted in cooperation, long-term stewardship, and technologically enhanced collective intelligence. To understand its trajectory, we must trace its origins back to the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a New Mexico-based research center renowned for complexity science, where key figures first crossed paths, as well as earlier post-2008 initiatives led by Eric Weinstein that laid conceptual groundwork.

Founded in 1984, SFI has long been a nexus for interdisciplinary exploration of emergent systems—how simple rules give rise to complex behaviors in everything from ant colonies to financial markets. It’s here that Jim Rutt and Jordan Hall (formerly Robert Jordan Greenhall) forged connections that would birth Game-B. Rutt, a former tech executive who built his fortune in network services and venture capital, joined SFI as a Researcher in Residence from 2002 to 2004, focusing on applying complexity principles to financial markets, social organizations, and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He later ascended to Chairman of the Board from 2009 to 2012, and remains a Distinguished Fellow and Trustee Emeritus as of 2025. Hall, a tech innovator with roots in digital media and AI, served on SFI’s Board of Trustees from approximately 2007 to 2011. His interests aligned closely with the institute’s: the co-evolution of technology and human civilization, including complex adaptive systems and networked governance.

Their shared SFI tenure overlapped during a period when the institute received $275,000 from Jeffrey Epstein, including a $25,000 donation in 2010, as reported by AP News, KRQE, and the Virgin Islands Daily News. Epstein’s involvement at SFI stemmed from his friendship with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, a co-founder and science board co-chair, who acknowledged Epstein’s support in his 1994 book The Quark and the Jaguar. This funding context underscores how Game-B’s intellectual foundations were nurtured in environments buoyed by controversial patrons, blending cutting-edge science with elite networking.

The intellectual precursors to Game-B can be traced even earlier, to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, when mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein organized the “Economic Manhattan Project” conference at the Perimeter Institute in 2009. This initiative aimed to assemble scientists and thinkers to rethink economic theory as a science, addressing systemic failures through an interdisciplinary “Manhattan Project”-style effort to develop new models for stability and growth. Eric Weinstein, often referred to in Game-B circles as the “rabbi” of the movement for his guiding philosophical influence, framed these discussions around evolving human systems and game-theoretic principles. His brother Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, was involved in these early talks, contributing insights on how systems evolve unpredictably and emphasizing the need for designs that account for emergent behaviors to avoid unintended consequences. These post-2008 explorations, documented in introductory overviews like the “On Game B” text, served as a historical bridge to later Game-B formations, evolving ideas from economic redesign into broader civilizational alternatives.

The formal genesis of Game-B traces to 2013, when Rutt, motivated by societal challenges like economic inequality and environmental degradation, assembled a diverse group of thinkers. As Rutt recounted in a 2020 YouTube interview, “In 2013, Jim Rutt brought together a group of thinkers from different fields to address major societal challenges, leading to the origins of ‘Game B’.” Initial discussions aimed at launching a political party dubbed the “Emancipation Party,” but evolved into a broader conceptual framework for a sustainable social operating system. A pivotal in-person meeting in Staunton, Virginia, that year included Hall, who presented ideas for a non-hierarchical, network-centric social movement with a gradual “on-ramp” for participants—ideas that became the mental model for Game-B. Thor Müller, author of Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business, reportedly suggested they keep the name “Game B” during these talks for branding purposes.

Bret Weinstein was recruited for his expertise in evolutionary biology. As Bret explained in a 2020 video, “I was brought in because it was seen as evolutionary… we have a tendency to solve problems… the problem is that when we build these things… we’re not aware we’re building an entity that will evolve… we’ve done this time and again… set a system then it evolves to something we weren’t planning for.” His brother Eric, with his background in mathematics and economics, added a layer of game-theoretic rigor, with his Edge question alluding to framing human systems as programmable “source code.” Daniel Schmachtenberger, a systems thinker focused on existential risks, joined as a key voice, emphasizing “advancing collective intelligence and capacity” in the face of globalization and exponential technology. Forrest Landry, a philosopher, master woodworker, and systems architect with expertise in large-scale software design, emerged as a metaphysical guide for the movement. Drawing from his work on “—a framework emphasizing effective choice-making, relational integrity, and the interdependence of being—he contributed tools for navigating complexity in small groups, influencing Proto-B experiments and the philosophical underpinnings of anti-fragile, scalable communities. (There’s many more names in the Game~B ecosystem but for the purposes of this article we won’t list them all. I cover most of them in depth in my presentation on Game~B.)

The group’s online discussions exploded, generating around 100,000 posts on Basecamp, but the in-person initiative disbanded after about a year due to internal conflicts. Jim Rutt explained that there was a more spiritual faction, “woo-woo” vs a more scientifically oriented group. The Manifest Nirvana Whitepaper explains, “In 2014 the Stanton group split into two camps: those who were convinced that real change has to start with institutional reform, versus those who believed that personal and spiritual transformation are a prerequisite for social change – and thus the primary foundations upon which a genuinely new Game B needs to be built. Some of the essential future aspirations for humanity of the latter group sound close to the original vision of collective evolutionary emergence we hold at Manifest Nirvana as well, and are well worth exploring further. Especially those expressed by inspirational thinkers like Jamie Wheal, one of the world’s leading experts on peak performance and leadership; Jordan Hall, techno-wizard turned philosopher; and Daniel Schmachtenberger, social philosopher and futurist.”

Dialogues likely continued among key players (e.g., Rutt, Hall, the Weinsteins, and Daniel Schmachtenberger), given their overlapping networks in complexity science and tech, but these weren’t publicized or framed as Game-B activities at the time. In 2017, Bret Weinstein discussed Game-B on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in December 2017, marking the concept’s first notable public exposure since 2013. This was a solo effort to revive interest, drawing on evolutionary biology angles from the original talks. In 2018, Daniel Schmachtenberger launched The Emergence Project (a think tank focused on design criteria for omni-considerate systems, inspired by integral theory which later morphed into the Consilience Project, where Jordan Hall serves the role of “Strategic Intelligence”). This was a direct extension of Game-B thinking, involving ongoing discussions among a small circle, but it operated as an independent initiative. Game-B persisted informally, gaining traction around 2019 with the #GameB hashtag on social media. By then, it had coalesced into what the Game-B Wiki describes as “a memetic tag that aggregates a myriad of visions, projects and experiments that model potential future civilisational forms. The flag on the hill for Game B is an anti-fragile, scalable, increasingly omni-win-win civilisation.” The wiki, last significantly updated in March 2024, positions Game-B as distinct from “rivalrous Game A,” drawing on evolutionary game theory, complexity science, and systems thinking.

Proponents like Schmachtenberger describe it as a shift from “adversarial, finite games” to “infinite games” where the goal is perpetual play through mutual benefit. Hall, in early formulations, warned that “Game B is notoriously difficult to think and talk about for the very good reason that if you were using the conceptual structures that came out of Game A to do so, you may very well be poisoning the well.” Other voices, such as Zak Stein, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Nora Bateson, enriched the discourse with ideas from education, indigenous knowledge, and ecology.

By 2020, podcasts and videos amplified the message. In a Future Thinkers episode, Rutt discussed “Proto-B” communities—experimental groups applying Game-B principles in practice—and steps to adopt a Game-B mindset. A 2022 talk at Singularity University explored Rutt’s views on engineering a better society via Game-B, touching on online communities and social media.

While there’s much diversity of ideas in the the Game~B community, many of them are spiritual and philosophical disciples of Neoplatonism, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The movement’s evolution took a seemingly more traditionally religious turn in 2024 with Jordan Hall’s public conversion to Christianity, which he integrated into Game-B frameworks. In a February 2024 podcast with Jim Rutt (Episode 223), Hall discussed “cities, civiums, and becoming Christian,” exploring how hierarchies of values and cultural toolkits could align with Game-B’s anti-fragile aspirations. In a March 2024 “Trans-Paradigmatic Christianity” video, he offered Christianity as a worldview bridging innovation and tradition. This pivot continued into 2025, with an April video titled “Jordan Hall | Game B Christianity,” where he joined hosts to discuss fusing Game-B concepts with Christian theology. In his presentation The Rise of Network States and Smart Cities | Jordan Hall | Startups Societies Conference at Vitalia he applies Christian concepts to building Network States. The fusion of Christian ideas with the core tenets and visions of Game~B might feel a bit forced, like squeezing a square peg into a round whole, to those versed in both.

Into 2025, Game-B shows signs of modest revival.

