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Comment by s_kilk | Hacker News Reader

> where's Peter Thiel in all this?

The evidence seems to suggest Thiel has gotten in with the "throne and altar" crowd, the Neo-Reactionaries and self-described "Dark Enlightenment".

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein

How that intersects with his techy leanings, I don't really know, it's very possible that he's being thrown overboard as you describe.

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Bloody hell, I swear we're living in the pulpiest political-thriller novel I've ever fucking heard of.

I don't want to go too far off topic, but every time I turn on the news lately I feel like I'm stuck in a dystopian cyberpunk thriller. Funny how we never got the flying cars and jetpacks from our 20th century utopian sci-fi, but the Phillip K Dicks and William Gibsons seem to be right on the money.

Cyberpunk promised us high tech and low life. Good job, we got at least one of these.

Low life is easier to distribute than high tech. The future is already here...

The news, on TV. Where did you find that?

My personal theory for a while has been that the world actually did end in 2000. We are living in a parody alternate dimension where the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks. This timeline is like a show that's been renewed for one season too many.

> the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks

Do you have any idea how much an actual god costs?! This is the best we could manage. Be grateful this low-budget universe is still here.

I like to think of Thiel as someone who has access to Facebook, rather than a person. Besides - It's not clear how much of a person is left in the face of such a pool of legitimate signals.

The tendency of the signals to reach a resonant frequency is another matter...

Basically, follow Thiel, he wasn't wrong throwing down with Trump ... another way of saying it ... I don't think it was because of what he believes in.

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