Peter Thiel Audio

The future of technology; economic and cultural issues; AI and digital currencies; the state of America; the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

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Political theology; Calvinism and rationalism; Old Testament interpretation; Carl Schmitt's resurgence; millenarian thought; existential risks; the role of the katechon; political vision in Shakespeare; AI's impact on wordcels; Straussian messages in the Bible; concerns about Miami.

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Peter Thiel's keynote address at the Conservative and Republican Student Conference; discussion with Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule.

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Outline:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:24) Opening Remarks

(03:39) "Diversity" as a distraction

(04:43) 3 themes that The Diversity Myth did not address

(07:38) Economic criticism of "diversity"

(15:10) "Diversity" in STEM and academia

(24:25) A religious or Christian's take on our woke religion

(31:34) Concluding remarks

(33:26) Discussion with Professor Vermeule

(37:22) Nature of the late liberal regime

(51:10) Puritanism's similarities to wokeness

(57:29) Is the State an enemy of conservatism?

(01:03:15) Is wokeness a distortion or fulfillment of post WWII liberalism?

(01:07:42) On conservatives in academia

(01:08:34) What policies might fix this problem?

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Progress has stagnated; the future of technology; the impact of AI; existential threats; global government; polarization and growth; social media critique; wokeness and religion; geopolitical challenges.

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Outline:

(00:00) Trailer

(00:40) Progress has stagnated

(04:25) We need courage more than genius

(10:50) What will the future look like?

(15:03) The impact of AI

(17:46) The main existential threats

(18:44) Totalitarian one world government

(23:27) What a global government would look like

(27:00) 'Optimism and pessimism' - the wrong framing

(30:12) What I'd change about the States

(32:25) Polarisation is bad for growth

(36:08) The global stagnation crisis

(38:40) Is AI the solution?

(40:43) Critiquing social media

(43:02) Wokeness is a warped form of Christianity

(45:48) The flaws of New Atheism

(49:40) Two threats: Islam and China

(52:38) China's thirst for dominance

(58:23) We must focus on Iran

(01:00:41) Thoughts on Russia

(01:02:33) The Taiwan crisis

(01:04:47) What's the one thing we're not talking about?

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Artificial intelligence; AI consciousness; potential benefits and dangers of AI.

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The future of technology and society; Christianity and modern ideologies; political engagement and violence; apocalyptic thinking.

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Outline:

(01:08) Girard, Scapegoating

(04:00) Mimetic copies: Hitler and Stalin, Nazism and Communism, Fascism

(05:30) Wokeism, Christianity, and Academia

(10:40) Wokeism in cities, response to real estate costs. Structural wokeism

(14:27) Winning and losing postures towards wokeism

(17:10) Wokeism is Christianity without the forgiveness

(18:30) Acknowledging sin even when it enables critics

(21:55) Holocaust as the ultimate test of forgiveness, destroying the concept of forgiveness

(25:52) Ignorance and forgiveness

(27:55) Gospels as deconstruction of philosophy

(32:05) Getting tangled in politics. Government and violence

(33:55) Can leaders behave like Christians?

(35:37) The katechon and accelerationism. Preterism and futurism.

(39:10) The Antichrist as a false katechon

(41:14) The Precautionary Principle: technological Armageddon

(45:15) Enabling Fascism to fight Communism

(46:12) Reagan coalition

(49:30) Christianity and mimetic entan

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China-US relations; technology competition; semiconductor industry; Bitcoin; military technology; intellectual property; surveillance; foreign policy.

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Outline:

(00:00) Start

(00:28) Introduction

(00:54) The Chinese Communist Party vs The West

(02:33) How much technology has China created or stolen

(02:55) Google's Project Maven & China

(03:43) China's rapid military product design vs The Pentagon's slow procurement

(06:30) More Chinese students study in the US than vice versa

(07:53) How to avoid information infiltration as an "open-country"

(09:16) How to stay ahead in Quantum & AI

(12:00) Why did it take us so long to wake up on the threat of China? (Tiananmen)

(14:30) Do we currently have a model of what is going on in China?

