During Eric Weinstein's recent appearance on JRE Weinstein said words to the effect of: "The government" has reached out to him, Sam Harris, and Lex Friedman to help "mediate the discourse" triggered by allegedly upcoming "major disclosures" because they "have a share of the public." (The claim is made around 1:19:00 and there's a couple of minutes of interesting discussion at about 1:23:00 ) I don't think there's any reason to believe he's lying and wonder what people here make of this. I guess it's impossible to ask that question without triggering Theil/Israel/political, etc. debates ("They're all perfect for_____________") but I assume if verifiable government officials have reached out to those guys they've also reached out to others who haven't disclosed that they've been approached. IMO, this looks as much like the beginning of a disinfo campaign as it does the beginning of some kind of good faith controlled disclosure plan since both endeavors would involve enlisting people who are generally regarded as thoughtful in the podcast intellectual sense of the word, not particularly conspiracy minded, disinclined to respond with "it's aliens!" or "it's all a distraction" hyperbolic click baiting and, most importantly, probably not familiar with the minutia of the phenomenon. Everyone already knows how Corbell, Coulthart, West, and Schermer would respond. Cynical? Maybe. But I just can't bring myself toto take an ask like that at face value. submitted by /u/rep-old-timer [link] [comments]