Timeline of Game-B Evolution:

• 2002-2004: Jim Rutt joins SFI as Researcher in Residence, focusing on complexity applications.
• 2007-2011: Jordan Hall serves on SFI Board; overlaps with Rutt’s chairmanship (2009-2012).
• 2009: Eric Weinstein in conjunction with the Edge foundation, organizes the Economic Manhattan Project conference at Perimeter Institute, involving Bret Weinstein, introducing Jordan Hall and laying early groundwork for rethinking systemic failures that influenced Game-B.
• 2013: Rutt convenes group; Staunton, VA meeting; Hall presents core ideas; Bret Weinstein joins for evolutionary lens. Initial aim: Emancipation Party. ~100,000 Basecamp posts; project disbands after ~1 year.
• 2019: #GameB hashtag gains traction on social media; Game-B Wiki launches, defining it as “memetic tag” for omni-win civilization.
• 2020: Podcasts/videos proliferate; Rutt on Future Thinkers discusses Proto-B communities.
• 2024: Jordan Hall converts to Christianity; integrates with Game-B in podcasts (e.g., EP 223 with Rutt on “civiums”); “Trans-Paradigmatic Christianity” video.
• 2025: January Facebook post announces new video series; @GameBMovement X active in March

This timeline reveals Game-B’s shift from ambitious political origins to a more philosophical, spiritually infused network. Yet, its SFI roots and elite composition raise questions: Is this a genuine paradigm shift, or a technocratic rebrand? As we explore further, these ties to Epstein-funded ecosystems and transhumanist ideologies suggest possibly the latter.

Section 2: The Epstein Nexus: Funding the Future of Human Enhancement

Jeffrey Epstein’s role in the ecosystem surrounding Game-B wasn’t that of a peripheral donor or casual enthusiast; it was foundational, and deeply intertwined with the movement’s intellectual and financial roots. As a convicted sex offender who positioned himself as a “science philanthropist,” Epstein funneled millions into institutions and individuals advancing transhumanism—the philosophical and technological pursuit of transcending human biological limits through genetic engineering, AI, longevity research, and collective intelligence systems. Additionally, his involvement in cryptocurrencies both in regard to personal investments as well and technological research and innovation raises inquiries regarding technocratic visions. According to the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation’s own description, established in 2000, Epstein aimed “to fund and support cutting edge science around the world.” He portrayed himself as “one of the largest supporters of individual scientists, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, Seth Lloyd and Nobel Laureates Gerard ‘t Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek.” More recently, his foundation backed advances in artificial intelligence, such as the OpenCog Foundation in Hong Kong and Joscha Bach’s Micropsi work in Berlin, which focused on building virtual cognitive models of the human mind. Epstein was also actively involved in the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, the Santa Fe Institute, the Theoretical Biology Initiative at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Quantum Gravity Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard’s Mind, Brain and Behavior Committee. He was a former member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Academy of Science, and a Rockefeller University Board Member.

This funding web didn’t just support abstract ideas; it created networks that amplified ideologies central to Game-B, such as decoding humanity’s “source code” (Eric Weinstein’s Edge question), the related theme of Jordan Hall’s blog Deep Code, and engineering “non-evolutionary” social structures (Bret’s query). By examining Epstein’s contributions—millions to scientific causes, per known records—we uncover how his influence helped incubate a technocratic vision where elites, armed with advanced tools, could steer human evolution.

At the heart of this nexus was the Edge Foundation, which served as Epstein’s primary gateway to the intellectual elite. Founded in 1988 by John Brockman, Edge.org functioned as a highbrow salon, hosting annual questions, conferences, and exclusive events like the “Billionaires’ Dinner.” These gatherings connected scientists, philosophers, and entrepreneurs, fostering discussions on “the third culture“—where systems thinkers and technologists supplanted traditional humanities as cultural authorities. From 2001 to 2015, Epstein’s foundations donated at least $638,000 to Edge, often as its sole or largest contributor, according to IRS filings and Brockman’s own admissions post-scandal. This wasn’t passive philanthropy; Epstein attended events, sponsored dinners, and used the platform to build relationships with luminaries like Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky (AI pioneer), and Murray Gell-Mann (SFI co-founder), whom he visited monthly in New Mexico to discuss particle physics.

Edge’s “last question” series in 2018, where the Weinsteins posed their queries, exemplifies how it incubated transhumanist ideas. Eric’s question about “source code” evoked decoding human cognition and biology as software, unlocking enhancements like longevity or post-biological existence. As Weinstein elaborated in discussion with Lex Fridman, “and another case we are the simulated and if you buy those and you put them together we are the AGI and whether or not we have simulators we may be trying to wake up by learning our own source code so this could be our Skynet moment…” This framing not only blends simulation theory with AGI self-awareness but also underscores the existential stakes—humanity potentially triggering its own obsolescence through self-decoding. Bret’s on a “game-theoretically stable” non-evolutionary path aligned with redesigning society beyond zero-sum Darwinian traps—core to Game-B’s diagnosis of Game-A failures. These themes weren’t new to Edge; annual questions often revolved around AI convergence, the “global brain,” and human upgrades, platforming figures like Ray Kurzweil (singularity advocate) and Nick Bostrom (existential risks philosopher). Epstein’s funding enabled this discourse, which echoed his own obsessions: He reportedly dreamed of “seeding” humanity with his DNA by impregnating women at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, inspired by eugenic sperm banks like the Repository for Germinal Choice.

Beyond Edge, Epstein’s largesse extended to major academic institutions, creating scandals that continue to reverberate in 2025. Harvard University received the lion’s share: at least $8.9 million between 1998 and 2007, per a 2019 internal review reaffirmed in a July 2025 Crimson article on lingering Epstein ties. The centerpiece was a $6.5 million gift in 2003 to establish the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) under Martin Nowak, focusing on mathematical models of evolution—directly relevant to Game-B’s evolutionary critiques. Even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, he visited PED offices over 40 times between 2010 and 2018, including as late as October 2018. Harvard’s psychology department appointed him a visiting fellow post-conviction, despite his lack of credentials, following a $200,000 donation.

In July 2025, amid renewed White House scrutiny over Epstein-linked scandals, Harvard affiliates were revealed to have sent birthday letters to Epstein as recently as 2018, per declassified documents cited in a Crimson report. This ties into broader political fallout, with President Trump defending Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of Epstein files in a July 15, 2025, NBC interview. The university’s reluctance to fully sever ties highlights how financial incentives (or perhaps other motives) overrode ethical concerns, allowing Epstein to shape research priorities in evolutionary biology and genetics—fields echoing Game-B’s “conscious design” ethos.

MIT’s involvement was equally fraught, leading to one of academia’s biggest post-Epstein reckonings. Between 2002 and 2017, Epstein donated $850,000—$750,000 after his conviction—with $525,000 going to the Media Lab under director Joi Ito. Internal emails, exposed in a 2019 New Yorker investigation and referenced in 2025 updates on anonymous donations, showed lab officials marking Epstein’s gifts as anonymous despite knowing his identity and criminal history. Epstein also acted as an intermediary, facilitating millions from donors like Bill Gates and Leon Black, though Gates’ representatives dispute direct involvement. Professor Seth Lloyd, a quantum computing expert, received $225,000, including a $60,000 personal gift, and concealed Epstein’s role in 2012 and 2017 donations, violating MIT policies. Lloyd’s work on information as the universe’s substrate aligned with transhumanist goals of merging mind and machine.

A January 2020 MIT fact-finding report confirmed these engagements, leading to Ito’s resignation and policy reforms on donations. Brown University reportedly suspended an official amid Epstein gift probes.

Epstein’s transhumanist connections ran deepest through individuals like George Church and Ben Goertzel. Church, a Harvard geneticist pioneering CRISPR and synthetic biology, received funding from Epstein between 2005-2007 for “cutting-edge science and education.” His research—making humans virus-immune, eliminating diseases, reversing aging—mirrored Epstein’s eugenic visions. Church met Epstein “several times” annually post-conviction, including a 2014 dinner with Ito and Reid Hoffman, later apologizing in 2019 for “nerd tunnel vision.” No major 2025 updates on Church-Epstein ties emerged, but his genetic dating app (to screen for diseases) continues to draw eugenics comparisons, claiming that the app could help “eradicate all genetic diseases” if all people planned their breeding based on genetic sequencing, aligned with Epstein’s interests in using technology to control human reproduction.

