Luke was previously an entrepreneur I had an e-commerce business called fit feel Almost sold it to Zappos that deal fell apart and kind of led Luke down this road of like more introspection. When you say that you have the extra responsibility What is that how does that manifest itself with your students like what does that look like? "There's a difference between a role model and a model of desire"
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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