Peter Thiel | Cambridge Union
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- Peter Thiel speaks in the Debating Chamber at 7:30pm on Wednesday 8th May 2024.
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PETER THIEL
Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and has funded companies like LinkedIn and Yelp. Peter also started the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking.
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You will continue to get what you tolerate.
Tou will continue to get what you pay attention to.
@@dannybrown5205 Exactly. Stop tolerating genocide by ethnonationalist psychos.
The more wealth you accumulate, the more you are owned.
“Do you want to be victimized by me?”
Do people have a choice?
optimal effeciency or else! reminds me of a nother historical character
He's the guy who smashed gawker for Hulk Hogan - he is a badass.
@@AuditorInvestor hahahahaha smash burglar hows it goin p.t. Im not afraid of ur stutter biayat
This just sounds to me like an excuse to not be criticized. Cool, Peter, you are anti-woke, but does that mean you get to do whatever you want?
Watch what they do, not what they say.
pejorative
Yeah, they want censorship and wars
Exactly
@@dave9547
i mean...he cant even talk...
So much wisdom in this talk, and things to think about.
"in a world with total incompetence, you are kind of good."🔥
Cambridge should be absolutely embarrassed and rightfully ridiculed for allowing the audio of this speech and conversation to be impeded by protesters outside. Protesting in one area and speaking in another should be independently uninhibited.
I would have expected more from Cambridge than giving this psychopath a platform of any kind. But then, London also has issues with Russian oligarchs and other oligarchs and their corruption. Cheers from the U.S. - as one of the citizens in support of NATO and not of Trump. Since Britain couldn’t go it alone, especially after Brexit.
lol.
@@Jessica-kk1cz you believe people that differ in opinion from you shouldn’t have a right to speak? How very un-American of you. Also, I look forward to the inevitable end of American funding to NATO. I would prefer Europe pay for its own security. Based on your initial comment, I’m sure your response to this comment will be emotionally driven and not rooted in reality as well.
@@seanchristophersapp You’re not tracking. This psycho is financially backing Trump. Trump wants the US to back out of NATO again if he somehow gets the presidency again, because it’s what his godfathers Putin and Xi Jinping want him to do. Britain couldn’t defend itself without the U.S. Pay attention and catch up.
@seanchristophersapp
Take the L and go cry about it. Thiel is a loathsome dirtbag enabling a warcrime-addicted genocidal regime, and props to the protesters outside.
The Technocratic Ideal vs. Reality
Thiel's rhetoric paints a picture of technology as a neutral force, capable of solving society's most pressing issues if only we embrace it fully. This technocratic ideal suggests that technological advancement should be considered in isolation, free from the messy context of politics, ethics, and social consequences.
However, this perspective conveniently ignores the real-world implications of how this technology is developed and deployed. Palantir, the data analytics company Thiel co-founded, is a prime example of this disconnect. While Thiel waxes poetic about technological progress, he sidesteps the fact that Palantir is a major defense contractor, providing powerful surveillance and data analysis tools to military and intelligence agencies.
@@whogonnacheckmeboo exactly, he’s a CIA asset.
Theil: "If it's too complex to talk about then it's probably more corrupt."
Also Theil: "I won't tell you what Palantir does."
Peter "I defer to Israel" Thiel. Digital dehumanization is what Palantir does.
0800 fake libertarian... regretfully, he's a very powerful / unhappy degenerate.
To be fair he didn't say that it's too complex. He just said he won't tell you. Those are two different things.
Ever heard of an NDA with customers? Go to their website, their platform is not a secret..
1:07:20 is where the question about lavender is, if you're here for that
I wonder about the real estate question. Land. Territory. Feudalism? Human rights? Peace? Violence? How can planning and development lead toward peace and prosperity for all people on Earth? What about biodiversity? Who determines merit? Who sets the bar?
His views on real estate are depraved. Basically that homeless populations elsewhere augment values to preferred properties of the most privileged. Appalling. His intentions.
