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What Do You Believe That No One Else Here Does?
Peter Thiel is well-known for asking this question in interviews:
PETER THIEL: The intellectual question that I ask at the start of my book is, “Tell me something that’s true that very few people agree with you on.” This is a terrific interview question. Even when people can read on the Internet that you’re going to ask this question to everybody you interview, they still find it really hard to answer. And it’s hard to answer not because people don’t have any ideas. Everyone has ideas. Everyone has things they believe to be true that other people won’t agree with you on. But they’re not things you want to say.
He himself was unforthcoming when asked the question, though:
TYLER COWEN: Peter, tell me something that’s true that everyone agrees with you on.
PETER THIEL: Well there are lots of things that are true that everyone agrees with me on. I think for example even this idea that the university system is somewhat screwed up and somewhat broken at this point. This is not even a heterodox or a very controversial idea anymore. There was an article in TechCrunch where the writer starts with “this is going to be super controversial” and then you look through the comments — there were about 350 comments — they were about 70 percent in my favor. So the idea that the education system is badly broken is not even controversial. You know, the ideas that are really controversial are the ones I don’t even want to tell you. I want to be more careful than that.
So what do you believe that puts you at odds with everyone else? What do you believe that puts you at odds with Ricochet, in particular?
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I’ve been trying to put this experiment in a way that makes sense to me since you mentioned it. It’s more than 250 words. I still disagree. I’d say, for the whole of your argument, there’s just such a great difference between falling for someone & the more reasonable life implied in friendship…
That I am misinterpreting women should be assumed out of hand.
As to you observations, I think, yeah, they’re probably all true. I do not see how you do not see that that is the situation most people would be facing in college! & that, further, it should change your argument…
Thanks for the compliment; consider it done; stick around for the light touch-
For Criminey’s sake. You have a thermonuclear shockwave coming at you on the X axis, you pull the yoke and do warp 9 on the Y axis. You don’t go into it bow-first. To say nothing of being that close to Qu’nos and not have your long-range sensors trained straight on the Klingon home world.
I mean, we were all glad he got the big chair, but that was inexcusable.
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Sub-space shock wave. You may not be able to see it until its close.
No! Power to the revolution! Now there are two of us!
Three. An unholy trinity. Not me, Mr R.
Which is fine by me. I’m happy to make the supreme sacrifice of taking chocolate y’all don’t want off your hands.
Except for chocolate birthday cake. It always tastes like dirt.
I believe Lincoln was right on slavery (obviously), but Constitutionally wrong to prevent the Confederacy’s secession (and, therefore, to use force to do so).
Your standard cupcake is inedible.
Also, you have to be really good at lying.
“women are just people”. Ha ha ha ha ha! Fred, you’re a newlywed, right?
Has anyone seen John?
Sorry, I hit Delete.
I’m claiming the thread win in “believing what no else here does” for coming out in favor of genocide.
It could be a team promotion: “The Random-Ticket-Holder-Faces-Aroldis-Chapman Night.”
This feels like the moment that Rob starts denying that he was ever involved with something called ‘Ricochet.’
It has often been pointed out that revolutions fought by god-fearing people (such as the English Civil War and the US Revolutionary War) killed far, far fewer people than the French or Russian revolutions fought by godless intellectuals.
Me thinks one of us misunderstands sola fide. I understand it to mean that we are saved by faith alone, not allegiance alone.
I hate Christmas.
I don’t own a gun or ever plan on purchasing one.
The civil war was a destructive waste and wasn’t worth what it cost us.
I think a large part of our economy is based on fraud and we’re due for a big collapse. In this instance I may purchase a few guns if it’s a Mad Max scenario going on.
Looking at all the recent photographs of Bruce Jenner he doesn’t look half bad.
That’s got to be a more singular opinion than “genocide is ok sometimes.”
Well, I was repulsed by the statement at first, but then I remembered how I do believe the Bible, and in the Old Testament the Israelites were commanded to wipe out the inhabitants of what would become Israel. So, I guess I do agree with that genocide (always a disturbing thought to me, but I take it on faith).
I’m thinking maybe you should change your avatar.
I believe that the Constitution as such is no longer an adequate basis for the government.
You can’t really blame Sulu for that. Treating space as if it were two dimensional has been a problem across all Star Trek series.
I’ve yet to meet any sola fide adherent who defines “faith” by any means other than, “membership in some Christian church.”
John, even the most-naval Wrath is limited to at best 2.5 dimensions. As Kirk and Spock correctly assess Khan’s shortcoming (Nomad Style), they still engage in it. No reason for that pursuit to unfold as a submarine battle ( as when he goes down z 10k), nor as some sort of stately airship peek-a-boo, as in the scene where the camera looks down on one ship sailing upright in one direction, and then another ship far above it sailing upright as well in a different direction, but significantly above the first. Why can we identify an up and down here? Because the writers/producers/ director are trapped in two-dimensional thinking. In the absence of a gravity well, “up” is the direction normal to your vector that you anticipate needing dv (you may quote me).
One of the things that endeared Bab5 to me was the mostly anatomically-correct space logistics. That and the magnificent Patricia Tallman, but that’s a different story. Any fool can raise shields and blast bugs– those games are easy. It takes real skill to dock without destroying both craft. Those games are hard.
Ricochet Match Game anyone?
B Jenner: The face that launched a thousand . . . BLANK . . .
…Garbage trucks?
Real men score touchdowns from the friend zone?