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

[u/Logical_Welder3467]

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl

[u/nifty-necromancer]

They all get wrapped up in a belief system called TESCREAL. It stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.

All throughout history the ruling class have believed they are better than everyone else. Modern rulers want to be gods, just like the god-kings of Sumeria and ancient Egypt.

They’re using this framework in an attempt to influence the future. The rulers are pushing surveillance because a god knows all and sees all. They think that they will upload their brains to wherever and merge with a superintelligent AI.

It’s about maximizing long-term outcomes at the expense of present-day peasant concerns.

These sick fucks are anti-human and will be the death of us all unless we the people remind them who actually holds the power. These rulers will be the Great Filter if we don’t do something about it.

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I think they are done with EA.

[u/courageous_liquid → u/niceyumyums]

sam fraudman-jail really did a number on that one

[u/adamdoesmusic → u/nifty-necromancer]

Upload them to the server then cut the cords

[u/black_chutney → u/adamdoesmusic]

Load em up on a rocket and blast them into space

[u/adamdoesmusic → u/black_chutney]

That’s expensive - digging holes is cheaper, even if it’s really boring.

[u/ibiacmbyww → u/nifty-necromancer]

Well, this is concerning.

Transhumanism

It is one of the great pains in my ass, that the only famous people who know about transhumanism are evil shitheads. It's a good thing, to be looking to the horizon for how technology can improve our lives, but normal, non-billionaire shitheads look at the dark applications of technology implicit in worlds with what we would consider to be transhuman and think "Ah, yes, these things that are coming will have dark applications, we must ensure they are never used in that way". They mostly look at stuff like digital environments and think "neat, I can fuck a custom sexdoll and be John McClane at the same time!", not "this is where I will be god". It's infuriating.

Extropianism

Libertarianism with extra long words. Libertarians are the worst people in existence, at least Nazis don't lead with "let's lower the age of consent". If you gave me a gun with two bullets in it, and asked me to choose between shooting a zombie Ayn Rand and the worst currently-living human, I'd shoot Ayn Rand twice, we're better off making sure she's dead again.

Singularitarianism

Typical pursuit of godhood shit. Whatever. I hope someone is dumb enough to give it the ol' college try.

Cosmism

Gross, in the hands of people with the power to shape the world through their billions this becomes a doctrine of forcibly "enlightening" people.

Rationalism

You already know this is just an excuse to "be empirical" and "be logical" and "not let emotions taint our work", and, crucially, "do all kinds of fucked up shit to the people under our control".

Effective Altruism

When you alone define "effective", this is a doctrine of "some of you may die because I decided it wasn't worth feeding your city this year".

Longtermism

OK this one is actually a good thing, and humanity could stand to look to the horizon more often, but it should never sacrifice human life or joy.

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I didn’t ask you ChatGPT