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1: Peter Thiel

The Portal

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The Problem of Preference Falsification

In a democracy, we think 51 % of people wileave something, they're probably right. If 70 to 80% believe something, it's almost more certainly right. But if you have 99 point nine nine percent of the people believe something at some point, youe shifted from a democratic truth to north crean insanity. And so this is one of the portals into an alternate way of seeing the universe, so as not to get surprised by revolutions. Tha in aw we live in a world where people are super uncomfortable saying what they think.

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