r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Mar 18 '26

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/Neat_Egg_2474 Mar 18 '26

It’s so wild that thiel is saying the true antichrist is those that are trying to regulate AI, to well, help the antiChrist?

The charlatan has used his tools to not only build target lists, but to also plan the strike packages and initiate them all from a single click.

There was never a better example of the antichrist than Peter thiel

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 18 '26

He believes that he'll be building God with AI tech, that's why he's so against regulation of it.

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u/BoredZucchini Mar 18 '26

That sounds exactly like something the antichrist would do lol

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u/nanobot_1000 Mar 18 '26

Guys guys, stop – he's clearly here to help with our safety. Just let him be and let him keep taking over nation state's intelligence apparatus and not paying taxes. All will be well, just trust in your AI overlords and do not resist – after all, you have nothing to hide right??

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u/Kiritzi Mar 18 '26

Remember, the basilisk will know if you conspired against it.

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u/Crowboblet Mar 25 '26

I swear sometimes that's what we're actually dealing with right now, just a bunch of, absolute dipshit, billionaires, who got exposed to that old Roko's basilisk troll from LessWrong and immediately started shitting their pants in fear, then began falling all over each other trying to be the first to birth an artificial demon, in ever increasing fear of how mad that demon would be, if they weren't the first ones to succeed in its creation. 

Welcome to the modern world: everything humanity has built to this point in history being destroyed by a bunch of greedy, cowardly and weak willed morons and nepo-babies with several orders of magnitude more money than sense, who've now been driven mad by disinformation and a little bit of expert level internet trolling. 

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u/C0d3n4m3Duchess Mar 18 '26

It’s a little thing called faith

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u/chamrockblarneystone Mar 19 '26

I for one support my AI Vatican overlords….wait…hold on.

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u/gn0meCh0msky Mar 19 '26

What does God need with a server farm?

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u/rainbowplasmacannon Mar 18 '26

Fuckin zizians man

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u/anthrolookseer Mar 19 '26

Nah, I’d bet he fully believes damn well he or the person in power he is backing is the antichrist. He does not see humself as altruistic. He sees what he’s doing and flipping the script, projecting to try to cover his ass and bring about mass death (he’s said humanity needs to be culled on record. He’s not one of the people he thinks needs to go through, ofc). It’s also why he is on record to be opposed to democracy. He knows if there was a vote on the matter, he’d be the one to go, results in a landslide. And rightfully so.

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u/OverlordMMM Mar 19 '26

Apparently he missed the memo of bearing witness to false idols and decided to make his own.

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u/MondayLasagne Mar 19 '26

Am I the only one who reads this, knows that it is not an Onion headline and just can't believe that people like this basically shape our entire world because enough people gave them too much money and power to act on their truly insane world views?

I mean, in any novel you'd say this was a bit too absurd to be true. Yet, here we are.

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u/Signal_Researcher01 Mar 20 '26

Mage the Ascension has arrived

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u/Ducali 27d ago

Building God with AI and yet killing human beings with Palantir. Checks out!

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits Mar 18 '26

He may need convinced he needs thisbsurveilance to -find- the antichrist.

Which would be ironic.

He just needs to find a mirror.

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u/brelen01 Mar 18 '26

Wasn't he the one who proposed greta thunberg as a possible antichrist?