@@genossinwaabooz4373 I wonder what his real estate acquisitions are and what pattern is emerging from that. Old “follow the money” trope.
the jews set the bar
@@kymbriel Merit is set in systems like capitalism as providing the best service or product given a competitive enough market which is every market not cornered by regulation or very scarce resources such as real estate which there isn’t much implementation of merit to but there is more room than capitalism critics give credit to and les room for merit than those purporting a market around an easily capturable resource is a complete meritocracy. Like your acim pfp if that is what it is ✌️
Centrally enforced systems of merit are pretty poor and our cultures don’t sustain principles like they used to in religious cultures so private markets and a restricted democracy by a constitution is the best fit for our current culture unless you think we can rally around another religion of immutable laws that set the bars, I think attempting that is more dangerous than realizing we need self sustaining enforcements of merit like limited democracy and private markets
These people have no sense of order. Shameful behavior.
ok libertarian crook.
I have great respect for Peter Thiel. He is a great intellect, as superb businessman, and he exudes common sense and fine values, quite the fellow!
He wants corporate deregulation, pollution deregulation, christian nationalism in government, massive tax cuts for the richest. Because he started a bank, but online. Just standard rich-guy stuff that's been pushing against living wages since the Renaissance.
You can see how nervous Peter Thiel is here, in comparison to his usual interviews. It influences his ability to formulate his ideas and express them. And I'll bet if you took any of these people filled with hatred yelling against him aside and asked them what it is they have against him, they wouldn't be able to cite a single one of his opinions or reference anything he has done with which they disagree. With enemies such as this, what can you do?
If the message through the Woke grapevine was that "this guy Gandhi" is a real evil, white-supremacist and he was going to speak at their school, etc., these people would find themselves filled with righteous indignation, without ever feeling the need to ask "ehh, by the way, what has he done or said which makes him an evil, white-supremacist?". Why bother with that?! They don't need to know what makes him evil. Just the predicate "evil man" having been thrown onto him by the right people is enough to inspire a whole mob to assemble and scream threats and epithets and to try to prevent people from speaking and from hearing the people speak they would like to listen to.
I hope these hecklers don’t deter Peter from speaking in public, his ideas have had a huge impact on me.
mass survalance ncie
@@timeTegus huh
His ideas have huge impact on lame people like yourself.
Has the genociding of Palestinians had a huge impact on you?
That’s kinda sad.
42:37 "Everything should be about programming and deprogramming. You should learn how to program computers because that way you'll be employable, and you should be deprogrammed as humans. And if you're engaged in an activity where you're not doing one of those two, you're wasting your time."
Just heard this and typed it into google. Why is no one is talking about why Elon Musk's Billionaire friend Peter Thiel wants us deprogrammed as humans.
@@Aidan_Au that quote alone shows that this person is pure evil! People like him and people believing these fallacies are the core problem of our failing world today…
@kakadu53342 why does thar quote make him evil?
@bobsmith4978 because the world isn't just about making money, or optimizing efficency. Thr world is more than Cartesian graphs.
@@damnmexican90he doesn’t say or imply everything should be about improving efficiency or making money. He means one should be familiar with these high level abstractions and technologies while being able to unplug from them at the same time and focus on the present, inner peace, interpersonal relations, understanding, de-escalation, motivating, etc. imo
Thank you, Peter, for this excellent talk. You belong to the most profound thinkers of our time.
Pack it up guys. The party’s over. It was fun! Thank you. 🙏 Enjoy the decline 🥂
1:07:20 See Peter Thiel completely short-circuiting
Yeah, his dishonesty exposed. He is biased but only he and friends can have opinions, we mortal people can’t question them
@@slcsociedadeintracomunista4998 Only the Chosen People can have opinions, we lower creatures can't question them without being called апti-shеmistiс.
"Rules For Thee, but Not For Me"!
Everyone complaining about protestors somehow completely fails to see Peter Thiel fumble a respectful question.
He is touched, and admits that he has personal stakes in the question.
37:00 - QA starts
Thank you. I'm trying to hang in there for it. But it is quite challenging.
progress in education and healthcare are negative. these two sectors have gotten vastly more expensive despite technology advancing. you would think the cost of education would be close to 0 with internet. also healthcare many drugs are off parent now so should be cheaper. wherever you see the inflation happening you know grift is afoot or going backwards in innovation
Price inflation is a monetary phenomenon.
