Joe Rogan Experience #2190 - Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir Technologies, where he serves as chairman. Thiel is a partner at Founders Fund and leads the Thiel Foundation, which funds technological progress and long-term thinking. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zero to One. https://foundersfund.com https://palantir.com

Peter ThielguestJoe Roganhost

Aug 16, 20243h 30mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 16, 2024
Duration: 3h 30m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
Watch on YouTube: ▶ Open ↗

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir Technologies, where he serves as chairman. Thiel is a partner at Founders Fund and leads the Thiel Foundation, which funds technological progress and long-term thinking. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zero to One. https://foundersfund.com https://palantir.com

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Peter Thiel and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #2190 - Peter Thiel explores peter Thiel dissects AI, decline, power, and humanity’s strange future Joe Rogan and Peter Thiel range across geopolitics, economics, technology, and human nature, tying today’s dysfunctions to deeper structural and historical forces. Thiel argues the U.S. is relatively strong yet absolutely stagnating, with serious fiscal, demographic, and technological problems obscured by comparison to worse countries. They dive deeply into AI’s Turing-test moment, whether it leads to superintelligence or heavy-handed global regulation, and how tech progress has been oddly confined to the “world of bits” while the “world of atoms” stalls. The conversation then veers into civilizational rise and collapse, nuclear power, climate politics, UFOs, Epstein, and the possibility that humanity may be on the verge of being supplanted by its own machines. Both end on the uneasy note that we’re good at talking about existential problems, but far less capable of taking coherent action on them.

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