Dec 15, 2022
Ahead of the release of the next
episode of his lecture series on René Girard, Johnathan Bi returns
for his second appearance on the show. He and Jim discuss Girard,
prestige, innovation, AI, and much more. Enjoy!
Important Links:
- Johnathan’s website
-
Johnathan’s
Twitter
- Johnathan’s lecture series with David
Perell
- Our research note on
Johnathan
-
Johnathan’s first appearance on the
show
Show
Notes:
- The Girardian notion of
prestige
- What proof is there for
mimesis?
- The difference between mimesis
and status signalling
- Philosophical critiques of
Girard
- Girard on
innovation
- Historical understandings of
innovation
- A conversation between a
pessimist and an optimist
- AI, progress and the
panopticon
- Could we ban
innovation?
Books
Mentioned:
- The Status Game: On Human Life
and How to Play It; by Will Storr
- The Alchemy of Finance; by George
Soros
- The Laws of Imitation; by Gabriel
Tarde
- When These Things Begin:
Conversations with Michel Treguer; by René Girard
- The Beginning of Infinity:
Explanations That Transform the World; by David
Deutsch
- The Invention of Improvement:
Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England;
by Paul Slack
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups,
or How to Build the Future; by Peter Thiel