Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
by flag_fagger on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:13PM
(#46123577)
> I am so thankful that I'm not rich enough to be surrounded by people who agree with every single half baked thought that I put out
Why not, it’s not as if you’d face any real consequences for your own reckless stupidity.
Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
by JohnFen on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:18PM
(#46123658)
Because I like to be able to live with myself.
Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
by rsynnott on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:04PM
(#46123442)
> I am so thankful that I'm not rich enough to be surrounded by people who agree with every single half baked thought that I put out.
Fortunately, Silicon Valley has now provided a machine to do that for you.
I'd be somewhat concerned that this type of severe detachment from reality may become more common as LLMs make the obsequious ego-buffing that was previously available only to billionaires too cheap to meter.
Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
by drcongo on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:58AM
(#46123347)
There's a timecube level of unhinged to his antichrist ramblings - spurious connections steadfastly believed. If he wasn't a billionaire there would be men in white coats chasing him.
Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
by exogeny on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:57AM
(#46123338)
At a certain threshold of wealth, you stop having anyone around you that will tell you anything other than platitudes about how great and wonderful you are. If he ever had any self-awareness or humility -- and that is questionable -- it's been Dunning Krugered and yes-manned into absolute shreds.
He's a weak, frail manchild masquerading as a cartoonish supervillain. Fuck him.
I am so thankful that I'm not rich enough to be surrounded by people who agree with every single half baked thought that I put out.