Or people are just seeing the real person. Before the filter was needed but now that views tangential to his are more mainstream it’s easier for him to let the full nut-job out. Same with the CEO of Salesforce.
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114356523256174674
I feel like a real dope because Thiel’s minions got me to buy a Rene Gerard book.
What do you call it when you want to improve the lives of all humans equally, not just they corner you were born into. That's what I am.
Person is a nutter -> nutters more likely to be at the extremes of achievement (success and failure) -> you see the successes -> there's a bunch of insane people who became billionaires
versus:
Some people win at the success game -> they start to think they are special -> environment encourages them towards extremes of thought -> bunch of crazy billionaires
One way the negative traits are merely uncovered by getting rich. Other way the negative traits are actually developed along with getting rich.
In the case of Thiel, I think his particular flavor of craziness is key to his success. I believe his paranoia was a major factor in the founding of Palantir.
I am so constantly confused by the level of greed and insanity these kinds of people reach. My theory is that once you are so divorced from the material world and what the value of anything is, your brain turns to mush.
But the article isn't very clear about what he said. I read sommewhere else his idea is more that someone would be able to unite the masses in the phase of economic trouble we are heading to. Like Hitler but for the whole world. I think its also funny that he suspects greta tunberg.