[Causality1]

What the fuck is this guy's problem?

Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing.

One of the people he's shitting on in that sentence is Laura Deming, who's raised investment funds for companies working on stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent.

We get it dude, Peter Thiel is a jerk who doesn't vote like you and that really chafes your britches.

[tartoran]

Putting the context back in:

> ‘They were – nearly all of them – boys,’ as Chafkin points out, ‘and, almost to a person, they shared Thiel’s social awkwardness.’ One 17-year-old was hoping to extend the average human lifespan by three hundred years; a 16-year-old was developing a workaround to China’s Great Firewall. Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing.

[mmmpop]

> that really chafes your britches.

Mmmm I dunno, I looked the fellow up and I think he's more of a culotte type.

[cma]

> stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent.

Might be worth mentioning it is life extension research it is primarily focused on. The stroke thing is great, they may have initially started out trying to hibernate billionaires like bears to let them make it to the singularity, but the enzymes may prove useful for humans too.

[zzzbra]

I think the main thrust of the article is that Peter Thiel's libertarianism is hugely unprincipled and inconsistent with itself. which might describe of lot of the more famous libertarians out there actually...

[Causality1]

Well of course. Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children: something is deeply wrong with you.

[klipt]

Statistically speaking, many of our ancestors probably had an above average number of children...

[zzzbra]

not relative to their time. in a world of weak institutional and little in the way of medicine, most children die before adulthood. those that do are your only insurance policy in old age.

[nyokodo]

> Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children

You mean being a billionaire is like making up for ~5 childless couples not contributing to the next generation? Could be!

[mmmpop]

Careful with that sarcasm.