Goertzel, vice chairman of Humanity Plus (formerly World Transhumanist Association), received his salary funded by Epstein’s $100,000 donation in 2011, plus another $100,000 to the organization in 2018 via Gratitude America Ltd. Goertzel, AGI researcher and OpenCog founder, denied direct funding for projects like Sophia the robot, but a July 2025 Grok tweet highlighted the connection, noting Epstein’s transhumanist advocacy. Humanity Plus received $220,000+ total, supporting visions of mind-machine merger. Goertzel’s work, however, extends beyond Epstein’s shadow, as he champions “AI for Good” through SingularityNET, a decentralized AI platform fostering projects like DigiTruck, a solar-powered classroom for rural Ethiopia, and Rejuve Biotech for longevity research. In a 2020 Forbes interview, he stated, “Any other problem humanity faces—including extremely hard ones like curing death or mental illness, creating nanotechnology or femtotechnology assemblers, saving the Earth’s environment or traveling to the stars—can be solved effectively via first creating a benevolent AGI and then asking the AGI to solve that problem.” His leadership in OpenCog and the AGI Society and ties to the UN and WEF, emphasizes “ethical” AGI to address global challenges like climate change, though his Epstein ties raise questions about the motives behind such visions. Goertzel contributed to the UN’s AI for Good Global Summit, where he discussed decentralized AGI (artificial general intelligence) and its potential societal benefits. In 2017, Sophia became the first robot to receive a UN title, appointed as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Innovation Champion for Asia and the Pacific, promoting sustainable development goals (SDGs). In July 2023, Goertzel appeared alongside Sophia and other AI-enabled robots at a UN press conference in Geneva, where they addressed AI governance and the potential for robots to run the world more effectively than humans, organized by the ITU. Epstein’s own ventures amplified these aims: Southern Trust, his 2012 DNA data-mining firm, generated $200M+ by 2017, organizing algorithms for genetic predispositions. His $40M investment in Thiel’s Valar Ventures, revealed in June 2025 to be worth $170M (per NYT and Economic Times reports), links him to Thiel’s transhumanist empire—funding SENS (anti-aging), Singularity Institute (AGI), and Alcor (cryonics). This $170M stake, the estate’s largest asset, may evade victims’ claims.

Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein’s Funding and Involvement in Scientific Ventures

This timeline compiles key events, donations, and relationships related to Jeffrey Epstein’s support for scientific, transhumanist, and technocratic initiatives from what was able to compile in my research.

• 1994 Murray Gell-Mann acknowledges Epstein’s support for his work at the Santa Fe Institute in the preface to his book The Quark and the Jaguar. This marks one of the earliest known connections (that I’ve found) between Epstein and scientific research in physics and complexity.
• 1998 Epstein’s relationship with Harvard University begins with a $30,000 donation to Harvard Hillel.
• 2000 Epstein establishes the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, one of his primary vehicles for scientific philanthropy.
• 2001 Epstein begins funding the Edge Foundation, founded by John Brockman, with contributions totaling $638,000 through 2015. The foundation served as a key networking hub for Epstein with scientists and technologists, including annual “billionaires’ dinners.”
• 2002 Epstein donates $50,000 to Hasty Pudding at Harvard.ogc.harvard.edu He also makes his first donation to MIT: $100,000 to AI pioneer Marvin Minsky. Additionally, Epstein donates $200,000 to Harvard’s psychology department, which later leads to his appointment as a visiting fellow
• 2003 Epstein donates $6.5 million to Harvard to establish the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) under Martin Nowak, focusing on mathematical models of evolutionary biology relevant to transhumanist interests in genetic enhancement.
• 2004 Epstein’s C.O.U.Q. Foundation donates $50,000 to Stanford University’s physics department. MIT professor Seth Lloyd meets Epstein at an Edge Foundation event, initiating a long-term relationship.
• 2005 Epstein donates $100,000 to MIT’s Joi Ito (Media Lab). He also provides funding to Harvard geneticist George Church for “cutting-edge science and education” (continuing through 2007), aligning with Church’s work on genetic engineering and synthetic biology. Epstein is appointed as a visiting fellow in Harvard’s psychology department, despite lacking academic qualifications. He donates $100,000 to Harvard’s Interfaculty Initiatives.
• 2006 Epstein donates another $100,000 to MIT’s Media Lab. He funds Harvard’s math department with $200,000. Church begins meeting Epstein several times a year. Epstein hosts a scientific conference on his private island, Little St. James, attended by Stephen Hawking and others.
• 2007 Epstein donates $100,000 to MIT’s Media Lab. He gives $100,000 each to Harvard’s math department and PED.
• 2008 Epstein is convicted on charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor. Despite this, his scientific funding and relationships continue largely uninterrupted.
• 2010 Epstein donates $25,000 to the Santa Fe Institute, known for complexity science and physics research. (The Santa Fe Institute confirmed in July 2019 that it received $250,000 in donations from sources related to Jeffrey Epstein prior to 2007, before his guilty plea in Florida for soliciting prostitution from a minor.) He begins funding Arizona State University’s Origins Project with $250,000 through 2017 via his Enhanced Education foundation. Epstein starts visiting Harvard’s PED offices more than 40 times through 2018.
• 2011 An Epstein-linked charity donates $20,000 to Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association). Epstein’s foundation provides $100,000 to pay the salary of Ben Goertzel, Humanity Plus vice chairman and AI researcher working on artificial general intelligence (AGI) via OpenCog. Epstein hosts the “Mindshift Conference” on Little St. James, attended by Murray Gell-Mann.
• 2012 Epstein establishes Southern Trust, a DNA data-mining company in the Virgin Islands that generates over $200 million in revenue by 2017, focusing on genetic algorithms for disease prediction. He also sets up Gratitude America Ltd. as a funding vehicle. Seth Lloyd conceals Epstein’s identity in a research donation to MIT.
• 2013 Epstein donates $150,000 to MIT’s Media Lab.
• 2014 Epstein donates $75,000 to MIT’s Media Lab and $150,000 to Seth Lloyd.f Church attends a dinner with Epstein, Joi Ito, and Reid Hoffman.
• 2015 Epstein donates $150,000 to MIT’s Media Lab and $75,000 to Seth Lloyd. He invests $40 million in Valar Ventures, a firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, focusing on fintech startups (investment made across 2015-2016). Edge Foundation funding from Epstein ends.
• 2017 Epstein donates $150,000 to MIT’s Media Lab (his last to the institution). Lloyd again conceals Epstein’s identity in a donation. Southern Trust reports substantial profits from DNA analysis operations.
• 2018 Gratitude America Ltd. donates an additional $100,000 to Humanity Plus. Epstein makes his final visit to Harvard’s PED in October.
• 2019 Epstein is arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges in July and dies in August. Revelations about his donations lead to scandals at MIT and Harvard, including Joi Ito’s resignation from MIT and investigations into donor vetting.
• 2020 Harvard and MIT release internal reports detailing Epstein’s donations: Harvard confirms $9 million received while MIT confirms $850,000. Seth Lloyd is placed on administrative leave by MIT.
• 2025 Epstein’s estate values his Valar Ventures investment at approximately $170 million, making it the largest remaining asset. Ongoing discussions in scientific communities emphasize improved donor transparency in response to the scandals.

Epstein’s foundations—C.O.U.Q., Jeffrey Epstein VI, Enhanced Education, Gratitude America—funneled money offshore, maintaining anonymity. His cryonics interest (freezing head and penis) and AGI funding (via Goertzel) embodied transhuman escape from mortality.

Section 3: Ideological Roots and Dangers

Game-B’s foundational concept of “conscious evolution“—the deliberate direction of humanity’s biological, cultural, and technological trajectory—sounds like a noble leap forward, a collective awakening from the blind forces of natural selection. Proponents frame it as an urgent response to the “meta-crisis,” leveraging tools like AI, blockchain, and psychotechnologies to foster “omni-win” outcomes and planetary stewardship. Yet, this concept harbors darker ideological roots, blending spiritual mysticism with eugenic ambitions, historical technocratic blueprints, and Darwinian justifications for human “improvement.” Far from a benign paradigm shift, conscious evolution risks entrenching elite control, where the “evolved” few dictate the fate of the masses under the guise of collective intelligence. As AI accelerates these ideas, the dangers are more pressing than ever: a noospheric order that erodes individual agency, revives discredited hierarchies, and paves the way for subtle authoritarianism disguised as progress.

The term “conscious evolution” traces back to early 20th-century thinkers but gained traction through Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit paleontologist whose 1955 book The Phenomenon of Man (published posthumously) envisioned human progress as a cosmic unfolding toward an “Omega Point” where individual minds merge into a collective superintelligence. Teilhard coined the “noosphere,” a planetary “sphere of mind” enveloping the biosphere, as the next evolutionary layer after the biosphere. He anticipated the internet, World Wide Web, transhumanism, the “global brain,” and the Anthropocene, making his vision the philosophical foundation for technological convergence that Game-B advocates pursue, veiled in the intoxicating language of collaboration and “omni-win” dynamics. Game~B is redolent of Stanford Research Institute’s Changing Images of Man, notion of moving out of the Piscean age into the Age of Aquarius, popularized in Marylin Fergurson’s book Aquarian Conspiracy.

Proponents like Schmachtenberger explicitly reference the “noosphere”—a planetary sphere of mind—as the ultimate horizon, suggesting the evolution of civilization toward a technologically mediated collective intelligence. The goal is not simply individual self-awareness, but societal systems that upgrade collective coordination and sensemaking. Deliberate social design means evolving society’s “operating systems” through socio-technical innovations, rather than leaving outcomes to competition or accident.

Teilhard’s ideas are experiencing a revival. A Christian Century interview from July declares “science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin,” connecting his noosphere to AI’s role in cosmic evolution and human transcendence. A Kosmos Journal article asserts “The Noosphere Is Here,” arguing it “promises to transform our lives, our work, social institutions, the global order, and our very minds and souls” through interconnected digital networks. SR Dryja’s February 2025 blog post delves into Teilhard’s noosphere as the “internet before the internet,” integrating AI networks as extensions of planetary consciousness.

