Peter Thiel on Political Theology | Conversations with Tyler 

I like Peter Thiel… I feel like he questions everything and that is really important.

It's nice to hear Peter's latest ideas and perspective. 9:00 14:47 16:59 19:58 35:28 49:15 53:35 56:55 1:01:02 1:03:56 1:15:18 1:16:26 1:19:28

peter on thumbnail. im in

Hey Peter! I’m religious and I think you are a good person. I do agree with you questioning the bible as I feel like the bible has been tampered with.

Great discussion!

Excellent video, ties back in the foundational principle that you want to be consciously consistently criticising your established perception of yourself

Peter Thiel is a bona fide polymath! :)

Interesting stuff Mr.Peter Thiel, multi Billionaire !❤

Whoah! Where did this come from. This just made my day

No (direct) questions about aging tech? "I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. " Peter Thiel, 2007 The Education of a Libertarian

Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Hello, Peter and Teller 00:06 - Political theologys importance in modern society 04:51 - Calvinism scapegoats God for mistakes 06:40 - Libertarianisms middle ground Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans 08:17 - Orthodox Christian views on Gods continuity with progressives 12:02 - Bronze Age pervert alternative, victimhood, Christian inspiration 17:02 - Powerful political division explains Berlin Wall collapse 20:03 - Predicting liberalisms collapse in Weimar, West Germany 23:11 - Millenarianism and apocalyptic fears 26:33 - Eschatological fear of oneworld totalitarian government 30:03 - US becoming more federalistic, authoritarian, chaotic 31:18 - Peace and safety over global chaos 36:05 - Muddling through Antiintellectual distrust, distrust in human agency 37:08 - Catacomb mysterious force that restrains oneworld state 41:06 - Lutheranisms emphasis on human agency 44:06 - Shakespeares characters differing worldviews 46:54 - Shakespearean Brutuss role in Julius Caesars conspiracy 49:13 - AIs impact on society, Silicon Valleys failure 50:07 - Predicting AIs impact on math 53:23 - Questions about AIs impact on society 56:53 - Personalities hedgehog, fox, and crypto 59:46 - Physicist Nick Bostrom explains why he supports longworld government 01:01:39 - Straussian messages in political theology 01:05:08 - Star Treks centralized future 01:07:48 - Utility in postmodern world 01:08:11 - Lincolns political religion and personal history 01:09:11 - Competitive track and field led to Stanford success 01:09:23 - New York Citys top law firm Everybody wanted in 01:09:35 - Struggling with medic crisis, scaling Teal Fellowship 01:12:44 - Machiavellian influence in Silicon Valley 01:13:26 - Walmarts antiunion tactics in the 2000s 01:17:36 - AIs centralization and stagnation 01:21:09 - Future doubling down on AI 01:21:22 - Silicon Valleys role in world order 01:23:48 - Miamis local governance needs improvement 01:24:09 - Miamis Georgist Real Estate 01:25:16 - AIs role in politics and theology 01:26:57 - What is the model generated?

How did no one ask Peter's opinion on the public debt bubble (and money printing)? He even explicitly linked the US in the 2020s to the Weimar Republic in the 1920s!

Great discussion and questions!

That part when Peter recited TULIP ❤

I understood half of it, where can I learn more?

They should have pressed him on automations effects on the working class.

Ozempic working nicely

Spartan dress. Peter's neck is very sculptable.

11:59 BAP Yarvin Hazony connection very relevant

His answer to the question at 10:07 was unexpected!

1:21:46 "delve", Paul Graham isn't happy.

Again, why am I always surprised by Thiel? He’s a bit of an enigma.

Has anyone found the essay he is talking about at 29:50 on AI risk?

Secular christianity

Zero to One - fantastic!!!!

Peter Thiel

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There is this dualism in Peter, "fight" on one side against world control/existential risks relating to "one partysms"/control AND investments in Palantir enable control/collection of data that facilitate the existential risks he is "fighting".

