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Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. I'm sure he's overjoyed to get crazy protests at Berkeley and to get banned fr

by api 10y ago

Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. I'm sure he's overjoyed to get crazy protests at Berkeley and to get banned from Twitter. The more attention he gets the better it is for his brand. He intentionally picks targets that are the most likely to over-react and uses the most inflammatory language he can. I mean this has to be the trolliest trollmobile that has ever trolled: http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/09/img_4893_1024-640x480.jpg http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/09/img_4893_1024-640x4... People need to learn to not feed the troll. The worst possible thing you can do to Milo is ignore him.

Florin_Andrei 10y ago
> Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. Peter is a slice of bread with honey on one side and some sort of putrid matter on the other. Milo does not have the honey-tinged side.
- anigbrowl 10y ago
  I think he's a bit more complex than that and we should avoid overly simplistic metaphors. I am not a fan of Thiel but I have listened to him explain his worldview at length in person and while I dispute many of his assumptions I feel he holds them in good faith and is persuadable. Milo, on the other hand, acts as if he aspires to be the Ernst Roehm of the internet age and I have little tolerance for him.
  - Florin_Andrei 10y ago
    When things go from bad to worse, the time for complexity is gone.
    - anigbrowl 10y ago
      Agreed. I just didn't form the impression that he was actively malicious so much as callously indifferent.
      - Florin_Andrei 10y ago
        > callously indifferent I actually agree on that one. But he has tremendous amounts of money and power. In the current small, interdependent world, callous indifference can do a heck of a lot of damage.
metaphorm 10y ago
Thiel is possibly an actual vampire, or at least aspires to be one.

by api 10y ago

Florin_Andrei 10y ago

> Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. Peter is a slice of bread with honey on one side and some sort of putrid matter on the other. Milo does not have the honey-tinged side.

anigbrowl 10y ago
I think he's a bit more complex than that and we should avoid overly simplistic metaphors. I am not a fan of Thiel but I have listened to him explain his worldview at length in person and while I dispute many of his assumptions I feel he holds them in good faith and is persuadable. Milo, on the other hand, acts as if he aspires to be the Ernst Roehm of the internet age and I have little tolerance for him.
- Florin_Andrei 10y ago
  When things go from bad to worse, the time for complexity is gone.
  - anigbrowl 10y ago
    Agreed. I just didn't form the impression that he was actively malicious so much as callously indifferent.
    - Florin_Andrei 10y ago
      > callously indifferent I actually agree on that one. But he has tremendous amounts of money and power. In the current small, interdependent world, callous indifference can do a heck of a lot of damage.

metaphorm 10y ago

Thiel is possibly an actual vampire, or at least aspires to be one.