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Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Post by OutOfHere »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #29
OutOfHere wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly are they missing out on?

Optionality. The power available to any one person to do anything in society is directly proportional to their genuine connections to others, even if brief. Meetups in person with real connections happening (even if brief) create so many new possibilities for those in attendance. The disappearance of in-person meetups (especially among developers) in the US after Covid is a tragedy - so much could be happening that i…

So he is the new Epstein of the AI age, just without the obvious problem parts. He has his own antichrist-grade problems which are in a way worse.

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Post by 1659447091 »

shevy-java wrote: post #8

Also, Ted Cruz there - interesting how only very few politicians are on the list. Must be a close buddy. Someone should have a look at the legislation pushes by Ted.

Ted Cruz was a Tea party member, the tea party merged into maga. His legislation pretty much follows

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Post by crispyambulance »

3stacks wrote: post #24

Peter Attia figured heavily in a certain recent document dump, so I’m not surprised to see him swimming in these circles. Tim Ferris is an interesting one to me. Feels like an outlier attendee but maybe he will be part of consent manufacturing for whatever is talked about here

Ferriss has been part of what I call the "self-help industrial complex" for a very long time. He also has known Thiel since at least the early naughts.

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Post by o2zer0cool »

dofm wrote: post #12
fergie wrote: post #3

Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

> Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. " " <— I think you dropped these — not certain where they go, though

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Re: Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

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Post by o2zer0cool »

ozlikethewizard wrote: post #16
fergie wrote: post #3

Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

Journalists will often try to attend these things to get a scoop, the other attendees will be trying to influence that scoop. That may not definitely be the case here, but it's also not given they're plants or anything.

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