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  • Peter Thiel's speech given at the 2014 Dinner for Western Civilization hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute on October 23rd, 2014.
    Peter Thiel, a luminary in the tech industry, shares his unique insights on the transformative power of technology and its profound influence on the course of Western Civilization. From the digital revolution to the challenges and opportunities presented by technological advancements, Thiel explores the dynamics that shape our world.
    The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is dedicated to fostering conservative thought and intellectual discourse on college campuses. The annual Gala for Western Civilization brings together thought leaders and scholars to engage in discussions vital to the preservation and understanding of Western values.
    Don't miss this enlightening lecture that delves into the nexus of technology and Western Civilization. Tune in, subscribe, and join the conversation as we explore the ideas that continue to shape our future.

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  • @gorillabiskut
    @gorillabiskut 7 місяців тому +334

    My favorite part of this speech is the constant dishes clanging

    • @apricotcomputers3943
      @apricotcomputers3943 7 місяців тому +10

      umm, they Were at a dinner 😂

    • @KabbalahredemptionBlogspot
      @KabbalahredemptionBlogspot 7 місяців тому +9

      Tells you what the main event was really.

    • @davidarbelaez4395
      @davidarbelaez4395 7 місяців тому +1

      Somewhat distracting but musical. 🤪

    • @robertrogers-nm8wf
      @robertrogers-nm8wf 7 місяців тому +3

      The dishes!!!
      Feels like when you get seated next to the kitchen and waiter station at the restaurant .
      I won’t do it.

    • @teddycooke8145
      @teddycooke8145 7 місяців тому +6

      Can't even focus on it.. seemed likes a great speech totally ruined

  • @pikaso6586
    @pikaso6586 6 місяців тому +68

    Imagine Peter Thiel is standing there to entertain you while you're eating

    • @vaclyvakanda7675
      @vaclyvakanda7675 Місяць тому +1

      i was actually eating when i saw your comment lol.

  • @adamstephenson5066
    @adamstephenson5066 7 місяців тому +121

    Is there a buffet in the back of the room?

    • @notallowedtobehonest2539
      @notallowedtobehonest2539 7 місяців тому +11

      Hes at a fencing competition

    • @christinemurray1444
      @christinemurray1444 6 місяців тому +1

      It's actually in the front room.

    • @toutlesag
      @toutlesag 6 місяців тому +3

      No. They are washing dishes and cutleries in the room…

    • @jceja87
      @jceja87 6 місяців тому +1

      Pls pass the Grey pupon mustard.

    • @JingJao
      @JingJao 5 місяців тому

      yeah its a dinner

  • @maha-madpedo-gayphukumber1533
    @maha-madpedo-gayphukumber1533 6 місяців тому +33

    “We wanted flying cars. Instead we got 140 characters and photo sharing apps” -- Peter Thiel,

    • @wubanizer
      @wubanizer 6 місяців тому +5

      We have flying cars, there called airplanes. Oh, mean you literally want something the size of a car that can fly in earths atmosphere?
      Okay, Just give me a second to change the fundamental laws of physics so that isn't an insanely fucking hard and impractical engineering problem

    • @cosmicgoatboy
      @cosmicgoatboy Місяць тому

      Drones have advanced quite a bit from what I hear. They can kill peole from around the world and slain people so quickly you can see their purple inside crystals

    • @nikitaw1982
      @nikitaw1982 Місяць тому

      Dei and feminism everywhere

  • @bigedfromny6037
    @bigedfromny6037 6 місяців тому +9

    Love listening to this guy. I don't think he's right all the time, but definitely fun to think about his issues.

    • @donna9679
      @donna9679 2 місяці тому

      He was right this time

  • @magnusdanielsson2749
    @magnusdanielsson2749 6 місяців тому +35

    Interesting that he brings up the 70s.
    A couple of things happened during this period.
    The US went off the gold standard, the economic theories went over to neoclassical theory, companies profits in relation to workers salary started diverging, the world as a whole adopted a ”glass is half empty”-attitude vs the ”half full” it had before this.
    And is it not a peculiar coincidence that the lack Thiel sees seem to stem from this time period?
    Ive said for many years that the world took a very bad turn during the 70s that set it up for (possibly)some very dystopian futures..

    • @AnthonyEmacs
      @AnthonyEmacs 6 місяців тому

      why do you say that there was a pessimistic attitude?

    • @lazyb0y828
      @lazyb0y828 6 місяців тому +2

      was that also the time when rich people had to pay 90% taxes and the country still didn’t break?

    • @teevee2145
      @teevee2145 6 місяців тому +2

      Jan 81..reagan

    • @davidgood7621
      @davidgood7621 6 місяців тому

      The plan seems to be unfolding as it should, and I would say the great day of our Lord is at hand. The events of our oresent day seem to be ramping up toward that end, as prophesy is being fulfilled. Whose will is it, is my question. Some might say that it is self fulfilling, but it also seems that it is being nudged along quite handily.

