Chad Loder1d ago
I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview.

The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.
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"The problem today is we have 'Big Science' and anything we make big becomes stagnant."

(30 seconds later)

"We could never do the Manhattan Project or the Apollo program today"

My guy what the fuck are you talking about
Show threadChad Loder1d ago
"We declared a War On Cancer in the 1970s and we have not made significant progress on treating cancer despite ever-increasing funding. It's a welfare program for academic labs"

Bro what the FUCK are you talking about. The survival statistics do not bear this out even at first glance
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Also anyone who studies cancer from a public health perspective would immediately make the point that cancer survival stats are dominated by access-to-care equities.

Scientific advances will not affect population level statistics without a fucking delivery mechanism.

Absolute smoothbrains
Jun 24 at 8:52pmWeb
Show threadChad Loder1d ago
Oh now Thiel is talking about the "reproducibility crisis" in science, amazing

Wait these guys are all myna birds, aren't they.

They hear a few words said by someone else and they just grab them and repeat them without understanding.

Now I see why they love LLMs so much.
Show threadChad Loder1d ago
So all of these "heterodox thinkers" are just myna birds, aren't they?

They're just making sounds they heard somewhere else and stringing them together like memes and this apparently imparts some kind of meaning to people who share a certain worldview?

As long as you don't stop to think at all.
Show threadChad Loder1d ago
I'm just sitting here the entire time wanting to break through the podcast studio wall like Hbomberguy
Show threadChad Loder1d ago
So much of the pathological behavior and deranged worldviews of these oligarchs can be explained by terror management theory and a basic over-salience of mortality.

I'm convinced that if we carefully orchestrated a bot farm we could incept them to take suicidal risks out of desperate fear
Show threadDrew Mochak1d ago
@chadloder.dev If you just put words together in ways they are commonly used then it'll make sense probably!
Show threaddarkglade.bsky.social1d ago
Yup, that and the LLMs reinforce all their delusions...
Show threaddarkglade.bsky.social1d ago
Also the irony is that they'll then turn around and laud how LLMs are going to revolutionise science, but they are BY DESIGN and NECESSITY non-deterministic and as such are by definition NOT reproducible in the scientific sense.
Show threadAnneH1d ago
@chadloder.dev Someone on here (sorry forget who) recently said exactly the same about Elon Musk.