Toxic empathy and the spirit of antichrist
Christian philosopher René Girard once suggested that we face two kinds of evil. One is the far-right evil we have named “Satan,” and the other is the far-left evil we have named “Antichrist.” The idea is that Lucifer was openly prideful and power-hungry. The Nazis were possessed by a Luciferian spirit. But the far left […]
Tech’s most mysterious and controversial new account followed me on X. Is it the Antichrist?
Is it a bot or a human? The internet is a place where you can’t really tell for sure, and technologists debate it. Follow — the account that appeared out of nowhere and appeared to have keen inside information about impending breakthroughs in so-called “artificial general intelligence” or, more ominously, so-called “artificial superintelligence,” drew immediate […]