Peter Thiel explains why principled renegade thinkers, diss…

Good God, he's hard to listen to with all his stuttering. I'd never have got through or enjoyed Zero to One if he wrote like he speaks.

yea he is surprisingly not eloquent

but you shared his thoughts despite this! 😀

this reminds me of nassim taleb's slob surgeon. "you want the surgeon that dresses like shit bc you know he must be good if people deal with him despite his eccentricity" or something like that

Haha yes. I had a surgeon who was an absolute asshole and you could see his nurses hated him, but I got a very good knee replacement out of it. Zero social skills, 100% surgeon skills!

Thiel's point from the parent X post about the Turing test being passed is such a good point. Everyone is so worried about AGI DOOM and the surveillance implications that they forgot we can talk to computers now...