    • @davidgood7621
      @davidgood7621 6 місяців тому

      ​@mitchellcouchman6589 Give us some examples

  • @PBCBlount
    @PBCBlount 6 місяців тому +12

    His nervousness was very human. I always like to see a nervous speaker because that shows that they are not a sociopath. They can still be evil but at least they have emotions. This guy did a great job.

    • @lazyb0y828
      @lazyb0y828 6 місяців тому +6

      haha not a sociopath…. he just doesn’t care much about other humans…

  • @frankeckdall4577
    @frankeckdall4577 Місяць тому +2

    Highly educated and brilliant treatise!

    • @EducatingForLiberty
      @EducatingForLiberty  Місяць тому

      Thank you! Is there anyone else like Peter Thiel you think we should have on? Or What other topics do you think we should cover?

  • @nickvoutsas5144
    @nickvoutsas5144 6 місяців тому +4

    Many people are like the many but once in a while an individual is born who defines the truth. Peter Thiel is one such person

    • @SicrosEye
      @SicrosEye 4 місяці тому +2

      Yes, he really defies the truth in the sense of being too dense to understand neither physics nor logic.

  • @georgewashington3012
    @georgewashington3012 6 місяців тому +12

    Very clever guy. I always enjoy his logical view of things unobscured by ego/emotion.

  • @chirag2819
    @chirag2819 5 місяців тому +5

    5:22, I can't believe he said that " You do not want to start the 4th Pet Food Company ...", Google wasn't the first search engine, it was the 35th attempt of Search Engine. Facebook wasn't the first social media company, It was somewhere around 14-15th attempt of social media company.

    • @chirag2819
      @chirag2819 5 місяців тому +2

      It's always the best executor.

    • @klauszinser
      @klauszinser 2 місяці тому

      There was yahoo. But they dealt like a library collecting entries.
      I think Google was the 1st one with the algorithm back and forth references. So, somehow they were unique.
      Andy Bechtolsheim gave immediately some money.
      When i comes to making money, adwords i think there was another company before them. UA-cam was a good investment but was not from them.

  • @WanderingSybil186
    @WanderingSybil186 6 місяців тому +3

    It's true that all the incentives lead people to develop research and activities that fit in with the current paradigm, whatever it is.

  • @craigwillms61
    @craigwillms61 7 місяців тому +41

    He comes off as a commonsense guy, kinda anti-government anti-bureaucratic, but he's got his hands on government contracts and does their bidding from the private sector side of it. Not saying he's nefarious, but full disclosure, open book he is not.

    • @shawnbydalek4153
      @shawnbydalek4153 7 місяців тому +1

      Yes. His perspective is still one that is nice to get though. Just have to mix it up with many others. Truth is only handled in slivers.

    • @m87orion
      @m87orion 6 місяців тому

      The eyes are a dead giveaway of an alterior motive. Do not trust him at all.

    • @disposabull
      @disposabull 6 місяців тому

      His company Palantir found Bin Laden.

    • @aboucard93
      @aboucard93 6 місяців тому +2

      Government is not the problem. The government has worked since the 1970's our politicians don't do anything. All of government policies are written by lobbyists that get by Private Equity companies.

    • @CH-fp6gj
      @CH-fp6gj 6 місяців тому +5

      He is nefarious. Look at what he does not what he says. Made his money off mass surveillance

  • @andrewgirvan3540
    @andrewgirvan3540 7 місяців тому +38

    I laughed out loud at the question "How was your contrarian attitude formed?" 😂

    • @thewuggening9993
      @thewuggening9993 6 місяців тому

      where do you get your ideas?

    • @tinytim71301
      @tinytim71301 6 місяців тому +1

      10-1 sound mixed by a woke mind virus host.

    • @keyser021
      @keyser021 6 місяців тому

      Probably pillow talk with his boyfriend. Dude dances with the Devil, how far would you listen to him?

  • @metaverseb
    @metaverseb 2 місяці тому +2

    "We live in a world" - Peter Thiel

  • @edsnow5753
    @edsnow5753 7 місяців тому +16

    Brilliant! A lot to think about and process. I love hearing intelligent and opposing viewpoints. Great presentation

    • @micksylvestre2887
      @micksylvestre2887 6 місяців тому

      He was contradicting himself and really saying very little to take from.

  • @NicoSmets
    @NicoSmets 7 місяців тому +7

    It's always feel like a breath of fresh air when I hear Peter Thiel speak.

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures 7 місяців тому +4

      He's just a tech bro without a moral compass. Find better heroes.

    • @swede910
      @swede910 7 місяців тому +1

      In that clamging it's pretty impressive that he keeps his composure! How on earth does he not respond to it?

    • @commandersprocket
      @commandersprocket 7 місяців тому

      If you like Thiel, read Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday it might cure you of that.

    • @EricDMMiller
      @EricDMMiller 7 місяців тому

      He only takes a breath of fresh air after saying 'um'.

  • @nccamsc
    @nccamsc 6 місяців тому +6

    I thought he was going to talk about the subversion of technology to diminish the power of ordinary citizens.

  • @Gracinda80
    @Gracinda80 6 місяців тому +1

    "Corruption in the University system" happens everywhere because nowhere, in the western world, is there an elected entity that governs how Universities work, and what their obligations and rights are. Why is this not debated extensively in "broad daylight"?

