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asciilifeform: which is that herr thiel is operating on an understanding with the folks who allow him to exist
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel there are two threads here. one is "thiel is dumb". this is not being entertained. the other is, "thiel's uneducated". this is my position.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: thiel's spewing trendisms to work your hindbrain
gabriel_laddel: Yep. Which is my point. Thiel has detected this.
assbot: Peter Thiel Was Right - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1BNYvux )
asciilifeform: would thiel read, e.g., my site ?
mircea_popescu: thiel the nubile savage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the idea wasn't that, but to educate thiel so he's less of a schmuck.
asciilifeform: and then talk to thiel
mircea_popescu: but thiel wants web2.0 not a new nuke.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i confess that thiel's experiment would be considerably more interesting if it were 100m not 100k
gabriel_laddel: I'm not saying that I beneficiary agree with Thiel's funding decisions, but I am pointing out that there are people attempting to fund basic science, and that there are two specific people I've cited who can be vetted for their contributions.
asciilifeform: thus far i know of no particular reason why thiel picked the folks he did
gabriel_laddel: 'you go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had', thiel could reply, quoting mr bush << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-02-2015#1035968 ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'you go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had', thiel could reply, quoting mr bush
gabriel_laddel: Christopher Olah, Thiel fellow. Does research on conv. neural networks.
gabriel_laddel: this girl was given 100k by Pete Thiel to think.
asciilifeform: no one will notice except for thiel, who will sign another cheque
mircea_popescu: that's how he fucking confuses thiel and kelly. they're all digested, right ? same thing!
decimation: "Joyent raised venture capital for the first time in November 2009[42] from Intel and Dell.[43] Joyent's early institutional investors include El Dorado Ventures, Epic Ventures, Peter Thiel (Seed Round),[44] Intel Capital (Series A, B Rounds),[45] Greycroft Partners (Series A, B Rounds),[46] Liberty Global (Series B Round). In January, 2012, Joyent secured a new round of funding totalling $85 million from Weather Investment II,
asciilifeform: pete thiel - sleeps.
mircea_popescu: "[3] Peter Thiel would point out that successful founders still get rich from controlling monopolies, just monopolies they create rather than ones they capture. And while this is largely true, it means a big change in the sort of person who wins."
mircea_popescu: mebbe thiel should stick to what he knows
thestringpuller: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/11/21/peter-thiel-explains-why-bitcoin-isnt-money/ << lol more laffs for popescu
undata: mircea_popescu: the writer is trying to cast himself as part of some team which Thiel brings some kind of social progress honor to
mircea_popescu: undata wait, you disagree from experience about the gay fitting, or you're shocked and surprised that thiel may actually take your peculiar payment ?
undata: shit, I was scrolled up. That was from the Thiel article
assbot: Peter Thiel is totally gay, people
BingoBoingo: I mean Gawker particularly calls people out on harassment yet they wrote: http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
mircea_popescu: working hard to prepare for mr thiel
mircea_popescu: undata to see what you gotta do for senor thiel ?
mircea_popescu: incredible, that guy. he's been doing 10bux trades with noobs for what, 3-4 years ? all paypal. he must be married to thiel or something.
decimation: Thiel implied that facebook was a general failure << http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thiel_conversations_transcript.pdf << "And so we would like to say Facebook is a specific success, it must mean some general success. And so Facebook is a great business,and therefore it will solve all the world’s problems. And I think the modality I prefer to think of is, that there are specific
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> declaring social media users chattel and starting markets for their buying and selling << this is sorta SOP already... << I mean Thiel was an early facebutt investor
mircea_popescu: but im not listening to thiel drone.
ThickAsThieves: Thiel officially has been compromised
assbot: Peter Thiel: Bitcoin needs a payment system to work - YouTube
ThickAsThieves: wow listen to thiel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYjmCOc949I
mircea_popescu: is this some sort of braindamged feminism run amok where they imagine that if they "microagress" the patriarchy by discussing thiel as if he were some made-to-fuck-once-and-discard popstarlet something's gonna happen ?
mircea_popescu: who thinks anyone cares to hear about how thiel's skin is ?!
mircea_popescu: "Name a science fiction movie in the last 25 years that shows technology in a positive light,” says Peter Thiel << anything made in asia ?
assbot: Peter Thiel Wants to Make Hackers Into Heroes -- NYMag
mats_cd03: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/peter-thiel-wants-to-make-hackers-into-heroes.html lol
moriarty: Thiel even
moriarty: but Thiel's supposition that people should not bother with formal education and instead open up a company under the auspices of his seed funding is rather self-serving in my opinion
moriarty: i admire and despise Thiel all at once
decimation: asciilifeform: oh he's one of Thiel's boys
assbot: Ask Peter Thiel Anything « Isegoria
decimation: http://www.isegoria.net/2014/09/ask-peter-thiel-anything/ << "Is Palantir a front for the CIA? No, the CIA is a front for Palantir." "I don’t agree with the libertarian description of the NSA as “big brother.” I think Snowden revealed something that looks more like the Keystone Kops and very little like James Bond."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the thiel-buterin thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation the idea is for russian oil to be sold in the manner of oil owned by the us. it doesn't matter who gets paid, as long as the "pay" is in accounts run by thiel, and it all follows kyc etc.
asciilifeform: thiel, like his fellows, is less of a baron (with the attendant inviolable privileges) than a... reichsführer. whose lands, posts - are contingent on playing ball and being good boy.
decimation: Re: Thiel working with usg << I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's the law yo
mircea_popescu: im sure thiel will give 100k prizes to whoever came up with the brilliant idea of a wait, no. they don't need it.
asciilifeform: anyone find it peculiar how small is thiel's prize ?
asciilifeform: thiel is also a sponsor of 'urbit'.
ThickAsThieves: "Whenever I see that Thiel is giving away money, I get the goosebumps. How comes that he is always mentioned in connection with PayPal, but almost never in connection with Palantir, Prism, NSA and CIA?"
BingoBoingo: Aquent: You wouldn't happen to be Thiel by any chance?
ThickAsThieves: i heard rumors thiel sent a rep to scout Neo, i guess he dodged that one
mircea_popescu: anyway, once ethereum cracks open thiel being interviewed for his complicity in propping the scam will become a prerequsite for any further discussions re collaboration of bitcoin authorities with us authorities.
mircea_popescu: "Thiel stressed the need for his programme while expressing optimism about what this year’s class could achieve"
assbot: $100k Peter Thiel Fellowship Awarded to Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin
ThickAsThieves: http://www.coindesk.com/peter-thiel-fellowship-ethereum-vitalik-buterin/
asciilifeform: thiel grant fellow
mircea_popescu: Bloodhound had everything going for it. TechCrunch once hailed the tradeshow app as "genius" and Peter Thiel lead a $3 million investment round in the "blowing up" company.
asciilifeform: (thiel actually exists, is said to hang out with 'moldbuggerers')
asciilifeform: i think that was meant to imply mr. thiel
princessnell: Peter Thiel getting behind campaign finance reform
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, the ansewr is very simple. he would not have gotten an investment or interest from peter thiel. Or any VC. And nobody outside of 10,000 people would know the word "facebook".
Diablo-D3: >peter thiel
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu Did you read the Peter Thiel class notes from the Stanford startup course?