Peter Thiel Audio

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Peter Thiel’s talks, interviews and essays.

  1. 09/30/2024

    Peter Thiel: The Iconoclast (The Aspen Institute, 2024)

    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

    1h 7m

  2. 09/25/2024

    Peter Thiel: Political Theology (Conversations with Tyler, 2024)

    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

    1h 19m

  3. 09/24/2024

    Peter Thiel: ‘Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti Classical Liberalism’ (Oxford Union, 2023)

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4rc7npiXQ

  4. 09/13/2024

    Peter Thiel: Keynote Address (The Conservative and Republican Student Conference, 2024)

    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

    1h 27m

  5. 09/12/2024

    Peter Thiel: The Real Risk is Totalitarian World Government (Triggernometry, 2024)

    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

    3h 31m

  6. 09/05/2024

    Peter Thiel: AI: Intelligent, Conscious, or Merely Evil? (COSM, 2022)

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

    38 min

  7. 09/03/2024

    Peter Thiel: The State Contains Violence (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2022)

    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

    48 min

  8. 08/27/2024

    Peter Thiel: Religion, Culture and Technology (Vator, 2021)

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qf2MCzneU

    52 min
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