  • @TheRepublicanProfessor
    @TheRepublicanProfessor 6 місяців тому +1

    Sounds exactly what he said in the first Conversations with Tyler in March 2015

  • @GM4ThePeople
    @GM4ThePeople 6 місяців тому +3

    "Peter Thiel" is an anagram for "The Reptile". o/

  • @IslamicRageBoy
    @IslamicRageBoy Місяць тому

    2014- many key points made.

  • @kathyperry5787
    @kathyperry5787 6 місяців тому +1

    How about some change in monopoly business models…his thoughts on that? Shell Companies?

  • @jimhendrickson5553
    @jimhendrickson5553 7 місяців тому +8

    Wow, explains my track to secular hell in the 70s. ( I was into uranium and coal property exploration).
    One question: do you think Nixon converted the currency into fiat currency as recourse to penalize America, especially the left? I've wondered this for years (this plus the 55 mph speed limit and some other things).

    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene 7 місяців тому +1

      I believe it was just because they couldn't cover the War. It wasn't as if there was a 'Bonds for Vietnam' whiparound.

    • @jimlakey8366
      @jimlakey8366 7 місяців тому +1

      Government can never default with a non convertable currency. No need to balance the budget. At least that’s what Mosler claims...

    • @erict.35
      @erict.35 7 місяців тому

      Huh?

    • @psychicspy
      @psychicspy 7 місяців тому

      Automobile engines were tuned to run most efficiently at 55 mph. When they raised the speed limit to 65 and then 70mph, those engines designed to run at 55mph no longer ran as efficiently and wore out more quickly.
      About 55 miles per hour is the optimum speed for most cars. Kick it up to 65 mph and you are 8 percent less efficient; at 80 mph you are 28 percent less efficient. Slowing down can also mean reducing your carbon footprint.

    • @TheJustinJ
      @TheJustinJ 7 місяців тому

      John Maynard Keynes is the reason the US went to Fiat currency.
      He wrote so eloquently, that it's a wonderful hidden tax through inflation. And that one dollar spent on stimulus will eventually generate more than one dollar in economic growth.
      (Well yeah, printing money devalues it and those who lose are the ones who save, and those who win are the spendthrifts up to their eyeballs in debt, like the government). Also, Fiat currency is inherently dishonest. It is just counterfeiting under the guise of legitimacy.

  • @edward481
    @edward481 6 місяців тому

    Nice speech, insightful. To the last question, what was the pivotal turn in the 70s: a critical mass of TV watching made people shallow, stupid, lazy and powerless, except for people who make money making the masses shallow, stupid, lazy and powerless.

  • @Stephen-zq2wf
    @Stephen-zq2wf 7 місяців тому +15

    Silicon Valley ECHO Chamber
    When You Think that You Know It All > You Stop Learning

  • @dpie4859
    @dpie4859 7 місяців тому +10

    He is such an interesting and intelligent heterodox thinker!

    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene 7 місяців тому +3

      Ah, you learned a new word from him.

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 7 місяців тому

      Spirit doesn’t need a large vocabulary. It’s just there

    • @krunkle5136
      @krunkle5136 7 місяців тому

      He's very much orthodox.
      Today tech is always on about thinking different while consisting of a very few players. It's the norm now.

    • @brendawilliams8062
      @brendawilliams8062 7 місяців тому

      @@krunkle5136 shame that that mindset of a few have the handbag may impact high school education in the maths.

  • @ibgib
    @ibgib 2 місяці тому

    His "insanely hard" interview question is quite simple. It's just that he is asking people who live inside the box, as even Mr. Thiel has done. Upon writing this comment, I imagine it's simply hard for people inside the box to imagine what the outside looks like.

  • @Aidan_Au
    @Aidan_Au 7 місяців тому +8

    Please have Peter Thiel to speak again

  • @justifiably_stupid4998
    @justifiably_stupid4998 7 місяців тому +7

    This speech has got me thinking. Are there any books by Thiel or associates that anyone might recommend me reading?

    • @fochiller
      @fochiller 7 місяців тому +9

      Zero to One

    • @elvinzeynall6986
      @elvinzeynall6986 7 місяців тому +3

      The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand influenced his thinking very much as far as I know.

    • @misterchoc123
      @misterchoc123 7 місяців тому

      Sovereign individual. He wrote the introduction in the new version

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures 7 місяців тому

      ​@@elvinzeynall6986 😂

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures 7 місяців тому +1

      Necronomicon

  • @dariodamico3033
    @dariodamico3033 7 місяців тому +4

    Did they put a microphone on every single piece of cutlery in the room? WTF, stop stuffing your face and just listen to the thing.

  • @anettemor1730
    @anettemor1730 7 місяців тому +1

    what is the background noise? audience is eating? a wrong place for that speech.

    • @davidgood7621
      @davidgood7621 7 місяців тому

      Not at $300 a plate

    • @jceja87
      @jceja87 6 місяців тому

      He is at Denny’s their is just a Billboard for going to college in the background!!