Critiques highlight the concept’s perils. A Detroit Catholic panel in May warns that transhumanism, deeply rooted in Teilhard’s vision, seeks to “replace humans” with technologically enhanced entities, eroding the spiritual dignity of the body as a sacred vessel. Teilhard’s influence to “conscious transhuman evolution,” has influenced Malthusian culling narratives. A Systems Research and Behavioral Science paper from, widely discussed in 2025 academic forums, revisits Teilhard to debate how science advances the noosphere, blending biological evolution with AI-driven information processing, but cautions against overconfidence in human mastery leading to ethical blind spots. Patheos’ February 2025 article “Transhumanism Vs. The Soul” calls it a “direct assault on human consciousness,” arguing traditional spiritual teachings across cultures emphasize the body as sacred, not a substrate for machine merger. These warnings suggest the noosphere could devolve into a surveillance web, where individual thoughts and data feed into elite-controlled algorithms, justifying “evolved” oversight over the masses.

This noospheric idealism takes a more troubling shift through Barbara Marx Hubbard, a futurist and “evolutionary leader” whose doctrine of conscious evolution profoundly shaped Game-B circles. Hubbard, who passed in 2019, mentored figures in these networks and authored nine books promoting this as a metaphysical process. In a 2013 interview with New Dimensions and The Moon magazine, she asserted: “So when Nature hits a crisis like our present one, the intention is the same as it’s always been ‘evolve or die.’ The only distinction is that now we are aware that we can cause our own destruction, so there’s going to be an ever-growing number of people who are choosing to evolve.”

Hubbard’s vision included “spiritual eugenics”: selectively fostering “evolved” traits like empathy and enlightenment while deeming “less adaptive” elements (self-oriented, competitive) obsolete for planetary progress. In an unpublished manuscript she wrote: “One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.” This “divine selection” blended New Age spirituality with hierarchy: Cultures or individuals failing to “get wholistic” would be naturally selected out in an “evolutionary selection process.”

Hubbard’s legacy faces intensified scrutiny amid transhumanism debates. The Next Step in Conscious Evolution: Beyond the Dark Shadows of Transhumanism, dubs her the “goddess of transhumanism,” warning of Malthusian gospels that merge spirituality with population control and elite stewardship. An X post by @1984 from January 2025 shares a 2015 video of Hubbard discussing “eating babies” in eugenic contexts, allegedly funded by Rockefellers, sparking viral debates on conspiratorial influences in evolutionary spirituality. A Frontiers in Psychology article from 2023, referenced in 2025 psychedelic and transhuman forums, frames “evolutionary spirituality” as a cultural lens for experiences like psychedelics, but critiques its eugenic rhetoric as promoting hierarchies where some are “more evolved than you.” Jules Evans’ Medium article questions if there’s a “globalist eugenic conspiracy,” citing Hubbard as an “evolutionary leader” who dreamt of vice-presidency while advocating selective culling. These critiques expose spiritual eugenics as Darwinism applied to the psyche: The survival of the spiritually fittest justifies social exclusion, with “conscious” elites as the arbiters of who evolves.

Complementing spiritual eugenics is the genetic variant, exemplified by Jeffrey Epstein’s network, which focused on physical “improvement” through selection and manipulation, as pursued by Epstein and associates. Epstein’s plans to impregnate women at Zorro Ranch to “seed” humanity with “superior” genes drew from Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin and eugenics founder, who extrapolated natural selection to human breeding. George Church, a Harvard geneticist funded by Epstein, embodies this with his CRISPR work on making humans immune to viruses, eliminating genetic diseases, and reversing aging. Church has stated: “A scenario is, everyone takes gene therapy—not just curing rare diseases like cystic fibrosis, but diseases that everyone has, like aging.” His genetic dating app aims to screen potential partners to prevent “unfit” children, rebranding eugenics as consumer choice.

Debates on genetic eugenics’ resurgence are fierce. A British Academy podcast from June warns of “The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics,” driven by consumerism and advances in human genetics, with complex traits like intelligence or criminality targeted once more. Britannica’s June 2025 update on eugenics highlights its historical failure in the 1930s due to heavy criticism but notes a revival in “new eugenics” practices like embryo selection and gene therapy. A Science article from 2022, discussed in 2025 bioethics forums, critiques eugenics as “ideology, not science,” emphasizing that traits eugenicists prized are influenced by environment and culture, not just genes. Julian Huxley’s “evolutionary humanism,” detailed in a PMC article, bridged old eugenics to transhumanism by advocating for population “quality” control through science. A Christian Scholars piece from March 2025 ties American Christianity to “new eugenics,” noting how participation in 20th-century movements enabled policies like forced sterilization, and warning of similar risks today with genetic technologies. Elon Musk has also popularized these discussions with his advocacy of genetic prediction services.

Both forms of eugenics root in Darwinism: Natural selection extrapolated to human society. Game~B fosters an intellectual milieu that synthesizes spiritual eugenics’ metaphysical imperative to cull “unevolved” traits for planetary progress with biological eugenics’ pursuit of genetic enhancements through CRISPR and embryo selection, and game theory eugenics’ design of stable, non-evolutionary incentives to reprogram human “source code,” forging a comprehensive framework rife for the conscious, elite-orchestrated human evolution. Spiritual eugenics applies it psychologically—Hubbard’s “evolve or die” as a metaphysical adaptation process—while genetic is literal, focusing on heredity to ensure “fittest” traits dominate. A 2025 article in Evolution: Education and Outreach on “genetic determinism, genetics curriculum, and eugenics” places it in educational debates, warning that misconceptions about Darwinian inheritance could fuel a new wave of eugenic policies. A Mind Matters article from 2022, republished in 2025, links the two via transhumanism, where AI and genetics enable “ethical” decisions that favor the enhanced over the natural. American Museum of Natural History’s entry on social Darwinism notes how it justified imperialism, racism, and eugenics by extending survival of the fittest to social and economic realms.

These eugenic strains echo historical technocratic movements that sought to engineer society through expert rule. Technocracy Inc., founded in 1932 but peaking in 1937, proposed “the science of social engineering,” operating the “entire social mechanism” scientifically to distribute goods and services, with “no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers.” Their manifesto declared this “mandatory” for the North American Continent, envisioning centralized control via specialized functional divisions. Cornell University Library features the “Technate of America” map, merging the continent under expert governance. Elon Musk’s grandfather led Canada’s Technocracy branch.

Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific oper-
ation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical engineering problem. There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financeers, Rackets or Racketeers.

Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory.

H.G. Wells’ 1938 World Brain proposed a universal encyclopedia as a “mental background for every intelligent man,” curated by experts to replace the “uncoordinated ganglia” of universities and literatures with a “Competent Receiver for world affairs.” Wells saw this as essential for “directive control” of destructive drifts, anticipating the internet as a conduit for elite knowledge dissemination.

“A World Brain, operating by an enhanced educational system through the whole body of mankind… will replace our multitude of uncoordinated ganglia, our powerless miscellany of universities, research institutions, literatures with a purpose, national educational systems and the like; in that and in that alone, it is maintained, is there any clear hope of a really Competent Receiver for world affairs, any hope of an adequate directive control of the present destructive drift of world affairs. We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that World Brain organisation is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction…It is an immense undertaking but not an impossible undertaking… There are favourable conditions for it, encouraging precedents and a plainly evident need.”

“The world is a Phoenix. It perishes in flames and even as it dies it is born again. This synthesis of knowledge is the necessary beginning to the new world.”

These ideological roots manifest in acute dangers, particularly as AI and biotech converge. Conscious evolution risks turning into an “algorithmic oracle,” where tech mediates decision-making, reducing citizens to data inputs in elite-designed systems. A LinkedIn post on “The Art of Conscious Evolution” warns that cognition enhancements could erode the soul, blending technology with spiritual growth but at the cost of humanity. Theos Think Tank’s article “AI and how not to become a transhumanist” explores increasing enmeshment with technology, questioning if we’re realizing it too late. The Daily Declaration’s January piece on “Musk, Harari, and AI” cautions that AI decouples intelligence from consciousness, rendering humans economically obsolete. A YouTube video “The Ethics of Transhumanism” debates moral dilemmas, asking if enhanced lives justify losing what makes us human. Juicy Ecumenism’s article poses “How Should Christians Respond to Transhumanism?” rejecting its utopian ideals as unattainable and hubristic. Our Sunday Visitor’s panel calls transhumanism “not just latest tech but seeks to replace humans,” labeling it a modern heresy. Klover.ai’s June article “Humanity v2.0” sees AI accelerating spiritual evolution. Britannica’s June entry describes transhumanism as evolving into a “posthuman” species. Sage’s 2024 article on “Innate Despair” in transhuman philosophy expounds on “the philosophical limitations of transhumanism and its misplaced hope in human enhancement.”

