resipsaloquiturPalantir CTO says AI doomerism is driven by a lack of religion
StevePeter Thiel (CEO of Palantir) realised the religious right are a fanatical base of support if you can get them on your side. So that’s what he’s trying to do.
Oh no, it’s even worse. He actually believes in the religious stuff he’s talking about. Not just a manipulative schemer, a true believer.
He believes something incredibly toxic and nuts, but I’m not sure it’s exactly that Christianity is “true,” but rather that it’s just so incredibly useful that it might as well be, and therefore it’s not hypocritical to espouse it with gusto, regardless of what you think about the supernatural.
