the president doesn't have any fucking idea what's going on and the people around him running things are
1) digital millenarians who want to be the king of texas until they can get uploaded into AI heaven
2) regular millenarians who want white supremacy until they get uploaded into regular heaven
1) digital millenarians who want to be the king of texas until they can get uploaded into AI heaven
2) regular millenarians who want white supremacy until they get uploaded into regular heaven
April 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
the president doesn't have any fucking idea what's going on and the people around him running things are
1) digital millenarians who want to be the king of texas until they can get uploaded into AI heaven
2) regular millenarians who want white supremacy until they get uploaded into regular heaven
1) digital millenarians who want to be the king of texas until they can get uploaded into AI heaven
2) regular millenarians who want white supremacy until they get uploaded into regular heaven
again, a lot of the big AI boosters are essentially millenarians who believe the AGI god is around the corner and so all other concerns can be abandoned
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
again, a lot of the big AI boosters are essentially millenarians who believe the AGI god is around the corner and so all other concerns can be abandoned
it’s clear from both public statements and leaked private conversations that a majority of our wealthiest tech billionaires are fundamentally millenarians who believe the apocalypse is just around the corner and they intend and expect to be the few who survive it
July 17, 2026 at 5:54 PM
it’s clear from both public statements and leaked private conversations that a majority of our wealthiest tech billionaires are fundamentally millenarians who believe the apocalypse is just around the corner and they intend and expect to be the few who survive it
Definitely something to this. As govts regulate AI—that’s a well established response to new, disruptive, potentially dangerous technology—rely on cybersecurity experts, who’ve worked on these sort of risks for years, while keeping the EA/Rationalist/Longtermist millenarians as far away as possible.
The road to AI safety runs through cybersecurity.
September 20, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Definitely something to this. As govts regulate AI—that’s a well established response to new, disruptive, potentially dangerous technology—rely on cybersecurity experts, who’ve worked on these sort of risks for years, while keeping the EA/Rationalist/Longtermist millenarians as far away as possible.
They’re basically secular millenarians
February 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
They’re basically secular millenarians
Most of these guys are millenial millenarians.
September 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Most of these guys are millenial millenarians.
New version of the Aristocrats:
"There's a group of insane millenarians based on the belief that the machine god will destroy humanity and therefore they have to build it but *just right*, but otherwise blow up data centers, etc., etc. ..."
"What do you call your act?"
"The Rationalists!"
"There's a group of insane millenarians based on the belief that the machine god will destroy humanity and therefore they have to build it but *just right*, but otherwise blow up data centers, etc., etc. ..."
"What do you call your act?"
"The Rationalists!"
September 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM
New version of the Aristocrats:
"There's a group of insane millenarians based on the belief that the machine god will destroy humanity and therefore they have to build it but *just right*, but otherwise blow up data centers, etc., etc. ..."
"What do you call your act?"
"The Rationalists!"
"There's a group of insane millenarians based on the belief that the machine god will destroy humanity and therefore they have to build it but *just right*, but otherwise blow up data centers, etc., etc. ..."
"What do you call your act?"
"The Rationalists!"
AIPAC is Christian supremacist not Jewish supremacist. Christian millenarians who believe in the rapture are using Jews to colonize the Middle East for them and for US and European empire. The global Jewish diaspora does not endorse Israel. Christian money helped Zionists take over synagogues.
August 27, 2026 at 2:35 AM
AIPAC is Christian supremacist not Jewish supremacist. Christian millenarians who believe in the rapture are using Jews to colonize the Middle East for them and for US and European empire. The global Jewish diaspora does not endorse Israel. Christian money helped Zionists take over synagogues.
Thinking about a decade of evolution in gambling-inflected tech crazes—NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, prediction markets the nested doll of variously credible AI claims—got me thinking about millenarians and apocalypse cults and the rhetoric of the last chance, which is now text rather than subtext.
May 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Thinking about a decade of evolution in gambling-inflected tech crazes—NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, prediction markets the nested doll of variously credible AI claims—got me thinking about millenarians and apocalypse cults and the rhetoric of the last chance, which is now text rather than subtext.
The latter. Con men have always existed and work in somewhat predictable ways.
Tech cultists are literally unhinged millenarians with more power than perhaps any private people in history
Tech cultists are literally unhinged millenarians with more power than perhaps any private people in history
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The latter. Con men have always existed and work in somewhat predictable ways.
