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RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Peter Thiel's story in a nutshell: (1) read golden-age sci-fi in his youth that made him believe we'd all be in flying cars and living on Mars by now, (2) those prophecies didn't come true, so (3) he's religious now (in a decidedly non-traditional way that mixes in Heinlein, Tolkien, Girard, and Revelations) and, rather than conclude that his childhood prophets may have been imperfect, he concludes that whoever spoiled his childhood dreams is the Antichrist. On top of that, throw ...