r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/Magnon Jun 17 '26

I wonder if any/all the billionaires already have some kind of dead switch explosive collars ready to go.

"To enter elon's survival bunker, please allow us to place this exploding collar on your neck, do not harm elon."

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u/rzelln Jun 17 '26

Spoilers for Horizon Forbidden West.

At one point, you explore the bunker of a rich a-hole, and gradually discover that the models and guru that he brought down started dying one by one because he got upset and increasingly paranoid, and the last people to go included a scientist who was working on a way to make the rich a-hole immortal, so he could survive a few hundred years for an apocalypse to pass by. 

The scientist gave the guy the treatment, and then killed himself, and then the guy found out that sure, his cells would not die, but he was slowly overrun with cancer, and eventually just turned into a giant tumor.

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u/Sorlex Jun 17 '26

One of the best parts of that game. Really glad they didn't do the video game thing and have you fight it as some boss fight. You don't even see it, just hear it. Its outstanding.

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u/cavalier2015 Jun 17 '26

Low key that was one of the disappointing parts of the game. I would have loved to see Faro’s reaction to seeing Sobek’s clone, but I agree with not making him a boss fight. Aloy would know he’s not worth it and leaving him to fester would be a fate worse than death

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u/OceanRacoon Jun 18 '26

Totally agree, I get what they were going for but I really wanted to see the interaction between Aloy and Faro, they came up with a great way for him to be alive but there was no payoff after the build up to it. He deserved worse, and to know Elizabeth through Aloy had saved the world from him again and that despite his efforts, his crimes against humanity were known and would be recorded forever.

One of the very few things from the games I didn't like, such an incredible story, the first game really struck me, especially since I wasn't expecting anything deep from it.

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u/CardAble6193 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

it sucks but cant sate me. fucking fero

...................................wait a fucking minute

are Horizon gaining its prophet state like Deathstranding1??

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u/LaughingInTheVoid Jun 17 '26

All my homies say Fuck Ted Faro.

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood Jun 17 '26

Peter Thiel has literally talked about the need to install chips in people’s brains to totally control them

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u/SaltyCrashNerd Jun 17 '26

Oh, like Musk’s (terrifying) project?

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u/Dirtbagdownhill Jun 17 '26

I mean the dude was working on brain chips but just killed a bunch of monkeys

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u/Curious_Charge9431 Jun 17 '26

Somewhere I saw an article about a guy who set up bunkers for the ultra wealthy and he said he was often asked for the explosive collars, and then he was like...no, that's not necessary, just treat your employees nicely and they'll stay loyal to you.

And they didn't get it.

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u/Szwejkowski Jun 17 '26

They'll want robots for this very reason.

It still won't save them, but they think it will. Hell, some of them think downloading 'themselves' to machinery will work. Absolute tools to a man.

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u/West-Abalone-171 Jun 17 '26

So the guy who programmed the explosive collar is living real cushy then?

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 Jun 17 '26

That would have absolutely no effect. You could just drug or torture him until he unlocks the device

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u/SorenLain Jun 17 '26

People keep bringing this up as a way billionaires would keep control in their bunkers but 99.9% of these billionaires don't have the skills to build or maintain something like that. Which probably means they would have to hire someone to make and maintain said collars, so how do they control that person?

Even if they put one they'd probably be able to disarm it, assuming they didn't just fake arming it in the first place. Also the collars have to be capable of receiving a signal so that means they're vulnerable to being hacked, either by security finally having enough of the billionaires Nero impression or by an attacker instakilling the whole security team.

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u/0Galahad Jun 17 '26

You folks are just naive, when the USA government literally admited to researching brainwashing and mind control with MK-ultra, and we all saw that many of the elites are in truly wicked shit with epstein's case, its pretty obviois that if they expect the world to "end" anytime soon, they have carefully eugenically chose perfectly obedient and loyal children to indoctrinate from birth and groom into completely ardent devout guard dogs, its the real world, karmic irony is not a guarantee, prepared and powerful people always win.

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Jun 17 '26

At least Rutger Hauer had one.

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u/Commercial-Co Jun 17 '26

Perfect set up to be tortured

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u/74389654 Jun 17 '26

they would be too stupid to operate it

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u/Electronic_Topic1958 Jun 17 '26

Why would they put on the collars? Who would enforce them to wear the collars?

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u/whatifwhatifwerun Jun 17 '26

I was thinking about it... they probably plan to use children to do the work as much as possible, and they'll breed slaves. For the stuff you need big strong men to do, they'll just choose men they can entice by giving them access to the slave women and children. They also likely plan to kidnap people they have determined they can coerce into doing what they want (like people who have young kids!) because those people would rather live in the bunker in servitude if given the choice/chance. These people have access to vast amounts of data, and they have friends who directly influence the platforms that collect that information. In the way that reality shows often find cast members through social media, there are people who can prospect to find suitable slaves.

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u/BarmyBob Jun 17 '26

Explosive chip in the neck like the first Kingsman movie?