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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:
The most dangerous man on earth is billionaire defense/spy agency/surveillance contractor (and JD Vance's sugar daddy) Peter Thiel. Here's more reason to believe that:
He is giving secret (!) lectures claiming that AI is God's chosen weapon against evil and anyone who opposes AI is literally helping the Antichrist (which he previously has said might be young environmentalist Greta Thunberg).
This isn't a metaphor; he means it literally. This from from a "Christian" who made his billions helping spy agencies, governments, and private companies spy on citizens using facial recognition, AI, and huge secret data collections (which is why he named his company Palantir after the technology JRR Tolkien's evil wizard Sauron used to spy on people and manipulate their beliefs). One of his products, "Palantir Gotham," is an intelligence tool used by police in multiple countries for "predictive policing" (ie, identifying who will commit crimes instead of merely those who already have committed crimes, as in the Tom Cruise sci-fi film "Minority Report").
But he thinks Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, not himself. And he owns JD Vance. And he's a huge Republican donor, including to Donald Trump.