The hubris of conscious evolution—assuming elites can “decode” and redesign humanity—risks a dystopian endpoint. The true peril lies in the noosphere devolving into a surveillance ecosystem, where individuals become mere data points in systems controlled by the “code-masters,” echoing Wells’ expert-curated brain and Technocracy’s functional divisions. In the current AI boom, vigilance is essential to prevent “evolution” from becoming a tool for domination.

Section 4: The Intellectual Dark Web as Influence Operation?

The Intellectual Dark Web (IDW), a term coined by Eric Weinstein in May 2017 during an interview on the Rubin Report, emerged as a self-styled coalition of “heretical” thinkers challenging mainstream orthodoxy on topics like free speech, identity politics, and cultural evolution. Eric Weinstein’s 2018 YouTube video about the Intellectual Dark Web’s origin is steeped in the unmistakable vernacular of Game~B. Described by The New York Times in 2018 as “an alliance of heretics making an end run around the mainstream conversation,” the IDW included figures like Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, the Weinstein brothers, and Joe Rogan. Professedly a spontaneous uprising of free thinkers, it functioned more like a pre-political incubator for Game-B’s ideas, weaving evolutionary game theory, complexity science, and noospheric concepts into a trusted narrative. The Weinsteins, Hall, Schmachtenberger, and others used IDW platforms to diagnose Game-A’s failures (rivalrous competition leading to existential risks) while teasing Game-B’s solutions (omni-win systems via tech-mediated intelligence). Speculation about intelligence associations—fueled by Epstein’s network and Thiel’s orbit—adds layers of intrigue, suggesting it may have served as a covert influence operation to steer elite discourse toward a technocratic and transhumanist redesign.

Eric Weinstein’s coinage of “IDW” positioned it as a “dark web” alternative to censored academia and media, a nod to the anonymous online underbelly but for ideas. As he explained in a 2018 Medium post by Rebel Wisdom, it was a “loose affiliation of academics and social commentators who oppose… left-wing identity politics,” (although worth noting most of them barring Ben Shapiro were ideologically from or on the left) emphasizing free speech, heterodox thinking, and resistance to what members called “woke” orthodoxy. The group’s core overlapped heavily with Game-B: Bret and Eric Weinstein, (dubbed the “rabbi of Game-B” by some), Daniel Schmachtenberger, and others like Jamie Wheal and Tristan Harris. These figures cross-pollinated through trusted channels—private conferences, podcasts, and Rebel Wisdom’s sensemaking events—creating an esteemed network where Game-B concepts could incubate without immediate scrutiny.

A key document illuminating this is Andrew Cohen’s Manifest Nirvana whitepaper, which portrays the IDW as “an early Game-B phenomenon.” It notes: “Among the original Game B thinkers were individuals that would later be associated with the Intellectual Dark Web, like the Weinstein brothers, and there are connections and overlap between these two movements… In many ways The Intellectual Dark Web can be interpreted as an emerging Game B phenomenon.” The whitepaper praises IDW’s “generative dialogue” but critiques it for remaining at “separate ego’s exploring rational thought constructs,” pushing toward a “deeper stream” that aligns with Game-B’s holistic mastery of emergence. This framing reveals IDW as a bridge: From rational critique of Game-A to Game-B’s anti-fragile, scalable visions.

The IDW evolved into the Intellectual Deep Web (IDWeb) around 2018, as coined by Alexander Beiner according to Andrew Sweeny in a Rebel Wisdom article, marking a deliberate pivot toward Game-B’s holistic ambitions. Beiner positioned IDWeb as the “next step” beyond IDW’s rational critique-oriented focus, incorporating intuitive, spiritual, and embodied practices to tackle the meta-crisis. Hall, who founded the IDWeb listserve, explicitly drew on Game-B concepts like anti-fragile systems and mythopoetic narratives to advocate for a “dark renaissance” where technocratic coordination meets spiritual awakening. Rebel Wisdom, founded by David Fuller in 2017—a journalist who did a documentary on Jordan Peterson, with a decade-long tenure at BBC and Channel 4, institutions often speculatively tied to British intelligence networks like MI6—further solidified the IDW-Game-B nexus with events like the “War on Sensemaking” series, where Schmachtenberger dissected information warfare and collective intelligence deficits—core Game-B themes. Fuller’s BBC background, while certainly not direct evidence of intelligence ties, raises questions about the IDWeb’s role in shaping discourse, given the BBC’s historical associations with state influence operations. These gatherings, often off-the-record or paywalled, created reputable spaces for seeding Game-B’s protopian visions—scalable, omni-win civilizations emerging from the ashes of Game-A. A 2020 Rebel Wisdom video titled “The Story of Game B” featuring Bret and Rutt garnered 63K views, explicitly outlining the movement’s origins and aspirations.

Rebel Wisdom’s sensemaking events became vessels for this fusion, hosting Hall, Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal (author of Recapture the Rapture, blending neuroscience with spirituality), and Tristan Harris (Center for Humane Technology) in conversations that wove complexity science with perennial philosophies.

Podcasts were the amplification engine, none more potent than Joe Rogan’s. Rogan hosted Game-B/IDW figures repeatedly, creating a “trusted inner circle.” Bret Weinstein appeared on episodes #1006 (2017, with Jordan Peterson), #1494 (2020), #1919 (2023), and #2198 (2024), discussing evolutionary traps and civilizational redesign. Eric featured on #1628 (2021) and #1945 (2023), exploring “geometric unity” and source code metaphors. Schmachtenberger joined via Eric’s Portal (#27 with Eric, 2020), delving into sensemaking. These venues weren’t just discussion forums; they built a reliable web, as the whitepaper notes, cross-pollinating evolutionary theory with noospheric ideas in colloquial environments.

The IDW has largely fragmented, as analyzed in a Skeptic Magazine April 2025 article titled “What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?” which attributes its decline to internal rifts over COVID policies, climate change, and political alignments—e.g., Peterson’s shift to conservative media like Daily Wire. A May 2025 Mindplex Magazine piece discusses the republished book The Intellectual Dark Web: A History (and Possible Future), originally cancelled for insufficient engagement with critics, now exploring revival amid 2025’s cultural turbulence.

Hall’s public Christianity conversion in late 2024, which he has recently woven into Game-B frameworks, shifted the IDWeb veneer. In the Jim Rutt Show Episode #223 (February 2025), Hall discussed “cities, civiums, and becoming Christian,” exploring how value hierarchies and cultural toolkits could enhance Game-B’s anti-fragile designs. An April 2025 YouTube video “Jordan Hall | Game B Christianity” fused the concepts with theological insights. This pivot signals IDWeb’s role in enriching Game-B with “soul-infused” narratives, potentially masking technocratic elements as enlightened progress.

Speculation on intel ties adds intrigue: Epstein’s salons overlapped IDW figures, and Thiel’s Palantir (data analytics for governments) employed Eric from 2013-2022.

Section 5: Benevolent Intentions, Unintended Consequences: The Philosophical Roots Leading to Transhumanism and Technocracy

It’s crucial to acknowledge that the proponents of Game-B—figures like Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Jim Rutt, and the Weinstein brothers—may harbor no malevolent intentions. In fact, they often present themselves as earnest reformers, driven by a genuine desire to construct a superior “operating system” for humanity that averts the metacrisis of environmental collapse, technological misalignment, and social fragmentation. Schmachtenberger, for instance, has repeatedly emphasized in podcasts and writings (such as his appearances on Rebel Wisdom and The Stoa) the need for “wisdom commensurate with power,” warning against the hubris of unchecked exponential technologies like AI and biotech and nanotech which are all potentially autopoetic technologies that could lead to dystopian outcomes, where “fails can be accidentally existential”. He explicitly critiques coercive transhumanism—such as forced genetic enhancements or AI-driven surveillance—as extensions of Game-A’s rivalrous dynamics, advocating instead for ethical, consensual tools that enhance collective flourishing without eroding human dignity. This vision is exemplified in practical endeavors like Qualia Life Sciences (formerly Neurohacker Collective), co-founded by Schmachtenberger’s brother James and involving early Game-B figure Jordan Hall, which develops nootropics and supplements for cognitive optimization—framing mental upgrades as a consensual step toward collective intelligence, though it risks normalizing transhumanist augmentation under the guise of wellness. Hall’s involvement included controlling Crest Industries, LLC, which provided a $120,000 bridge loan in the company’s 2017 seed funding, highlighting the financial ties within Game-B circles. One of Qualia Life’s key funding sources is CyclEffect Regenerative Ventures, a hybrid venture capital cooperative focused on circular and regenerative economies—models that echo Game B’s emphasis on anti-rivalrous, omni-win systems and align with affiliated organizations promoting gift-like, collaborative economics for sustainability. Similarly, Bret Weinstein has voiced opposition to tyrannical applications of science, as seen in his discussions on evolutionary traps during episodes of his DarkHorse Podcast, where he argues for systems that preserve individual sovereignty and avoid elite capture. Hall’s recent integration of Christianity into Game-B frameworks, detailed in his April 2025 YouTube video “Game B Christianity,” frames the movement as a spiritual antidote to technocratic overreach, drawing on biblical notions of stewardship to reject god-like pretensions. These thinkers often claim their vision opposes tyranny by decentralizing power through “anti-fragile” networks and Proto-B communities, positioning Game-B as a protopian path to sustainability rather than a utopian imposition. However, this touted “decentralization” may not be truly decentralized, as platforms like Web3 and Holochain often concentrate power among protocol architects or elite nodes, risking a new form of technocratic oversight veiled as distributed governance.

