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H.I. 103: Don't Read The Comments

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The Negative Effect of Gigantic Columns on Public Discourse

Peter Thiel wrote a book about the effect of gossip columns on public discourse. Peter Thiel: If there exists something like a gocker, which was intensely focused on Silicon Valley gossip, it sets on edge all of those people. It makes them feel like they need to be much more cautious and to say less in public than they might otherwise. In real life, you're really disorganized and every show of a real party animal and many things. And also for the record here, this is where I am going to state for any and all future legal depositions that everything I do in the public eye is the persona of CGP Grey.

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