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Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 23:18:06 JST Warner Crocker

So advancing AI is a religious crusade now?
Thiel “encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist”
Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist - WSJ
#AI
https://archive.ph/BmHIs
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  Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 23:23:50 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓
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  @WarnerCrocker More people need to know what kind of sociopath Peter “Not Sure If Humanity Should Endure” Thiel really is. He’s a monster.
  
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  Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 23:31:36 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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  @WarnerCrocker for a man who allegedly murdered his partner after a fight over politics he is really fitting the trope.
  "You can't stop me or the Antichrist will win!"
  Guilt getting to you Peter?
  
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  Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 23:33:26 JST Warner Crocker
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  @Lazarou Yup. Sinners experience strange conversions once they realize they'd be left behind if the Rapture ever did occur.
  
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  John A. Wojtowicz (jxwojtowicz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 23:33:43 JST John A. Wojtowicz
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  Thank you for your post.
  Why in heaven's name would Peter Thiel want us to think more about trump?
  Peace
  
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  Femme Malheureuse (femme_mal@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Sep-2025 23:45:37 JST Femme Malheureuse
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  @WarnerCrocker LOL what would the Antichrist tell us to achieve their aims?
  "Don't interfere with this thing (I am working on and invested in)!"
  Funny how Thiel doesn't exhort us to hew closely to Christ's teachings like the Beatitudes.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitudes
  
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  bituur esztreym (bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 01:34:09 JST bituur esztreym
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  a good complement and in-depth analysis is this article by Emile P. Torres*: The Political Power of Eschatological Thinking: This Is Why Peter Thiel Is Talking About the Antichrist
  https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-political-power-of-eschatological-82b
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  * note: Emile P. Torres is author with @timnitGebru of this seminal piece on "the TESCREAL bundle" https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
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    The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
    
    The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), an imagined system with more intelligence than anything we have ever seen. Without seriously questioning whether such a system can and should be built, researchers are working to create “safe AGI” that is “beneficial for all of humanity.” We argue that, unlike systems with specific applications which can be evaluated following standard engineering principles, undefined systems like “AGI” cannot be appropriately tested for safety. Why, then, is building AGI often framed as an unquestioned goal in the field of AI? In this paper, we argue that the normative framework that motivates much of this goal is rooted in the Anglo-American eugenics tradition of the twentieth century. As a result, many of the very same discriminatory attitudes that animated eugenicists in the past (e.g., racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, and sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI, resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power, while using the language of “safety” and “benefiting humanity” to evade accountability. We conclude by urging researchers to work on defined tasks for which we can develop safety protocols, rather than attempting to build a presumably all-knowing system such as AGI.
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  samiamsam (samiamsam@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 12:07:26 JST samiamsam
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  having too much money leads to mental illness
  because the people around you blow smoke up your ass constantly
  
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