Yet, even with these benevolent intentions and professed oppositions, the epistemological, metaphysical, ontological, and teleological roots of Game-B’s philosophical framework—drawn from complexity science, evolutionary theory, integral spirituality, and systems thinking—inadvertently create a fertile ground for transhumanist and technocratic agendas. These roots, often inherited unconsciously from influences like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere or Barbara Marx Hubbard’s conscious evolution, embed assumptions that prioritize systemic optimization over individual boundaries, making the framework conducive to outcomes its proponents might disavow. Moreover, much of this framework is predicated on the theory of evolution, which remains controversial despite its scientific acceptance, with debates over its applicability to social systems and criticisms from fields like intelligent design or philosophy questioning its explanatory power for phenomena like consciousness, Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2025. This reliance amplifies risks, as evolutionary metaphors can justify hierarchical interventions under the guise of “natural” progress. Compounding this, Game-B philosophies are deeply rooted in Neoplatonism—a Hellenistic system emphasizing emanation from a divine “One,” hierarchical ascent to unity, and the transcendence of the material world—which renders them inherently nominalist (denying objective universals in favor of constructed names or concepts) and Gnostic (positing secret knowledge for salvation from a flawed, illusory material realm). This Neoplatonic foundation fosters constructivism, where reality is seen as human-made or mind-dependent, and self-apotheosis, the deification of the self through ascent to god-like status. Such elements naturally lend themselves to transhumanist pursuits of human augmentation and technocratic agendas of elite-guided “enlightened”, “philosopher king” (or tech-king) rule, echoing globalist networks like those Eric Weinstein engaged with during his work for the United Nations (e.g., authoring a 2001 ILO paper) Weinstein ILO Paper, 2001, which intersects with Jeffrey Epstein’s funding web—Epstein’s donations to UN-affiliated evolutionary research at Harvard and his ties to global elites suggest a shared ecosystem steering toward engineered human futures under the banner of progress.

Ontological Roots: Interconnected Emergence Over Individual Being

Ontology, the study of being and existence, forms Game-B’s foundation in viewing reality as fundamentally interconnected and emergent. As outlined in the Game-B Wiki— whose introductory page opens with Stewart Brand’s famous 1968 Whole Earth magazine quote “We are as gods. We might as well get good at it.” (last updated March 2024)— and Schmachtenberger’s essays on collective intelligence, existence arises from dynamic systems evolving toward greater coherence—from the Big Bang to human societies via the Cognitive Revolution. Humans are not isolated entities but nodes in a network, with true being realized through hyper-collaboration and anti-fragile scalability. This critiques Game-A’s “rivalrous” separateness as ontologically flawed, favoring omni-win-win interconnections.

While proponents intend this to foster resilience and mutual benefit, it conduces transhumanism by framing human ontology as an upgradable substrate. The wiki references “epigenetic upgrades,” “genetic upgrades,” and “transhumanism (biological and transbiological)” as mechanisms to evolve the “code” of being, treating biology as modifiable for higher coherence. The Neoplatonic undercurrent—where being emanates from a unified source and ascends back through purification—infuses this with Gnostic nominalism, viewing material existence as a constructed illusion to be transcended via gnosis (secret knowledge), leading to constructivist self-apotheosis: humans as creators of their divine essence through tech. Even as Schmachtenberger warns against biotech hubris in various podcasts and social media posts, the root ontology implicitly justifies transcending limits via AI integration or longevity tech, aligning with transhumanist projects like Thiel’s Prospera, which experiments with VR psychedelics and “making death optional” Prospera Overview. For technocracy, this prioritizes systemic networks over personal sovereignty, enabling expert or algorithmic governance to “optimize” interconnections. It could operate as “Trojan horse,” dismissing adversarial checks (like constitutions) as Game-A relics, unconsciously paving the way for centralized control masked as decentralization—mirroring Epstein’s elite-funded salons that blended UN-style globalism with eugenic visions.

The promise of “decentralized” systems in Game B, championed through emergent technologies like Web3 and Holochain, often masks a deceptive pathway to renewed centralization. While these platforms advertise distributed ledger transparency and peer-to-peer autonomy to dismantle Game A’s hierarchies, in reality, they can concentrate power among protocol architects, token holders, or AI-mediated ‘sense-makers’ who control the underlying code and governance rules. For instance, Web3’s blockchain ecosystems frequently evolve into oligarchic structures dominated by venture capital whales or foundation insiders, while Holochain’s agent-centric model risks emergent bottlenecks where ‘holistic’ consensus algorithms favor elite nodes with superior computational resources. This illusion of decentralization not only enables subtle technocratic control but also aligns with transhumanist agendas, where human agency is subordinated to optimized networks, potentially leading to a ‘planetary brain’ under the guise of collective flourishing.

Teleological Roots: Directed Evolution Toward Collective Flourishing

Teleology concerns purpose and end goals. Game-B’s teleology directs humanity toward universal flourishing and metastable coherence, transforming “finite” rivalrous games into “infinite” collaborative ones. Drawing from evolutionary game theory, the purpose is to navigate complexity by scaling cooperation beyond the Dunbar number through tech-enabled sense-making, addressing risks like AI misalignment. This includes framing the “climate crisis” as a teleological imperative for change, yet this notion is controversial, rooted in the Club of Rome’s strategic narrative to create a unifying “common enemy,” as stated in their 1991 report The First Global Revolution Club of Rome, 1991. Game-B advocates Zak Stein and Nora Bateson, listed as Club of Rome members, tie the movement to this narrative of the Club of Rome.

Proponents see this as a wise, anti-tyrannical trajectory—e.g., Rutt’s 2025 talks at Singularity University emphasize ethical stewardship. However, the Neoplatonic telos of return to the One via hierarchical ascent infuses Gnostic elements, where purpose involves escaping material entrapment through constructed knowledge, culminating in self-apotheosis. This fosters transhumanism by implying purposeful evolution to post-human states, with “evolving the code” harnessing exponential tech for post-scarcity. This echoes Teilhard’s Omega Point, where collective minds merge, even if Hall critiques Silicon Valley’s “dark” variants in his Christian pivot. Unconsciously, it enables transhuman tools like consciousness uploading for “flourishing,” despite opposition to coercive forms. Technocracy arises as the telos justifies blockchain governance via liquid democracy or synergistic democracy by those with gnosis—complexity experts or AI akin to Epstein’s funded networks, portray Game-B’s emergence as algorithmic enforcement, where “omni-consideration” becomes top-down intervention rebranded as collaborative progress.

Metaphysical Roots: Paradoxical Unity and Divine Emergence

Metaphysics explores reality’s fundamental nature. Game-B blends Gnosticism, Jungian archetypes, and integral theories, postulating reality as a paradoxical dance between ego (delusional separateness) and divine essence. Per the HighExistence article on the Intellectual Deep Web, it draws on Gnostic views of ego as a false god, advocating transcendent “Third Thing” knowing. Coherence is a metaphysical principle selected by evolution, leading to collective consciousness.

Intended as a spiritual corrective to Game-A’s materialism—Hall’s recent videos integrate Christian humility— but this metaphysics is steeped in Neoplatonism’s emanative hierarchy, where the material is a nominalist construct (mere names without independent reality) to be overcome via Gnostic insight. This drives constructivism—reality as human-forged—and self-apotheosis, deifying the self through tech-mediated unity. The wiki’s transhuman upgrades imply unlocking divine unity through machine merger, akin to a cybernetic noosphere, spiritualizing transhumanism, where “evolving consciousness” justifies biotech despite proponents’ rejections of elite-driven variants. For technocracy, metaphysical wholeness demands “wise” coordination by sense-makers, dissolving rivalrous boundaries for collective integration—”soft technocracy,” enabling AI-governed unity under emergent divinity’s guise.

