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.
"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.
Chad Loder
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