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  • Gonna copy this in because there's a lot to unpack, and I don't want to do it alone. ::: spoiler Text of the Thielmail in that first tweet:

     email
        
    From: Peter Thiel
    Date: Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 2:44 AM
    To: Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Antonio Lucio
    Cc: Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen
    Subject: RE: Milennials
    
    There are many themes that could be developed
    more here; let me make a few quick points for now:
    
    Nick -- I certainly would not suggest that our policy
    should be to embrace Millennial attitudes
    unreflectively. I would be the last person to
    advocate for socialism. But when 70% of Millennials
    say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than
    simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid
    or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and
    understand why. And, from the perspective of a
    broken generational compact, there seems to be a
    pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that
    when one has too much student debt or if housing
    is too unaffordable, then one will have negative
    capital for a long time and/or find it very hard to
    start accumulating capital in the form of real estate;
    and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then
    one may well turn against it.
    
    
      

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    1. Part of me wishes that the font were just a little bigger. This way, the word wrap would come to 10 syllables a line, and we could pretend this was a lost Shakespeare monologue.
    2. I'm almost disappointed by this. Thiel, suggesting that it might not, in fact, be the children that are wrong? Where's your ideological purity, Thiel? Didn't know you started reading r/GenZedong.
    3. Also, it's Peter fucking Thiel lecturing Nick fucking Clegg, former leader of the lib dems in the UK, on paying lip service to socialist policy in order to stymie any real societal progress???
  • This might be tangential/way off-topic and more MoreWrite material than stub, but anyhoo:

    Acronym-based misinformation campaigns I would like to seed:

    1. Internet debate clubs should start using “ASMR” to mean “A steel man risk”
    2. Opus dei, the absolutely real sect of the catholic church most famous for being the villains in the fiction IP “the Da Vinci Code”, is in fact the DEI branch of the catholic church.
    3. The company KFC has been commissioned by the Chinese Government to use FLG in its marketing, standing for “finger licking good” to drop Fa Lun Gong in search rankings for FLG.

    If I think of more I’ll post them.

  • Putting philosophy talks at a music festival is one of those ideas you come up with to try and sound smart, cool, and edgy, but as a high schooler who has never done drugs nor been to a live show before.

    Anyway I went through the lineup summaries on the wikipedia page, two notes:

    1. No Jay Shetty! His particular brand of grift philosophy and thinly veiled clout chasing would fit in exactly at this sort of event. Then again, this festival might actually be beneath him, as he hangs out with hollywood a-listers.
    2. The lineup noticeably hits its turning point into a nosedive when they start hosting Pinker in 2018.
  • I mean, I know who Penrose was, but from the context I assume he’s probably acutely suffering from Nobel Disease and I have zero idea what he’s been up to outside of physics.

    He is busy being 93 fucking years old, lol

    And isn’t Corbyn just a boring lefty UK politician? Does he have like a philosophy background or something?

    They probably couldn’t get Bernie.

  • What dedication to the grift. We are real-time seeing the downfall of US influence due to the trade war shit and this MF is saying the solution is “LLMs need more ‘lectrolytes”? This world is done for.