Tech cultists are literally unhinged millenarians with more power than perhaps any private people in history
Tech cultists are literally unhinged millenarians with more power than perhaps any private people in history
People are mad about this but you guys have to understand that Anthropic are millenarians who believe that ASI is the technology to end all technologies.
June 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
People are mad about this but you guys have to understand that Anthropic are millenarians who believe that ASI is the technology to end all technologies.
modern tech oligarchy being captured by rationalist cults is like if all the rail barons of the 19C were wacky occult millenarians, and justified their monopolies by saying they have to be the first ones to build a giant summoning pentacle out of railroads across the entire North American continent
September 25, 2026 at 5:25 PM
modern tech oligarchy being captured by rationalist cults is like if all the rail barons of the 19C were wacky occult millenarians, and justified their monopolies by saying they have to be the first ones to build a giant summoning pentacle out of railroads across the entire North American continent
Mormons and Millenarians and Anti-Masons, Oh My.
May 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Mormons and Millenarians and Anti-Masons, Oh My.
“It makes no difference, they’re all warmongers and corporate shills all the same” there is a categorical difference between having a middling bureaucrat and General Ripper filling up every slot in the middle and upper tiers of the civil defense bureaucracy. A death machine ran by millenarians.
January 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“It makes no difference, they’re all warmongers and corporate shills all the same” there is a categorical difference between having a middling bureaucrat and General Ripper filling up every slot in the middle and upper tiers of the civil defense bureaucracy. A death machine ran by millenarians.
guy who mixes up millenlais and millenarians
September 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
guy who mixes up millenlais and millenarians
Which of course is connected to some horrific religious wars in East Asian history b/c millenarians went and did what they usually do.
Agartha, for those of you keeping track, is a late 19th century European occultist invention which draws inspiration from the Buddhist myth of Shambhala, which is in turn essentially classic millenarianism (there is a hidden kingdom ruled by a true Buddhist king who will one day emerge)
This AI-generated image is making the rounds and normally I wouldn't even bother with something like this
However, it gives us the chance to talk about a fascinating sub-group of White Nationalism that believes a race of pure Aryans called Argathans live in the center of the Earth 🧵
However, it gives us the chance to talk about a fascinating sub-group of White Nationalism that believes a race of pure Aryans called Argathans live in the center of the Earth 🧵
June 14, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Which of course is connected to some horrific religious wars in East Asian history b/c millenarians went and did what they usually do.
Millenarians, millenarians everywhere
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Millenarians, millenarians everywhere
they should be called millenarians
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
they should be called millenarians
How do so many people see what is clearly a scam and instead immediately become millenarians?
July 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
How do so many people see what is clearly a scam and instead immediately become millenarians?
The rule that you shouldn’t shape the future if you don’t believe the future will ever happen applies just as much to AI millenarians as to anti-eco evangelicals.
August 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The rule that you shouldn’t shape the future if you don’t believe the future will ever happen applies just as much to AI millenarians as to anti-eco evangelicals.
not to be hashtag not all millenarians but seriously, not all millenarians
FLDS has an interesting relationship to technology (though not AI afaik, I've been off the beat for a while)
the spiritual warfare crowd has been about the miracle of television/radio for evangelicalism for ages
FLDS has an interesting relationship to technology (though not AI afaik, I've been off the beat for a while)
the spiritual warfare crowd has been about the miracle of television/radio for evangelicalism for ages
Could someone with the right background please explain to reporters how this is a very intentional attempt to reverse the traditionally strongly anti-tech and anti-surveillance aspects of Christian millenarianism, because I‘m afraid it may matter.
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
not to be hashtag not all millenarians but seriously, not all millenarians
FLDS has an interesting relationship to technology (though not AI afaik, I've been off the beat for a while)
the spiritual warfare crowd has been about the miracle of television/radio for evangelicalism for ages
FLDS has an interesting relationship to technology (though not AI afaik, I've been off the beat for a while)
the spiritual warfare crowd has been about the miracle of television/radio for evangelicalism for ages
I don't care about the sex cult aspects—consenting adults and all that—except to the extent it's behavior associated with millenarians (the world's about to end, live it up now); abusive gurus (I'm a prophet, I get to use people, it's for the greater good); and hubris (I'm beyond human emotions).
September 17, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I don't care about the sex cult aspects—consenting adults and all that—except to the extent it's behavior associated with millenarians (the world's about to end, live it up now); abusive gurus (I'm a prophet, I get to use people, it's for the greater good); and hubris (I'm beyond human emotions).