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Peter Thiel is not looking so foolish right now...
by redial 10y ago
Peter Thiel is not looking so foolish right now...
- rch 10y agoGive it time.
- simonh 10y agoIt depends what Thiel's objectives are. If they are purely self serving, he might do very well out of this.
- thesimpsons1022 10y agono more palantir racial discrimination lawsuit.
- jedmeyers 10y ago> It depends what Thiel's objectives are. SCOTUS nomination?
- yoklov 10y agoHonestly, as someone who finds the current situation a bit abhorrent, and who generally disagrees with most things I've heard come out of Thiel's mouth, there are way worse choices. He has knowledge of the tech sector and doesn't want to ruin it, he isn't anti-science, he's gay (and thus pro-gay rights), etc. That said, I think it's profoundly unlikely, since unless I'm not aware of it, he'd be the only supreme court justice with no legal background.
- M_Grey 10y agoThe man who thinks that young blood (literally) is going to keep him alive? That Peter Thiel? Yes he does.
- jules 10y agoBelieve it or not, there is a fairly solid scientific basis for that.
- M_Grey 10y agoNo, there is some evidence that geriatric mice sharing a circulatory system with juvenile mice achieves that end for a while. The difference between sharing a circulatory system, and getting some transfusions really can't be overstated.
- astrodust 10y agoIf he's anything like that Countess that bathed in the blood of virgins to extend her life he's picked the right industry to work in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory
- scandox 10y agoOr more foolish? We don't have to respect success
- ansgri 10y agoWe don't have to respect success Taken out of context, this might have been said by one of Atlas Shrugged' antagonists.
- kybernetikos 10y agoPoker is a great way to learn to overcome outcome bias.
- scandox 10y agoHaven't read the book so I have only the vaguest idea of what that implies. But let me be more explicit. We can have values and thoughts that don't respect success. Sometimes that may mean being made irrelevant, being killed, or even made extinct as a group. Nonetheless, until actual death occurs, we can hold those views. To some people that is more important than anything else. I like those people. Some are successful, some are not. The universe will erase them, as it will erase us all. But to me while that thought lasts, it is valuable.
- adnzzzzZ 10y agoI don't know why anyone would think he is foolish. Listening to his speech at the National Press Club a few days ago it's hard to find many things to disagree with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4
- murbard2 10y agoNo it isn't. http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=32058 http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=32058
- gragas 10y agoYou're out of touch, as proven by the election tonight.
- nhaehnle 10y agoThe linked article was talking about facts, a dissection of various arguments made by Thiel and Trump. Elections aren't about facts (unfortunately?), so they cannot prove anything about whether that article is right or not.
- ant6n 10y agoLet's remember the results: 47.5% vs 47.7%. It was a coin toss decided by the distribution of the votes.
- murbard2 10y agoI bet heavily on a Trump victory so, no, I don't think I'm out of touch. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken
- dharma1 10y agoGuess Palantir can look forward to a few new juicy government contracts
- dharma1 10y agoThey must have a very good data team to have forecasted the result so much in advance ;)
- laughingman123 10y agoThis is genuinely scary, black mirror tv episode -ish. Future Trumps can follow some algorithm to have maximum appeal to voters ..
- XJOKOLAT 10y agoOnly if you value absolute, raw opportunism with little consideration of the potential consequences or externalities.
- smokedoutraider 10y agoHe never did. Those shouting to boycott him sure as hell did though.