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Okay that's quite helpful. I'll read it tonight. Thank you.

If you want to read the specific lecture the linked article refers to: the Guardian published an annotated transript: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-...

Ah appreciate the link. It appears to be mostly commentary and paraphrasing so I'll skip it. I get the John Oliver esque appeal of the Guardian's mocking style but it's not what I'm looking for on this occasion.

I managed Part I but if I'm being honest it feels like conspiracy theory slop. The guy is ridiculously successful, so the closest I can imagine is that I'm reading intermediate layers in his neural network and so they make no sense but somehow influence his worldview to make him make effective decisions.

It's this complete reinvention of things.

Thiel is part of a class of people who are materially insulated from financial failure to the point of absurdity, so there isn't anything particularly ridiculous about his 'success'. It's hard to say whether he genuinely believes this horseshit, but it's certainly in his interest to convince others to.

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