[wrnr]

He is a kwak, instead of actual science he shills these ideas on podcasts because the general public is interested in it or something like that. Whenever I meet someone from Harvard I think of this guy and automatically think less of them. Maybe that is wrong of me but then the Harvard alumni ought to have called him out on his BS.

[mensetmanusman]

Do we want no one contemplating the n>1 theory of life in the universe?

[wonderwonder]

Meh, good luck to him, he is not hurting anyone and he seems to genuinely be a smart guy that believes what he says. Its ok to be eccentric.

[xqcgrek2]

He's not eccentric, but a self-promoting grifter

[ctvo]

What’s his grift? Running off with 1.5 million USD? He probably makes half of that a year already, what a pay day.

[xqcgrek2]

Convincing gullible billionaires and foundations to support his vanity projects

A list: the blackhole initiative, breakthrough starshot, the Galileo project, and now this

[anigbrowl]

I'm strongly in favor of separating gullible billionaires from their wealth, this is one of the least mean ways to do it.

[jackmott42]

I tentatively agree with that take, but am trying to be charitable. The reason I tend to think this is right is that his podcast arguments for why umamua? was probably alien tech were either disingenuous or displayed incredible ignorance. i.e.: pretending that nobody had any explanation for how it accelerated without any visible tail.