Elite groups & networks catalog

The invite-only convenings and interlocking networks where economic + political power concentrates - stated factually, with an explicit guard against unitary-cabal framing.

The tech-power networks

• PayPal Mafia - Thiel, Musk, Hoffman, Levchin, Sacks et al.; the wealth/talent origin of Founders Fund, Palantir, SpaceX, and (via Musk/Thiel backing) OpenAI.
• Y Combinator + a16z - the dominant accelerator + mega-VC; overlapping portfolios; YC's Altman co-founded OpenAI.
• Dialog (Thiel/Hoffman's invite-only forum, already mapped #189-195) - the right-of-center "anti-Davos."

The classic establishment convenings

• WEF/Davos, Bilderberg (est. 1954, Chatham House rule), CFR, and the Trilateral Commission (1973, Rockefeller/Brzezinski) - heavily overlapping membership; the transatlantic policy establishment.
• Sun Valley (Allen & Co's mogul deal-making conference) and Bohemian Grove - the informal US social gatherings where elites mix off-record.

The ideology cluster

• Network State (Balaji / a16z crypto) - cloud-first communities seeking sovereignty; the techno-libertarian "exit over voice" idea (kin to Thiel's seasteading).
• TESCREAL (critics' coinage - Gebru/Torres) bundling Transhumanism / Extropianism / Singularitarianism / Cosmism / Rationalism / Effective Altruism / Longtermism - the belief-system critics argue animates parts of the AI/crypto elite (links back to the foundations block's Open Phil/EA node).

Honest limits

These are real convenings with real agenda-setting influence - and the heavy attendee overlap (the same few hundred people recur) is what fuels both genuine influence and overstated cabal theories. Treating them as a single coordinated world-government is a composition fallacy + conspiracy overreach, explicitly rejected here: membership/convening is documented; unitary control is not asserted. "TESCREAL" and the Network-State/AGI-ideology edges are critiques/interpretations, presented as such - not fact.

Sources: WEF/Bilderberg/CFR/Trilateral histories + membership; Allen & Co Sun Valley; Bohemian Club; PayPal-alumni founding records; YC/a16z; Balaji "The Network State"; Gebru & Torres (TESCREAL). Cross-refs: Peter_Thiel, Elon_Musk, Founders_Fund, Palantir, OpenAI, a16z, WEF, Dialog_Society, Effective_Altruism.

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