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a111: Logged on 2017-05-07 18:52 gabriel_laddel_p: Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up.
asciilifeform: i suppose if suit already brought, likely there's already a thiel.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldn't this require a thiel to show up to bankroll $kid's suit ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thiel killing gawker, sure ; rando kid vs volkischer beobachter ? will be odd if it dun get 'appealed' for 25 yrs, until $kid dies of hunger
asciilifeform: ( cursory look at heathendom sources suggests that thiel's thing is finally, as of mar. 2018, properly dead and buried )
asciilifeform: thiel, apparently, built ( threatened to build? i dun follow the subj... ) a tanker, anchor somewhere, and play similar game to orig 'sealand' . what he lacks, however is the business model ( apparently sealand had a business model, and raked in some dough , briefly -- britain had no commercial radio, at one time, and sealand 'pirate' station accepted ads from brits , paid through proxies )
asciilifeform: also revealed ( not in confidence, this was party with buncha folx ) that thiel ( apparently, friend of his ) is still pushing it, and is frustrated re 'lack of young people with any sense' , 0 takers to crew the lulztanker.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 00:06 BingoBoingo: In still coaster lollers: "Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time
a111: Logged on 2017-11-18 00:06 BingoBoingo: In still coaster lollers: "Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time
BingoBoingo: partners moved over to a program called "experts," which provides advice to Y Combinator entrepreneurs, Thiel did not join."
BingoBoingo: In still coaster lollers: "Thiel's departure from Y Combinator was not previously announced. It comes long after Y Combinator president Sam Altman defended Thiel's role at the accelerator, following criticism of Thiel's support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. A source close to Y Combinator said that the company ended its part-time partners program, which Thiel was a part of, some time last year. While some other part-time ☟︎☟︎
mats speculates next five-year plan includes thiel-ization of intel apparatus - booz allens and stratfors
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: actually, someone who works next to thiel day in day out got demo'd masamune. didn't get it.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p threw a pie in thiel's face?
asciilifeform: now if only it were something more interesting than thiel fellatio, string-theoretical quantum mimblewimbles, and gaseous nutritions...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was not able to discern these folx's priors -- other than 'we suck thiel's cock on command, like every good redditpilltaker'
asciilifeform: they spread leg^H^H^Hmembrane for thiel/yudkowsky/etc al on command tho
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thiel's catamite. he even bought him a harem, so he can pretend 'just like mp!'
a111: Logged on 2017-06-03 02:15 asciilifeform: my least nonsensical hypothesis is that thiel funded urbit (yes) to make a half-hearted play at 'embrace&extinguish'ing bitcoin
asciilifeform: my least nonsensical hypothesis is that thiel funded urbit (yes) to make a half-hearted play at 'embrace&extinguish'ing bitcoin ☟︎
trinque: ah so g_l refueled on smart-guy virtue signaling, off now to dry clothes on line next to peter thiel's agar pool?
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel_p> Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up. << Take some pictures and maybe I submit a quote to fix the yard?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-07 18:52 gabriel_laddel_p: Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up.
gabriel_laddel_p: IE associated with one of his startups, the "thiel fellows" or something
gabriel_laddel_p: I suppose this one of Thiel's houses
mircea_popescu: what's a ssid thiel master ?
gabriel_laddel_p: Just wanted to report that I'm in a house with the SSID "Thiel Master", there are no interesting books, the pool is broken, the front yard is destroyed and some idiot was "dirtbiking" on it when I showed up. ☟︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: aah, i get it. ycombinator is buying their way out of the sins of refusing to disavow thiel by "funding" the aclu.
asciilifeform: https://intelligence.org << the original thiel/yudkowsky scamatron
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: OpenAI Blog: <https://openai.com/>; About OpenAI: <https://openai.com/about/>; Elon Musk And Peter Thiel Launch OpenAI , A Non-Profit Artificial ...: <http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/12/11/elon-musk-and-peter-thiel-launch-openai-a-non-profit-artificial-intelligence-research-company/>
mircea_popescu: !~google peter thiel openai
asciilifeform: 'friendly ai' was thiel.
asciilifeform: thiel.
asciilifeform: thiel
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I have talentless thiel fellows trying to lowball me at the moment, but expect that they'll pay up soon enough.
asciilifeform: 'spacex' is every bit as usg as nasa, but is part of the 2000s 'lean usg', if you will, concept; sorta like thiel's palantir is 'lean nsa'
asciilifeform: or this. thiel et al.
asciilifeform: they mean, i think, that thiel will sit in clitler's gulags.
asciilifeform: ' a prominent diversity group refusing to work with any company associated with Thiel'
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/38D3N << derpy woman with no tech anything in SV has tiny deal collapse, she misrepresents it as "her refusing to deal with some guy who might have once had dinner with thiel", bloomberg is happy to run the nonsense.
phf: asciilifeform: well, like mircea_popescu said above it's not about thiel, it's about whether or not he gets to hang out with rando progre attention whores. of course it doesn't work that way and i don't know why he would want to, but i wouldn't be surprised if in his mind it does. my impression is that he's visibly trying to morph from stormfront "must read litrecha" section to a kind of "let's discuss human nature, surely we all agree"
asciilifeform: phf: afaik d00d is one of thiel's court clowns, since '11 or so, and free to do mostly whatever he wants so long as it remains reasonably quiet.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 1.5mn is also what thiel ~announced~ to primary campaign. if he's really backing trump he'll also donate multiples of that via superpac.
