Effective altruism has more than its share of critics. But Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal and Palantir, is unusual in that, when he describes us as the “Antichrist,” he does not mean this as a generic slur but rather as a specific claim that we oppose Jesus Christ in the Second Coming.

O-kay...

My attempted secular version of his argument:

But ... why?

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

With his all-consuming fear of death, Thiel is about as far from being a Christian as one can get. All his antichrist talk is a nakedly transparent attempt to gas up the rubes so they remain on the side of the billionaires even after Trump gives up the ghost. He doesn't believe a single thing he's saying.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Having spent too much time listening to his shit, i don't think it's purely propagandistic, what he describes is too esoteric to work as effective propaganda, I think some of it is Nazi-being-drawn-to-the-occult type of shit.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah I used to think he was a brilliant manipulator but I actually listened to some of his words and yeah he's just bonkers and has enough money that it doesn't matter that he's bonkers.

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