If you have seen the Facebook film, you have seen a sec of Peter Thiel, who provided Zuckerberg with the first half million to kickstart his company. But do you know that he, as an ultra-libertarian, dislikes democracy and thinks women’s suffrage was a bad mistake? Go see Peter Thiel in this highly interesting episode of the great arte-show “Durch die Nacht mit…” where his companion Garry Kasparow makes even a worse appearance in his unwillingness to listen to someone else than himself (the show is almost completely in english).
The Thiel statement about women’s voting can be read here:
A good profile of this person who spends his billions of dollars in law-free floating communes on the sea and research into life-extension of 1,000 years can be found on Slate:
Kasparow wrote a very interesting article about chess and computer intelligence for the New Yorker:
