Just read through all 3 posts in the history of this incident, and I am dumbfounded. It reminds me of how I was friends with a con-artist in college and had no

Just read through all 3 posts in the history of this incident, and I am dumbfounded. It reminds me of how I was friends with a con-artist in college and had no idea about it (though I did think he had compulsive lying disorder). I genuinely wonder what sort of heuristics Thiel used, and why his presumably quite reasonable approach failed to catch this anomaly.