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Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI "safetyism" as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as "Mr. Hyde", and Eliezer Yudkowsky as "more Luddite than Greta"

It's a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven …

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Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI "safetyism" as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as "Mr. Hyde", and Eliezer Yudkowsky as "more Luddite than Greta"

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