<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>AlanYx</author><text>My jaw dropped when I read page 9 of the report, it says &amp;quot;Professor Minsky (who passed away in 2016) had worked with Epstein to organize an off-campus conference on artificial intelligence that same year.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s quite a charitable characterization! The conference in question wasn&amp;#x27;t just any &amp;quot;off-campus conference&amp;quot; -- it was held &lt;i&gt;on&lt;/i&gt; Epstein&amp;#x27;s island.&lt;p&gt;Minsky had also organized a two-day symposium on Epstein&amp;#x27;s island several years prior (in 2002), a fact also totally omitted from the report.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>From the report&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;MIT-report.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;MIT-report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Professor Lloyd&amp;#x27;s dealings look very, very shady:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Professor Lloyd remained friends with Epstein after his conviction in 2008.
He visited Epstein at his office in Florida during the period of Epstein’s criminal sentence.
Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch, and
he has acknowledged Epstein in his academic publications. While Professor Lloyd clearly
valued Epstein as a source of potential funding, he also told us he believed that, by continuing to
engage with Epstein post-conviction, he could be part of Epstein’s rehabilitation.
Professor Lloyd told us that, in 2005 or 2006 (before Epstein’s conviction), Epstein gave
him a personal $60,000 gift to support his MIT research that Professor Lloyd did not submit
through MIT. In possible violation of MIT policies and certainly in violation of MIT norms,
Professor Lloyd deposited the gift into a personal bank account and did not report it to MIT.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eventually, in July 2016, Professor Lloyd affirmatively contacted Epstein by email to ask for
funding to support his upcoming sabbatical. On June 1, 2017, Epstein emailed his accountant
and Professor Lloyd: “send 125 k to mit for seth lloyd from gratitude.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/faq-fact-finding-report-jeffrey-epstein-0110</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sequoia</author><text>&amp;gt; Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch&lt;p&gt;Normally one would give the benefit of the doubt, but given the abhorrent acts people were perpetrating or turning a blind eye to in this case, I&amp;#x27;m inclined not to. Hence this question of fact:&lt;p&gt;Unless there are credible witnesses attesting to the fact that he spent his few hours on that island eating lunch, the report should refrain from speculation and simply say &amp;quot;he visited Epstein&amp;#x27;s island for a few hours.&amp;quot; We don&amp;#x27;t know what he was doing.</text><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>From the report&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;MIT-report.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;MIT-report.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Professor Lloyd&amp;#x27;s dealings look very, very shady:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Professor Lloyd remained friends with Epstein after his conviction in 2008.
He visited Epstein at his office in Florida during the period of Epstein’s criminal sentence.
Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch, and
he has acknowledged Epstein in his academic publications. While Professor Lloyd clearly
valued Epstein as a source of potential funding, he also told us he believed that, by continuing to
engage with Epstein post-conviction, he could be part of Epstein’s rehabilitation.
Professor Lloyd told us that, in 2005 or 2006 (before Epstein’s conviction), Epstein gave
him a personal $60,000 gift to support his MIT research that Professor Lloyd did not submit
through MIT. In possible violation of MIT policies and certainly in violation of MIT norms,
Professor Lloyd deposited the gift into a personal bank account and did not report it to MIT.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eventually, in July 2016, Professor Lloyd affirmatively contacted Epstein by email to ask for
funding to support his upcoming sabbatical. On June 1, 2017, Epstein emailed his accountant
and Professor Lloyd: “send 125 k to mit for seth lloyd from gratitude.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/faq-fact-finding-report-jeffrey-epstein-0110</url></story>