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...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4rc7npiXQ
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 Profes...
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 (2...
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...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1qf2MCzneU
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drzlbW1GXak
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 vict...
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...
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
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO0KH-TgvbM
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 marke...
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
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyxqlJTPIJY
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPH6h8VnM64
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balGGAd6ZrI
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNewfkhhwMo
Peter Thiel's new book Zero to One; technological innovation; the 10x rule; PayPal's success factors; working with friends; Mark Zuckerberg; turning down billion-dollar offers; the Chinese refrigerator rule; Uber's potential; retirement investment advice. --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4eAis0jvs...
