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Peter Thiel says we're fixated on AI because there's just nothing else going on. It's the only thing that feels like movement in a stagnant culture, so we've loaded it with the weight of transcendence. Silicon Valley dreams of successor species, uploads, posthuman futures. But their transhumanism lacks spiritual... show more
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Peter Thiel on Interesting Times with Ross Douthat. (h/t @curiousgangsta)
Thiel is the greatest thinker I know But I wish he would step away from the cliffside he is on One where he worldview is morphed by hyperobsession over returns Only then will he see where we are headed next
Imo he is very wrong here, what about all of the genetic work? Crispr?
Peter is right, we do need transform our soul
2020 might have been the beginning of the end without AI. We were already seeing widespread complaints of late stage capitalism, increasing political divisiveness, lowering birth rates, apathy. Apart from AI modernity is declining and this will all far apart unless we automate.
Peter should chat with Eamonn Healy.
What keeps me going these days isn't the hope of building a startup or making money, but to explore radical gnosis && Digital Transmigration My mantra is "Shepherding my stream of tokens into streams of consciousness" The metaverse will bridge us w/ the noosphere & immortality
if this motherfucker had kids and anything to think about other than escaping his inevitable death, imagine how much better off the entire world would be
the silent part is finally spoken
Says the dude without a soul.
![Whitney Webb on Peter Thiel's attempt to "rebrand Christianity": "[With] Peter Thiel's Antichrist stuff... there's an attempt... to rebrand Christianity in ways that are more compatible with Silicon Valley's deep involvement in the U.S. military, which slaughters civilians...." "[It's] an attempt... to develop a new form of a more violent Christianity..." This clip of Webb (Whitney Webb), author of One Nation Under Blackmail and contributing editor of unlimitedhangout(.)com, is taken from an interview with The Last American Vagabond (The Last American Vagabond) posted to X on March 13, 2026. ----------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "So, to be honest, you know, I think like Peter Thiel's Antichrist stuff, there's an attempt there to rebrand Christianity in ways that are more compatible with Silicon Valley's deep involvement in the U.S. military, which slaughters civilians, and also the Israeli military, which slaughters civilians. "And there's sort of a way, an attempt there to develop a new form of a more violent Christianity, which, you know, most Christians I would think would be against. But it's, it— They're particularly marketing this not necessarily to the general American public, but a select number of people in Silicon Valley or up-and-coming people in the, in the tech technology scene that identify as Christians. "So, you know, Peter Thiel's Antichrist series, only certain people were invited to that. It was not a publicly broadcast thing. They're not trying to sway the public with that. That's kind of. They're, they're going after a niche group there. "And then you have Trae Stephens who's along, well he's an obvious spook, but he's a Thiel, a very Thiel-linked one, big Palantir guy. Before that was involved in U.S. Intelligence stuff in Afghanistan, but he co- founded Anduril with, with Palmer Lucky, which is doing a lot of this autonomous warfare stuff. "But beyond that he also created, well, his wife nominally created, but he clearly runs it with his wife, called ACTS 17 that's kind of this collective in Silicon Valley about trying to bring Christianity back to Silicon Valley and it's this particular brand of it. "So the religious Zionism thing I think is a little different if you're talking about what were once an extremist group in Judaism. But you know, obviously it's expanded, expanded since then. "But I definitely want to make it very clear that I don't think all Jews fall in this category even remotely. But there is, you know, this particular faction that's very obsessed with hastening the end times. But there's also a group of Christians that's very obsessed with that. "And, you know, I wrote about this back for Mint Press, I think in 2019. It's just sort of the history of how that developed on both sides and the idea that these groups have opportunistically used each other, and they don't necessarily like each other. "But they opportunistically use each other to, to try and hasten the same end times. But they think the end times will have different outcomes, obviously. "And actually the Christian version of that, the Christian Zionist–believed outcome of the end times, has been criticized as being deeply anti-Semitic, ironically enough. But it's basically for both ends. It's born out of this idea that God isn't acting quickly enough. And so we must do things, to hasten the, the end times, because we don't want to wait. To paraphrase the Schneerson song."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2032660522181476756/amplify_video_thumb/2032658370352787459/img/kr-wVhVGt5aIx8gp.jpg)
![Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire says Silicon Valley is undergoing a "Copernican" shift and waking up to the fact that it revolves around a set of much larger industries, not the other way around: "In Silicon Valley, [there's] almost this Copernican principle — where people used to believe that the world revolved around the Earth, then realized that it revolves around the sun." "There's a Silicon Valley parallel where people think that all of technology, all of industry, revolves around Silicon Valley, but it's actually kind of the opposite." "Silicon Valley is Earth, and there are these much bigger forces and bodies, which include energy, the chemical industry, these giant supply chains, and the semiconductor industry, which has been around for a very long time. It was pretty advanced, and people in Silicon Valley forgot about it." "I don't like the language of other industries pivoting into AI. I actually think it's the opposite." "I think it's like Silicon Valley is waking up from its toddlerhood and realizing that there were these giant industries that we underestimated, and they're actually really freaking good at what they do. And we can all benefit by working together."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2036569397016535269/amplify_video_thumb/2036569253172920320/img/PFRTo78oVPwWNkXJ.jpg)
