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Ok so AFAICT Peter Thiel is like if Hari Seldon saw the coming Dark Age, but instead of being like “let’s create a Foundation”, he was like “aww yiss, Dark Age. Let’s back The Mule, make a bunch of money on the crash, and live in a bunker on Terminus.”
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This doesn’t compute. It’s easy to see a dark age coming, and plenty in foundation did, which is why Seldon was able to get the encyclopediasts project going. What makes a foundation is estimating the dark age length and taking on the challenge of radically shortening it.
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Do you see Thiel as being the "plenty who saw it coming" or as the "estimating dark age length and taking the challenge of radically shortening it" or something else?
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