Luke: I don't know how scalable that is But there seems to truth to it because you always hear about the politics and backstabbing and corporations, right? He says he's a first outside investor of facebook great hoffman his paypal colleague Introduced him to zuckerberg and then he saw facebook. Zuckerberg turned 500,000 to billion with this facebook investment but anyways read that in a rough IRA count as well. Um, that was a good episode boys enjoyed that. Thanks for being here with us and we'll see you next week. Bye.
Luke Burgis joins the NIA boys to discuss Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes.
Timestamps:
- (00:00:00) - Intro
- (00:02:33) - Meme of the Week
- (00:04:18) - Jack & Luke’s Collab
- (00:06:07) - Visualizing Mimesis
- (00:08:48) - Wanting’s Backstory
- (00:10:33) - Meme Culture is Everywhere
- (00:12:26) - TLDR of Mimetic Desire
- (00:14:42) - Examples of Mimetic Desire
- (00:18:46) - Mount Rushmore of Meme Masters
- (00:22:39) - Role Models vs Models of Desire
- (00:25:52) - The Power of Mimetics
- (00:27:38) - Thick vs Thin Desires
- (00:35:57) - Mimetic Rivalry Explained
- (00:37:32) - Mimetic Desire is Natural
- (00:40:45) - Optimize for Yourself
- (00:48:26) - A.I. and Mimetic Desire
- (00:52:51) - Chat GPT vs Bard
- (00:53:46) - Generative Art and Society
- (00:58:20) - The Stendhal Effect
- (01:02:07) - Reacting to Twitter’s “For You” Algorithm
- (01:05:17) - How Twitter’s Algorithm Works
- (01:13:30) - Reacting to Twitter’s Verification Reception
- (01:23:50) - Peter Theil and Mimetic Desire
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