Joe Rogan Experience #2190 - Peter Thiel

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

“I still think his greatest novel was uh um the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test which is sort of this history of the LSD counterculture movement”— Peter Thiel

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

“if you read chaos uh by Tom O'Neal familiar with fantastic book that shows you what they were trying to do to demonize these these hippies”— Joe Rogan

Chimp Empire

Netflix (inferred)

“chimp Empire is a fascinating documentary series on Netflix where these scientists had been embedded with this tribe of chimpanzees for decades”— Joe Rogan

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

“Nick Bostrom Oxford Prof who wrote This Book uh super intelligence 2014 and it was basically AI was going to be this super duper um intelligent thing”— Peter Thiel

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

“the Kaiu Lee book from 2018 AI superpowers I think subtitle something like the race for AI between Silicon Valley and China”— Peter Thiel

The Limits to Growth

Club of Rome

“this uh book by the club of Rome 1972 the limits of growth and it's you can't have you we need to head towards a society in which there's zero% growth”— Peter Thiel

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

“I'm always into the James Frasier golden B Renee Gerard violence sacred history where um you have always this question about the origins of monarchy”— Peter Thiel

Violence and the Sacred

Rene Girard

“I'm always into the James Frasier golden B Renee Gerard violence sacred history where um you have always this question about the origins of monarchy”— Peter Thiel

Best Evidence

David Lifton

“This is a part of David lon's book best evidence um Kennedy's brain wasn't even in his body when they buried him”— Joe Rogan

The Population Bomb

Paul Ehrlich

“1968 Paul Erick writes the population bomb and it's just the population is just going to exponentially grow”— Peter Thiel

Galaxy Quest

DreamWorks Pictures (inferred)

“Galaxy Quest was more correct because it's it's a spoof on Star Trek that gets made in the mid 90s where um Mr Spock opens a furniture store”— Peter Thiel

The Manchurian Candidate

“that was always The Manchurian Candidate idea right this idea that we trained assassins and was the RFK uh dad assassination”— Peter Thiel