One of the most sophisticated men in America taking ancient prophecies seriously.

Peter Thiel on Uncommon Knowledge Now.

I think it was Ivan Illich who said that in the time before Christ, there were many forerunners to Christ.

In the time after Christ, there will be many forerunners of the Antichrist.

So in some sense, it's a type. So Nero was a type of the Antichrist. So in some sense, it's a, it's a type. So Nero was a type of the

Antichrist, or maybe Napoleon was a type of the Antichrist. It's sort of a, you know, it's someone

which aspires for world domination to create, you know, the creation of this sort of one world

state. In some ways, Alexander the Great was sort of a pre-Christ prototype of the antichrist,

sort of very parallel.

Long term, the AI is going to be in charge, to be totally frank, not humans.

If artificial intelligence vastly exceeds the sum of human intelligence,

it is difficult to imagine that any humans will actually be in charge.

And we just need to make sure that AI is friendly.

I think in general, we're all grappling for the right words to describe the arrival of this very, very different technology to anything we've ever seen before.

The project of super intelligence should not be about replacing or threatening our species.

Like that should just be taken for granted.

And it's crazy to have to actually declare that.

That should be self-evident.

We might be able to give people,

if somebody's committed crime,

a more humane form of containment of future crime, which is if you say, like, you now get a free

optimist and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime.

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