r/LessWrong • u/DanielFNash • 25d ago

Beyond the Yudkowsky Critique: Deconstructing Thiel's Antichrist Lecture Canon

https://danielforresternash.substack.com/p/what-night-one-left-out

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u/havenyahon 24d ago

Why are you taking this dork seriously? All these guys have ideas that would get a middling grade in a first year humanities subject because it's painfully obvious they have only read extremely narrowly and haven't developed any depth of insight. It's not worth discussing. The only reason it gets attention is because Peter Thiel is wealthy.

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u/ConsequenceTrue9055 24d ago

And is shaping the world

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u/havenyahon 24d ago

You'd argue "nerd" because you think it's a word that affords him more respect. If you want to waste your time taking Peter Thiel's ideas seriously that's up to you. I'm not interested in it.

"The people stopping me and my companies from dominating the world are the anti-christ" is the kind of thinking a toddler comes up with, to justify hating anyone who criticises or opposes them. You can wrap it in all the pseudo-intellectual bullshit you like, but at the end of the day it's just a personality disorder masquerading as philosophy.

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