Inside billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures: Warnings of 'the Antichrist' and U.S. destruction

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The Washington Post reviewed leaked audio from four off-the-record lectures the tech investor delivered in San Francisco over the last month that fused beliefs about religion and technology.

“In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI.

Thiel argued that critiques of technology and calls for stricter regulation by Thunberg and others appear to echo biblical interpretations of an Antichrist who will win power by offering the world “peace and safety” from apocalyptic destruction, according to the recordings.

The billionaire’s lectures were also notable as a forceful display of religiosity in an industry that has historically been secular. Christianity has recently become a significant presence in some influential tech circles, in part because of ACTS 17 Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading Christian principles inside the tech industry that organized the Thiel lectures.

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[Lovie777]

1. Well he's part of that.....................

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Railing against Luddites while scientists are fired en masse?

Guy is a looney tune.

[Autumn]

3. He's so fucking stupid.

[-misanthroptimist]

4. I think the Three Stooges said it best:

"Ah woo woo woo! Woo woo woo woo!"

[Ping Tung]

5. "You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" Mark Twain

[UTUSN]

6. Self-deleted my Dupe. Your source has better details.

THIEL is looking for the "antichrist," hasn't tried the mirror.
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Exclusive-Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity

.... Though the German-American entrepreneur is famous [sic] as Vice President JD Vance's political benefactor and as a technology investor, betting early on Facebook and co-founding Palantir, he has recently devoted time to presenting his theological views.

In particular, Thiel says he has grown wary that an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.

That figure, who Thiel says is augured by the Christian bible, would curtail individual freedoms and halt humanity's shot at a future innovation that would avoid Armageddon, Thiel believes. ....

After reading a 19th-century poem about how Jesus and Alexander the Great each died at 33, Thiel said in the present age the fastest means to power may be through wealth, noting that Gates became a billionaire at 31. ....

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[clevergrrrl]

7. I don't buy it

One bit. Thiel and other Silicon Valley tech moguls new found Christianity. These people are sinister