Lumifer comments on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 September 2014 03:55:01PM *  6 points [-]

Peter Thiel gave an AMA at Reddit, mentioned friendly AI and such (and even neoreaction :-D).

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 September 2014 07:31:28PM 2 points [-]

His answer to "Peter, what's the worst investment you've ever made? What lessons did you learn from it?" is intersting. He focuses on not investing more on facebook. The shift of focus says a lot about his mindset.

Comment author: Nectanebo 12 September 2014 08:03:50PM *  2 points [-]

One of the better AMAs I've read.

Peter is an interesting guy. Is his book worth reading?

Comment author: Lumifer 13 September 2014 03:48:51AM 5 points [-]

I read/scanned the predecessor of that book, the transcripts of his Stanford classes where he taught one course. They were quite interesting and worth reading.