  • @ein_Zweifelnder
    @ein_Zweifelnder 6 місяців тому +1

    His questioning of the so called "hard core physics" is more realistic than most people will think. In youtube you will find Alexander Unzicker and Sabine Hossenfelder questioning modern physics establishment. The lessons are in english, Books in german and english I recommend Alexander Unzickers "Vom Urknall zum Durchknall".

    • @wubanizer
      @wubanizer 6 місяців тому

      Sabine is a quack and I've never heard of that other guy but I bet he is too

    • @ein_Zweifelnder
      @ein_Zweifelnder 6 місяців тому

      @@wubanizer I had to look up, what quack means and i had to laugh. In some sense you may be right. She ist now to busy in promoting new videos. The first video I have seen from here was a lecture and subsequent diskussion I think at Frankfurt university, that gave me a very good understanding, that particle physiscs may be at a dead end.
      If you don't know Alexander Unzicker you should close that gap.

    • @Fred-yq3fs
      @Fred-yq3fs 6 місяців тому

      @@ein_Zweifelnder Unzicker blabs nonsense for ppl who did not study physics and won't anyway.

    • @Fred-yq3fs
      @Fred-yq3fs 6 місяців тому +1

      @@wubanizer Sabine is not a quack. She has a doctorate in theoretical physics, worked as a postdoc for years, then got tenure before pivoting to science com on youtube. She's doing somewhat catchy videos, sure, but pretty well based, asking questions, thinking out of the box. A contrarian. I guess your attitude illustrates quite well the conformism Thiel is talking about.

    • @wubanizer
      @wubanizer 6 місяців тому

      @@Fred-yq3fs I think her belief in super determinism is based in blind faith without evidence. I think her promoting superdeterminism is true is harmful and while she isn't the biggest quack ever it's still a quack like thing to do.

  • @zaharizahariev
    @zaharizahariev 7 місяців тому +11

    Those lizards never stopped for a second to stuff themselves full to bursting never mind that the boy had something new to say for a change.

    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene 7 місяців тому +1

      So I think you covered the 'dishes' and 'clanking' posters were whining about ... the sound of gastronomically-contented elites.

  • @Ashtonlee1
    @Ashtonlee1 6 місяців тому +2

    Contrarian to Peters view the world of atoms has advanced at amazing speeds. It’s just that we outsourced much of it to outside the USA. ASML makes machines for TSMC to make the most advanced technologies in human existence based on the designs of NVDA. AI bits only possible from our advanced atoms.

    • @calengr1
      @calengr1 2 місяці тому

      ASML litho is driven by Moore's "Law" ...... but one law has driven productivity and what we can harvest from Moore's Law is going to an end as approach 1nm by ~ 2030

  • @007.M-D
    @007.M-D 6 місяців тому

    ❤. We are all paying the price today .

  • @harveylin3548
    @harveylin3548 6 місяців тому

    The first question the audience asked is the most critical one in today, since AI will take over all the route tasks, humanities will become the new king of creating value.

  • @ChannelMath
    @ChannelMath 7 місяців тому +4

    there's something kinda sad about paying people to act like you have something interesting to say. Especially now, when people seem to think rich people have something interesting to say just because they're rich.

    • @bobbym6130
      @bobbym6130 6 місяців тому

      Thiel started PayPal, multiple hedge funds which have funded many startups, and was the first outside investor in Facebook. He's clearly a lot smarter than any of us. The money is secondary.

  • @sarahh8575
    @sarahh8575 6 місяців тому

    He quote‘s from “Anna Karenina” and I felt this was someone I could really listen to

  • @SFJayAnt
    @SFJayAnt Місяць тому

    Wow! Peter Thiel talking about people with Asperger’s 😮

  • @nmk5003
    @nmk5003 2 місяці тому +1

    The fascinating issue with this speech is the fact that while Peter Thiel attempts to claim that heterodox ideas are needed to change the world, but the subset of ideas that he advocates are the ideas at the for front of Silicon Valley orthodoxy for 30 years. He advocates psuedo-liberatian economics, neo-eugentic social policy, and psuedo-taylorist corporate management and then attempts to repackage these ideas as if they are interesting or new.

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 7 місяців тому +10

    Conformity of Thinking:
    Not asking about the distribution of steel down skyscrapers even when a couple of them collapse straight down.
    Isn't that weird?!

    • @ObsceneSuperMatt
      @ObsceneSuperMatt 7 місяців тому +2

      Skyscrapers are specifically designed to fall straight down, so you don't have a domino collapse through the whole of Manhatten!

    • @psikeyhackr6914
      @psikeyhackr6914 7 місяців тому

      @@ObsceneSuperMatt
      Utter bullshit!

    • @TheJustinJ
      @TheJustinJ 7 місяців тому

      What is the strength reduction vs temperature graph of mild steel look like? Where does it begin?
      Google is Your friend.

    • @psikeyhackr6914
      @psikeyhackr6914 7 місяців тому

      @@TheJustinJ
      How do you determine the temperature of the CORE of the steel, if you do not know the thickness and quantity of the steel? Even if your data about the air temperature around the steel is correct, air has a density of less than 0.1 lb/cu ft. Steel has a density of 499 lb/cu ft.
      So if you do not even know the thickness and quantity of steel you cannot find the time it took to reach the necessary temperature at the core. You are making an assumption and rationalizing backwards about temperature.
      So why don't we have data as simple as the tons of steel and concrete on each level?

