This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel — yes, that Peter Thiel — has argued that the End Times are nigh and that a biblical Antichrist — yes, that Antichrist — will come to Earth in the form of onerous government regulations placed on science, technology, and AI.

These are, incidentally, areas where the tech billionaire, venture capitalist, and cofounder of Palantir has a vested financial interest. […]


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      7 hours ago

      You cannot be super rich and have even half a soul. It is simply impossible.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s like the inverse of seeing someone with kind eyes and lots of smile/laugh lines and knowing they’re going to be cool. These people are hateful and miserable and spend their lives with the corresponding body language and it turns them into wretched swamp cretins.