Peter Thiel gets a lot of shit on HN (my comments mentioning him usually get downvoted) I think because of his politics, but there are few people who have more non-consensus views that end up being correct. It's easy to be non-consensus and wrong most of the time, or conformist and correct most of the time, but hard to be non-consensus and often correct, which is what makes Thiel worth listening to in my opinion.
This is also discussed on the very first episode [0] of The Portal where Eric Weinstein talks with Peter Thiel. It's been a while since I listened to it but I remember I found it to be an interesting discussion and an unusual viewpoint.
[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s
I have a really hard time resolving these ideas with Thiel's helping to get Trump elected and working with Trump's administration. Has Thiel ever addressed this?
I'd suggest not letting your political views get in the way of judging facts and lines of reasoning. No matter what somebody's political stance is, you should be able to judge an argument, a chain of reasoning, based on the data and argument itself. Either it's logical or it isn't.
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