Thetan Speil - Ameropath

peter is the closest thing we have to niccolò machiavelli in these times. Always a pleasure to hear from him

In which Thiel reinvents himself as a Biblical scholar

If you close your eyes, his voice sounds like Mark Zuckerberg...how come all Silicon Valley entrepreneurs talk the same way? It's like they're the same AI programmed software installed in different robots

"optimistic boomer libertarian like you" only real miladys felt this one

39:00 - Mistaking Properties for Features- he will make the same mistake… too smart to not know.

Catacon? did I get that right?

Max Azzarello send anyone else here?

As much as Thiel is an anti-communist, I am an anti-libertarian/anti-liberal. However, even though I essentially disagree on probably most everything, I'm quite struck at how much more of an intellectual Thiel is in comparison to his billionaire contemporaries. At minimum, I appreciate his thoroughness and depth in intellectual pursuits and that at least inspires me to take my own intellectual pursuits more seriously so as to be able to have even more profound and well versed counter-logic to his what I believe to be heinous and evil conception of humanity, liberalism, and the "meaning" of life.

Ayn Rand wasn't Jewish, she was Greek.

Chatgpt said, when i asked if Kamala would cone with a market crash, it replied, we cannot say anything bad about the vice president....AI not so smart

I disagree with most of Peter’s assumption’s, not because they’re implicitly wrong, but because he generalizes them to extremes that are inaccurate.

are the prostitute and bank robber equivalent? re: 1:15 ish...because from a libertarian perspective (like Thiels) isn't the prostitute morally superior to the bank robber? unless he was talking about it from Rosa Luxembourg's pov...

He needs to lay off the ozempic

Can you just drop Karl Schmitt’s name and not expect a phone call from your donors?

He lost a lot of weight..hpefully not because of a cell growth mutation

how would he ever talk to a student

Dang, Perhaps my view of Peter was ill informed previously because I thought as a successful entrepreneur he was more of an original thinker. And maybe it was due to the line of questioning but it seemed he was either plugging other world views with the constant combatants of how he can't quite subscribe to a certain existing theology. Or he was trying to avoid the soapbox. He just decided for whatever reason to not turn and face a more conclusive perspective. What do I know maybe originality is unachievable

5:00 Thiel misrepresents Calvinism. He says that Calvinist blame "Mr. God" for their sins. That is incorrect. Your sins are your own and your own only.

Yikes

Peter is probably the highest level in Helldivers 2

I’m here to hear if Peter thinks the end of the world is here. A few years ago he pooh poohed AI but now it’s a huge factor. He had vision moving palantir out of California specifically San Francisco and just look at how bad Google is with employees revolting to support Hamas. Look at universities from top to bottom failing.

Is Thiel ill or just thinning up? I hope it is the latter. He was not in good shape.

Read the book of Revelation in the Bible...the pages are litterally unfolding on the world stage...only God himself would have known the future..Jesus is coming back soon

AI can render the Anti Christ superfluous.

Peter Thiel said he wasn't a calvinist because of a philosophy book written by Girard. Thiel just used a philosophy book to judge a religious book. That doesn't even make sense.

Daniel was written after the fact pretending to be prophetic.

So Theil seems to understand the incoherence of Calvinism 😮 Theology proper must ask about the nature of god. Instead we get an interview that runs through,”Why aren’t you x, why aren’t you y, so then are you z?” Very pedantic. Why not start with what we think we know to be true about the nature of god if such a being exists and then move towards the organization of societies given god’s nature and also man’s condition in god’s world? How does this get to the central religious questions: Where did we come from? Where are we going when we die? How should we live our lives morally if there is indeed an objective source of morality? How do I relate to god? How do we organize a society that operates the way god would want me us to?

He's really worried about a one-world state... How exactly is that going to work with Iran, Israel, US, China, Saudi Arabia? They're just going to wake up and decide to get along one day?

he does not look well...

Talk about being in your own head, wow.

God, is Cowen dumb... Thiel, on the other hand, has useful ideas.

He looks demonic.

Is he speaking English? No idea what he is talking about.

does he know anything ... just lucky he made a lot of money

saying "the woke" non-ironically is not only utterly cringe but utterly out of touch

Me thinks This guy is not who he purports to be lol

Whataboutism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism?wprov=sfla1