106: Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes

<p>Luke Burgis joins the NIA boys to discuss Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires &amp; Power of Memes.</p><br><p>Timestamps:</p><ul><li>(00:00:00) - Intro&nbsp;</li><li>(00:02:33) - Meme of the Week</li><li>(00:04:18) - Jack &amp; Luke’s Collab</li><li>(00:06:07) - Visualizing Mimesis</li><li>(00:08:48) - Wanting’s Backstory</li><li>(00:10:33) - Meme Culture is Everywhere</li><li>(00:12:26) - TLDR of Mimetic Desire</li><li>(00:14:42) - Examples of Mimetic Desire</li><li>(00:18:46) - Mount Rushmore of Meme Masters</li><li>(00:22:39) - Role Models vs Models of Desire</li><li>(00:25:52) - The Power of Mimetics</li><li>(00:27:38) - Thick vs Thin Desires</li><li>(00:35:57) - Mimetic Rivalry Explained</li><li>(00:37:32) - Mimetic Desire is Natural</li><li>(00:40:45) - Optimize for Yourself</li><li>(00:48:26) - A.I. and Mimetic Desire</li><li>(00:52:51) - Chat GPT vs Bard</li><li>(00:53:46) - Generative Art and Society</li><li>(00:58:20) - The Stendhal Effect</li><li>(01:02:07) - Reacting to Twitter’s “For You” Algorithm</li><li>(01:05:17) - How Twitter’s Algorithm Works</li><li>(01:13:30) - Reacting to Twitter’s Verification Reception</li><li>(01:23:50) - Peter Theil and Mimetic Desire</li></ul><p><br></p><p>What Is Not Investment Advice?</p><p>Every week, Jack Butcher, Bilal Zaidi &amp; Trung Phan discuss what they're finding on the edges of the internet + the latest in business, technology and memes.</p><br><p>Watch + Subscribe on Youtube:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/vpA5k1c4Ey4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/vpA5k1c4Ey4</a></p><br><p>Listen into our group chat on Telegram:</p><p><a href="https://t.me/notinvestmentadvice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://t.me/notinvestmentadvice</a></p><br><p>Let us know what you think on Twitter:</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/bzaidi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bzaidi</a></p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/trungtphan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@trungtphan</a></p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/jac