`Mr AI' Peter Thiel Lectures about Antichrist in Rome

https://www.ft.com/content/fc1e7e9a-9d5d-4217-b9b2-38069eb1197b

by 1vuio0pswjnm7 • 4 months ago

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pinewurst• 4 months ago

krunck• 4 months ago

"Thiel, the founder of data intelligence company Palantir Technologies ... is preoccupied with the risk of a “one-world, totalitarian state” obstructing scientific and technological progress. He depicts those who lobby for tech regulation as harbingers of the antichrist."

There is so much wrong with this guy. How do these nuts rise to such positions of power?

louprado• 4 months ago

From personal observation, many Christians see oil as a unlimited natural gift from God and view alternative energy sources with disdain. Not sure if that was a deliberate strategy on Big Oil's part but it effectively solidifies massive political support.

By similarity if Thiel can equate AI regulation or restricting government AI funding with the Antichrist he could guarantee political support for decades.

I don't recall Thiel ever lecturing about religion or the Antichrist prior to his involvement with government contracts. It's hard to believe any of this is sincere.

tastyface• 4 months ago

Funny given that green energy is *literally* an unlimited natural gift from God.

nabbed• 4 months ago

I can't speak specifically about Peter Thiel, but I get the impression that two things affect some extremely wealthy people later in life regardless of their intelligence or benignity: 1) they get encapsulated in a bubble, and 2) they run out of things to achieve, so their obsessions start to become more and more odd. As to number 2, it's almost like those telomeres that keep the integrity of DNA, where every time a cell divides, the telomere gets shorter and shorter, until the cell gets weird.

10xDev• 4 months ago

No just chronic sleep deprivation. <6 hours sleep a day catches up to you and the effects can be very severe.

1vuio0pswjnm7• 4 months ago

"Thiel’s views stand in stark contrast to those of Pope Leo, who has warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and called for stronger regulation to minimise its risks."

Jtsummers• 4 months ago

While we may not get recordings of these events, he wrote a (long, strange) essay on the antichrist late last year: https://firstthings.com/voyages-to-the-end-of-the-world/

cjbenedikt2• 4 months ago

Off his trolley.Someone who considers Greta Thunberg a version of the Antichrist should perhaps be locked away and fed three times a day.

cjbenedikt2• 4 months ago

"They promised us flying cars..."instead we get "Antichrists"?

mattydread• 4 months ago

Bro needs to get outside and look at the stars and think about how unimportant he is relative to the universe. THere is no Antichrist, there is no Armageddon, it's all the demented ramblings of some mushroomhead on a Greek Island in the early Christian era. Please shut up.

`Mr AI' Peter Thiel Lectures about Antichrist in Rome

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