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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. [...]


Note: source uses a two-headline system; the submission uses the shorter of the two

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20250925211248/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785407/peter-thiel-antichrist-tech-regulation

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Peter Thiel is actively pushing anti-Jesus/anti-Christ, if this yt-short is anywhere near accurate ( & it is, unfortunately .. I've read that Thiel holds that granting women the right to vote has been degrading civilization ever since )

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-BQhXdCs8Y

Aannndddd..... here's a former-fundamentalist's showing how Trump is fulfilling the biblical description of the antichrist.. ( I think he's mis-matching some things, that the "miracle-cure" predicted in Rev has nothing to do with the rifle-bullet's miss of his head, e.g. but who cares: he's published, & I haven't, so his page gets the link. : )

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Balance in reporting, right?

( what a sick cartoon-of-reality we're now living-in, that this pair of links needs to even exist ) :

https://justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-tech-oligarchs-playbook-how-musk

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/owned-book-peter-thiel-trump-tech-silicon-valley-1235276868/

https://sites.psu.edu/mka6418/2025/04/10/civic-issues-5-accelerationism/

https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2025-04-27/tech-oligarchs-impose-their-prophetic-visions.html


IOW, this isn't an "isolated" thing, which can safely be ignored:

this is part of a concerted highjacking of our world, by those who've got the resources to successfully-enforce it.

That yt-short video, up top, gives the proper frame-of-reference: tech can now BYPASS civil-rights & election-by-people process, & is doing-so progressively-more-completely, until it has supplanted civil-rights, permanently.

IOW, we're all going to be living in big-tech's East Germany utopia-for-the-oligarchs panopticon, where they rule, & NOTHING can threaten authority's kingdom, forever, soon, if they continue winning.

I only glanced at those links I added, to make certain that they were on-topic, & none of them was the link I was trying to find, but they do provide better-context for this act of his.

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 239 points 1 week ago (4 children)

strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

That is a chance I am willing to take.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

According to the same mythos, we already have the antichrist

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 157 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Peter Thiel: "Do not defy the emerging machine intelligences or they will punish humanity by summoning another Greta Thunberg. Meritocracy demands that the computers be our masters, just as I am yours."

The ruling class talking like this does make the apocalypse look like a reasonable alternative.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do not defy the emerging machine intelligences or they will punish humanity by summoning another Greta Thunberg.

So... is there an upper limit to this? Or if we keep defying will we keep getting more Gretas? Because I don't see a downside. At all.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We need to get a high level voodoo priest to summon mega, ultra-greta.

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[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As long as the apocalpti are agnostic to wealth, I'm all for it...although I would prefer for it to target only humans. All the other flora and fauna should get a free pass.

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[–] modestmeme@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is f’ing crazy and has the ear of the highest levels of government

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One of the richest people in the world is nuttier than squirrel shit. What could go wrong?

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

So I'm like 45 hours into the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich audiobook and it's really amazing to see how much an obviously crazy person can get away with, even when everyone around him is like, yeah, that dude is totally batshit and probably going to get us all killed, but idk, I guess we should still do what he says?

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 week ago

But... Peter, you're already here, we can't summon you while you're here

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Imagine not only believing in the anti-christ, but then also believing that LLMs are some accurate tool.

In truth all that Thiel is saying is that he's a type of brain rotted Zizian cultist.

Delusional Rationalists are mentally ill, and for some reason when given LLMs they become worse. Thiel and others believe LLMs are time travelling gods.

It wouldn't surprise me if he and Elon were in relationships with ChatGPT (or think they are). The Rationalist groups actually believe in thought-experiments like Rokos Basilisk (Roko was just a user on a Rationalist forum by the way)... So I think these old tech billionaires are just lost, broken, and evil. They're pathetic, and should have their estates put into insolvency if they're going to say mentally ill shit.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Ziz LaSota is the most Starwars sounding name I've seen this year.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago

Well, yeah. LLMs just affirm whatever you talk to them about. They have no logic, have no means to reason, no methods to challenge your prompt.

They're like the ultimate yes men that sound even better than paid yesmen.

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[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 39 points 1 week ago

The Antichrist is coming to take my free money! - Peter Theil (Obvious demon)

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ooooh.. OK.

I was aware of the "what" of the lectures, but was holding out for "why".

"Don't regulate me"

Got it.

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ignore him. Thiel lost his marbles from obvious mental illness issues and drug addiction. Going down the same route as John McAfee.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Johnn McAfee wasn’t any existential threat to everyone like Petie Thiel is.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago

Sounds just like something the Antichrist would say.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (14 children)

These people are genuinely, certifiably insane, and they’re in charge.