    • @ObsceneSuperMatt
      @ObsceneSuperMatt 6 місяців тому

      @@psikeyhackr6914 Can't you just look up the blueprints and go from there?

  • @williambranch4283
    @williambranch4283 7 місяців тому +10

    Technology are mere tools. The malice of the tool users is the failure.

    • @organisationxiv2927
      @organisationxiv2927 7 місяців тому +2

      *_Technologies_ are mere tools.
      Or *technology is a mere tool.

    • @notallowedtobehonest2539
      @notallowedtobehonest2539 7 місяців тому

      @@organisationxiv2927technology is like deer... or fish. You can say technology as plural

    • @organisationxiv2927
      @organisationxiv2927 7 місяців тому

      @@notallowedtobehonest2539 One doesn't write or say 'technology are'. Period.
      It's some kind of American twaddle, along with confusing 'a' and 'an'. ( _A historic_ and _a hotel_ is correct). But as usual, when the Americans don't understand it or apply their overly-literal thinking, they simply invent nonsense in English through oversimplification ad utilitarianism.
      One would write _technology is a tool_ or something like _different types of technologies are tools_

    • @notallowedtobehonest2539
      @notallowedtobehonest2539 7 місяців тому

      @@organisationxiv2927 you do say "look at all of the technology".
      Similarly you say "look at all the mice".
      Do you say "look at all the mouse?". No. So technology is plural, like mice.

    • @notallowedtobehonest2539
      @notallowedtobehonest2539 7 місяців тому

      @@organisationxiv2927 you do say "look at all of the technology".
      Similarly you say "look at all the mice".
      Do you say "look at all the mouse?". No. So technology is plural, like mice.

  • @jmellon766
    @jmellon766 7 місяців тому +16

    The guy bought himself an Ohio State Senator.

    • @Susieq26754
      @Susieq26754 6 місяців тому

      Mormons love homosexual fascists.

    • @Oo_Shade_oO
      @Oo_Shade_oO 2 місяці тому +1

      Who is now potential VP... Good investment for him. But will it be good for "the people"?

    • @CashlessClay
      @CashlessClay 2 місяці тому

      He’s bought himself presidents too

  • @williamflaherty3168
    @williamflaherty3168 6 місяців тому +3

    Ironically, most of the Silicon Valley aspies are developing technologies that propagate and encourage conformity and herd mentality. I as an old school aspie think it's a coup d'etat against neurotypical population. However, no conspiracy involved. It's our modus operandi 🤣

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen8990 Місяць тому +1

    Monopolies should be outlawed because at the heart of capitalism is completion. No competition is not capitalism it’s economic fascism.

  • @rihardsgr
    @rihardsgr 6 місяців тому +4

    Ten years later and you have not made any conclusions out of his speech but actually have made it all much worse.

  • @DanM-ys5pz
    @DanM-ys5pz 6 місяців тому

    Regardless of opinions on PT's politics, businesses or speaking ability, it's clear the guy is incredibly intelligent. Enjoy reading his work and listening to him speak..

  • @orsoncart802
    @orsoncart802 7 місяців тому

    Truly excellent! 👍👍👍😁

  • @jamesa.m.836
    @jamesa.m.836 5 місяців тому

    Spot on!

  • @bradarmstrong1656
    @bradarmstrong1656 6 місяців тому +1

    Why would you post a 10 year old speech?
    Without noting that prominently?

  • @judithfrank6133
    @judithfrank6133 7 місяців тому

    Grandmother now of 4 under 9 yrs old: with money and have no clue whom to protect. Do you need protection or do they?

    • @zwatwashdc
      @zwatwashdc 7 місяців тому +1

      They do. Grandmother’s protect the young in a healthy social system.

  • @Hwillijonl
    @Hwillijonl 2 місяці тому

    Up to the 1969 moon landing was the thesis. Woodstock of that same year began the antithesis. The synthesis is now in progress.

  • @oscarwild7763
    @oscarwild7763 7 місяців тому +2

    Yeah Pete, “oh I’m all about a being a libertarian, capitalist….ahhh government should be small” next mix “oh I have this business’s called palantir”

    • @sandralibeau4795
      @sandralibeau4795 6 місяців тому +1

      Lol. He moved to NZ to live after Prime Minister John Key bent the rules so he could get citizenship after living here for only 12 days. He set up his own Roth so he could retire at 55 without paying any tax on it and built a huge bunker for himself. Now he s preparing to move to Malta. He did deals with our government over Palantir and his medical marijuana company it is alleged. Now NZ is forging ahead with CCTV spying, facial recognition and digital money. I don t think it's an accident that EVERY country is suffering right now from a supposed cost of living crisis. I think it is a set up for the digital currency.