shinohai: http://archive.is/XkCGg <<< Thiel to fund Trump to tune of 1.5 million
asciilifeform: nah that'd be thiel
asciilifeform pictures the peter thiel call: t. cook's phone rings. thiel: 'ipnoje is not surveillatronic enough. hitler is displeased. the lien on your left ball will be called in.' cook: 'what do we do' thiel: 'well, you could make'em wear earphones with cameras' cook: 'brilliant, 360 degree coverage' thiel: 'it'd better be out by september'
mircea_popescu: oh danielpbarron doth not approve of thiel heresies ?
pete_dushenski: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/06/against-edenism << for anyone who wants to barf on peter thiel's bible-blasted philosophasty
asciilifeform: (incidentally, not only dope peddler, but peter thiel, flies on $maxing planes that are somehow not 'in his income' etc.)
asciilifeform: nobody is ever searching peter thiel's pockets for illicit pistol
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/06/peter-andreas-thiel.pdf << lulzy. claims thiel cv - and he's a j.d., i had nfi
shinohai: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3636655/Gawker-Media-looks-sue-billionaire-Peter-Thiel-funding-Hulk-Hogan-s-legal-action-s-plunged-debt-report-claims.html <<< the plot thickens?
ben_vulpes: ahaha so thiel pulled it off?
mircea_popescu: except hey, for as long as thiel's connected, who's gonna rustle his clientelle.
asciilifeform: thiel puts $sum in phoundation; then gets it back out? how ?
mircea_popescu: atm looks a lot more like someone in tax shelters is using this to hide from a few mn worth of tax liability ; than thiel or anyone else wanting to give yudks as much as a half smoked marlboro.
asciilifeform: and i find it mind-boggling that thiel would choose to pay him this way, vs hiring him as 'consultant' or fuck, gardener, or whatnot, and just handing him bags of money
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: wait what does his new thing have to do with thiel?
asciilifeform: anyway he successfully distilled the most hardcore folks from his original cult into a new thing, is moar funded than ever before, as far as i can tell, and is happily fellating thiel with renewed vigour.
gabriel_laddel: Oh, and X.com was elon musk, not thiel. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-29#1459342 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the ensuing publicity made it worth ~100x what it was worth before, and made peter thiel a vague internet celebrity.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-29 01:00 mircea_popescu: so this schmuck is an "entrepreneur", whatever, typical socialist state constructed leech, like they have in ro ru us etc. a peter thiel (speaking of which, anyone actually recall the x.com thing ? which is how he became famous in the first place ?)
mircea_popescu: so this schmuck is an "entrepreneur", whatever, typical socialist state constructed leech, like they have in ro ru us etc. a peter thiel (speaking of which, anyone actually recall the x.com thing ? which is how he became famous in the first place ?) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: seems very dubious any of those derps actually have any money, other than what they hope to get from the thiel warchest/spoils.
pete_dushenski: "Billionaire investor and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel tells Fortune that he thinks that Palantir's data software can actually help end ubiquitous surveillance by showing agencies like the NSA exactly who's up to no good, so they can leave everybody else alone." << fuck thiel with alf's telephone pole-sized stake. who is dumb enough to believe that this is how ~anything~ works ?
assbot: Peter Thiel (@peterthiel) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/1WVls5k )
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2016 15:28:44; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because thiel got money and no self respect.
mircea_popescu: i mean that quite profoundly - thiel has seen the narrow horizon of the pen and contented himself that "this is everywhere".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because thiel got money and no self respect. ☟︎
asciilifeform: the mega-question is why thiel is paying him to do this 24/7
ascii_butugychag: a thiel catamite, a whole one, no less
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:39:45; asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy
asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy ☟︎
ascii_field: decimation: we more or less know it was thiel
decimation: ascii_field: and if b happened it almost certainly was at the foot of peter thiel or one of his cronies
decimation: ah and he's one of thiel's bois
asciilifeform: or thiel
ascii_field: (the actual american zhirinovsky is not unambiguously one man, but could be peter thiel, ron/rand paul, a number of other folks)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-05-2015#1147996 << he fell from grace. let me know when buffet, musk, gates, thiel - starve. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: im waiting for her takin ga kidney out to replace it with thiel's latest invention.
ascii_field: and actually thiel's main thing
Pierre_Rochard: Peter Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir, convenient for him to arrange a deal!
Pierre_Rochard: my favorite was “Data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc., which was valued at $15 billion last September, turned to an SPV arranged by Founders Fund, a San Francisco firm headed by billionaire investors Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the deal.”
asciilifeform: thiel (and possibly friends) seed it. the chumpatronium sustains.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thiel plus wannebee panhandlers on his door
mircea_popescu: this can't be a thiel thing can it ?
mircea_popescu: why so shy you know ? what's wrong with "Transhumanism is Thiel's stab at b-a. He thinks Omidyar's stab at qntra failed for reasons unrelated."
asciilifeform: take it up with thiel
decimation: re: education < http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-home-schooling/ < apparently Thiel et.al. were educated in a Montessori school (which was a crazy idea invented by a random italian chick) to let kids decide for themselves "how to be schooled"
mircea_popescu: 125k a year for five years, beats thiel, but anyway
asciilifeform: i for one would like to know if any thiel folks have been 'fired'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i didn't think the thiel thing could get -more- snoreworthy
asciilifeform: make something thiel-flavoured
gabriel_laddel: well, in truth the Thiel fellowship doesn't even give it all away at once
gabriel_laddel: the neat people in the Thiel fellowship are the mathematics kids, who are sort of the odd ones out
asciilifeform: his 'thiel fellowship' came from usg.
mircea_popescu: is really the small part of the discussion. thiel is smart, and it doesn't help him
asciilifeform won't give a damn if thiel appears with watson and putin also
gabriel_laddel: 10:37 - who is that with Thiel, could it be the evil racist Charles Murray?
asciilifeform: what do you suppose would happen if herr thiel decided to pump every penny he had into buying btc ?