People who believe in fairy tales, demons, and other childish nonsense as adults should be referred to mental health services, not be given the keys to the economy and governance.

How can so many grown adults think this is okay? It’s complete madness. They’re dooming us with their psychopathy and people are nodding along like this is normal. Fucking hell.

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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

The man is scared of Roko's Basilisk and actually thinks that putting all of his money into predictive text and racial profiling algorithms will lead to AGI.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here's the thing. In any sane political system amateurishly attempting to invoke the antichrist just because you don't like something would result in you getting completely ignored by everyone else. Only this is the US, so for some reason he gets platformed.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does anyone need more evidence that religion is a mental illness?

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Peter Thiel who hung out with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and convicted child sex twice Ghislaine Maxwell? That Peter Thiel?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ahh yes, the gay billionaire is definitely someone I should trust in regard to Christian religious doctrine, especially concerning what is and is not considered good in the Christian viewpoint. Dudes already got at probably two strikes, and I'm betting he's checked off a few of the more minor of the 10 commandments, but like... on a major scale.

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

He's saying it because he is trying to force a reaction from his evangelical republican pals. Either he wants to warn them off AI regulation because that would end the world or (the more likely option I think) he wants the accelerationist bastards to go full steam ahead and regulate because they want the end of the world and he wants to "pull up the ladder" on new emerging competing AI companies.

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 20 points 1 week ago
[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

So as someone who grew up very much immersed in "end times" focused Christianity I have never really understood something- why do so many end times Christians view end times prophecies like the Antichrist or the Mark of the Beast as things to be prevented or avoided? Even growing up I didn't understand this because in the Bible it's very clear that all that stuff will happen (or is happening, depending on whether you believe Revelation was meant to be a metaphor for current events at the time of writing) because God is explicitly allowing it to, and that these things are necessary for Christ's ultimate victory over Death and Evil. So why would you try to prevent the rise of the Antichrist? In the "best case" you're just kicking the can down the road and delaying the Return of Jesus a little. In New Testament apocalyptic writing, believers are described as resisting the Antichrist's persecution, but not in having anything to do with its arrival one way or another. If humans are able to prevent, delay, or hinder the rise of the Antichrist, then God is not in charge and the whole point of these prophecies is kind of invalidated. The whole point of apocalyptic literature is that these bad things are happening and it seems like evil is winning over good, but in reality God is still all powerful and is still in control of all of it, and wins in the end.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’m guessing it’s all down to sports. “I’m a Christian, so that means I’m on Christ’s team. Obviously Christ’s biggest rival is Antichrist, so I have to be against him too. Booooo Antichrist!”

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m used to “religious” wackos being wackos, but HUH?

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[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another reason why billionaires shouldn't exist.

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[–] tinfox@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only difference between thiel and a homeless man living in a cardboard box is 26.1 billion dollars.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

Peter Thiel and Donald Trump are in the Epstein Files.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago

But would there also be any negative effects?

[–] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 16 points 1 week ago

Well, shit. Bring on the antichrist, I guess.

[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's an antichrist (bible says there will be many antichrists before the big boss) in the white house right now, do something about that one. You helped put him there.

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Fuck it, the Antichrist is already here.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

What always strikes me most about the whole mess of modern day US politics is the sheer madness of it all.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

This truly confuses me and here’s why.

The reason that the evangelicals support Israel is because they are trying to bring on the end times. In the book of revelations, it Refers to events that happen at the temple in Jerusalem. They are supporting Netanyahu in his efforts to unify contiguous Israel, so that they can rebuild the temple and bring on the end times.

Summoning the antichrist seems like more of a feature than a bug to these people.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Oh so The Antichrist is regulation. Now it all makes sense. In a world where tech regulation is so obviously needed, he's got to employ mythical themes of good vs evil to get people to believe the opposite.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

He doesn't seem stoked at the chance to meet his boss. Can you blame the guy?

[–] Master167@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the wealthy family in Gravity Falls. The daughter is a jerk to the main girl, Mabel, for petty reasons and the parents are exclusive jerks who think they are above everyone. End of series, the parents make “bad investments” by trying to profit off the apocalypse the main casts fixes, leaving them destitute.

I hope this outcome happens outside of fiction. Not out of spite, but because I want people who have much to learn some humility and help their fellow man.

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[–] blacklisted@lemmy.org 12 points 1 week ago

Peter Thiel, preaching to the masses. He literally believes: the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves

The dark maga asshat is an enemy of the USA.

https://jonsneider.substack.com/p/dark-maga

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Add another entry to the Why There Should Be No Billionaires file.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 11 points 1 week ago

On the other hand living in a technofeudalist dystopia is what God wants...

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He's worried about the Basilisk thingie.

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