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They do happen to have some effect on the outcome for the rest of us. It's a bit like the captain of a boat that has already taken the first seat in the lifeboat while directing the ship towards the iceberg and saying 'don't worry, we can't possibly sink'.

>>jacque+(OP)
If you are suggesting that billionaires like Thiel don't have any skin in the game (of human civilization continuing in a somewhat stable way) you're nuts.

If we hit the iceberg they will lose everything. Even if they're able to fly to their NZ hideout, it will already be robbed and occupied. The people that built and stocked their bunker will have formed a gang and confiscated all of his supplies. This is what happens in anarchy.

>>thworp+j6
you're assuming they're not determinists.

people like Steve jobs are the best example of flawed logic. in the face of a completely different set of heuristic and logical information, he assumed he was just as capable, and chose fruit smoothies over more efficacious and proven medication.

they absolutely, like jobs, are playing a game they think they fully understand and absolutely are likely to chose medicine akin to jobs

just watch Elon and everything he's choosing to do.

these people are all normal but society has given the a deadly amount of leverage without any specific training.

>>cyanyd+9i
Really what we're observing with these people is the survivorship bias of humans with astounding levels of cognitive dissonance — which nearly all humans have. Except they have the rare combination of wealth and luck on their side...until it runs out.

>>thworp+j6
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly (e.g. >>37336350 ). It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.