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This guy is obviously on drugs half of the time, his wealth shields him from reality and the yes-men around him let his crazy anti-humanist ideas fester in his mind and turn into religious psychosis. No need for AI here.

In any sane place, his hate of democracy and freedom would make him a pariah. Instead, he is the current US Vice President's mentor and most trusted advisor.

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One way to view AI-induced psychosis, is that it's just giving regular people access to the kind of sycophancy powerful people always had.

I believe the term is democratization?

It's wealth-induced psychosis. Still reassuringly exclusive.

Couldn't this antichrist stuff be his sane/rational strategy to manipulate the powerful but religious rightwing people under his sway? Is there evidence to assume he himself is on the verge of some kind of psychosis and not fully in control of his faculties?

My guess is it's just his megalomania playing out in a religious arena instead of a political or economic one.

I'm not sure battling the Vatican over interpretations of an obscure philosopher who mentored him back when he was an undergrad is the easiest way of winning over the religious right. Most of whom will happily go along with generic arguments about Peter Thiel's portfolio being essential to defeat Communist China and the woke libs. Treating Eliezer Yudkowsky as an irrelevant nutter probably works better on people with all kinds of views on religion and politics than attempting to elevate him to the status of antichrist

Its possibly just an SEO trick. People have been calling Thiel the antichrist for a long time.

I've listened to him and other people like him a lot, and my conclusion is that their brains are truly fried. I don't believe they are playing roles.

This is what concerns me. The VP is a protege of a billionaire who wants to end democracy.

> This guy is obviously on drugs half of the time, his wealth shields him from reality and the yes-men around him let his crazy anti-humanist ideas fester in his mind and turn into religious psychosis. No need for AI here.

You just described a good dozen or so VC/Tech Bros

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