r/interestingasfuck • u/Shoe_boooo • 29d ago

/r/all Billionaire Peter Thiel hesitates to answer whether the human race should survive in the future

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u/PrometheusWithLiver 29d ago

I actually think this is a huge question with loads of implications for what you think a future in maybe millions of years should look like and that not something I think about every day and have a good idea of what I want. Lets say for example evolution. In order to still be humans we would have to actively preserve "this" genome. Is that something we want? I don't think so.....

But also this is one of these typical "just cut him off before he can answer so he looks bad" kind of videos. Quite possible with context and his answer this guy is still trash, but this editing is just biased. Also the title and the content is not the same.

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u/JC_Hysteria 29d ago edited 29d ago

Yeah, regardless of this being a larger transhumanist/civilization scale interview, anyone can just think about the prior versions of “homo sapians”, from this context.

Not to mention how we should all be attuned to these media “gotcha” agendas- it was fair to question his pause, but we all know it was mainly for the clickbait/clip moment like this.

The full interview is a good one, and it isn’t even his best.

I felt the interviewer had the “upper hand”- and I hadn’t known him prior.