Post #164349

2026-01-28 19:42 UTC

Here's a precious bit. Thiel obviously feels insecure about his bad education because he starts doing that THING which all insecure #tech types do with disciplines they don't understand: they develop a serious case of "sour grapes" like in the Æsop fable. Having gone into the fakey vocational-training field of #ComputerScience, Thiel starts babbling about real sciences as if they were fake: > Um but uh it it basically the only STEM field that was a really going to be a really successful field for people to go into was computer science which was kind of this marginal almost fake field— Oh dearie me! #PeterThiel is trying to put the back-asswards and dysfunctional nature of "computer science" and "software engineering" into the past tense, like everything fine now in computing...even as everything is flying to pieces. (cont'd)

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@alyx_woodward@universeodon.com 2026-01-28 19:44

But it's all right! Peter Thiel has a "riff" which makes him feel better. > because I you know I always I always have this riff where you know when you have uh when people use I'm in favor of #science but I'm skeptical when people use the word science. So social science, political science, climate science are called science, but people have an inferiority complex and said deep down no, they're not really rigorous scientific fields. And uh and something like this was true of computer science in the original day. "People", according to Peter Thiel, know that social science and political science etc. are fake science. You know, *people*. Those folks over there. (cont'd)

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