@@mickeygraeme2201 why are TVs so cheap then.
@@bbsara0146 Because of technological and logistical innovation.
That's why they're cheap to make. They're cheap to buy because competition keeps the prices down.
@@mastrickchief Perhaps you aren't understanding what currency devaluation AKA price inflation is.
He owns Palantir it’s not surprising he is heckled. He also doesn’t have that much to say, rather a collection of summaries.
Its easy to find out who the bad guys and good guys are by seeing who is being shouted down and who is doing the shouting.
Why was this video taken down at first and uploaded? anyone know?
That was weird wasn't it? Right before Thiel was trending on x too. Right before Elon's viral tweet video of Thiel disavowing Bilderberg.
@@FrankieDaBat Cause he was caught being biased
@@slcsociedadeintracomunista4998 billionaire controlling their own narrative, for their own purposes which is entirely why we should ignore their concerns, guys like thiel make society decidely worse.
I would have expected more from Cambridge than giving this psychopath a platform of any kind. But then, London also has issues with Russian oligarchs and other oligarchs and their corruption. Cheers from the U.S. - as one of the citizens in support of NATO and not of Trump. Since Britain couldn’t go it alone, especially after Brexit.
@@Jessica-kk1cz Before you call someone with a brilliant mind a psychopath...Look in a mirror
Imho Peter Thiel is probably one of the smartest men alive. It is always a pleasure to listen to him giving a speech. 👍
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. Why are people acting like these billionaires have any concept of the issues the average person has to deal with?
Thiel is a politically active billionaire. He has spent 10s of millions of dollars on the political causes he likes.
But Peter has never once sacrificed his own income to volunteer in his local community, never once tried to take his millions he donates on political candidates and instead donate it towards his local food bank or homeless shelter.
Peter Thiel is a salesman, who complains about problems he knows nothing about, but pitches you his own paid lackeys as the solution.
Peter would be a fantastic used car dealer. The only difference is he has more money than people can conceptualize.h
listen first 🙏🏻
The world would be quite a horrible place in Thiels utopia.
It would be North Korea dictated from the Middle East
How have you got to that conclusion ?
@@bobsmith4978 he promotes censorship
were already in his world. hes personally attacked my ideas and i dont even have fans as a musician...hes shut me comletely down...paid a guy 1000000 to name his company same as my original band name and gum up search results...hes a scardey baby
I used to have so much respect for the British universities
You want to limit governments that are accountable, but how do we limit corporations who arent accountable. Which is the greater risk!?
A solution is for the government to stop giving the corporations contracts. To pharmaceutical companies. To hotels for housing migrants. For bailing out banks. For guaranteeing student loans for private colleges.
I think he would say large govs are way more suspectible to intense corruption than large companies. We've never had large companies like we do now in the grand scheme of things. His point would be the biggest problem with with huge companies is that they get to a scale where their survival is dependent on doing rhe govs bidding or the gov will come after it to break it up.
Government. Government is the greater risk. Government has all the guns and bombs.
So called green revolution was a disaster for top soil waterways and our health that's one thing I disagree with. Scalable warehouse greenhouses and regenerative style agriculture is much needed
Screw the haters, I have a lot of respect for Thiel. He's not our friend, but the world would be a better place with more of him and the people like him(of which there are few).
Equating DEI to CCP is also extreme thinking in the essence of that analogy
The minders say my comments will be monitored for decency and decorum. Too bad they can’t say that for these disrespectful disrupters. Some people are willfully ignorant. It’s painful to see them act out in public.
My 15th generation iPhone is marginally better than my first one
Why did you guys cut the ending? The part with Peter running out of the room like a prisoner in a straightjacket? It was probably the most important part of the video.....
To protect the thief 😂
peter thiel the most underated innovation king
Correction: "most underrated, evil, innovation king of genocide."
Like Musk, invents nothing, but waves around enough money to contract people to _say_ he invented stuff.
