Peter Thiel 2019 Wriston Lecture: The End of the Computer Age

I thought his answer to the second to last question was interesting. Basically that the automation storyline is vastly overdone. That automation taking away jobs has been happening for 200 years, and the rate of job loss is probably slowing if anything because the jobs that could be taken away from automation were automated away long ago.

I never thought to question the assumption of automation being the huge story it’s been predicted to be.

10+ minutes of introduction, then the owner of Palantir talks about the eye of sauron and libertarianism, then changes topic to how things scale. Transition into saying the Obamas were bigger liars than Trump by 18ish minutes. Does it get better later? His other talks and his book are so much better than this (so far, halfway in).

The YT comments also note that he never mentions the end of the computer age in the talk.

Kinda all over the place. But still interesting to see what people like him choose to talk about when given an audience