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I'm reading Thiel's book right now, and have some mixed opinions on portions of it, but it's certainly an interesting read, and makes you think.


In the book he says "We Live Under A Power Law" I absolutely agree, people have hard time grokking exponential growth.

In the last chapter, he says that AI is overrated and it's 22nd century threat. He underestimates Power Law.


He does that a lot. Universities are irrelevant, unless you went to Stanford (his school), in which case you are awesome.

It's clear that he wants to think critically but he's somehow not able to bring himself to his own conclusions.


Agree with that. I find it opinionated but I gotta say I like it. I find some of the ideas (such as his lecture from YC startup class 'Competitions is for losers') from the books are a bit hard to accept and makes me thing for a while.




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