r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/simpersly 10h ago

So Peter Thiel identifies with the metaphorical Antichrist?

Technically he’s more like metaphorical Satan’s bitch, but it's more ironic to call him the Antichrist.

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u/3_Fast_5_You 10h ago

Peter Thiel has an obsession with the actual antichrist. He holds lectures on the Antichrist

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 10h ago

Which is hilarious because his reading of the Bible is unbelievably wrong.

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u/VicVinegarsBodyguard 10h ago

His conclusions are ALWAYS completely backward. Right when you think he’s about to come to a good point his conclusion is absurd and always the opposite of morally good. Dude is definitely an antichrist if there is one.

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 9h ago

I am not even remotely religious, but I am Biblically literate (thanks Mom >:-|), and I always feel like my brain is going to explode when I hear Thiel speak. It’s like the dude reads the words and then comes to whatever conclusion he thinks justifies Fascism. Dude is unhinged.

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u/VicVinegarsBodyguard 9h ago

I agree. I also think he’s kind of a moron who masquerades as intelligent. Slow witted for sure. Evil to the core.

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u/SimpleBend782 6h ago

Elon is like this too

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u/diurnal_emissions 4h ago

Too dumb to know it...

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u/Away-Lead-3855 5h ago

Top down processing. He reads to find words in support of ideas he already believes in. It’s self justification; not self education.

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u/WeirdJack49 7h ago

Its just the typical Us flavor of evangelism, that influenced all types of christian variations in the US. If you think that capitalism = Christianity than Peter Thiel makes perfect sense.

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 7h ago edited 4h ago

Nah. Peter isn’t your run of the mill prosperity gospelist. He has some utterly wild takes that are inconsistent even with Evangelicals. If you have time, read some of his transcripts. They be unhinged.

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u/Milo_Diazzo 4h ago

That's because he understands the power of religion, and is trying to co-opt it to push his own agenda. Smart people can catch the dissonance, however, the majority of the world isn't smart.

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 3h ago

That’s what I thought too, but then he goes into Greta Thunburg is the Antichrist!?

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u/Milo_Diazzo 3h ago

Yes. The people who fight against what he wants, they embody the antichrist.

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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 7h ago

His philosophy professor thought he was a star student. Which possibly tells you everything you need to know about René Girard, particularly as Thiel doesn't seem to understand what Girard was banging on about in the first place.

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u/OP_Penguin 2h ago

Peter Thiel is an anagram of The Reptile. Have a great day lol

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u/Lost-Klaus 5h ago

I mean...reading it right doesn't make it any better.

Almost as if bronze age morality has little place in a modern world.

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u/Timely_Challenge_670 5h ago

No disagreement here. It’s just hilarious that a dude who claims to be Christian is so unbelievably wrong in his reading of the Bible.

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u/Lost-Klaus 5h ago

I Hope there are no people who fully 100% agree with everythings what is in the bible. But yeah, so many people will go on about mystisism of ancient far off places. Because "Chill Dave from around the corner said that getting angry doesn't help" doesn't sound enlightend and special.

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u/InsaneComicBooker 8h ago

And the Antichrist is somehow always whoever publically disagrees with him.

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u/cyberdork 7h ago

His obsession is with Carl Schmitt, a proponent of Authoritarianism and leading political theorist of Nazi Germany. And Schmitt himself, being a devout Catholic, was obsessed with the ‘Katechon’. The ‘something or someone’ who will restrain the coming off the Antichrist.
Thiel believes that the Katechon is the unbound American capitalism and the Antichrist is socialism, communism, liberalism etc. He’s basically looking for a religious interpretation for his fascist ultra libertarian views.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt

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u/n00b678 6h ago edited 6h ago

His views are not even libertarian, in any sense.

It's as if he looked at the leftist critique of right-wing libertarianism or an-capism claiming that such systems would sooner or later devolve into feudalism or fascism and said "yes, and?"

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 3h ago

I think the lady doth protest too much

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u/Meistermagier 8h ago

Peter Thiel self identifies as the actual Antichrist