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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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Re: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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Post by port11 »

dev213 wrote: post #26

the way this got leaked is so embarrassingly stupid. Their website was just a react SPA with the entire member list in the JS bundle. What a stupid mistake to make for these tech "geniuses".

Client-side hydration baby, gotta keep it fast.

Re: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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Post by port11 »

u1hcw9nx wrote: post #29

That participation list is not especially selective, politically aligned or sinister. Many are there because they are famous or influential in politics, business, journalism etc. More just connecting people from non-related sides. Some names I recognize: Preet Bhara, Sam Harris, Tyler Cohen, Kaja Kallas (VP European Comission), Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, Steven Pinker, Lawrence Summers (always Larry) Garry Kasparov, E…

The topics of discussion at the retreat are somewhat questionable. We’re also not exactly sure what some of these people believe in.

Personally, I’d never want Thiel or Kushner anywhere near my EU officials. Not even in the same planet.

Re: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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Post by jfengel »

joaogui1 wrote: post #30
u1hcw9nx wrote: post #29

That participation list is not especially selective, politically aligned or sinister. Many are there because they are famous or influential in politics, business, journalism etc. More just connecting people from non-related sides. Some names I recognize: Preet Bhara, Sam Harris, Tyler Cohen, Kaja Kallas (VP European Comission), Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, Steven Pinker, Lawrence Summers (always Larry) Garry Kasparov, E…

I think globally they’re all center-right to alt-right, which of them are considered leftwing in the US?

Ezra Klein is legitimately considered left wing in the US. Sam Harris is not actively a psychopath, which passes as "left wing" in America.

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Post by mahmoud420 »

joaogui1 wrote: post #30
u1hcw9nx wrote: post #29

That participation list is not especially selective, politically aligned or sinister. Many are there because they are famous or influential in politics, business, journalism etc. More just connecting people from non-related sides. Some names I recognize: Preet Bhara, Sam Harris, Tyler Cohen, Kaja Kallas (VP European Comission), Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, Steven Pinker, Lawrence Summers (always Larry) Garry Kasparov, E…

I think globally they’re all center-right to alt-right, which of them are considered leftwing in the US?

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Re: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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Post by adrianwaj »

gnoll_of_gozag wrote: post #22
adrianwaj wrote: post #11

"off the record" ...I think an "on the record" society makes more sense. People wear smart glasses, everything recorded, transcribed and fed into an LLM. People can have a mute button, but generally discouraged. Suitable in the age of prediction markets, high definition streaming and fast software development. Humans can be verified at the door.

why?

To concentrate human intelligence in realtime. What are we doing here? Why does it have to be limited to keyboard input?

Re: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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Post by BlueTemplar »

smrtinsert wrote: post #17

Joseph Gordon-Leavitt really stands out, why would he be included here?

I have only had the minimum of time to look into it, so far I only found his own vague justification, his wife supposedly(?) being part of Open AI, a multimedia platform he made then maybe or maybe not un/ethically provided the data of it to Ubisoft, him supposedly lobbying against section 230, and even more vague accusations of 'Zionism'.

Re: Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

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tacitonius wrote: post #18
_delirium wrote: post #6

I find it kind of funny that the last time a partial member list leaked (a few years ago) it was because they tried to invite Andrew Gelman and he mocked it on his blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/16/hey-i-got-... I guess he didn't get invited again.

The posted attendee list has a top 5 HN user present.

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