1:07:42 Brilliant communicator
Who is the moderator? She handled well
9:00 - 9:40 or so - to paraphrase PThiel "he's protesting Palantir because we're evil _and_ effective"
I don't think that's the message he set out to convey in this talk, but that's the Freudian slip that he put _right after_ his thesis statement.
God bless Peter Thiel
palantir lavender and other defense contractors… should be no surprise he says israel is not fire bombing Palestine. he is profiting off it it doesn’t matter what he calls it
Fire bombing? you must be smoking something. When Britain firebombed Dresden in 1945, 30,000 German civilans died in 24 hours. The highest estimates of deaths in Gaza over 9 months is 30,000, half of whom are combatants. If Israel was firebombing Gaza or otherwise actively targeting the civilian population, the casualties would be in the hundreds of thounsands by now. The level of ignorance of military affairs shown by clowns like you, typing in your pajamas, is among the reasons for the West's decline.
There is no Palestine, get used to it!
Perhaps you should answer his main question. If hamas could have killed 1,000,000 jews on 7.10.23 would they have done it? Yes they would have. If they did do that Noone in their right mind would support palestine and Noone would dare question what the Israelis are doing. Their sole purpose was to kill jews and they simply lacked the means to do it at a grander scale.
42:50 the world would stop without the trades. Learning a trade instead of concentrating on just tech is not “a waste of time.”
Is there a big protest outside while he's speaking? I hear a background noise....
Never clicked on a video so fast.
You should look into his company Palantir, an extremely shady company.
simp
Never clicked thumbs down on a video so fast.
What are the screams you can hear in the background?
@@benjaminandersson2572 the agony of liberal college students hearing free speech
I was wondering this as well and figured it was a sports game. However, per the conversation with Thiel, they are Protests about Palantir contracts with the IDF.
Shitlibs
@@benjaminandersson2572 entitled, hysterical lefties that hate free speech
We get it, you’ve bought into far right wing John Bircher Society propaganda.
Speech:
00:00:17 The Diversity Myth (1996)
00:10:15 Identity politics as distraction
00:21:10 Scientific integrity
00:29:00 Globalization
00:31:00 Religion
00:34:28 Politics
Emcee questions:
00:36:41 What is the solution to dogma instilled at university?
00:40:03 What are alternatives to university education?
00:43:00 What social responsibility do tech companies have?
00:46:05 How do you navigate between government and tech?
00:50:00 Where is the line for government overreach in tech?
00:53:53 Should we have hope for the future?
00:56:35 What do UK conservatives need to change?
Audience questions:
01:00:40 Will you support Trump if Vance is named VP?
01:04:25 Do you have concerns about the war in Israel?
01:07:20 What do you think about use of AI in IDF targeting?
01:08:37 Is population decline a risk for humanity?
01:10:10 Will AI acccelerate scientific progress?
01:17:03 What does Palantir do?
01:17:40 Which scientist do you most admire?
Things have changed since I was young
Good to know that Peter considers what he is doing is evil. 🤦♂Competent evil lol! 🥲
Yes he is clear about that. Not a good argument. He asserts incompetence broadly, but without support. That has been a propaganda...
@@genossinwaabooz4373 I think he gives some good examples of incompetence in the world (education, investing, science) but yes, it would be nice for him to clarify a bit more.
What I want him to elaborate on is what he thinks he's so "competent" in. What is his "evil competence?" Is he referring to Palentir's AI weaponry and it's negligent use abroad? Domestic spying? Machiavellian politicking? Someone needs to follow up with him on this.
@@maxwellbliss agreed on both points
No you just can’t argue with stupid.
programming-deprogramming
I don't understand what Peter is trying to make the case for,or rather i think i do, but it doesn't make much sense.
My synopsis for this talk is that the system of capitalism is breaking apart, becoming a corrupt parody of itself. The humanities have become neurotic analysis of the original concept of understanding the human condition - trying to find new and original ways to classify and solve that condition - in an undergrad-level or lower digestible book. He is equally or more skeptical of the sciences, which he feels are corrupt simply because they haven't figured out all the answers yet. He distrusts religion because it has been diluted into heuristics and biases.
