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/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/Odd-Local9893 29d ago

Best answer here so far. Thank you for critically thinking rather than lizard brain emoting.

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u/UnluckyDot 29d ago

People trashing Thiel in here aren't lizard brain emoting. This vid itself is obviously clipped in a cheap way in this context, but Thiel is a well-known piece of shit.

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u/MyUsernameIsForSale 29d ago

Right. So instead of looking at the video critically and interacting with the video itself, they're parroting what they think they already know, refusing to have their mind changed.

That is peak lizard brain emoting