Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist (www.theverge.com)

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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. [...]

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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 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.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Please don't conflate the mentally ill with these guys. They've clearly chosen to believe these things

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

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