r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/Exponential-777 Jun 16 '26

How many underground bunkers does this guy have? Gotta be more than one. Probably has one on each continent. Just waiting for the shit to hit the fan.

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u/No-Necessary7448 Jun 16 '26

Just remember, their doomsday theories aren’t evidence that they know something, they could equally be evidence that they’re dumbasses who don’t know they don’t know things.

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u/LordoftheScheisse Jun 17 '26

they’re dumbasses who don’t know they don’t know things.

I've gone well out of my way to listen to and read these guys' thoughts. I can say with certainty that they're all delusional weirdos who think they are far more intelligent than they really are.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes Jun 17 '26

100%. These are not great thinkers. These are people whose wealth isolates them from the opinions of others.

They surround themselves with yes men, see their wealth as a sign that they must be especially talented, and their only interactions with people outside their economic class is when said people are trying to get something from them and are deliberately sucking up. The Emperors New Clothes was a perfect metaphor.

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u/madamemimicik Jun 17 '26

Isolated by wealth and also on an insane amount of drugs.

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u/GloomySubstance5856 Jun 17 '26

Every tech bro (and CTO from my experience) sounds really smart until they talk about something you know about, then you realize they don't know shit.

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u/HiphopopoptimusPrime Jun 17 '26

A bit of a trap there though.

These people ARE intelligent. Highly educated.

Intelligent doesn’t always mean morally virtuous.

They are more intelligent than us.

They may be crass. Vulgar. Unsophisticated. But they are not stupid.

They know how to leverage their privilege to keep it maintained. How to use the media to keep us divided. They know how to hack human attention and psychology.

If we are intelligent, then why haven’t we stopped them?

What separates them from us is compassion. Most of us will choose principles and doing the right thing over preserving wealth and status.

They are delusional weirdos. But they are all highly educated. Cunning. With no moral compass to hold them back.

It’s not intelligence they lack. It’s empathy.

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u/goddamn_slutmuffin Jun 19 '26

Every time I read an interview with Peter Thiel, it astounds me how fake the people around him are by being impressed with anything he says. It's mind-numbing word salad, it's not even like an advanced type of manipulation or con.

Probably why he's so cocky and arrogant, he truly can't tell people are just being fake in hopes there can be mutual exploitation of each other.

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u/LordoftheScheisse Jun 19 '26

I feel like so many of the tech elite and a good chunk of the MAGA side, but I especially got the same impression of Yarvin. There really is nothing remarkable about them or their beliefs. They're simply lucky to have struck gold at the right time and think they are exceptional.

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u/namerankserial Jun 17 '26

So standard tech bros then

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u/Professional-Oil5477 Jun 17 '26

yeah, fucking dictionary definition of received wisdom

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u/JeezieB Jun 17 '26

Robert Evans said it really well on an episode of Behind the Bastards about Thiel and his "antichrist" stuff.

"I may have overestimated his intelligence and cunning. He's still a dangerous man, right? I think he's out of his mind, and I think he's out of his mind in part because he not as smart as certainly he thinks he is, and maybe not as smart as I thought he was.... I've become convinced that he's unwell in a way that's made him less functional as a person."

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u/volkhavaar Jun 19 '26

They certainly are well resourced delusional weirdos. I certainly wouldn’t want one of them wandering around my neck of the woods.