I knew Sabine Hossenfelder was in deep with the right-wing, reactionary Intellectual Dark Web two years ago. I also speculated she was taking money from Peter Thiel.
I think it's even more likely now she's taking money from Thiel since she's now citing Thiel and Musk in her videos as I found out in this excellent video by Professor Dave, AKA David Farina.
And the the version of the question that I have come to ask over the last 15 years um about you know um is the universal question, is about the progress of all these things. How fast are science and technology as a whole progressing? Is the sort of propaganda, the STEM propaganda accurate, that uh we have just sort of exponentiating progress, runaway progress things are getting sort of, you know it's just dizzying how fast things are improving. Or is it is it perhaps quite the opposite and and so and and so if if one could show that the science and technology areas are actually pretty weak, that the so-called crown jewels of STEM are not actually delivering the goods. This strikes me as a decisive, crushing uh blow.
Yes, I know it's a babbling mess, but you can see he's concerned about how fast science and technology as a whole are progressing.
It looks to me like Hossenfelder has sold her career as a respectable physicist to promote Peter Thiel's crackpottery.
And now, here's my chance to share a link to a video from my new favorite Youtube channel, Angela Collier, entitled billionaires want you to know they could have done physics, because it mentions Thiel. (Bonus: she trashes Ayn Rand about half-way through the video.)
Collier points out that these billionaires have all the time and money in the world, and if they really cared about physics they would buy themselves actual physics expertise by taking classes.
I think billionaires like Thiel have decided they'd rather buy actual physicists.
Although I gotta say, even I didn't guess Hossenfelder would be retweeting actual Nazis, as demonstrated in the Professor Dave video.
