PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is embarking on an unusual intellectual journey this fall—delivering a sold-out four-part lecture series on the biblical figure of the Antichrist. The private lectures, which will be held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, represent the latest evolution in Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

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    his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

    I don’t even know what to say at this point

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        Llike all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

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      He named his technology company after a wizard pondering orb wiretapped by LOTR-satan.

      Im sure theres some great jokes here but I don’t have anything snarky to say about it, I’m just tired.