Well, Peter, this is what happens when knowledge is commodified. Universities are inefficient for the same reason manufacturers are producing lower quality goods - it isn't profitable to make the truly excellent. Weve seen it with planned obsolescence (light-bulbs, cars, computers) and we see it with educational institutions as well. This has a relatively simple solution: anti-trust crackdown. If technology companies are not innovating anymore, break them apart. If universities arent producing good enough results, break them back down into separate colleges. Get rid of these ideas of "too-big-to-fail".
Having engineers as CEOs of companies again instead of equity managers. Everything has become a bank, accumulating money without it into actually productive capital.
It seems absurd that he backed Trump of all people for so long, considering Trump's entire empire operated off of corrupt tax reporting and grifting. He's either an idiot, or the most deeply cynical man I've ever heard speak - and he's obviously not an idiot.
For a man who kerps his life and companies as obscure as possible, he sure is oblivious of his own talking points - "the more opaque an institution is, the more corrupt."
Seems to me Peter has a saviour complex, where he feels that he can save the world from itself, because when he accesses the wheels of power through corrupt practices and shadowy dealings, he is "aware" of what he is doing. "Everyone who does this is corrupt, but i know its corrupt si therefore i won't be corrupted.". It reads like a comic book.
Interesting
While I agree with this man on quite a bit. I will do whatever I can to not live in the world which they are trying to design. I can barely stomach it now. Some very good points, glad someone is addressing some of this foolishness.
What is it that you can't stomach?
Thiel's security guards look like ex-Secret service agents.
Ex? He recently engineered JD Vance into us VP candidacy. Fking with democracy. Of course his security will be heavy, he is.
@@berkulous289 I know it's great that there is finally positive political movement!
Palantir is the private are of the CIA
They likely are. What else you gonna do after the SF teams or Secret Service if you've got a particular set of skills? Taylor Swift's detail is already full most likely.
Definitely DEI hires.
Isn't England supposed to be where they have manners and decorum? But then we have these people allowed to shout down a speaker. Has it always been this way and the reputation is a stereotype?
No, it was not always like this. England has been destroyed.
@nikc888
Empire's over, git over it.
@arabedrossian222
It's a disgrace that a plutocratic fiend like him was ever invited.
That's only the upper class.
1:00:52 - Thiel was probably already planning this. Guy in the audience saw it coming!
1:12:14 - dude thinking 'wtf' as his female friend has a complete meltdown
"That and that is the problem, but don't question my actions" what a tool!
This has got to be the one of the most embarrassing events ever at Cambridge
I would really like if he gave more interviews like these! He is brilliant and even if I disagree with some of his viewpoints, it still remains interesting.
And if I could attend one event that he speaks
Yeah, but a trollbot would say something like that wouldn't it? That's why you can't attend, you aren't an actual person!
Yeah, don't always agree with his take but you've got to think about it when he brings up a point. He's a brilliant mind even if he comes across as a little too passive for someone so passionate about his topic.
@@berkulous289I completely agree with him/her though - and based off of the comments, so do many others
Intriguing…
Peter handled the heckler really well. I would have loved to see a discussion between them after his remarks
Nope
He nearly puked, he looks awful
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JD Vance was Peter Thiel’s blood boy
This is the best a billion can do?
Im sure you can do much better lmfao
Yes, I can do much better. As can millions of educated people, if they have a billion dollars to “buy” intelligence and influence.
@@luigidopobici8459 yes… money typically gravitates to morons. Look at the list of what he’s done… you couldn’t even get into Stanford let alone the rest of it. But enjoy the laughably transparent coping and inferiority complex.
Why did they private and then unprivate this? So weird.
Thiel's a treasure
9:53 “Even if your evil, you’re not bad, you’re not incompetent. In a world that’s full of total incompetence - uh uh - you’re even kind of good.”
WOW……. WOW……. And he gets the audience to clap. The irony is he probably has a loss of respect for the people clapping bc they’re either incompetent bc they aren’t grasping the evil of what he’s actually saying or they have terrible values themselves in agreeing that evil isn’t bad or even good by comparison to incompetence.
