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. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ZXrTzskw0

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. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbndRTlsg4

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Peter Thiel's keynote address at the Conservative and Republican Student Conference; discussion with Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule. ---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?--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzxpbBOju8

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. ---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?--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42iVcEg5SOM

Artificial intelligence; AI consciousness; potential benefits and dangers of AI. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHfVMOAERzU

The future of technology and society; Christianity and modern ideologies; political engagement and violence; apocalyptic thinking. ---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--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_nxwTwKrg

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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. ---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?--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2EUl_3ncA

China-US relations; technology competition; semiconductor industry; Bitcoin; military technology; intellectual property; surveillance; foreign policy. ---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--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcKWtiFzIY

Artificial intelligence; 5G wireless; blockchain security; new Internet and monetary systems; US-China relations; understanding money as time; future economic and technological models. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufm85wHJk5A

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Globalization; the threat from China; US capitalism and Bernie Sanders; Silicon Valley's "derangement"; political correctness; American exceptionalism. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXG2F0a6I28

Technological stagnation; globalization; climate activism; academia; religion. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_00POR-Po

The future of technology; the impact of technological advancements on Western Civilization; the digital revolution; challenges and opportunities presented by technological progress. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uft4hkP9HTw

Business strategy; monopoly theory; capturing value; market dynamics; innovation. ---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--- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBYrcYy_dh4

Determinate vs. indeterminate thinking in society; the role of luck in success; planning for the future; building businesses and creating opportunities. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaV62ao8_d8

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