This metaphysical trajectory is further amplified by the influence of CosmoErotic Humanism, articulated in First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come by David J. Temple (a pseudonym for Marc Gafni, Zak Stein, and Ken Wilber), which introduces Evolving Perennialism. This framework posits reality as an evolving story of intrinsic value and Eros—the drive toward intimacy and coherence—integrating science and spirituality to propose a new human identity (Homo Amor) that navigates the metacrisis through tech-augmented collective flourishing. With Zak Stein’s involvement in both Game-B and the Club of Rome, Evolving Perennialism’s vision of a value-driven, tech-mediated cosmic order reinforces Game-B’s Neoplatonic and Gnostic tendencies, unconsciously steering toward transhumanist augmentation and technocratic coordination under the guise of universal love and wisdom. Similarly, its anthro-ontology, which views human existence as relational and culturally constructed, can lead to transhumanism by framing humanity as an evolvable entity ripe for technological augmentation to transcend cultural limits, while supporting technocracy by prioritizing expert-guided “sense-making” hierarchies to optimize relational systems, subordinating individual agency to algorithmic oversight, ironically funneling into the techno-feudalism they aim to avoid. Iain McGilchrist, whose work on hemispheric cognition, most notably, “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, critiques reductionist worldviews, endorsed the book, stating, “The position argued for in this book is of vital importance… it needs urgently to be read,” signaling intellectual alignment with its holistic vision, though his direct ties to Game B remain limited to podcast discussions with proponents and this endorsement. Marc Gafni, a co-author of First Principles and First Values and a key figure in CosmoErotic Humanism, further extends Game~B’s spiritual vision through his Eros Mystery School, an immersive retreat co-led with Aubrey Marcus, a podcaster and entrepreneur tied to Game~B circles through his advocacy of psychedelics and evolutionary spirituality. Held annually, with the last event on April 28–May 2, 2025, in the Netherlands, the school promises to initiate participants into the “path of the Erotic Mystic,” blending spiritual teachings with embodiment practices to foster “Outrageous Love” and transform personal and global consciousness, echoing Game~B’s omni-win ethos but risking the normalization of elite-guided spiritual engineering. Marcus, influenced by Gafni as his spiritual guru, has recently promoted “radical monogamy” or “expanded monogamy” on his podcast, framing it as a spiritually evolved relationship paradigm that blends Eros-driven intimacy with conscious commitment, though critics argue it manipulatively rebrands polyamory under the guise of enlightenment.

Epistemological Roots: Collective Sense-Making Over Individual Rationality

Epistemology addresses knowledge’s nature. Game B’s epistemology centers on collective sense-making, which prioritizes embodied, relational, and liminal wisdom over individual rationality or “bullshit” intellectualism, viewing knowledge as emergent from networked intelligence, shared experiences, and practices like meditation, psychedelics, or group inquiry to navigate complexity beyond the Dunbar number (approximately 150 people). This approach critiques Game A’s rivalrous, finite knowledge games, advocating for “anti-fragile” systems where true knowing arises from transcendent, paradoxical “gnostic initiation” and co-creative dialogues. Knowledge acquisition is thus holistic and tech-augmented, using tools like AI or blockchain to scale collective intelligence for “omni-win” outcomes.

This epistemology fosters transhumanism by framing human cognition as upgradable through technology, implying epistemic evolution beyond biological limits—such as neural interfaces or AI integration for enhanced “evolving consciousness”—to achieve post-human states like a “planetary brain” or superorganism, despite proponents’ rejections of coercive variants. It supports technocracy by establishing hierarchies of “sense-makers” or experts who validate knowledge via systemic coherence and consensus algorithms, outsourcing truth to AI-mediated governance under the guise of decentralization, potentially leading to elite control or “soft technocracy” (governance by experts or algorithms, subtly implemented through “decentralized” or participatory systems, masking centralized control) where individual agency erodes in favor of optimized collective systems.

These roots create a slippery slope: Benevolent aims for a better system embed assumptions that favor tech-mediated transcendence and expert oversight, leading to transhumanist and technocratic results even if unintended. Game-B’s framework risks becoming the very tyranny it opposes—a sophisticated evolution of Game-A disguised as salvation, intertwined with globalist agendas.

Game-B advocates robustly counter accusations of technocracy or eugenics, insisting the movement is grassroots, open-source, and designed to empower all participants. Daniel Schmachtenberger, a leading voice, emphasizes “anti-rivalrous” technologies as core to avoiding centralization. In his writings on “New Economics” criteria, he states: “For all systems of structural incentive, the incentive of any actor must be rigorously aligned with the well-being of all other agents in the system and of the commons writ large… The economic system cannot be a source of human conditioning; it must condition towards omni-consideration, and in no ways towards psychopathy… It must also support the evolution of collective intelligence, capacity and coherence, at all scales.” Schmachtenberger advocates platforms like Holochain for decentralized data sharing, enabling transparent, scalable decision-making that empowers communities to self-organize. He warns that without “ethical design,” AI could reinforce Game-A’s extractive dynamics, but stresses open-source, human-centric tech as the antidote.

Jordan Hall similarly defends Game-B’s decentralized ethos, particularly through “Promethean” DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations). In his February 2024 podcast appearance on the Rutt Show (#223), Hall argued: “It is simultaneously the aim of Game B to allow us to continue to be a technological species without guaranteeing our extinction… to use technology in the process of developing a more effective collective intelligence and do so in a way which does not generate, by the design implications of how you’re using the technology, some set of failure conditions.” Hall positions DAOs as tools for “consciously self-governing” communities, drawing from his 2025 pivot to Christianity to infuse Game-B with spiritual depth: “As winter kills off the parasites and quiets the frenzy, we begin what might be the final and most important phase of this evolutionary journey.” He rebuts centralization fears by highlighting blockchain’s potential for “liquid democracy,” where decisions emerge from bottom-up participation rather than top-down mandates.

Jim Rutt, Game-B’s co-founder, focuses on practical applications, advocating for digital infrastructure to enhance humanity’s capacity. In the Jim Rutt Show transcript of “Currents 081”, Rutt states: “These amazing networks that we’ve created… have the potential for upgrading humanity’s capacity in a major way… This is perhaps a place that we can do more about in the short term… to do good for humanity is indeed to focus on making Twitter the premier sense-making platform for the human race.” Rutt counters elitism claims by pointing to “Proto-B” experiments—small-scale communities testing Game-B principles—as proof of inclusivity. On the Collective Intelligence page on the Game-B Wiki, infighting critiques are addressed: “Game-B succeeds through leveraging the advantages of collective intelligence, collaboration, and increasing omni-consideration. When different people come together with the right facilitation, they can come up with solutions none could individually.”

These defenses portray Game-B as an open, evolutionary process, not a fixed ideology. The Game-B Wiki reinforces this: “Game B is the environment that maximizes collective intelligence, collaboration, and increasing omni-consideration… a meta-protocol for hyper-collaboration.” Proponents argue that critiques stem from Game-A mindsets “poisoning the well,” as Hall puts it, unable to envision non-rivalrous alternatives. Influences like Charles Eisenstein’s “Sacred Economics” further illustrate this vision, proposing a monetary system that decays over time to encourage circulation and gifting rather than accumulation, aligning incentives with planetary health and communal flourishing—mirroring Schmachtenberger’s call for economics that condition toward “omni-consideration” without fostering psychopathy. Eisenstein, who served as a senior advisor and director of messaging for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential campaign and has ties to Christopher Life through the United Independents movement and coalitions like the United People’s Coalition, embodies how Game-B ideas extend into political activism for systemic change. Christopher Life, founder of the One Nation Party USA and the All-Win Leadership Academy, explicitly draws from Game B principles—such as omni-win dynamics and alternative civilizational models—in his creation of “all-win” political paradigms and communities like Azure Village, often described as “Game B paradises,” to foster systemic transformation and distributed governance. For a deeper dive into how these ideas intersect with events like Weinstein’s speech at Rescue the Republic and the Phoenix Conspiracy, see the video “A Republic If You Can Phoenix It,” which explores the potential engineering of constitutional collapse through shadow networks. Similarly, Courtenay Turner’s podcast episode “Game B to Noomap, Is The Singularity Nearer?” on the Courtenay Turner Radio Hour examines Game-B’s evolution into S7 (formerly Noomap), critiquing its ties to Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere and the risks of tech-driven singularity agendas, further exposing Game-B’s potential as a technocratic blueprint.

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One major critique is that Game~B’s reliance on “expert-designed” technologies like DAOs and AI-mediated sensemaking concentrates power in system architects, despite decentralization claims. The Biggest Game in Town article, calls Game-B “a failed utopia,” arguing it “lacks coherence and scalability, devolving into jargon-heavy echo chambers.”

Conclusion: Game-B as a Technocratic & Transhumanist Trojan Horse?

Game-B, seeded in the interdisciplinary ambitions of Eric Weinstein’s Economic Manhattan Project at the Perimeter Institute and developed in the intellectual crucible of the Santa Fe Institute, further amplified through the Edge Foundation’s elite salons, presents itself as a revolutionary antidote to the existential crises of “Game-A”—our current societal operating system marked by competition, ecological devastation, and systemic fragility. Its proponents, including Jim Rutt, Jordan Hall, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Forrest Landry, and the Weinstein brothers, articulate a vision of “conscious evolution,” leveraging complexity science, AI, blockchain, and psychotechnologies to forge an “omni-win” civilization. Yet, beneath this protopian promise lies a troubling convergence of historical technocratic ambitions, transhumanist ideologies, and elite networks—most notably tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s funding empire and Eric Weinstein’s ties to influential institutions like the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—that threatens to reshape humanity not as liberated agents but as data points in a technofeudal order.