(15:08) Xi Jinping has absolute power

(15:30) Semiconductor history

(16:18) What happens when Taiwan Semiconductors or Samsung are coerced by China?

(17:16) You can think of Taiwan as one company

(17:49) Stagnation in Semiconductors in Silicon Valley

(19:50) What is the alternative to Huawei, is 5G overrated?

(21:54) How low-income countries are forced into debt by China

(21:51) The space race with Russia & China

(25:00) Q&A Panel

(25:58) Sino–American IP and Venture Wars

(34:31) Does China have a technical advantage

(35:48) How to improve technology adoption at the Pentagon

(38:38) Bitcoin as a Chinese Financial Weapon Against the USD

(43:00) Total Surveillance

(46:00) US investing in R&D

(01:06:30) How Zero-to-One Competition Theory can apply to foreign policy

(01:09:01) How do you see Tik-Tok (Multilateralism)

(01:13:00) China Infiltrating organisations like WHO

(01:18:10) How can US compete with China

(01:19:20) Are you optimistic?

(01:21:50) Should the world descend on Beijing?

(01:03:33) Competitive advantage of the Pentagon

(01:24:38) How do we benchmark US progress in AI against China?

(01:29:32) Closing remarks

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Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse.

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Outline:

(00:43) The Bible reads us

(02:02) Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and Remus

(06:05) Cross vs Resurrection

(07:26) The Gospels are different from Death of Socrates

(09:04) The Bible is discontinuous from pagan classics

(11:30) "The idea that victims exist comes from Judeo-Christianity and nowhere else."

(14:54) Was Nietzsche somehow extremely close to the truth of Christianity?

(17:18) Pagan Pharmakoi, the ancient sacrificial medicine

(19:48) Fascism and Communism

(23:00) Girard on the Woes against the Pharisees

(26:02) The cycle that leads to apocalypse

(31:11) Steven Pinker and the story of progress

(32:19) Is an apocalypse, such as a nuclear war, inevitable?

(35:10) Being too sanguine about apocalypse makes it more likely

(42:08) Is there an off-ramp? What would it look like? If we don't know, shouldn't we at least try to figure it out?

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Artificial intelligence; 5G wireless; blockchain security; new Internet and monetary systems; US-China relations; understanding money as time; future economic and technological models.

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Globalization; the threat from China; US capitalism and Bernie Sanders; Silicon Valley's "derangement"; political correctness; American exceptionalism.

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Technological stagnation; globalization; climate activism; academia; religion.

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The future of technology; the impact of technological advancements on Western Civilization; the digital revolution; challenges and opportunities presented by technological progress.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uft4hkP9HTw

Business strategy; monopoly theory; capturing value; market dynamics; innovation.

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Outline:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:50) Outline

(00:57) Capturing value

(01:57) Big piece of a small pie

(03:37) Perfect competition

(04:31) Monopoly

(05:33) Lies people tell

(05:36) Differences underestimated

(06:59) Narratives

(07:54) British food in Palo Alto

(08:40) Do the intersections make money?

(08:45) Blockbuster movie

(09:29) Is the intersection valuable?

(09:35) Startup version

(10:11) The search market

(11:00) The advertising market

(11:29) The technology market

(12:36) Evidence of narrow markets

(13:28) How to build a monopoly

(13:39) The right size

(14:36) Start small and expand

(17:05) Start big and shrink

(18:40) Last mover advantage

(18:45) Characteristics of monopoly

(27:10) Value of the future

(27:55) History of innovation

(28:28) Technological innovation

(30:16) Capturing value

(31:59) Success cases

(37:03) Psychology of competition

(38:14) Mimetic preferences

(38:33) Competition as validation

(42:22) Q&A

(42:26) Q1

(43:01) Q2

(43:38) Q3

(44:34) Q4

(46:40) Q5

(47:55) Q6

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Determinate vs. indeterminate thinking in society; the role of luck in success; planning for the future; building businesses and creating opportunities.

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