This Thiel interview clip is amazing

Watch Ross Douthat realize for a moment in real time that he’s spent a decade making ideological bedfellows with a techno-futurist, fascist Right that wants to see the birth of a “machine god” & is in no way enthusiastic about the survival of the human race in universal terms.

https://x.com/jasonwblakely/status/1938639600907612610

Sure there are liars but places like Hacker News are teeming with this enthusiast type.