Thiel’s subsequent career is frankly no more inspiring. It’s not, after all, like any of his ostentatious moonshot investments have shown the slightest sign of paying off. MIRI should have been self-evident as a dumb idea with even a modicum of due diligence like “wait a moment, do any of you guys actually have experience making AIs?” Ambrosia, the “harvest the blood of teenagers” startup, is a classic patient-funded trial scam that played Thiel for millions with a bevy of staggeringly unjustified extrapolations from some old studies that were not so much about infusing the blood of the young
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