"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

"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

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

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.

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.

I'm just sitting here the entire time wanting to break through the podcast studio wall like Hbomberguy