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Thiel's ramblings seem so unhinged, delusions of grandeur.

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.





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.

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.

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.


> 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.


Because I like to be able to live with myself.



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