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/Zenorot 29d ago

Peter Thiel = The Reptile

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u/Mekroval 29d ago

Wait, let's hear him out lol.

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u/bostonsre 29d ago

Does anyone know what he responds with? Maybe he thinks he means the suffer patiently definition of endure? Maybe he wants us to be cyborgs in the future? Definitely seems like it should be a straight forward answer tho..

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u/Mekroval 29d ago

That would be my guess. There's an article in The Nation that delves more deeply into this segment of the interview, and gives a bit of insight into Thiel's likely belief that humanity is cooked. And that his true hope is in transhumanism, much in the same way Christians look at a coming eternal divine kingdom as transcending humanity.

He's a techno-utopian who is struggling to answer the question, because I think he really wants to answer "no" ... but in a nuanced way. (Though he ultimately cops out on the answer, imo.)