> It was always difficult to get normal people to understand why the tech billionaires are so bad until Thiel gave us that clip of him getting stumped by the "should humanity survive" question.

He was thinking about convergence. You're probably smart enough to be aware of that, so you're deliberately twisting his words.

> folks like Bill Gates or Larry Ellison are skinwalkers

On HN a decade ago this would have been moderated into oblivion. The recent manual un-flagging of poolitical posts by the mods (dang has openly discussed this) has changed the site for the worse.

Actually It woke people up to the fact that there is clearly bad things going on. The people that take the politically correct standpoint have a lot to learn. Talking about things that are going wrong in society is important. If you don't like that, go live on an island somewhere where you can cut yourself off from humanity.

Discourse is good for society, unless you think that society shouldn't exist, or freedom shouldn't exist...

Ah, clearly he was thinking about transhumanism! That thing all normal people understand and agree with.