alt Hacker NewsHe seems like the kind of guy who was only ever a few bad days away from having a full-on break with reality.
I wonder if he's been talking to AI a lot and it pushed him over the edge to psychosis?
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Makes you wonder if that's where they got the name of Palantir, since Denethor went mad by using one (at least according to the Peter Jackson movies, I reckon the situation was different in the books).
This guy is obviously on drugs half of the time, his wealth shields him from reality and the yes-men around him let his crazy anti-humanist ideas fester in his mind and turn into religious psychosis. No need for AI here.
In any sane place, his hate of democracy and freedom would make him a pariah. Instead, he is the current US Vice President's mentor and most trusted advisor.
Did Thiel seem in any way sane before the advent of LLMs? Don't have a single positive memory about anything he's ever done or said.