Discovered something so crazy unreal this afternoon that I’m not sure what to do ... but tweet about it? Is there any appetite left today for outlandish Russian AI & sex news?
Before I start, a refresher on Alex Leslie. He's the self-help author/seduction coach/international harem leader now inprisoned in a Thai jail w/Nastya Rybka (seductress of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska),who has been getting much more media attention reason.com/blog/2018/03/0…
Leslie & Rybka are scheduled to be deported back to Russia & Belarus, but have been pleading w/U.S. to intervene, claiming to have dirt on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. CNN's reported the FBI had no luck cnn.com/2018/03/13/asi…
I've found many moderately strange segments of Alex Leslie's history, like co-authoring "pikaper" books w/film actor Alexander Rapoport (imdb.com/name/nm2610049/) & appearing on Russian TV w/@RobSchneider ... 
But today I discovered a whole new level of weird. Apparently Alex Leslie has—throughout his time teaching seduction in Russia, Israel, Thailand, etc—also been the director of an AI research group w/the blessing of Russian-state associated tech incubator Skolkovo
Under his real name, Alexander Sergeevich Kirillov, Leslie was until very recently listed on the Skolkovo site as director of the Center for Intelligent Predictive Systems (or Smartsys Prognosis Center) medialeaks.ru/1502dalex-skol…
This seems to have been first reported by Sergey Romanchuck (facebook.com/sergey.romanch…) & student Roman Badanin (facebook.com/permalink.php?…) but gained little traction
Skolkovo said it didn't fund Leslie's project or work with him directly, but it admitted that he had been there facebook.com/TheBell.io/pho…
Alexander Kirillov's picture is still on the Skolkovo site sk.ru/net/1120122/p/…
And Leslie even posted on the Skokovo site just a few weeks before he was arrested in Thailand
sk.ru/net/1120122/p/…
And Leslie even posted on the Skokovo site just a few weeks before he was arrested in Thailand
sk.ru/net/1120122/p/…
Leslie/Kirillov's Skolkovo biography said he holds patents in Russia, the U.S., and China (which at least tentatively checks out patents.google.com/patent/WO20111…, highbeam.com/doc/1P3-310104…) & co-authored several academic papers published in legit scientific journals (same)
I've been saving the best part for last, of course
Jailed Russian sex guru Alex Leslie's (now deleted) @fondskolkovo bio said his center was "supported by" @DARPA + @NASA grants and he worked w/Boeing + other US/China/W. Euro artificial intelligence system entities
Jailed Russian sex guru Alex Leslie's (now deleted) @fondskolkovo bio said his center was "supported by" @DARPA + @NASA grants and he worked w/Boeing + other US/China/W. Euro artificial intelligence system entities
Anyway, planning to look into this more but wanted to at least put this much out into the universe now