This is the crux of his value system and it’s a danger to society at large. It’s why hes groomed Vance and back him with $15m. He wants to reshape the world bc he knows best. That’s what these tech ogliarths believe.
If you don’t understand this point, you are likely incompetent… meow
@@davicat1397 thats what he would think, im willing to bet
@@davicat1397 Please explain the point Peter was making
@@davicat1397 to paraphrase PThiel "he's protesting Palantir because we're evil _and_ effective"
I don't think that's the message he set out to convey in this talk, but that's the Freudian slip that he put _right after_ his thesis statement.
What did the interruption state?
I think this is the first time I have heard Peter Thiel cuss.
@@Behardy24 Where did he cuss...?
I so appreciate the moderator's no-nonsense attitude. She is polite but doesn't wait to shut down the losers that go off in the audience.
6:50 It's all so tiresome...
Billionaire say the darndest things to protect their money😂 poor guy
Let's go after your money. See how you like it.
he seems reasonable
So this is the guy designing the global military AI models and e-surveillance apparatus
It's definitely spooky technology. But I'm much less concerned about Peter's ethics than say Microsoft or ByteDance.
@@SafetyLucas Perhaps the more you learn, you may find growing concern in what you find.
@@SafetyLucasyou’re less concerned by the guy creating AI military drones than Microsoft? How does that make sense? Microsoft might spy on me but palantir will literally track my movements and blow me up.
Drink water god damn
broadly in the right ........ WTF
These days it appears to be a waste of money to send these juveniles to Cambridge judging by the amount of rude interrogations. Clearly money doesn’t buy manners!
Nevertheless a good talk give by Thiel.
What the heck? This is not an acceptable answer!
Enemy of home owners and workers.
I think Cambridge dropped the ball on this one, not just with the protestors, which on some level they cant control, but the lack of direction and moderation is a little too obvious? Unclear what Theil was even asked to speak about, with no introduction or topic, starting part way into the speech. He just rambles on - a word salad rant against anything and everything. This upload is a bit of a fail
This man is living evil, and everything we should be fighting. Know your enemy. . .
Exactly! I find it scary as hell how many people are praising these kinds of people….
Pretty sure they're bots. No one in their right mind could actually watch this speech and say the things they're saying...
I would have expected more from Cambridge than giving this psychopath a platform of any kind. But then, London also has issues with Russian oligarchs and other oligarchs and their corruption. Cheers from the U.S. - as one of the citizens in support of NATO and not of Trump. Since Britain couldn’t go it alone, especially after Brexit.
Obnoxious those disrupting the speech
He looks very unwell, he was trying to hold in vomit at one stage. Is he taking drugs?
They all do drugs
He's ethically unwell, that's for sure.
He literally injects the blood of younger people into his veins to try and “retain” youth.
Do you not hear the crowd outside and the fact he keeps getting interrupted. I would be nervous if i was surrounded by terrorist supporters
@@NicK-vd3hj There was a crowd of Zionist extremists hellbent on ethnic cleansing outside the building??
Is that JD Vance in the front row?
why tf does he look like he just leapt up from a coroner's table
@frogspawn_johnson37
Because he dead inside.
Natural Selection.
These hecklers are allowed to speak for way too long
Yeah, North Korea wouldn’t allow that
They have to get security to them from across the room and squeeze past others sitting down etc
Thiel was given a platform here, and that's more than he deserves.
@@hetmanjz you are a nothing
this is the first time I've seen thiel defend his politics and ideas about what our future world ought to be in a large public forum and I give him kudos for being brave enough to do it. For a concise description of his views and bio from a left perspective along with three other tech tycoons read the end of reality by jonathan taplin.⚛😀
1:07:20 - I felt the collective sigh in the background.
The extreme left is getting extremely tedious
And the extreme right is not. Isn't that the definition of extreme?
@@williamhamill813 remind me the last time the extreme right disrupted campus or stopped people from speaking
And the far right has always been hyperbolic.
What is getting tedious is idiots blaming something that does not exist.
There is no left in the USA
@@williamhamill813no. Extreme is just a relative descriptor. I am of the opinion that the furthest right thinkers are the most correct and historically they aren't extreme at all.
