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Next Decoding Material: Peter Thiel

🕑 Added 2025-01-16 07:23:10 +0000 UTC

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JackG

Same, I like listening to him. Much more interesting than the likes of JBP or the Weinsteins. Unfortunately still some conspiracy nonsense in there.

Rod Hodges

I don’t really want to get into a discussion here but you don’t feel that it’s problematic when a rich person can shut down a media platform that they don’t like just because they hurt his feelings? I never saw Gawker but I get that it was a trashy National Enquirer type site. But the old saying “first they came for Gawker…”seems like it might apply here.

Rod Hodges

Ugh. The image of his sweaty greasy face repulses me but since it’s only audio I can stomach it.

JayDubbyah

I now have an even greater respect for Chris and Matt. Jesus Christ was this discussion tedious! I’m looking forward to hearing you guys making this interesting.

Brink

Indeed. Peter Thiel is (in)famous for discouraging potential engineers from going to college. He was so well known for it that he became the inspiration for the deeply weird "Peter Gregory" character on the first season of TV's Silicon Valley.

jss

Destiny mentioned he was doing an interview with you guys last night I greatly look forward to it!

Steve

I made it 25 mins in before my eyes rolled so hard I thought I was going to go blind. “Greta doesn’t care enough about AI or the wuhaun lab virus”??? This idiot’s intellect never made it out of the dorm room. He sounds like a comic doing an impression of Sam Harris.

Níall Faughnan

"If video games were regulated like the drug industry is by the FDA, we'd still be playing Pong." Good lord

Adalheidur

Or theology departments?

driver3

i don't think i want to listen to one of the gurus without the decoders present. it's just not that interesting or productive on its own

Daniel VI

Looking forward to this. Thiel’s recent-ish appearance on Rogan was a classic. Wall to wall conspiracies.

Saksaas

It seems very strange to me that people talking a lot about science, like Peter Thiel, Eric Weinstein and Jordan Peterson, doesn’t seem to know or has forgotten how science and universities work. 😑

Christopher Kavanagh

Yes it’s the source material

Knox Bronson

I guess Peter didn’t noticed that part in the Bible, in three different places, where it says it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven. I think libertarians are the biggest liars of all. These two are disgusting.

Adam Sher

He probably influenced Eric or they just think the same about that. Thiel wrote a book with David Sacks, The Diversity Myth, about their time at Stanford. In it, they hit on anti-western thought in the humanities, the problem with affirmative action, and other themes about the rot of elite institutions.

Níall Faughnan

Only 20 mins in and seems really like Curtis Yarvin. Constantly name dropping to get across that he's well read but doesn't actually finish any arguments so its just showing off. Also it's clear that his idea of what universities are is heavily influenced by Eric Weinstein.

Linda Sears

It definitely was uncommon knowledge.

Dee the Lobsterdancing Bananaland Dinosaur Monster

Ommmggg I haven’t listened yet but already my spidey senses are bristling at this suggestion of prophecy and tech melding together under the leadership of Peter….🫣 GAWWD HELP US!

Awakening Wonk

Was that a parody? My brain is numb now.

Brink

I haven't had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but this is not the first time Thiel and Robinson have met to discuss "the apocalypse". They also had a conversation in 2019 on pretty much the same subject. This New Yorker article mentions it. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/what-is-it-about-peter-thiel

Sasa

well, that went well. I was expecting the usual dialogue between Matt and Chris, put the video on and started a game of Fortnite. After a while I realised this is just unfiltered thielism and couldn't stop the video because of the game... well, the unwanted masochism I "had" to endure was an excellent exercise in self-control!

Mark Francis

And that some humans have the gift to channel the future and then write about it

Adalheidur

The host is really frothing at the mouth that such a “sophisticated” man like Peter Thiel is gracing him with his intellect

Mark Francis

So I am wondering, is a belief in prophecy akin to a belief in metaphysics, in that the future is already magically set in stone? Definitely surprised he didn’t loop in ragnorok too

Frances goulart

Thanks! I'll get the popcorn ready!

Linda Sears

Agreed. What’s wrong with being an effective cog in the machine that keeps science progressing?

Linda Sears

The idea that universities don’t deal with big questions is so disturbing to me. Have these two never heard of the humanities?

Leo

I think this is the video they will be decoding.

Frances goulart

Is this part I? I'm a newbie here. Where are Chris and Matt? I need something to wash this down with😾

Linda Sears

We brought him upon ourselves by voting for him.

Linda Sears

After reading his opinion piece and knowing his influence now, I’m not sure if I can stand listening to this one. I might wait for our fearless decoders to encounter Thiel.

Kgar

“He’s staying out of politics this year” That’s the funniest shit I’ve ever heard. Coffee all over my lap, having exited my nose…violently

Maarten Wesselius

Long awaited!

Paul Ditta

I just did the Jordan Hall episode. I can’t do this right after. I don’t have that kind of mental or emotional fortitude. I’ll be a giggling lunatic smearing my own poop over myself if I keep this up.

Paul Ditta

You’re on your own, son. I did five minutes and a weird oatmeal like substance began extruding from my ears. I think my brain was making a run for it.

Daniel Reed Miller

Check out Behind the Bastards four-parter on Thiel from October https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000674838937

Spartacus Mills

Lizard Point by Brian Eno

Spartacus Mills

As a sleep aid I used to listen to youtube talks at night with ambient music playing underneath - Terence McKenna, Alan Watts and the like. I'm definitely not recommending Thiel as a sleep aid, and certainly wouldn't want to risk him entering anyone's dreams, but something like this might be fitting for listening to a ghoul like him, just to make it more cinematic and hopefully a little less depressing.. https://youtu.be/DRiNpVslI_c?feature=shared

Jake

Is the concept of egregores an egregore?

Ando

Get him

Christopher Kavanagh

Or be on our up next list 😉

Michael

Honestly, I don't mind Thiel. Seems like a nice guy, and undeniably intelligent. Also, gotta give him credit for purging the internet of Gawker. Excited to learn what DTG has to say about him.

Sean Power

Fascinating. Three things struck me: 1. The ‘heroic’ scientist trope - and, if you’re not like that, you’re like a robot. (IMO, heroism in science is overrated - indeed, a bad way of thinking about science) 2. The reference to string theory (most working physicists I know now aren’t impressed by string theory - although might be accidental I know all the string deniers…) 3. The stats flying around - eg, as much PhDs as 1900, and each PhD is 99% less productive…so confused about so many claims in that sentence…

Kurt Ressler

I don’t know how anyone has the patience to get through this. It’s just a lot of words that don’t mean anything and certainly not anything interesting. Good luck Matt and Chris.