Y Combinator Cuts Ties with Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program

Re:Y Combinator Cuts Ties with Peter Thiel After Ending Part... by Simulacra on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:30PM (#15726520)

I think he's hated because he's a formidable challenge against an entrenched belief system. People don't like their beliefs challenged, especially when it's the overwhelming majority, IMO. Thiel does that, without worry or shame, and that upsets some folks...

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Re:Y Combinator Cuts Ties with Peter Thiel After Ending Part... by ben_w on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:00PM (#15729738)

Is he formidable because the arguments are good, or because he’s rich?

And how would we distinguish the truth from the fiction, given the ease with which we fall into us-vs-them thinking, the halo effect, and boolean-valued morality, or treat arguments are soldiers for Us in an eternal struggle against Them?

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