Should be in prison.
A delight to see the Gilet Jaunes being a stunning example to other protesters!
@@oldraver9644 not a single protestor in this video has anything to be proud of. At all
We love our protestors!!!!
@alongesundheit9210
Pound sand.
@@hetmanjz for supporting the West? No thanks, I don’t think I will
@@alongesundheit9210 "tHe wESt" LOLLL
FREE GAZA
Peter thiel speeches are always a repeat about diversity and wokism
Happy to hear Thiel promote computer programming, especially given NVDA CEO just started discouraging people to learn how to code a few weeks ago!! If that was true, is he firing his engineers? Beware of subtle ladder pulls.
Same here. I'm excited to hear Peter Thiel's view on programming and Computer Science
@NicholasPalance
Thiel is a vile human being though, so....
This is a message to the hecklers…
You are in a fortunate position. Sitting in one of most prestigious universities in world. In a country that compared to rest of the world and rest of history has a very high standard of living. Did you actually earn that high standard of living?
Have any of us living in Britain today?
Our institutions, culture, values were forged long before us.
Our cheap goods are imported from countries where people are willing to work harder and longer than we are.
The technology we enjoy was designed in Silicon Valley.
What exactly have we (people today in Britain, myself included ) done to deserve our standard of living?
Nothing
We do not build anything, we do not innovate, we haven’t fought for anything… we’re the spoilt children of history
The least you could do is use this fortunate position you have to take the world’s problems upon your own shoulders rather than just blame billionaires…
Idiotic take. If your ancestors worked towards building a civilization it was for you. Here is a short list of significant scientific breakthroughs made by British scientists:
- discovery of structure of DNA
- Penicillin
- Theory of Evolution
- Newtonian Physics
- Periodic Table
- Electromagnetic Induction
- Higgs Boson
@@moad.39 I think you’re kinda proving my point… when I say “we” I mean people alive in Britain today. All the breakthroughs you listed apart from 1 are from long ago, back when Britain did actually innovate
Willing to work longer and harder? I think you mean slave labor
@@123asdzxc7 Your point makes no sense. You don't get credit for innovations by virtue of being alive during their development. And, there is a lot more to standard of living than big tech products. The people of Britain are smart and peaceful. I am not British but they absolutely deserve their heritage. There is no obligation to give it away via mass immigration.
@@moad.39 but it’s not just the innovations that Britain used to be better at. Britain used to actually make things. Now everything is imported. And I am British and while I am extremely proud of my heritage I am also aware that what we are doing today does not live up to it, we have to be continuously innovating, actually making things and taking risks so that the future generations can enjoy a higher standard of living than even we do. My fear is that the smartest and peaceful Britons will leave as they already are doing so… I’m guessing you’re not living in Britain and seeing that there is now a whole class of people that are completely dependent on the state, meanwhile the middle classes (like those protesters) have zero idea of the sacrifices, hard work and innovation that have led to their high standard of living, and the wealthy who would rather invest in London property than new technologies… the point is yes Britons should proud of our past, but not relying on it, we’ve got to innovate, work hard, take risks, etc now so that the standard of living is better for future generations and that is what I think these protesters at the university don’t understand. They’re blaming an American tech billionaire for the worlds problems, when really they should be taking problems on their own shoulders, everyone in Britain should be taking on more problems upon themselves rather than just blaming others
These people can't even be respectful to have their turn to ask questions ! How on earth have we become so uncivilized?
Just like Elon, Thiel cares greatly about humanity but little about humans.
👍🏽. They care about control, they call it humanity and climate change
I'll take lip service to humanity over the blatantly anti human perspectives many other billionaires have.
@@SafetyLucas Keep an eye on this one. He's only masquerading as "concerned". About anything. He's just biding time to get enough control...
You mean to care for terrorists is the right thing to do? Get your moral values checked!!!!!
Star Wars cantina 🤣👍🏼
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For years, I feared you, Peter. Now, I realize, you just need unconditional love. I see you, and I just want to say I want you to know love.
Was Chesney Hawkes performing next door? What's with all the shouting?
why you funding JD Vance?