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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Imagine not only believing in the anti-christ, but then also believing that LLMs are some accurate tool.
In truth all that Thiel is saying is that he’s a type of brain rotted Zizian cultist.
Delusional Rationalists are mentally ill, and for some reason when given LLMs they become worse. Thiel and others believe LLMs are time travelling gods.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he and Elon were in relationships with ChatGPT (or think they are). The Rationalist groups actually believe in thought-experiments like Rokos Basilisk (Roko was just a user on a Rationalist forum by the way)… So I think these old tech billionaires are just lost, broken, and evil. They’re pathetic, and should have their estates put into insolvency if they’re going to say mentally ill shit.
Ziz LaSota is the most Starwars sounding name I’ve seen this year.
Well, yeah. LLMs just affirm whatever you talk to them about. They have no logic, have no means to reason, no methods to challenge your prompt.
They’re like the ultimate yes men that sound even better than paid yesmen.
Please don’t conflate the mentally ill with these guys. They’ve clearly chosen to believe these things
It’s okay to hate on a person who is mentally ill when their untreated illness is causing so much harm.
Antisocial behavior is a symptom of mental illness great and small. Being a dick to someone online is a symptom of mild mental illness and should be treated with some tolerance—the person is likely to get over it. It’s like a coworker coming to work with a mild cold.
Destroying your perceived enemies financially, pouring your wealth into a global, digital surveillance machine and backing political puppets is a symptom of very severe mental illness that makes that person an existential threat to innocent people. It should not be tolerated. It’s akin to a coworker coming to work with Ebola.
Mental illness is a broad spectrum. Everyone has it to some degree at some point in their lives. It’s natural for the really dangerous versions to be treated with contempt and sometimes necessary to remove those individuals from society—like when their behavior is obviously hurting other people.
This reminds me of the wealthy family in Gravity Falls. The daughter is a jerk to the main girl, Mabel, for petty reasons and the parents are exclusive jerks who think they are above everyone. End of series, the parents make “bad investments” by trying to profit off the apocalypse the main casts fixes, leaving them destitute.
I hope this outcome happens outside of fiction. Not out of spite, but because I want people who have much to learn some humility and help their fellow man.
I’ve seen this happen in real life. They decide it wasn’t their fault at all. When it happened to them, it was purely a matter of luck, not wisdom. They expect you to feel sorry for them.
I have to admit a little shadenfreude that I’m not proud of. But it’s mostly just disappointing.
He doesn’t seem stoked at the chance to meet his boss. Can you blame the guy?
Fuck it, the Antichrist is already here.
And Denmark, yes, the country that many believe to be a liberal socialist paradise, but indeed very white, harsh immigration rules-supporting and ChatControl-proposing Denmark, is in a 7-year contract for this guy’s “Analytics AI solution” for its police, POL-INTEL, a custom implementation of their Gotham solution.
Of course today we see that he is in the Epstein files, new ones released by Congress.
This guy being the puppet master behind Vance and others, makes sense how they went so stupidly hard into the Epstein cover-up.
Shit, regulate the fuck out of AI if this ass pimple thinks it’s a bad idea
Well, the revelation of John the Theologian is happening before our eyes…
What always strikes me most about the whole mess of modern day US politics is the sheer madness of it all.
Still waiting for machine intelligence.
strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist
That is a chance I am willing to take.
I mean isn’t he exactly wrong? Unrestrained AI development is what could lead to the creation of a malevolent daemon with the potential to destroy mankind.
Let’s goooooo
strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist
oh that sounds bad!
no AI regulation will lead to misinformation and potentially a collapse of or at least significant degradation to society and here are legitimate theories with numbers to back them up as to why that’s the case
ah! hmm… yup… shit it’s just so hard to choose
I want both these things!
Funny thing is that most of the people who believe in the Rapture BS probably do want that to happen.
I don’t think this Thiel guy is as smart as he thinks he is.
According to the same mythos, we already have the antichrist
I thought he was supposed to be attractive and compelling
Well yeah, don’t you remember? Obama was the anti-Christ.
Have you seen the way his followers worship him?
Guess I’m a pious christian then lol
It’s a real convenient belief for him to have isn’t it? The way to end the world is to regulate me and my business in any way whatsoever. And people take him seriously. Can we all start doing this? Can you get out of traffic tickets this way? Tell cops that give you a ticket will end the world? Maybe I’ll tell the IRS that taxing me in any way will bring about the Antichrist
Oh so The Antichrist is regulation. Now it all makes sense. In a world where tech regulation is so obviously needed, he’s got to employ mythical themes of good vs evil to get people to believe the opposite.
