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by xqcgrek2 1404 days ago
He's not eccentric, but a self-promoting grifter
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What’s his grift? Running off with 1.5 million USD? He probably makes half of that a year already, what a pay day.
Convincing gullible billionaires and foundations to support his vanity projects

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

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