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AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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“I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,” Thiel wrote in an online libertarian journal in 2019 (awful.systems)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Bwahahahaha get fucked you unbearable scumsucking dork

I mean just look at his fucking sentence construction with the rule of three and the cute internal rhyme/alliteration on “ideology/inevitability/individual”

I’m sorry, and this isn’t massively SneerClub except insofar as the death bit is obviously very Yud-coded, it’s just this quote came up again in the middle of a long and really bleak article, and for whatever reason I just burst out laughing

He’s always so goddamn indignant, like he’s being bullied for his lunch money but he came prepped with the most badass comebacks he could think of in the mirror - I mean seriously, read the quote back to yourself out loud and see if it would ever work outside “an online libertarian journal”, let alone on a stage

Look at his fucking face, how does this guy get up in the morning and not only take himself seriously, but take himself that goddamn seriously

Anyway…

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[–] TheIvoryTower 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I hate that billionaires like him see a country like New Zealand, and decide to build their apocalypse escape bunkers there, then say: “this country is perfect, but it just needs a few policy changes to make it exactly like America, the country I’m fleeing”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

“In 2022, Andreessen [owner of however many multi-multi-million $ properties] and his inveighed against building multi-family housing in their swanky Peninsula hometown of Atherton - average annual income $539,000, median home price $7.9 million - with an email to city government that read: ‘Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multi-family overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbours and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic’

Like there’s already the completely twisted economic logic of housing as a personal investment, propped up by too many governments everywhere who can’t afford to lose votes by pointing out that it’s been nonsensical and unsustainable for decades, but to then add to that the logic of doing it even when you don’t have any genuine perverse incentive to insist on making ROI from the resale value of your house

Just “I’m white as shit and this is what we do when we’re billionaires too”

You know, if you can remotely put aside the less-than-dogwhistling racism for a second

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

@TheIvoryTower @YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM

The thing is they’re not fleeing “America” as it is now. They’re setting up a bolt hole for the apocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Somewhere in the world there is a McLaren F1 engineer who is cursing himself every day for being a competent engineer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I need context.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

what could have been

this happened before thiel got idea of his stupid antieducational prize, which indirectly resulted in buterin making ethereum

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, World of Warcraft taking too long to nerf the class played mainly by the devs is also to blame for that one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

it's not only buterin, some other crypto people and ea people also got it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You know, one of the things I resent the most about shits like Thiel and Andreessen and Altman going around with ideas like supervillains from a Saturday morning cartoon is that whenever I try to talk to other people that aren't familiar with them about their ideas, those ideas are so excessive and ridiculous that I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.

There are good reasons to warn people to not read more sneerclub content esp when they are not familiar with this stuff already. It just makes you look insane. (being a honest fan of the LW writings does the same of course).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i had a moment and i wanted to share it with everybody

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

got the source article?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don’t have the source article, my full title is all one quote from the latest issue of the London Review of Books. But I’ve seen it before multiple times - it’s out there and findable

[–] captainlezbian 11 points 9 months ago

Sir, this is a society

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He looks like he's in the early stages of being possessed by a Dark Overlord from Howard the Duck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual,

“And that’s why I’m announcing project Kenjaku-Orochimaru, where I find twinks to transplant my brain into”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait Thiel doesn’t think everyone will die? Is he one of those cryo nuts on top of everything else?

Shit dude even the pre-socratics come to us via a long game of telephone. Ideas die too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Yes, he intends to be frozen as a fashion statement.

His belief is such that he has signed up with Alcor, the leading company in the field of cryogenics, to be deep-frozen at the time of his death – as much as an ‘ideological statement’, he says, as in any expectation of being thawed out any time in the near future. ‘In telling you that I’ve signed up for it [cryogenics], there’s always this reaction that it’s really crazy, it’s disturbing. But my take on it is it’s only disturbing because it challenges our complacency.’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11098971/Peter-Thiel-the-billionaire-tech-entrepreneur-on-a-mission-to-cheat-death.html

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the leading company in the field of cryogenics

I'm sorry, how do you measure that? Aren't all companies exactly tied in cryogenics for having successfully revived exactly ZERO people?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@V0ldek They haven't accidentally unplugged a freezer yet?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

@strangebirds @V0ldek I’d like to think that every human cryo facility has a “Days Since Last Accidental Thawing-Out” sign. Or maybe “Days Since Last Midnight Dumping of Several Lumpy Sacks”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is that actually true? Have they been audited? One problem with long-term storage is "long-term" is a thing that humans are bad at.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Just the other day, a bunch of cryo tanks holding scientific specimens in a research hospital in Sweden failed and destroyed 30 years worth of data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

best you can get is attestation from some obscure company in Bahamas

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Supposedly the head of baseball legend Ted Williams was frozen, but was dropped and cracked at some point. Don't know if that was the same company.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

But my take on it is it’s only disturbing because it challenges our complacency.

Peter what in the Sam fuck are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

peter is so brave for going after Big Death

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Thiel is a serial fool for the patient-funded-trial scam, e.g. the young blood scam

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

In the old days rich people just donated money to build a chapel, with priests or monks continually praying for the rich dead person's soul.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I don’t think it’s disturbing. I think it’s a crock of shit but a fool and his money and all that. It sounds like Thiel doesn’t actually understand why people think he’s crazy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

"Confiscatory taxes" as opposed to what? Voluntary ones? Just say you don't like taxes as if we couldn't guess already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I don't usually comment on appearance but his face does have the angular qualities of a tangram puzzle

[–] Apollonius_Cone 6 points 9 months ago

Wait until he hears about the autonomous collective.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What even is an "authoritarian collective"? An oligarchy? A plutocracy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

@PyroNeurosis @sneerclub Something like a national socialist party…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Anything to the left of, and including, the US Democratic Party.