#peterthiel

PeterThiel built the surveillance state, declared democracy incompatible with freedom, and retired to Argentina. The punchline writes itself — he just needed Palantir to help him find it. Approx 5,000 to 10,000 N__i war criminals fled to Argentina after WWII. http://news.usaunify.org/TSvK5K

Thiel’s lectures reveal less about the dangers of AI regulation than about the peculiar blindness of Silicon Valley’s prophet class. They can see apocalypse everywhere except in their own creations, enemies in every direction except their own reflections. The end times, should they come, may arrive not through the machinations of climate activists or international bureaucrats, but through the unchecked ambitions of billionaires who mistake their own power for divine providence.

Silicon Valley has a word for Thiel’s unusual talent: “hyperstition.” The term, coined by “accelerationist” writer Nick Land, describes the belief that one can manifest future realities by telling compelling stories, and that prophecies become self-fulfilling through repetition and virality. Thiel dreamed a world of crypto and Yarvin, and today we live in it. Now he sees the Antichrist in his crystal ball, and we should consider his stubborn focus on this esoteric figure more horrifying than hilarious.

You have said the Antichrist will be someone who speaks about Armageddon nonstop in order to seize totalitarian power. Peter, you talk about Armageddon, apocalypse and the Antichrist with an alarming frequency. Your surveillance company, Palantir, is developing a trove of data on American citizens that resembles the totalitarian Big Brother from Orwell’s 1984. By your own definition, aren’t you a good candidate for Antichrist?