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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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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Modern humans haven't been around for millions of years, you seem to have replaced one faith with another.