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5 Feb 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
“I think if you take a maximalist doomer view of strong AI, then that’s effectively a theory of the Antichrist.”
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- 5 Feb 2025
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…Six years? Yes, and Donald Trump was president for a couple of those years. [laughter] I think to be an Antichrist fearer, you need to fear some power not yet fully in evidence. That power, if you want it to be non-supernatural, could be whatever — the machine-god view of AI. I think if you take a maximalist doomer view of strong AI, then that’s effectively a theory of the Antichrist. You could go back to our early discussion about the Sumerian gods returning and using the guise of aliens or something to enthrall us all. That could be a theory of the Antichrist. But those are theories of things not in evidence to me in the year of our Lord 2025, so I worry less about the Antichrist today than I did at various points recently. Should Peter just be an Opus Dei Catholic? He’s right-leaning. He doesn’t quite seem a Lutheran to me.…
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