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”
“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
@TheIvoryTower @YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM
The thing is they’re not fleeing “America” as it is now. They’re setting up a bolt hole for the apocalypse.
Somewhere in the world there is a McLaren F1 engineer who is cursing himself every day for being a competent engineer.
I need context.
what could have been
this happened before thiel got idea of his stupid antieducational prize, which indirectly resulted in buterin making ethereum
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.
it's not only buterin, some other crypto people and ea people also got it
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.
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).
i had a moment and i wanted to share it with everybody
got the source article?
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
Sir, this is a society
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”
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.
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.’
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?
@V0ldek They haven't accidentally unplugged a freezer yet?
@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”.
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.
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.
best you can get is attestation from some obscure company in Bahamas
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.
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?
peter is so brave for going after Big Death
Thiel is a serial fool for the patient-funded-trial scam, e.g. the young blood scam
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.
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.
He looks like he's in the early stages of being possessed by a Dark Overlord from Howard the Duck.
"Confiscatory taxes" as opposed to what? Voluntary ones? Just say you don't like taxes as if we couldn't guess already.
I don't usually comment on appearance but his face does have the angular qualities of a tangram puzzle
What even is an "authoritarian collective"? An oligarchy? A plutocracy?
Anything to the left of, and including, the US Democratic Party.
Wait until he hears about the autonomous collective.
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
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.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]