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For anyone potentially dissuaded to watch the talk based upon this parent comment, please know that this talk is not actually about the dynamics of individual success.

Instead, it reflects on how the aggregate outlook of a society across two axes (optimistic-to-pessimistic and determinate-to-indeterminate) affects its strategies, pursuits, and stability.

The title of the talk is just Thiel pushing back on our society's increasingly indeterminate yet optimistic outlook, which, as Thiel subtlety alludes, may be tragically unstable.