Hansappreciator

These aren't genuine studies, but are instead marketing materials that resemble studies.

Guess you are not interested.

Thanks Peter, brave try

This is a pedantic, at best, claim.

If you want scholarly, informed, resources that aren't an ignorant billionaire talking out of his ass, I can provide those. If you aren't interested, kindly stop replying to this thread.

It's not in the Bible. The antichrist as a deceiving figure, a false jesus, as part of / a requirement of the "end of days", is an evangelical creation.

I can point you to Bible scholars talking about this topic if you're interested. There are many accessible videos on youtube, for example, from informed Bible scholars - of which Thiel absolutely is not.

There's a lot to mock here. Thiel is clearly out of his depth, unless we're going to pretend he's an informed Bible scholar now. And he's clearly not, since the Antichrist as a figure is an evangelical creation about 150 years old and is not in the Bible at all. That's without going into how Revelations, the "source" for Thiel's thinking at large, is itself simply a Jewish mystic condemnation of the Roman Empire.

The "mark of the beast", for example (666), is the result of an ancient Jewish mystic numerology game where they assigned each letter a numeric value to speak about people in code. 666 means Nero.

Regulation is the result of politics, and politics is the result (in democracies) of the inputs of every person in society. Dismissing regulation, or in Thiel's formulation, conflating regulators with the antichrist is therefore anti-democratic and anti-people. The anti-regulation side of SV, which comes from the libertarian / Randian utopia, is one of its least appealing and most ignorant aspects.

Signs of a bubble in this sector are everywhere. OpenAI is trying to fundraise a $5tn infrastructure buildout on $15bn in annual revenue. That's insane.

What's worse is that OpenAI and the other AI companies are all intertwined. The chipmakers are invested in the datacenter operators are invested in the software guys. When the bubble implodes - and it will implode - the good will go down with the bad, and that's what makes a financial crash a true crash.

I know the clickbait / rage articles about him. I want to know what actual HN users think.