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Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist (www.theverge.com)
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This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel — yes, that Peter Thiel — has argued that the End Times are nigh and that a biblical Antichrist — yes, that Antichrist — will come to Earth in the form of onerous government regulations placed on science, technology, and AI.

These are, incidentally, areas where the tech billionaire, venture capitalist, and cofounder of Palantir has a vested financial interest. [...]

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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20250925211248/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785407/peter-thiel-antichrist-tech-regulation

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[–] 32 points 10 months ago (4 children)

These people are genuinely, certifiably insane, and they’re in charge.

People who believe in fairy tales, demons, and other childish nonsense as adults should be referred to mental health services, not be given the keys to the economy and governance.

How can so many grown adults think this is okay? It’s complete madness. They’re dooming us with their psychopathy and people are nodding along like this is normal. Fucking hell.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Alright smartypants, what WILL summon the Antichrist, then?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Which antichrist?

    I think manipulating an emperor into adopting your kid as an heir worked once. Another time, tricking people into thinking you’re socialist then backstabbing them worked. Or perhaps whitewashing your record of abject failure by becoming a reality television star.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Nah all myths are abstract descriptions of systems and processes. They were never meant to be detailed.

    The real madness is not updating these myths to today's standards and taking everything that was written literally thousands of years ago as inarguably correct.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The Christofascist, but Zionazi first, Ted Cruz appeal to both this legislation and Israel supremacy for all actions is a ploy that has been working.

    Just because it sounds non-sensical to you, the pastors on the payroll, will get MAGA to lobby congress to prevent summoning the anti-christ, and then, is successful corruption of America insane? Or is it Trump circling finger around forehead smart?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I don’t disagree that it works. That’s what I mean – a disturbing number of people buy this obvious bullshit, mostly because they were indoctrinated into it, so their critical thinking was compromised before they had the chance to discern fiction from reality.

    It’s sad, and tantamount to child abuse, and now we all have to deal with the shitshow caused by people who believe in fairy tales and will make us all pay for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Very few human brains see a moral line between pride and supremacism. Religious adherence is a proud act. The appeal of christofacism means it is easy to deliver souls thinking they are given to god, to any and all demonic gaslighting that pays the religious order/pastor to gaslight their flock. The business of religion is to gaslight people into giving you their souls for your power and profit.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, but no gods exist, so all belief, no matter how seemingly benign, is delusional and harmful.

    It’s only a small step from seemingly benign belief to this dangerous delusion, and it only takes a charismatic leader saying the right words to turn that belief into violent fanaticism. Otherwise good people will commit or support atrocities based on these delusions.

    People don’t support horrific things because they’re moustache-twirling villains – they think they’re good people supporting good things, and these beliefs convince people to do horrific things by twisting their minds.

    That’s been the case for thousands of years.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    no gods exist, so all belief, no matter how seemingly benign, is delusional and harmful.

    I can't prove god, but am sure that if there is one, it is humanist and idealist. It's possible to see Jesus as trying to empahsize this, unlike Hasbara Moses declaring there is no god above insignificant minor Canaanite god, and commanding his followers to go kill everyone else and destroy their idols.

    The point is not that humanism and idealism is delusional and harmful, whether or not it comes from God. It is that "idealism as a sales pitch" to steal your soul for megalomania profits is too easy. It's not Jesus's fault that fanaticism makes us want to go kill everyone who "doesn't believe in thou shalt not murder" as much as our powerful in-group.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I strongly disagree. All incarnations of Abrahamic gods have been vengeful and cruel, including Jesus.

    Believe it if you like, but a loving god is a retcon, and your own texts prove that.

    Humanism is the absence of an authoritarian deity. The reason humanism exists is because we are a cooperative species that’s helped and fostered each other for millions of years. We have archaeological evidence of this that far predates any notion of modern gods.

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