Explore every episode of the podcast Peter Thiel Audio
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| Peter Thiel: The Iconoclast (The Aspen Institute, 2024) | 30 Sep 2024 | 01:06:53 | |
The future of technology; economic and cultural issues; AI and digital currencies; the state of America; the 2024 U.S. presidential election. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: Political Theology (Conversations with Tyler, 2024) | 25 Sep 2024 | 01:19:02 | |
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. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation (Vintage Code, 2021) | 24 Aug 2024 | 02:11:01 | |
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 --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: Failures and “Self-Hatred” of Big-Tech (Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, 2020) | 22 Aug 2024 | 02:52:11 | |
Artificial intelligence; 5G wireless; blockchain security; new Internet and monetary systems; US-China relations; understanding money as time; future economic and technological models. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: The Diversity Myth (Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures, 2023) | 19 Aug 2024 | 01:09:17 | |
| Peter Thiel: The World According to Thiel (Hoover Institution, 2020) | 18 Aug 2024 | 00:55:13 | |
Globalization; the threat from China; US capitalism and Bernie Sanders; Silicon Valley's "derangement"; political correctness; American exceptionalism. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: Zero to One (Socrates in the City, 2020) | 15 Aug 2024 | 00:36:08 | |
Technological stagnation; globalization; climate activism; academia; religion. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: The Failure of Modern Technology (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014) | 11 Aug 2024 | 01:17:10 | |
The future of technology; the impact of technological advancements on Western Civilization; the digital revolution; challenges and opportunities presented by technological progress. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: Competition is for Losers (How to Start a Startup, 2014) | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:35:38 | |
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 --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: You Are Not a Lottery Ticket (Interactive 2013 SXSW, 2013) | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:50:28 | |
Determinate vs. indeterminate thinking in society; the role of luck in success; planning for the future; building businesses and creating opportunities. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson (Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School, 2012) | 01 Aug 2024 | 00:54:02 | |
| Peter Thiel: The Portal Podcast (Eric Weinstein, 2020) | 30 Jul 2024 | 01:30:30 | |
| Peter Thiel: ‘Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti Classical Liberalism’ (Oxford Union, 2023) | 24 Sep 2024 | ||
| Peter Thiel: The Tech Curse (NatCon 3 Miami, 2022) | 26 Jul 2024 | 00:59:03 | |
| Peter Thiel: Cambridge Union (Cambridge Union, 2024) | 21 Jul 2024 | 00:43:43 | |
| Peter Thiel: What the Future Looks Like (James Altucher, 2024) | 15 Jul 2024 | 01:11:49 | |
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. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: The Silver Lining (Unpacking Impact, 2021) | 06 Jul 2024 | 00:21:40 | |
| Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go, with David Graeber (2014) | 04 Jul 2024 | 01:01:23 | |
| Peter Thiel: Back to the Future (Singularity Summit, 2011) | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:47:19 | |
| Peter Thiel: Hamilton College Commencement Address (Hamilton College, 2016) | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:10:58 | |
| Peter Thiel: Different Perspectives On Innovation, Risk and Investing | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:47:40 | |
| Peter Thiel: Keynote (Effective Altruism Summit, 2013) | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:55:02 | |
| Peter Thiel: Innovation Or Stagnation? (Oxford Union Debate, 2013) | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:46:22 | |
| Peter Thiel: Keynote Address (The Conservative and Republican Student Conference, 2024) | 13 Sep 2024 | 01:27:20 | |
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? --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: Panel with Aubrey de Grey & Eliezer Yudkowsky (Singularity Summit, 2009) | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:28:39 | |
| Peter Thiel: The Real Risk is Totalitarian World Government (Triggernometry, 2024) | 12 Sep 2024 | 03:30:34 | |
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? --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: AI: Intelligent, Conscious, or Merely Evil? (COSM, 2022) | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:37:40 | |
Artificial intelligence; AI consciousness; potential benefits and dangers of AI. --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: The State Contains Violence (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2022) | 03 Sep 2024 | 00:48:03 | |
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 --- | |||
| Peter Thiel: Religion, Culture and Technology (Vator, 2021) | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:52:04 | |
| Peter Thiel: The Rise Of The Machines And Xi, The CCP, and SBF (Hugh Hewitt, 2023) | 25 Aug 2024 | 01:06:15 | |
| Peter Thiel: On the Bible (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2021) | 24 Aug 2024 | 01:49:55 | |
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? --- | |||