Kieran Healy on Nostr: Thiel’s combination of juvenile susceptibility to conspiratorial nonsense and ...
Thiel’s combination of juvenile susceptibility to conspiratorial nonsense and away-with-the-fairies fever dreams, on the one hand, with a self-flattering belief in his own gigantic, overpoweringly rational intellect on the other reminds me of my favorite note in The Ordinal Society.
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