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A comment on Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department. Parent comment

Re:Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department by Barrin92 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:09PM (#23892092)
If you have the connections to send a 33 year old without a science background to head research and engineering at the pentagon things coming true isn't a function of being smart or predicting anything but just being close to money and power.

Making things true by pulling your wallet or smartphone out of the pocket isn't exactly a good proxy for intellect.

Also ironically Taleb's most salient observation is that smart people should be very aware of the fact that the things that actually matter can't really be predicted at all.

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Re:Peter Thiel's New Man in the Defense Department by tmpz22 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:41PM (#23892275)
The fact that Palantir wasn't stapled front and center as the catalyst for huge amounts of police abuse and corruption during the BLM protests is a testament to Thiel's position in the military industrial complex.
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