Dar_Veter comments on Peter Thiel warns of upcoming (and current) stagnation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dar_Veter 06 October 2011 04:17:56PM 6 points [-]

I cannot see how can anyone see 2001 as "inspiring hope".

Set in crapsack world of overpopulation, famine and imminent nuclear war, where human race was from the beginning a toy of omnipotent aliens. What hope? Our world in 2001 was not like in "2001", it was much better.