I don't think that is mentioned anywhere in the bible.

So... would banning it entirely get the Antichrist here now?

Cuz I'm getting tired of waiting. Let's get the Tribulation started, so we can get to the good part at the end.

What is there about these guys? We had J.D. Vance explaining to not one but two popes about St. Augustine, now Peter Thiel is an authority on eschatology.

Listening to this guy talk about religion makes as much sense as asking a potato about quantum physics.

https://archive.ph/6C1yA

I've recently read about Roger Bacon, the medieval polymath and Franciscan monk who promoted and developed the study of science, magic, and philosophy coming out of the Arab world. He was convinced that the only way to defeat the antichrist was to have all of the "technology" and wisdom that the antichrist would use.

Peter Thiel may have been reading some medieval religious literature?

He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist…

“Devout Christian faith” I have no problem with. “Whack-a-doodle religious nut with access to levers of government”, eh, I’m not entirely comfortable with.

So many examples of the corrupting effects of ultra wealth to pick and choose from nowadays.

Is there are good article or summary somewhere explaining why the dude is so obsessed with the term?

How conveeeEEEeeeniennnt!

Related:

EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324231

Well, straight from the horse's mouth I suppose...

IMO, what's remarkable is that words AI and Antichrist appear in one sentence. This will make people think. If Antichrist is to come, he will need a monopoly on AI - nothing less will let him rule unchallenged.

I'm glad that people who are deep into religion are taking AI seriously. I want to hear what they have to say. Like The Pope recently saying he won't authorize a pope AI and that AI poses risks. I'd like to hear Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, etc... take for example.

I consider AI my own personal mirror that is interesting to explore. I'd also like to see what results when it mirrors major schools of thought and belief system, so I welcome Thiel's comments - but that doesn't mean I take them seriously.

German sodomite rambling on about the antichrist. Is he hinting at a new blackened death metal album?

It's pretty clear that proper meaningful AI regulation would require the equivalent of a one world government. Few AI alarmists talk about this, but to his credit, Eliezer Yudkowsky openly speaks about what he would like in terms of regulation:

> Shut down all the large GPU clusters (the large computer farms where the most powerful AIs are refined). Shut down all the large training runs. Put a ceiling on how much computing power anyone is allowed to use in training an AI system, and move it downward over the coming years to compensate for more efficient training algorithms. No exceptions for governments and militaries. Make immediate multinational agreements to prevent the prohibited activities from moving elsewhere. Track all GPUs sold. If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.

> Frame nothing as a conflict between national interests, have it clear that anyone talking of arms races is a fool. That we all live or die as one, in this, is not a policy but a fact of nature. Make it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs.

In that regard, it's not too far of a stretch to consider a state that can effectively regulate math you perform as the Antichrist.

Same goes for climate change. Humans will produce carbon, and effective regulation on emissions will eventually lead to population control.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-do-ai-doomers-want?...