Rebecca Watson takes a swipe at his AI psychosis.

What I’m wondering about now is…who is Dawkins getting advice from nowadays? Years ago, when I was briefly in favor, there was an active assortment of people on a group list maintained by Brockman. There was all kinds of private discussion about the things that were going on among all the high-powered writers and scientists in his stable — if someone was going on TV, for instance, they’d chat among themselves about topics and strategy. Ideas for articles would get floated among the group, often specifically by John Brockman, who would publish a book every year about the answers his people would give (I’m published in a couple of them, for instance).

I imagine there would be a great deal of discussion going on in that group, if it still exists. Epstein was part of it, and Brockman is all tangled up in the Epstein files, so it may not — everyone could be scrambling for cover right now. I was quietly purged long ago, when I exposed myself as a critic of Dawkins and Hitchens and Harris and everyone who was happy to join the “Intellectual Dark Web”, so what do I know.

Anyway, if he were still talking with that group, you’d think they would have told him that blathering about “Claudia” was a tremendously poor idea politically. Is he isolated and alone now, except for the usual mob of sycophants? That bodes ill for him if so, and means we might be getting even more garbage from him in the near future.