  • @jacoblong6258
    @jacoblong6258 Місяць тому

    After thinking about it after listening to this speech, there wasn’t a motivating factor for innovation I think outside of profits, which mostly seem to be from extracting the most value from existing systems(example being infrastructure that has remained relatively the same since Americas last great push to pave the country). I.e. not building new systems. Perfect example is NASA. Took that organization forever to retire the space shuttle. That era after the space age hasn’t really had a major innovation since the internet that was ground breaking, mostly just by products of the internet and connectivity.

  • @chavruta2000
    @chavruta2000 6 місяців тому +1

    10 years later his ideas seem more obviously true.

  • @_oo.monkeypox.oo_3344
    @_oo.monkeypox.oo_3344 6 місяців тому

    Thiel is One of the most intelligent person !

  • @nc7341
    @nc7341 7 місяців тому

    A "mince no words" lecture.

  • @Hdianvciadpei
    @Hdianvciadpei 6 місяців тому +2

    Silverware clanging

  • @HughChing
    @HughChing 6 місяців тому

    Society has changed due to technology progress, but human lives may or may not have been improved because of the unavailability of a method to make rational decisions based on the solution of value.

  • @regingwang
    @regingwang 6 місяців тому

    The noise can be filtered

  • @ryanpoe3696
    @ryanpoe3696 6 місяців тому

    At around the 16-minute mark he gets into what I call the EPCOT Problem. If you went to EPCOT as a kid in the 80s-mid90s it was this amazing place of futurist dreams. The bright techno-future so NEAR at hand! So achievable! Let's do it! But, as time crept into the 20-teens and we had accomplished nothing of the future it promised, EPCOT effectively became the Museum of Man's Unrealized Potential. A mirror of our collective failure. In response, Disney gutted it all during that decade, and what doesn't lie abandoned has been turned into comic book movie thrill rides.

  • @EduardoRodriguez-du2vd
    @EduardoRodriguez-du2vd 6 місяців тому

    There are people who talk and what they express seems to be coherent and informed thoughts.
    But sometimes, that's just appearance.
    Here ignorance, lack of critical thinking, prejudices, fear, helplessness, lack of introspection, etc. come together.
    And the result is sounds in the air. Just sounds in the air.

    • @jlandles
      @jlandles 6 місяців тому

      He actually raises quite a number of serious and important points, particularly around things like medical research and our reliance upon corporate behemoths to discover and then market treatments.
      He also taps into a much wider body of literature that suggests a declining level of innovation in the 21st century.
      The fact you associate his ideas in what appears to be your own turbulent emotional profile and construction of political orthodoxy ("prejudice" is mostly code for a political or language violation) rather suggests why you are so repelled by someone expressing, if not original, then at least relatively novel ideas that challenge popular certainties.
      To claim he is uttering speech without meaning is reminiscent of the Party's efforts in 1984 to render meaningful speech to be unintelligible through a new lexicon: it really points to a horrific closure of a human mind into a calcified box. Exactly what is being challenged here.

    • @EduardoRodriguez-du2vd
      @EduardoRodriguez-du2vd 6 місяців тому +1

      @@jlandles Being ignorant of neurological differences and their relevance, and embracing absurd conspiracy theories, resulting from prejudices and frustration, is not "raises quite a number of serious and important points."

    • @wubanizer
      @wubanizer 6 місяців тому

      ​​@@jlandles Yeah or maybe Peter thiel is just stupid

  • @johnsmith12421
    @johnsmith12421 6 місяців тому

    The transition from espousing the benefits of monopolistic business practices to bemoaning that the collective vision and expectations of society have moved away from expecting innovation to drive abundance is so jarring and hypocritical it is almost breathtaking. The mind boggles at how these two thoughts could be presented side by side without a hint of self awareness or acknowledgement of the stark contradiction; but there you have it.

  • @tinytim71301
    @tinytim71301 6 місяців тому +1

    Zero to One was a good book.

  • @Clyde.artwork
    @Clyde.artwork 6 місяців тому

    It's 2024 and they can't get a directional mic that cuts out the people stuffing their faces in the back of the room???????

  • @davidgood7621
    @davidgood7621 6 місяців тому

    Another man with another opininion who desires to be heard. No competition there.

  • @calengr1
    @calengr1 2 місяці тому

    7:10 Big Law ...competing with others

  • @jzmcgriggs8652
    @jzmcgriggs8652 6 місяців тому

    Peter Theil is the definition of overthinking the problem.

  • @samlebon9884
    @samlebon9884 6 місяців тому

    Most of the technologies are not needed, they are made to be wanted.

  • @organisationxiv2927
    @organisationxiv2927 7 місяців тому +1

    ...but technology *hasn't* failed. Humans have failed. The technology just exists; the failure to control it or to safeguard against the negative impacts of technological advancements is human fault.
    Maragaret Thatcher pointed this out.

    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene 7 місяців тому

      ... or to steer it.

    • @annjuurinen6553
      @annjuurinen6553 6 місяців тому

      I always thought Maggie was a fraud. She reminded me of a man in drag. Her policies devastated communities in Britain. Not long after London's financial district became known as am offshoot of the Kleptocrat Society of Thieves from Russia.

