Christians in the Silicon Valley who want to build “heaven on earth”

Thiel made almost identical comments on a 2015 controversial article This technological progress must be accelerated. He wrote that science and technology are natural allies from “Western Jewish optimism”, especially if “we remain open to the Eschatological framework in which God works through us to build the kingdom of heaven today, here on Earth.”

But what does Thiel, Trae Stephens and other strong technical figures mean when they say it is possible to build a Christian paradise on this planet? For Trae, the idea is practically literal, and it speaks through its concept “good tasks”, which was first identified in article Cowritten with entrepreneur Market Wagner in 2022.

In the article, Trae and Wagner argued that Silicon Valley was in a “nonsense”. Entertainment such as “getting out of your first start starting only to enter investment capital”, “The Chair of Philosophy on Twitter”, and “yachts between emails in actual retirement at the age of 35” are examples of bad tasks. On the other hand, good tasks address severe and complex problems, and lead to progress in manufacturing, artificial intelligence and the extension of human life.

After the article appeared, True said that a man approached him and shared him that he was trying to solve an important problem by building the NFT market. This is true there, I told the audience at the 17th Acts, an example of a bad pursuit. He said: “The human mind can convince you of anything you do is a good endeavor.”

TREE, who was running the Transition Defeense Defense team for President Donald Trump during his first term, used the same good task framework for bad to explain the reason for his recent rejection of the opportunity to work as US Defense Minister. She explained that very little things in life should be able to take you from “yes” or your good endeavor. “I think the reason” No “was to understand what it was” yes “.

Alex Carb, CEO of Palantir, recently criticized what Likewise described it as an ethical crisis In the technology industry, the fact that the capital and the “hordes of the talented engineers” was wasted “they were the mere building of photo sharing applications and chat interfaces for the modern consumer.” Carb added that the “prevailing non -age” of the modern era “paved the way for the market to fill the gap.”

Karp refers to the carp, instead of spiritual. But like Trae Stephens, the technology sector believes has focused very on solving trivial problems and ignoring the most urgent issues in society. Carb said that the problem can be solved by rebuilding the United States from A to Z as the Republic of Technology. (This is supposed to include infection that sells its technology to the government.)

The Gulf region, where the Silicon Valley is overlapping, has always been a haven for gradual values ​​and is often seen as large or at extent. Her rich, rich feelings are well documented, as technology workers turn to biological adherence, anesthetic, burning man, and ESALEN decisions as forms of meditation and self -discovery.