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Peter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."

Peter Thiel is the first guest on Eric Weinstein's The Portal, in a nearly three-hour conversation about technological stagnation, institutional failure and the link between growth and violence. They discuss universities, the economy and the search for a more ambitious future.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as a thought-provoking, wide-ranging case for the stagnation thesis, worth hearing even if you disagree with Thiel.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Eric Weinstein
Topic
technological stagnation
Format
podcast
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
8
HN mentions in dataset
11
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • I recommend that people listen to that episode even if it's not interesting to you. Very good food for thought. Video: [VIDEO] Audio: [LINK]

    scop on Hacker News · 2020-07
    In Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

  • [VIDEO] Lots of relevant conversation within. There's a quote in there somewhere along the lines of: "we've built the computer from the starship enterprise, but we possess little other tech from Star Trek"

    lunias on Hacker News · 2019-08
    In Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did

  • The first episode of "the portal" was great. In that episode Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel deeply discussed a variety of topics. [VIDEO]

    ned7 on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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