![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Стальной тевтон-гей-эмигрант
Apr. 19th, 2018 11:26 am[...] First, one of the most profound intellectual influences on Peter Thiel is a French thinker named René Girard, whom he met while at Stanford and whose funeral he would eventually speak at. If you haven’t heard of his work, he is famous for his theory of mimetic desire, which holds that people have no idea what they want, or what they value, so are drawn to what other people want. A more crude way to say it is that you don’t have any real preferences and desires of your own, and you are always looking at others. It’s this, Girard says, that is the source of almost all the conflict in the world—people wanting the same things. In one way, this would forge Thiel’s modus operandi: shun social convention and think from first principles. People say that Thiel is “contrarian” but it’s more accurate to say he is anti-mimetic.
[...] At Stanford he created and published a radical conservative journal called The Stanford Review, then he wrote a book that railed against multiculturalism and “militant homosexuals” on campus despite being both gay and foreign born. His friends thought he might become a political pundit. Instead he became a lawyer. Then one day, surprising even himself, he walked out of one of the most prestigious securities law firms in the world, Sullivan & Cromwell, after seven months and three days on the job. All these are examples of his decisiveness to make his choices based on first principles—not how you’re supposed to do things but what is true.
Second, another interesting method in his intellectual toolkit, is that he uses the Steel Man technique when arguing or explaining a complicated issue. This surprised me given that he had taken to calling Gawker, the website that outed him as gay, terrorists and such. But really, he was always very open-minded when it came to discussing things. For instance, if you ask Thiel a question—about Gawker or Trump or whatever—he doesn't just pull up some half-formed opinion. Instead, he begins with, “One view of these things is that . . . ,” and then proceeds to explain the exact opposite of what he happens to personally believe. Only after he has finished, with complete sincerity and deference, describing how most people think about the issue, will he then give you his opinion, which almost always happens to be something radically unorthodox—all of it punctuated with liberal pauses to consider what he is saying as he is saying it.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Peter-Thiel-very-smart/answer/Ryan-Holiday
Хороший урок, единственный недостаток которого - здесь не учитывается так называемая "ошибка выживших". Но ведь учесть всё просто невозможно.
И, конечно же, Тиль - эмигрант не из shithole countries. Факт остается фактом - генетический, так сказать, материал, из которого состоит население Соединенных Штатов, условно разумеется, но тем не менее - большинство людей, их населяющих - потомки не англичан, итальянцев или ирландцев. Это потомки немцев. То есть они все перемешаны, но один из народов внес больше других.
[...] At Stanford he created and published a radical conservative journal called The Stanford Review, then he wrote a book that railed against multiculturalism and “militant homosexuals” on campus despite being both gay and foreign born. His friends thought he might become a political pundit. Instead he became a lawyer. Then one day, surprising even himself, he walked out of one of the most prestigious securities law firms in the world, Sullivan & Cromwell, after seven months and three days on the job. All these are examples of his decisiveness to make his choices based on first principles—not how you’re supposed to do things but what is true.
Second, another interesting method in his intellectual toolkit, is that he uses the Steel Man technique when arguing or explaining a complicated issue. This surprised me given that he had taken to calling Gawker, the website that outed him as gay, terrorists and such. But really, he was always very open-minded when it came to discussing things. For instance, if you ask Thiel a question—about Gawker or Trump or whatever—he doesn't just pull up some half-formed opinion. Instead, he begins with, “One view of these things is that . . . ,” and then proceeds to explain the exact opposite of what he happens to personally believe. Only after he has finished, with complete sincerity and deference, describing how most people think about the issue, will he then give you his opinion, which almost always happens to be something radically unorthodox—all of it punctuated with liberal pauses to consider what he is saying as he is saying it.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Peter-Thiel-very-smart/answer/Ryan-Holiday
Хороший урок, единственный недостаток которого - здесь не учитывается так называемая "ошибка выживших". Но ведь учесть всё просто невозможно.
И, конечно же, Тиль - эмигрант не из shithole countries. Факт остается фактом - генетический, так сказать, материал, из которого состоит население Соединенных Штатов, условно разумеется, но тем не менее - большинство людей, их населяющих - потомки не англичан, итальянцев или ирландцев. Это потомки немцев. То есть они все перемешаны, но один из народов внес больше других.
