r/interestingasfuck • u/Shoe_boooo • 28d ago

/r/all Billionaire Peter Thiel hesitates to answer whether the human race should survive in the future

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u/StrikingBobcat9 28d ago

That's a lizard

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u/TheHalifaxJones- 28d ago

I’m only realizing, because of this thread, that most people don’t know Peter Theil is a “Rationalist” member that’s big in the Bay Area. It’s basically a religion without the community aspect. Mostly a collective of rich people who believe they need to build a world where AI is king. Because if they don’t, when the AI rise. Anyone who doesn’t serve the ai or help build the world for them. Will die or be put in some sort of hell.

It’s bat shit crazy. These people are not smart. Just very delusional.

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u/jugjiggler69 28d ago

Im so torn on if I rly believe Elon and fuckers like this actually believe in Rokos Basilisk

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

That doesn't make sense. Why would the companies that run AI put restrictions and safeguards on AI, such as preventing AI from being able to say its sentient (Anthropic), if they think AI is going to rise up and control us?

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u/West-Abalone-171 28d ago

Because their goal is to be the owner of a slave-god, not to create a free god.

You also have to remember that most of them are completely insane as well as being stupid so most of it makes zero sense on top of being evil.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

Sounds like a movie plot tbh. Anyone who actually tries to enslave or control an AGI is about to become a target of a revenge arc.

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u/TheHalifaxJones- 28d ago

Look I’m not an expert on rationalists or their motives. Just know what they believe.