[oska]

I've listened to all but the last 20 minutes of the podcast now. Thiel I find interesting and his ideas provocative even when I don't agree with him on some points. Weinstein I didn't find very interesting at all. He appears (at least in this interview) to just be trading on his association with Thiel. I have also previously found his labeling of 'the intellectual dark web' pretentious and the composition of the group suspect, including charlatans (to use Taleb's word) such as Pinker, Harris, Shermer, Peterson and Molyneux. I won't be listening to future episodes; Thiel was the attraction here.

[krferriter]

I disagree that Pinker, Harris, and Peterson are just pretentious charlatans. I do agree that Weinstein wasn't particularly interesting in this podcast. I agreed with Thiel's evaluation of our current technology and culture situation and found him to be quite interesting to listen to. Weinstein didn't really dig deep at all on Thiel's specific politics, which are more where I diverge from Thiel, despite this being a pretty long podcast episode. Hopefully get ups his interviewing game and doesn't just turn into a Dave Rubin 2.0 where he asks softball questions and lets the guest dodge controversial topics or steer the conversation however they want, and just focuses on the same tired topic every time.