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August 24, 2024 Peter Thiel: US-China Relations at the Nixon Foundation (Vintage Code, 2021)
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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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcKWtiFzIY
2 hr 12 min
August 22, 2024 Peter Thiel: Failures and “Self-Hatred” of Big-Tech (Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, 2020)
Artificial intelligence; 5G wireless; blockchain security; new Internet and monetary systems; US-China relations; understanding money as time; future economic and technological models.
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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufm85wHJk5A
2 hr 53 min
August 19, 2024 Peter Thiel: The Diversity Myth (Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures, 2023)
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO0KH-TgvbM
1 hr 10 min
August 18, 2024 Peter Thiel: The World According to Thiel (Hoover Institution, 2020)
Globalization; the threat from China; US capitalism and Bernie Sanders; Silicon Valley's "derangement"; political correctness; American exceptionalism.
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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXG2F0a6I28
56 min
August 15, 2024 Peter Thiel: Zero to One (Socrates in the City, 2020)
Technological stagnation; globalization; climate activism; academia; religion.
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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_00POR-Po
37 min
August 11, 2024 Peter Thiel: The Failure of Modern Technology (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014)
The future of technology; the impact of technological advancements on Western Civilization; the digital revolution; challenges and opportunities presented by technological progress.
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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uft4hkP9HTw
1 hr 18 min
August 09, 2024 Peter Thiel: Competition is for Losers (How to Start a Startup, 2014)
Business strategy; monopoly theory; capturing value; market dynamics; innovation.

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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

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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBYrcYy_dh4
36 min
August 04, 2024 Peter Thiel: You Are Not a Lottery Ticket (Interactive 2013 SXSW, 2013)
Determinate vs. indeterminate thinking in society; the role of luck in success; planning for the future; building businesses and creating opportunities.
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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaV62ao8_d8
51 min
August 01, 2024 Peter Thiel: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson (Institute of Politics Harvard Kennedy School, 2012)
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyxqlJTPIJY
55 min
July 30, 2024 Peter Thiel: The Portal Podcast (Eric Weinstein, 2020)
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPH6h8VnM64
1 hr 31 min