Peter Thiel Audio

Sep 29 2024 31 ep. 67 mins 5

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Peter Thiel’s talks, interviews and essays.

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

Sep 29 2024 66 mins

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

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

Sep 24 2024 79 mins

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

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

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

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

Sep 12 2024 87 mins

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)

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

Sep 11 2024 210 mins

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 exis

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

Sep 04 2024 37 mins

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

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

Sep 02 2024 48 mins

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 los

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

Aug 26 2024 52 mins

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

Peter Thiel: The Rise Of The Machines And Xi, The CCP, and SBF (Hugh Hewitt, 2023)

Aug 24 2024 66 mins

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drzlbW1GXak

Peter Thiel: On the Bible (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2021)

Aug 23 2024 109 mins

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 di