The Most Doomed Cities & Why Technical Progress Has Stalled - Peter Thiel on The Rubin Report (Video)

In this 5 March 2023 video, Dave Rubin on “The Rubin Report” talks with Peter Thiel about a variety of topics. What is the future of tech? What effect is all the innovation coming out of silicon valley having on us? Is it inevitable that machine intelligence will eliminate a vast majority of our jobs? Is it even possible to know what future tech will look like?

Watch these experts describe the cutting edge in new tech, but also what we can expect in the future and the effect it will have on you.

https://youtu.be/IdczWxyftT4

Included below are some of the talking points.

Why he left Silicon Valley
Which cities can potentially turn around their current death spiral and which cities can’t
How to know which shrinking cities businesses and individuals should consider abandoning
Why Peter Thiel states COVID marks the true beginning of the 21st Century
Why technological innovation and progress have currently stalled
How technological distractions and social media have prevented us from seeing the stagnation of progress which surrounds us
Why Peter Thiel thinks the agenda of the World Economic Forum is already past it’s prime and on it’s way out
Why Democrats pretend to be against business when in reality they favor big businesses over small businesses
Why small business regulation is so destructive
How government’s botched handling of COVID made more people skeptical of science
How the scientific establishment chose dogma over the scientific method

Peter Andreas Thiel is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and political activist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, along with being the first outside investor in Facebook.

0:00 Intro 
1:27 The Mass Movement Within the US 
9:42 Why Our Institutions Are Decaying 
14:13 Thiel’s Opinion on  Musk Buying Twitter
16:28 The World Economic Forum 
25:38 Can We Do The Right Thing?
30:02 Is The PayPal Mafia Back?
34:18 The Effects of Covid
43:22 What is Thiel Thinking About?
50:35 Teaching at Stanford
57:42 On Bill Gates Today – “Microsoft did more good for the world than the Gates Foundation has done”
1:01:59 Does Thiel Feel Hopeful?