The New York Times on Monday published a blockbuster report detailing how US President Donald Trump’s administration gave the United Arab Emirates access to high-powered artificial intelligence chips just days after receiving a massive investment in Trump’s cryptocurrency startup.
As the Times report documented, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) ruling family, had one of his investment firms deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, the startup founded by members of the Trump family and the family of Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
Just two weeks later, wrote the Times, “the White House agreed to allow the UAE access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, a crucial tool in the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence,” despite national security concerns about these chips being shared with China.
NYT Archive Article: https://archive.is/IIcca
This is actually how I’ve been thinking about it.
I still don’t believe a God exists, but if he does he’s an absolute piece of shit. Sounds about right for the world he supposedly created
I like the Gnostics’ take on this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
The Old Testament God (Demiurge or Yaldabaoth) is explicitly a force of chaos and evil separate from the True God (Monad), who is just an absent father. The Demiurge, and by extension all of material existence, is either separate or directly opposed to the Monad.
How does free will factor into this worldview?
If we’re supposing a God exists then I suppose my free will is limited to what their intentions were for my existence.