@peterthiel at his most intellectual: remarkable interview in NZZ (in German), spanning Silicon Valley's increasing infertility, economic stagnation, the future of Western societies, Marxist analysis, stoicism, identity politics, the role of politicshttps://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/peter-thiel-donald-trump-handelt-fuer-mich-zu-wenig-disruptiv-ld.1471818 …
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Replying to @Plinz @peterthiel
Any notable takes for the nicht deutshsprachige?
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SV's former network effects now perverted by intellectual and political conformism (chance of next Google starting here <50%), Stanford turns into Harvard, AI means everything and nothing, hard tech may become more important than software
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...individual and societal progress is not driven by acceptance of death or epicureanism (live every day as if it was your last), but by desire to shape the future, Strauss/European thought focuses on wisdom as terminal goal, but it should be instrumental to doing things
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...vision of the internet as an open place with privacy is over, users are now transparent and interaction is regulated, but state censorship would be even worse than present corporate censorship, entrepreneurship requires aiming at becoming a monopoly -> fear of totalitarianism
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... people thought the internet would lead everybody to have similar ideas, this hope is over: new media allows dissidence. regaining privacy will become an important topic, SV companies don't satisfy their users, regulation will make that not better but worse
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... progress and wealth of SV stop at the bridge to Oakland, new gadgets obscure the fact that innovation rates have dropped so far that society is stagnating and present generations are impoverished because there is less real world growth (requires innovation) to distribute
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... still standing with Trump; it's a "package deal"; Trump addresses hard topics that are ignored by others (China, NATO contributions, illegal immigration), and his failures are partially due to being sabotaged by others
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... polarization in US is not a result of life style but of economic factors, Marx was a smart economist; his broken Historical Materialism nonwithstanding: if interest rates go to zero, it means capitalists no longer know where to invest and it's time for communist revolution
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... economic failure means risk to democracy. There is little danger of fascism or communism right now because these are youth movements and western societies are over aged, but democratic institutions won't last without economic growth
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... egalitarianism does not remove conflict but intensifies it (see René Girard), and identity politics distracts from economic stagnation and leads to increased tribalism and separation within society, not to increased equality. But the US will get over this eventually.
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