Peter Thiel
speaker
1,088 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Peter Thiel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They have been very important and pivotal in this kind of movement to get this ban brought into effect.
But certainly the UK joining an absolutely enormous growing list of countries that are bringing in these kind of policies.
The OECD put out a report in April saying that 25 countries are either thinking about it or in the process of bringing in a ban.
So certainly the UK not the first here and won't be the last.
I mean, we already spoiled it.
I don't know if anybody knows about this, but Peter Thiel has a chess.com account with his real name, under which he's played over 50,000 games over the past 10 years.
And the reason I know it's him is, first of all, his friends are all these Silicon Valley experts.
And I put this account into a database called Opening Tree, which allows me to cross-reference his most played moves with his public tournament games that he played in the 90s.
And it's all the same stuff.
So our game went E4, E5, Knight F3, Knight F6.
I played the Stafford Gambit.
And on move six, he fell into a very... Falling for the Stafford Gambit?
What are we doing?
Well, no, no.
Okay.
Okay.
And the point is that when he takes back, played bishop takes f2, winning his queen by four.
So most players would just give up.
They would just resign in this position.
But Peter Thiel played on.
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