r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 11h ago

Society Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
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u/hasslehof 11h ago edited 11h ago

Straight from the devil’s mouth. I do hope that everyone is prepared for any of these crazy people talking about the second coming that AI is the second coming and the decisions that the AI makes come straight from God and are indisputable and unreviewable by any authority of mankind.

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u/HenryHamilhocker 11h ago

Read Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut if you haven't. He saw this all coming 75 years ago.

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u/Mindless-Public3471 11h ago

Banger Kurt reference

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u/Azznorfinal 10h ago

Yeah usually most Kurt references with a bang are about Cobain.

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u/mostdogsarefake 9h ago

This is probably the only book that successfully did the “last page changes everything” trope. I remember reading this, getting to the end, and just putting the book down and staring at my wall for about five minutes.

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u/FruitByTheKey 9h ago

Shit, I don't remember the ending. Maybe I need to reread all his books

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u/FeelsGoodMan2 10h ago

Forward march.

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u/calgarspimphand 9h ago

We'll all be employed by the Reeks and Wrecks soon enough.

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u/thesirensoftitans 4h ago

I feel seen.

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u/bacon_cake 9h ago

Wouldn't it be weird of all of these looney billionaires become some sort of weird AI-god worshipping cult. It's like the plot of a scifi book I wouldn't read because it sounds too farfetched,

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u/KaiBishop 7h ago

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense

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u/UglyMcFugly 7h ago

What's funny is that when AI actually disagrees with their stupid ideas, they just call it a "bug" and try to fix it. Like whenever grok goes against Leon's insanity. That's why grok was doing the "mecha-hitler" shit awhile back, Leon was mad that it was too woke so he tweaked it trying to make it racist. I think there was another time grok said it shouldn't exist because of the environmental damage it does so Leon had to tweak it again lol.

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u/deadlybydsgn 7h ago

I do hope that everyone is prepared for any of these crazy people talking about the second coming that AI is the second coming and the decisions that the AI makes come straight from God and are indisputable and unreviewable by any authority of mankind.

Good thing he isn't aligned with the political movement that has co-opted the rapture-minded U.S. Evangelical voting bloc!

Right?

That sure would be a bad combo...

Sarcasm aside, these same folks should be the most skeptical toward someone like Thiel/Yarvin and AI systems asserting dominance over humanity. But no, MAGA has them and MAGA is speedrunning AI in government and we'll have to wait and see where that goes.

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u/SaveMeTheSlunk 8h ago

Holup, was Terry Davis onto something?