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Peter Thiel talking about the Antichrist

So he is talking about himself?

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Sociopath. He's trying to a) flip the reality of regulation versus tech (ie, $$) and b) get Greta murdered.

"Thiel argues that the time is ripe for the Antichrist to rise to power, promising peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation.

"He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist."

I'm not a follower of Jesus, but Jesus was right that all forms of wealth and power inevitably corrupt religion.
Religion can be a force for good—I have seen it happen many times—but all forms of religion wielded by people with wealth or power are by definition corrupt and harmful.
No billionaire can be righteous: it's impossible to become a billionaire without being a terrible person, and if you were a good billionaire, you'd spend your money helping people.
Ref: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115275600282920754

@johncarlosbaez despicable. I keep reminding people that if theil is worried by what the anti-christ is doing, he's gonna be even more worried when he hears what Jesus has to tell him

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Just another reminder that having a lot of money doesn't qualify a person to make decisions about policy and society that should be made by a democratically elected government with the council of experts.

People like Thiel and Gates aren't special visionary geniuses. They're in fact so intellectually and socially isolated that they don't even understand the material reality outside their own front door.

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They'll be disappointed when they find out the truth: There is no god and all that symbolism and signs are stupid bullshit. No god, no Christ, no antichrist. Just propaganda, attention seeking and misinformation. A scam.

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given the batshit insane things I heard from him, especially from a billionaire who owns palantir and other unethical companies, I wouldn’t put it past him to think that he himself is the antichrist.

seriously listen to his recent nytimes interview. He sounds fucking nuts. Like Trevor Goodchild nuts.

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The NVIDIA-OpenAI deal smells like the end phase of Dot-Com bubble. When investments dry out, and profits are not materializing, companies start to buy revenue.

But how much NVIDIA buys revenue? Below is my estimate, but maybe someone knows better.

NVIDIA promises to invest ~$10k/kW, when roughly 50% of a data center energy goes to actual compute. Lets assume Nvidia invests $20k/kW in their own hardware.

Using NVIDIA DGX B200 as reference:
Cost: ~$500,000
Power: ~14 kW
Total power use: ~28 kW
price/power: $17,000/kW.

Maybe I'm off a lot but with quick and dirty math any many assumptions it looks like they are buying their own hardware.

ps. NVIDIA has 70% gross profit margin. It costs for them only $150,000 to make $500,000 revenue. In more real sense they would be investing only $30 billion.

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I was surprised to learn that Thiel was a Christian, because he’s also famously into cryonics. Why would you need to freeze your body if you’re genuinely expecting to be resurrected by a deity who can actually do the job properly, rather than just turn your brain to mush?

But this article’s quite interesting, and entertainingly snarky:

https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion

Thiel’s Antichrist fixation fits a long tradition in American politics. Since the nation’s founding, Americans have sought to name the Antichrist—usually by pointing the finger at their political enemies. “The symbol of the Antichrist has played a surprisingly significant role in shaping Americans’ self-understanding,” wrote historian Robert Fuller in 1995’s Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession. “Because they tend to view their nation as uniquely blessed by God, they have been especially prone to demonize their enemies.”

@johncarlosbaez I do read my Bible, regularly. I am a Christian. A faithful one. I occasionally look up the differences between the Greek or Hebrew and the modern English translations. In short - I understand my faith.

If you'll excuse my language, this is awful self serving bullshit theology - and to call it a corruption of the Revelation of John (which plays both in symbols and prophecy) is doing a disservice to corruption itself. And that's not even touching 1 John's take on antichrists.

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"#Thiel argues that the time is ripe for the #Antichrist to rise to power, PROMISING PEACE & SAFETY ("ended 7 wars") by strangling technological progress with regulation."

Uh... I think I found him: 🤔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/climate/trump-climate-energy-united-nations-unga.html

@johncarlosbaez I like math. 1 = 1, always! Crazy = Crazy. It works!!

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Mh, okay. Then... "Hail Satan!", I guess?

@johncarlosbaez wrote:
> In these talks, Thiel argues that the time is ripe for the Antichrist to rise to power, promising peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation.

This is textbook deceitful agitprop.
They teach it in Agitprop 101.

And the theme of the imminent coming of the Antichrist is so old, it's trite.
(If I recall correctly, the end of the world was expected in the year 1000, a little over a millennium ago.)
As long as there are people who fall for that...

@johncarlosbaez Totally deranged.