Peter Thiel
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1,088 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Peter Thiel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can think of it as a system, you know, where maybe communism is a one-world system.
It's sort of the final dictator of the one-world statement.
I worry a lot about the unknowns.
I don't think we can predict everything for sure, but precisely because of that, we're trying to predict everything we can.
We're thinking about the economic impacts of AI.
We're thinking about the misuse.
We're thinking about losing control of the model.
But for the first time in history, we can actually imagine human beings destroying the world.
Now also,
We have the mechanisms that would make world government, a gigantic global surveillance state, is plausible.
That seems plausible too.
On its own, they both seem not that desirable.
Why would we have a crazy surveillance state?
Why would we, you know, why would we do this?
Yes.
That is the future we could see if we don't become aware of this problem now.
If you're scared enough of these things, that's the weapon.
And this is sort of where my speculative thesis is that if the Antichrist were to come to power, it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time.
The slogan of the Antichrist is peace and safety.
I think it is an experiment.
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