Episodes
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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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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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(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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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcKWtiFzIY
