RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116279437067918580

A crazed foreign billionaire who is currently 'searching for the Antichrist' wants to have unlimited access to our data....for what purposes?

#Palantir #UKPol #UKpolitics #PeterTheil #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires

#PeterTheil and #Palentir A Clear and Present Danger to Social Democracies. The #Swiss rejected the product, #Australia has not, and the #UK is in the middle of acquiring it for wide useage. If you think this all sounds like some sort of conspiracy theory, well, think again. PeteTheil who owns Palantir is a #Fundamentalist #Christian (aka #ChristoFascist) currently controlling the US propaganda machine in #tRump ‘s service. The same man who recently lectured on the #AntiChris in Rome (the Pope isn’t happy about it).

Also consider this: “The Nerve has identified a previous case in which Palantir claimed proprietary rights to data insights after its contract was cancelled. In the early 2010s, the New York Police Department contracted Palantir to help find high-profile targets using data scraping and analysis. In 2017, it cancelled the contract, but Palantir claimed its platforms – Gotham and Foundry, the same systems used inside the UK government – created a unique ecosystem that sat on top of NYPD data. That meant any analysis derived from those platforms was, they claimed, Palantir’s intellectual property.”

Read more here:
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets

#CyberThreat

Article in The New Yorker on how Nick Land has ‘has reemerged as one of the most influential reactionary thinkers of our time.’ And yet is also very much yesterday’s man. “They sounded like old fogeys,” said podcaster Justin Murphy, host of a 2020 LA conversation between Land and Curtis Yarvin, another influential neo-reactionary - an event that was also attended by Peter Theil. “We’ll remember this night as proof that the Dark Enlightenment is over.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher

#philosophy #theory #nickland #curtisyarvin #reactionary #petertheil

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

#Discord #Metadata #PeterTheil #AI #Tracking

I want to see Peter Theil and Paul Kingsnorth in a room together.

Theil states that the development of "AI" is heralding the Second Coming of Christ as foretold in the Biblical Book of Revelations He has stated that be believes that anyone who opposes the development of AI is an agent of the Biblical antichrist.

Kingsnorth believes that "AI" itself is the actual Biblical antichrist and the people developing it are agents of the Devil. Anyone who opposes "AI" is therefore carrying out the Lord's work.

They are both apparently very Christian men. You have to be a Christian to believe in the existence of the antichrist after all.

Their common frame of reference is their religion. This means that they cannot both be right as their views are in complete opposition. I guess they would accuse one another of lying about their faith and beliefs right at the start of the argument. Sooner or later the words "no real Christian" would be used, probably sooner. So would "you are In league with the devil".

Of course there is a (incredibly) high probability that they are both wrong at least in their choice of conceptual framework to attempt to describe the development of "AI". To my mind they are both co-opting the language and metaphors of a belief system they understand in order to attempt to describe the characteristics of something entirely novel. Even if there really is a god and every word of the bible is true I think they are both comparing apples to oranges.

To create this new conceptual framework there has to be an urgent debate on the morals and ethics of "AI" development. Of course this will draw heavily on existing areas of culture such as morals, ethics, epistemology, art, economics, politics, power, money and more. There is a need to expand these fields and invent new language and concepts to describe what is occurring and could possibly occur in the novel field of "AI" development.

Even if the terms of the debate are not fully realized debate is still possible using existing cultural and philosophical frameworks while the required new frameworks are created. Many people who take part in the existing debates about "AI" are convinced there is a significant risk that developing ever more "advanced" "AI" poses an existential risk to humanity and all of life on the planet. There are a vast array of ways this could come about from the mundane to the potentially insane.

It appears these concerns and views are often ignored or shouted down by capitalists, politicians and even the users of "AI" . It also appears that many of the people actually working on developing "AI" express the same deep concerns about the destructive potential of their work in private but carry on with their work regardless.

I guess that Kingsnorth would say these developers are agents of the Adversary and Thiel would say they are doing the Lord's work. I personally think the developers / managers / investors etc carry on regardless purely for prestige, fame and fortune. Those are all powerful and highly addictive motivations for doing anything and many people find them irresistible.

Personally I don't need religious metaphors to think about "AI". I think its creators are deluded fools and / or psychopaths. I think that people who generate slop are lazy and ignorant. I think that the people who accept slop as art are gullible fools.

For me at least the existential threat posed by "AI" slop is the destruction of all meaning in human art, culture and civilization. All art, culture and civilization is an expression of meaning. All humans derive meanings of all kinds from art, culture and civilization. They combine to create humanity itself.

Slop is meaningless gibberish based on a statistical analysis of prior art. The process of generating slop eliminates all meaning and produces mere "content". (That is a very telling word in my view)

When everything beyond an individual humans personal existence has no meaning what hope is there for humanity? In the past humanity screamed art, culture and civilization and most importantly meaning into the void in the hope that that other humans recognized and understood the message their screams attempted to convey. "AI" is the void screaming meaningless slop at humanity.

Perhaps we will merge with the machines and become one with God in Heaven as Thiel envisages. Perhaps "AI" / The Adversary will triumph and doom us all to endless torment as Kingsnorth predicts.

Both Kingsnorth and Theil are right that meaning and belief are vital to the debate. Their choice of belief system to frame the debate is the problem I have with their arguments.

I think humanity will go collectively insane. Humans need to believe that their actions are meaningful. When slop eradicates our belief in the power of art, culture, civilization and humanity to give meaning to our lives we will all go bug fuck insane.

#AI #Antichrist #PaulKingsnorth #PeterTheil #Palantir #Slop #Art #Meaning #ExistentalCrisis #Content

Peter Theil on using technology to win elections ... globally. Especially when your political viewpoint is a ti y minority. Fear is an appropriate response.

https://www.threads.com/@will.colorado/post/DUn3nPzkQWk?xmt=AQF0LYQyJFV7sVnPaDCd7-i3ig2Yh494vuM8w7GnOIPO0SWnYaT8pj0b8SVP9zjnCTepPl8J&slof=1

#PeterTheil #Elections #Democracy

Paul Kingsnorth's latest book #AgainstTheMachine has an interesting thesis.

Basically he says that the unstoppable rise of AI is the coming of the #antichrist from the bibical book of revelation.

Well if the #RaptureOfTheNerds ever does happen there will be a non-human intelligence that is superior to humans. I believe the terms weakly or strongly god-like are banded about by the "AI" adherents.

Its fairly obvious that the "AI" adherents are some form of cult. They behave like the followers of some bearded acid casualty living in the desert. They talk of "transcending" and "improving" humanity by merging our physical bodies and minds with machines. They want to make humanity anew in the image of what Kingsnorth calls "The Machine".

Kingsnorth himself is a convert to Orthodox Christianity from paganism and talks widely about his faith. He asks this question of the "AI" cultists, "What if this is not a metaphor?" Is the rise of "AI" really the actual return of the Adversary (as the devil / Satan) used to be called before Islamic eschatology was adsorbed into Christianity. Is the rapture of the nerds and the biblical rapture the same thing?

I am not a religious person whatsoever. I note the similarities in the use of language and metaphor between Christians and "AI" cultists. I guess the "AI" cultists are by and large Christian as many of them are from the former USA. They are steeped in the language, metaphor and culture of the Christian Church. Its easy for them to co-opt the language from the Church into "AI". Its also noticeable that #AntiAI people like me use religious language and metaphors. I call the "AI" #techbros cultists after all.

I am very concerned about the damage "AI" is wreaking in the technological, social, environmental, political and more aspects of human life. I think "AI" should be killed with fire right now. "Take off an nuke the site from orbit, its the only way to be sure" is a good idea in my book. Stop using and creating "AI" right now. Bury it deep underground like nuclear waste. Its just as dangerous after all.

I would like to see an debate between Paul Kingsnorth and Peter Theil. They both talk about the coming of the antichrist a great deal. Theil and Palantir can be seen the pinnacle of Kingsnorth's Machine in flesh and code form. I wonder if Theil has even heard of Kingsnorth and his book?

#AI #Antichrist #PaulKingsnorth #PeterTheil #Palantir #AICult #Singularity #Rapture