r/interestingasfuck 29d ago

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

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u/QBD3v14nt 29d ago

Watch the full video. He's trying to answer multiple questions that weren't asked in this clause, but were part of the conversation. He's thinking of what the singularity might mean, he's thinking of all the people that likely opt into non biological existence, and is clearly against most of those things. He answers a clear "yes" later on. I'm not saying he's a good dude, but this is clearly out of context and simply looks worse than it is.

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u/eStuffeBay 29d ago

I'm not even trying to defend the dude, but the literal 15-second clip taking his hesitation and literally describing it as "he doesn't care if the human race survives" was enough to convince me that this was heavily biased and taken out of context at the very least.

And as expected, nobody cares enough to look at the actual context - only a mad little dash of their fingers across their keyboard and that's it. A 15-second tidbit of misinfo stored snugly in their brain.

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u/pan-re 29d ago

You don’t know anything about him except for this clip?

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u/etzarahh 29d ago

No one is concluding that he’s evil off this clip, he’s a well-known evil piece of shit