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For me, this interview was disappointingly short. I'd love to see Eric Weinstein or someone similar do a long form interview with PG.

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But Eric Weinstein asks of his guests to practice difficult words listeners have to find in a dictionary. He practices difficult words with an ANKI spaced repetition system himself.

What I find intriguing is that Peter Thiel has yet to appear on the Joe Rogan podcast while he clearly bankrolled that operation.

Interesting—-do you have a source for either of these statements?

I'm going to find one for the first. It is in this https://youtu.be/_b4qKv1Ctv8?t=8071

The second one is pretty obvious, Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005.

With what we know of Peter Thiel I think the burden of proof is on you that he doesn't make use of the knowledge he has on specific network work effects of youtube.

Just like he installed Donald Trump with Facebook in the White House.

I’m baffled by the hostility and conspiracy theorizing Thiel provokes on this forum.

Maybe people are intimidated by his intelligence and contrarian stances?

Some students look for answers in the back of the book and then figure out how to show work which gets those answers. If you do this long enough, it turns into a cult-like reverence for "the right/approved answers".

Thiel's reasoning on one thing or another may be flawed, but he definitely doesn't work this way. And he has a ton of money. So that can make the back-of-bookers both irritated and resentful.

Those are the founders of YouTube. The Rogan podcast has a YouTube presence but started on UStream and (pre Spotify) appears to have earned money the way many other podcasts do (sponsorships read into the podcas ) and used all the usual distribution channels including open podcast feeds. I’m sure there is some YouTube revenue in the mix but seems pretty incidental. I don’t think Thiel has anything to do with funding the Rogan podcast.

I’ve never seen it suggested before that Thiel bankrolled Rogan. Did Rogan get bankrolled at all? I always assumed he had plenty of money from his TV work to cover the fairly minimal costs of starting a podcast.

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