Very interesting. There are indeed well-read people who see Thiel as the ideological core of this Trump administration, and who view this as a good thing. I was under the (I now see, wrong) impression that Thiel-centrality was an hallucination by paranoid leftists. Thank you very much for providing a strong and important update to my world model.
Your personal website states that you are of Syrian extraction. Thiel is gay. Both of these facts point to a worldview that has trascended identity politics. I believe that identity politics as currently practised is mostly dumb and harmful, so I guess this is good news. Maybe even extremely good news. However, I am unsure how far it applies.
This ideological development is extremely interesting.
May I ask a series of questions?
Is Echelon a thing that exists right now, or is it a thing that Thiel wants to build?
Now some object-level engagement with your piece:
Very interesting. There are indeed well-read people who see Thiel as the ideological core of this Trump administration, and who view this as a good thing. I was under the (I now see, wrong) impression that Thiel-centrality was an hallucination by paranoid leftists. Thank you very much for providing a strong and important update to my world model.
Your personal website states that you are of Syrian extraction. Thiel is gay. Both of these facts point to a worldview that has trascended identity politics. I believe that identity politics as currently practised is mostly dumb and harmful, so I guess this is good news. Maybe even extremely good news. However, I am unsure how far it applies.
This ideological development is extremely interesting.
May I ask a series of questions?
Is Echelon a thing that exists right now, or is it a thing that Thiel wants to build?
Do you think Trump understands Thiel’s ideas?
Same question as above, but for Musk.
Same as above, but for Sam Altman.