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What the fuck is this guy's problem? Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing. One of the people he's shitting on in that sentence is Laura Deming, who's

What the fuck is this guy's problem? Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing. One of the people he's shitting on in that sentence is Laura Deming, who's raised investment funds for companies working on stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent. We get it dude, Peter Thiel is a jerk who doesn't vote like you and that really chafes your britches.

mmmpop 5y ago
> that really chafes your britches. Mmmm I dunno, I looked the fellow up and I think he's more of a culotte type.
zzzbra 5y ago
I think the main thrust of the article is that Peter Thiel's libertarianism is hugely unprincipled and inconsistent with itself. which might describe of lot of the more famous libertarians out there actually...
- Causality1 5y ago
  Well of course. Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children: something is deeply wrong with you.
  - mmmpop 5y ago
    Careful with that sarcasm.
  - klipt 5y ago
    Statistically speaking, many of our ancestors probably had an above average number of children...
    - zzzbra 5y ago
      not relative to their time. in a world of weak institutional and little in the way of medicine, most children die before adulthood. those that do are your only insurance policy in old age.
  - nyokodo 5y ago
    > Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children You mean being a billionaire is like making up for ~5 childless couples not contributing to the next generation? Could be!
cma 5y ago
> stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent. Might be worth mentioning it is life extension research it is primarily focused on. The stroke thing is great, they may have initially started out trying to hibernate billionaires like bears to let them make it to the singularity, but the enzymes may prove useful for humans too.
tartoran 5y ago
Putting the context back in: > ‘They were – nearly all of them – boys,’ as Chafkin points out, ‘and, almost to a person, they shared Thiel’s social awkwardness.’ One 17-year-old was hoping to extend the average human lifespan by three hundred years; a 16-year-old was developing a workaround to China’s Great Firewall. Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing.

mmmpop 5y ago

> that really chafes your britches. Mmmm I dunno, I looked the fellow up and I think he's more of a culotte type.

zzzbra 5y ago

I think the main thrust of the article is that Peter Thiel's libertarianism is hugely unprincipled and inconsistent with itself. which might describe of lot of the more famous libertarians out there actually...

Causality1 5y ago
Well of course. Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children: something is deeply wrong with you.
- mmmpop 5y ago
  Careful with that sarcasm.
- klipt 5y ago
  Statistically speaking, many of our ancestors probably had an above average number of children...
  - zzzbra 5y ago
    not relative to their time. in a world of weak institutional and little in the way of medicine, most children die before adulthood. those that do are your only insurance policy in old age.
- nyokodo 5y ago
  > Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children You mean being a billionaire is like making up for ~5 childless couples not contributing to the next generation? Could be!

cma 5y ago

> stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent. Might be worth mentioning it is life extension research it is primarily focused on. The stroke thing is great, they may have initially started out trying to hibernate billionaires like bears to let them make it to the singularity, but the enzymes may prove useful for humans too.

tartoran 5y ago

Putting the context back in: > ‘They were – nearly all of them – boys,’ as Chafkin points out, ‘and, almost to a person, they shared Thiel’s social awkwardness.’ One 17-year-old was hoping to extend the average human lifespan by three hundred years; a 16-year-old was developing a workaround to China’s Great Firewall. Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing.