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IMO his intellectualism provides active cover for an autocratic-minded zero-sum sociopathy, which when married to his accumulated wealth represents an existenti
by aaroninsf 5y ago
IMO his intellectualism provides active cover for an autocratic-minded zero-sum sociopathy, which when married to his accumulated wealth represents an existential threat.
This is not irrelevant to the conception of and market of Palantir.
He is the Erik Prince of "tech" and like Prince, is a literal merchant of death.
- zepto 5y ago> autocratic-minded zero-sum sociopathy Where is the evidence of this?
- hacknat 5y agoIf true that distinguishes him from nobody, including people without power. However, a serious investigation of Thiel's work dismisses any serious accusation of "Intellectualism" it is well thought out and philosophically rigorous. Is he completely correct? Probably not. But then, who is? If one person is an existential threat to humanity (which is what I assume you mean) then, frankly, we probably "deserve" it (in the evolutionary sense). Thiel is useful here to countermand this point. One of his most useful ideas is that the so called "powerful" and "elite" have much less power than we think they do and can can be easily circumvented if ignored (of course there are marginal cases).