  • @moffattF
    @moffattF 6 місяців тому +2

    Stream of consciousness rant😮 thoughts that start from somewhere but lead nowhere.😊A kind of low key Gish gush. Since when was the Bible one book???😂

  • @aboucard93
    @aboucard93 6 місяців тому

    The problem in today's world is PE and large asset management companies. These firms buy up and privatize essential businesses and load them up with debt until they're bankrupt. Essential businesses like housing, food companies, hospitals, nursing homes. They put these companies in so much debt these companies are force to lay people off, keep employees wages stagnant, raise prices on consumers, and slash employee retirement and benefits all while using our own money. But Peter won't tell you that because he benefits from this system.
    If you're seeing this comment please like to spread the word.

  • @timurotolenkovski3780
    @timurotolenkovski3780 Місяць тому

    Who is this?

    • @EducatingForLiberty
      @EducatingForLiberty  Місяць тому

      This is Peter Thiel! Here is another video we did with him: ua-cam.com/video/GZIPHI0FNaM/v-deo.html

  • @Nora-ei4ph
    @Nora-ei4ph 2 місяці тому

    Well. Peter Thiel got $$$$ billions from USA 🇺🇸 Government contracts, not private industry or Venture capital entrepreneurs .

  • @jmbaka007
    @jmbaka007 6 місяців тому +2

    Dude is part of the team that created gig economy and he became rich. Now we have a generation of workers who can never get pension. Will they work to death? We have generation of workers who do not have any insurance for their jobs do not give them any of that. We have a generation of workers who must work 365 days a year to make a livelihood.
    These are things tech people do not figure out in their business models all they think about is just being the dominant player in the field. This is not entrepreneurship but rather crime. There is need of a conversation of "Sustainable entrepreneurship" where progress and innovation is not a column of Forbes list but rather progress and development in people's lives, society and a nation in general. It is not about making money from people with jobs that are pensionable but creating more jobs that are pensionable and have insurances and people can have a work and life balance.

    • @user-kg1od9es5d
      @user-kg1od9es5d 6 місяців тому

      Mate you just figured out a huge gap in the pension market. Go build the solution and build a billion dollar pension fund…

  • @raginald7mars408
    @raginald7mars408 7 місяців тому +3

    IN CEST
    IN BREEDING
    SHEEPLE FARM

  • @manassurya2019
    @manassurya2019 6 місяців тому

    There are a lot of really good talks from US think tanks, but a common and annoying feature is that these are dinner events, and you often hear the annoying sound of cultery on plates in the talks. I think this concept needs to end.

  • @Harshharsh111
    @Harshharsh111 6 місяців тому +4

    To summarize his notion : Hello, can i just lie a little bit more ?

  • @gregorysagegreene
    @gregorysagegreene 7 місяців тому +1

    Your buddy said advancement isn't guaranteed. We live in another Copernican Inquisition, which is historically Normal. We *should* have had an Economic System by *now* that didn't throw away a tranche of people every few years. Why is it you guys think you're the Centrum of societal structure ? Obviously the only thing that was promised that got 'saved' in the last 50 years was y'all. Good talk, otherwise.

  • @silberlinie
    @silberlinie 7 місяців тому +3

    Ja Peter, du redest Wasser trinkst aber selbst Wein.
    Z.B. gibt es die konzeptuale Ausarbeitung von mir
    für Technologien beruhend auf der Kontrolle von
    Inertia.

    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene 7 місяців тому +1

      Your German translated into eminently reason-able English. 👍

  • @zwatwashdc
    @zwatwashdc 7 місяців тому

    There is something else going on. People in power live much much longer and far fewer die suddenly opening up new breathing space. Look at our current system. If anything we are ruled by the Queen of the Damed, a long living vampire who has turned to stone.

  • @techievena
    @techievena 5 місяців тому

    Can a philosopher partner up with a king?

  • @esorse
    @esorse 7 місяців тому

    You could argue that legal tender distorts 'price discovery', because it's a state supplied financial instrument * extracting rent equal to the inflation rate from otherwise frictionless barter trade, although given efficacious institutions ** , arguing for it as a welfare mechanism on the grounds that endowments are not the same is feasible.
    * Financial Instrument (accounting) A legally binding agreement from a meeting of minds, an offer, unconditional acceptance of the offer and consideration, or some property - bundle of rights like you can alienateand control access to it - of the same fair value in return for it, resulting in an asset for some entity and liability or equity for another.
    ** The rules and conventions guiding behaviour.

