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Peter Thiel

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Peter Thiel

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People tend to have an overly optimistic view of how advanced technologies really are, assuming they work perfectly or have made more progress than they actually have. Peter Thiel is pointing out that in fields like AI and nanotech, the real achievements are less impressive than commonly believed, and he wants us to consider the reasons behind this gap.

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