The philosophical roots of Game-B—steeped in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere—a planetary mind merging individuals into a tech-mediated superintelligence—and Barbara Marx Hubbard’s spiritual eugenics reveal Game-B not as innovation but recursion. Hubbard’s call to “eliminate one-fourth of humanity” as divine selection blended New Age spirituality with hierarchy, echoing social Darwinism. Epstein’s genetic fantasies and George Church’s CRISPR enhancements represent its biological counterpart, both drawing from Darwinian extrapolation to justify “improvement.” Historical parallels to H.G. Wells’ “World Brain”—a curated knowledge network for expert control—and 1937 Technocracy Inc.’s “social engineering” without politicians amplify the warning: Game-B’s “collective intelligence” risks concentrating power in expert hands, turning citizens into data points for algorithmic optimization. The Economic Manhattan Project, convened by Eric Weinstein in 2009 at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, sought to address systemic economic failures post-2008 by uniting economists, biologists, mathematicians, and physicists in a “Manhattan Project”-style effort to reimagine economic theory as a science. This conference, documented in sources like The Portal Wiki, laid early conceptual groundwork for Game-B by framing human systems as programmable and evolvable, aligning with Eric’s later Edge question on decoding humanity’s “source code” and Bret’s on game-theoretically stable non-evolutionary paths. This framework, while cloaked in benevolence, assumes reality is a construct to be reprogrammed, with humans as upgradable substrates for a tech-mediated “planetary mind.” Hubbard’s chilling vision of “evolutionary selection,” where “one-fourth of humanity” is culled for planetary progress, and Epstein’s genetic eugenics, pursued through CRISPR pioneers like George Church, both rest on Darwinian evolution—a theory, though widely accepted, still contested for its application to social and spiritual domains. Critics, from intelligent design advocates to philosophical skeptics, argue that Darwinism’s mechanistic lens fails to account for consciousness or moral agency, yet Game-B’s reliance on it justifies hierarchical interventions under the guise of “natural” progress.

Epstein’s role as a financial architect of this agenda cannot be overstated. His $638,000 to Edge, $6.5 million to Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, $850,000 to MIT’s Media Lab, $220,000 to Humanity Plus, and $275,000 to the Santa Fe Institute—where Rutt and Hall held leadership roles—created a web of influence that nurtured Game-B’s intellectual foundations, including the complexity science central to both SFI and the Economic Manhattan Project. His $40 million (now $170 million) stake in Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures further ties him to Thiel’s transhumanist empire, funding SENS (anti-aging), Singularity Institute (AGI), and Alcor (cryonics). Epstein’s salons, attended by luminaries like Stephen Hawking and Marvin Minsky, and his engagement with SFI, where Game-B’s seeds were sown, suggest a deliberate convergence of transhumanist aspirations—decoding humanity’s “source code” and engineering “non-evolutionary” “game theory” systems. The Economic Manhattan Project’s interdisciplinary approach, as Eric Weinstein described in his 2009 Perimeter Institute talk, aimed to bridge economics with traditional sciences, mirroring Game-B’s ambition to redesign civilization through systems thinking. Speculation about Epstein’s intelligence ties—potentially Mossad or CIA—remains unproven but plausible, given his documented connections to elite networks and the overlap with figures like Eric Weinstein, who worked under Thiel’s transhumanist orbit at Thiel Capital. The tragedy of Epstein’s sex scandals, while horrific, appears secondary to his broader project: funding a technocratic future where elites wield god-like power over human evolution.

The Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) and its evolution into the Intellectual Deep Web (IDWeb) served as a cultural incubator for Game-B, functioning as a potential influence operation to steer Western discourse. Coined by Eric Weinstein and amplified through platforms like Joe Rogan’s podcast and Rebel Wisdom’s sensemaking events, the IDW blended evolutionary game theory with noospheric ideals, framing Game-A’s collapse as an urgent call for tech-driven salvation. The Economic Manhattan Project’s influence persists in this narrative, as its call for systemic redesign informed the IDW’s critique of mainstream institutions and Game-B’s vision of anti-fragile alternatives. Figures like David Fuller, with BBC ties, and the Weinsteins’ proximity to Epstein-funded ecosystems, raise questions about coordinated agendas, though direct intelligence links remain speculative. The IDWeb’s pivot to spiritual narratives—exemplified by Jordan Hall’s 2024-2025 embrace of “Game-B Christianity”—masks technocratic elements as enlightened progress, aligning with Neoplatonic ascent and Gnostic transcendence. Synthesizing these, Game-B exemplifies “manufacturing consent through complexity,” adapting Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s model from Manufacturing Consent (1988). Chomsky and Herman outlined five filters shaping media bias: ownership (elite conglomerates prioritize profit over truth), advertising (content caters to audiences as products), sourcing (reliance on official narratives excludes dissent), flak (discrediting critics), and anti-communism (ideological enemy unifying establishment). In Game-B’s context, complexity science acts as a sixth filter: Jargon like “omni-consideration,” “multi-polar traps,” and “game-theoretically stable” erects intellectual barriers, excluding non-experts while privileging systems theorists. Ownership mirrors elite networks (SFI, Edge) funding discourse; “advertising” sells utopian visions to tech-savvy audiences; sourcing draws from Epstein-linked scientists; flak dismisses skeptics as “Game-A poisoned”; and the “anti-communism” equivalent is anti-rivalrous rhetoric framing competition as existential threat.

Despite the ostensibly benevolent intentions of Game-B’s architects, who warn against AI misalignment and coercive transhumanism, their framework’s ontological, teleological, metaphysical, and epistemological roots—interconnected emergence, directed flourishing, divine unity, and collective sense-making—create a slippery slope toward technocracy and transhumanism. The Economic Manhattan Project’s vision of scientifically engineered stability feeds into this, as its interdisciplinary ethos underpins Game-B’s belief in tech-mediated societal upgrades. The promise of decentralized systems like Web3 or Holochain often conceals emergent centralization, where protocol architects or AI “sense-makers” become new philosopher-kings. CosmoErotic Humanism, tying Game-B to the Club of Rome through Zak Stein’s affiliations, further entrenches this by framing humanity as an evolvable “Homo Amor,” ripe for tech-augmented unity. This risks a noospheric surveillance web—amplified in realtime as Trump signed his deal with Thiel’s Palintir to compile data on Americans—where individuals are reduced to data in elite-controlled algorithms, echoing Technocracy Inc.’s 1937 vision of “social engineering” and Wells’ expert-curated World Brain.

The danger lies in Game-B’s seductive paradox: a movement to escape Game-A’s rivalrous traps may evolve into its sophisticated successor—a transhumanist technocracy disguised as salvation. As AI booms and trust erodes, Game-B’s allure as a “protopian” fix, must be scrutinized. Its Darwinian underpinnings, elite funding, and Neoplatonic Gnosticism threaten to entrench power among “code-masters,” sidelining democratic agency and constitutional principles for algorithmic oracles. The question isn’t whether Game-B’s visionaries believe they’re saving humanity—they likely do—but whether their blueprint, rooted in contested evolutionary assumptions and historical technocratic dreams, leads to liberation or a posthuman cage. Vigilance is paramount to ensure “conscious evolution” doesn’t become a synonym for eugenics or control resulting in a neofeudal order where the masses live in fiefdoms.

Amid these shadows, there are paths to resistance and empowerment. To safeguard cognitive sovereignty and human free will, individuals and communities can take proactive steps grounded in awareness, agency, and collective action. First, educate yourself and others: Dive into resources to understand the agendas and reject them through informed discourse. Advocate for cognitive liberty as a fundamental right, pushing for laws that protect mental privacy, freedom of thought, and the right not to have thoughts manipulated or penalized. This is best done at the local level where you can advocate for bills that prohibit technocratic encroachment on personal and civic liberties. Cultivate attentional and cognitive agency through practices like mindfulness, limiting screen time, and engaging in offline creativity to reclaim your mind from attention-hijacking technologies. Build resilient, local communities that prioritize human connections over digital dependencies, fostering Proto-A alternatives rooted in faith, intrinsic wisdom, or simple living, and using technologies that enhance rather than control or surveil human existence. Support privacy-enhancing tools and regulations, such as opposing CBDCs (not just central bank digital currencies but also congress backed digital currencies in the USA) and advocating for sanctions against digitization in various infrastructures (i.e. political, religious, educational), which counters online repression. Embrace spiritual or philosophical anchors—to affirm intrinsic human value beyond technological upgrades. Engage politically (especially locally): Vote for policies that regulate AI and biotech, promote education that fosters independent critical thinking, and resist transhumanist policies through activism and public pressure. Reject unnecessary enhancements, opting for natural health, creativity, and sovereignty. By reclaiming our minds and communities, we can forge a future where humanity thrives, not as code, but as free-willed beings.

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