  • @PersonalNotPrivate-rl8dv
    @PersonalNotPrivate-rl8dv 6 місяців тому

    Who did(n't) you have in mind? Easy breezy.🎉

  • @foremarke
    @foremarke 6 місяців тому

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
    00:41 *🧠 Courage is often scarcer than genius, especially in a society that tends to discourage unconventional thinking.*
    01:56 *🎓 Thiel sees political correctness as a significant barrier to independent thought, particularly on college campuses.*
    03:30 *🔄 There's no formula for entrepreneurship; it involves unique, singular approaches rather than repeatable processes.*
    04:09 *💡 Successful businesses differentiate themselves and aim for monopolistic positions rather than engaging in interchangeable competition.*
    07:50 *🐑 Intense competition can distract from meaningful pursuits and transcendental goals, fostering conformity.*
    09:41 *🌟 Courage is rarer than genius; societal pressure often discourages unconventional ideas, particularly outside Silicon Valley.*
    13:05 *🚀 Thiel views technology as a significant achievement of the West but worries about societal stagnation and regulatory hurdles stifling progress.*
    17:21 *⚖️ Thiel critiques regulatory double standards, noting the high cost and risk-aversion hindering innovation in fields like medicine.*
    19:13 *💡 Building an atomic bomb is much harder than building a website, highlighting the decline in objective difficulty of technological advancements.*
    20:07 *🎓 Universities have contributed to the decline in scientific innovation by prioritizing grant writing skills over eccentric thinking.*
    21:44 *🤔 Political correctness and grant-writing processes limit scientific progress by discouraging tough questions and experimentation.*
    22:12 *📉 Questioning taboo topics in science, like Darwinism or climate change, often leads to trouble.*
    23:07 *🧪 Scientists face repercussions for investigating controversial subjects, stifling academic freedom and innovation.*
    24:28 *🏜️ The stagnation of the United States began in the 1970s, marking a pivotal decade in history that requires examination to understand current issues.*
    26:04 *💬 Universities face a crisis similar to the Catholic Church's 500 years ago, with a uniform system and lack of diversity in thought.*
    27:58 *💰 Pursuing humanities degrees with the aim of academic positions may not be fruitful due to systemic corruption and decline in funding.*
    32:06 *💸 Bitcoin's success lies in speculation; integrating it into a payment system is the critical challenge for its widespread adoption.*
    34:40 *📚 Assigning a single required book for undergraduates is challenging; a great books tradition may offer a more diverse and enriching reading list.*
    Made with HARPA AI

    • @Fred-yq3fs
      @Fred-yq3fs 6 місяців тому

      Cool AI. Thanks for the demo.

  • @JamesAdams-f2w
    @JamesAdams-f2w 6 місяців тому

    Ted Kazinski ?!🎖️

  • @TamasKalman
    @TamasKalman 6 місяців тому

    whats up with the dishes? great talk though

  • @gcgenerals22
    @gcgenerals22 7 місяців тому +5

    Please say “Umm” more

    • @rolandnelson6722
      @rolandnelson6722 7 місяців тому +1

      He’s somehow dropped the umm’s in his recent speeches. He sounds quite different now. A masterful speaker.

  • @paramsingh3538
    @paramsingh3538 6 місяців тому

    How he can recall exactly where he came across a phrasing for an idea is crazy (16:12)

  • @imagoodlistener2730
    @imagoodlistener2730 6 місяців тому

    Failed? There is plenty on the roads. Tell our wonderful local leaders to say no to automatic license plate readers and everything else coming down the pipe creating a even worse existential prison.

  • @SwethaDixit
    @SwethaDixit 2 дні тому

    He is talking at my level of complex words at some point. Heterodox Asperger’s ideas!😂

  • @jespermortennielsen
    @jespermortennielsen 4 місяці тому

    Fuck that background noise is annoying.

  • @rradekanon1945
    @rradekanon1945 6 місяців тому

    We need an AI to remove all the stammers and fillers so that this can be a 3 minute talk.

  • @vampireLFD
    @vampireLFD 6 місяців тому

    Don't challenge the status quo, society wants people to agree, not confront the people in position of decision making about their lack of understanding of what they need to make decisions about. Boomers know better is what boomers believe.

  • @cbbcbb6803
    @cbbcbb6803 6 місяців тому

    Politically correct and politically incorrect are both meaningless terms.
    Was the genocide of indigenous people politically correct, or, was the genocide of indigenous people politically incorrect?

  • @nicolaasvanroosendael697
    @nicolaasvanroosendael697 2 місяці тому

    Palantir is owned by who.。。

  • @ClifCollins-k8d
    @ClifCollins-k8d Місяць тому

    GREED. The current computer technology is a complete failure. No progress since 1776 (Adam Smith, wealth of nations - opcodes). I am working on this issues, after ten years of designing a new software development technology, one thought is to nationalize basic knowledge and logic (maps, dictionary, units, one editor, one computer language, hardware/OS/Information Independent knowledge and logic) . Provide the right to repair and right to access the hardware / software that you own, and complete access to the information you create. No more need for programmers. Our current software technology and the lack there of, is designed specifically to sell more hardware ( AI, BitCoin, Bigdata, Operating Systems, Databases, Propriety applications, ..). Every aspect of software is to create a monopoly. Every software company will only provide information (even yours) that is a benefit to their bottom line, "Greed". So 248 years of no progress in software, and it is only getting worse. With 50 year as a programmer, I hate what we have become. Shame on the world. The solution is trivial.

  • @Devona-b7v
    @Devona-b7v 2 місяці тому

    Really Peter just say what you're doing with the American economy

  • @asmoonlightkr
    @asmoonlightkr 4 місяці тому

    Now I understand why Peter Thiel made so many umm umm .. it was torture by watching people enjoying their food