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		<title>Ask Peter Thiel Anything</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/09/ask-peter-thiel-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel is doing a Reddit AMA. Some highlights: Most people deal with aging by some strange combination of acceptance and denial. I think the psychological blocks to thinking about aging run very deep, and we need to think about it in order to really fight it. The zero-sum world [The Social Network] portrayed has [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Thiel on Facebook, Technology, and the Higher-Education Bubble</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/11/peter-thiel-on-facebook-technology-and-the-higher-education-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Cavanaugh interviews Peter Thiel on Facebook, technology, and the higher-education bubble:]]></description>
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		<title>Seasteading is basically a crazy idea</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/05/seasteading-is-basically-a-crazy-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, Mencius Moldbug says, reason compels him to believe that seasteading is basically a crazy idea: I mean this in the good sense of the word as well as the bad. Of all things that the endeavor reminds me of, it reminds me most of Shaw&#8217;s epigram that all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Democracy</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/05/freedom-and-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Thiel no longer believes that freedom and democracy are compatible: As one fast-forwards to 2009, the prospects for a libertarian politics appear grim indeed. Exhibit A is a financial crisis caused by too much debt and leverage, facilitated by a government that insured against all sorts of moral hazards — and we know that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/peter-thiel-makes-down-payment-on-libertarian-ocean-colonies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired has now written about seasteading. Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies: Instead of starting with a grand scheme worthy of a James Bond villain, the Institute is bringing an entrepreneurial, DIY mentality to creating oceanic city-states. &#8220;There&#8217;s a history of a lot of crazy people trying this sort of thing, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/friends-may-be-the-best-guide-through-the-noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise on the Net: Following the feeds of people you like and admire, these companies say, allows the serendipitous discovery of needles in the information haystack. “Friends are likely to have some similar interests and tastes. Just the fact that your friends find it interesting should make [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Optimistic Thought Experiment</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/the-optimistic-thought-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 19:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Optimistic Thought Experiment, Peter Thiel emphasizes the following points: Any investor who ignores the apocalyptic dimension of the modern world also will underestimate the strangeness of a twenty-first century in which there is no secular apocalypse. There are no good investments in a twenty-first century where globalization fails. Almost every financial bubble has [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason Magazine Interviews Peter Thiel</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/reason-magazine-interviews-peter-thiel/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/reason-magazine-interviews-peter-thiel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reason Magazine Interviews Peter Thiel — and he&#8217;s even more impressive than I previously realized: reason: You were a Stanford undergrad and law student. After you graduated, your career seemed to be taking a policy wonk direction. Thiel: As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started The Stanford Review, which ended up being very engaged in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Homesteading on the High Seas</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/04/homesteading-on-the-high-seas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason looks at Homesteading on the High Seas: If Peter Thiel funds something, it&#8217;s bound to be cutting-edge awesome. He is a supporter of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, which seeks to slow, stop, and eventually reverse aging. He was a producer of the film Thank You for Smoking, based on Christopher [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasteading</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/04/seasteading/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/04/seasteading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Tabarrok cites Patri Friedman (son of David, son of Milton) and Wayne Gramlich, from their seasteading manifesto: A small but passionate minority is deeply dissatisfied with current political systems. These people seek the autonomy to live under and experiment with different political, social, and economic systems than currently exist. It is this search for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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