The stunt came eight days after Palantir’s co-founder called the pope a “useful idiot” for China. Not everyone in tech laughed, and some of the pope’s sharpest defenders came from inside the industry.
Saying AI is conscious is to deny the existence of God. A machine is a machine. Man has learned to manipulate living calls but has never created one from raw materials. The spark is God given life.
The same Peter Thiel who confuses Girard with Carl Schmidt and Leo Strauss to his own ends, not those of Girard. Perhaps his phrasing is more applicable to himself?
Thank you for the newsletter, Chris. No one should call Pope Leo an idiot. I am against AI. I will pray for Pope Leo and this nation.
I don’t think AI is conscious. Just my opinion.
Saying AI is conscious is to deny the existence of God. A machine is a machine. Man has learned to manipulate living calls but has never created one from raw materials. The spark is God given life.
The same Peter Thiel who confuses Girard with Carl Schmidt and Leo Strauss to his own ends, not those of Girard. Perhaps his phrasing is more applicable to himself?
And where is JD on all this? JD seems to consider himself a theologian extraordinaire, what are his thoughts on Eliano Younes’ hoodie?