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    Taking up smoking because they expect cancer to be cured in the future is like deciding to purposely crash your car because you know that broken bones can heal

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    I refuse to believe that’s actually truth and not some BS from a professional bullshitter like the palantir cto

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      It is not even a good one. Is this really the most convincing argument the CTO of one of the most aggressive tech companies can come up with? Are these people just facades because with mental skills like this I don’t think they can even run a lemonade stand. What even makes them useful, connections? Willingness to sacrifice their humanity for profit? A never ending obedience to shareholders?

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Article quotes 1 CEO, one of their own “journalists”, and 0 labor leaders

    Also he fails to name one noted in the article but they went ahead and published it anyways because fuck journalism I guess. He is lying, business insider has never been a reputable source for news

    • subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Journalism is dead at pretty much all the major news outlets. Its bought and paid for slop that maybe has a human editor if it’s important enough to the wealthy prick that paid for it.

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    So many people in this thread…You’re the facebook boomer who believes every “Kids are doing [X] because if viral tiktok trend!”

    (No offense to OP, this is a perfect headline for the community)

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      “So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI,” Sankar said in an interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

      This is the first clue that’s it BS. I would like to believe that the techbros are doing it, but techbros aren’t “AI researchers.” They actually know the limits to their work. If Shyam Sankar wont name names, it’s not happening. At least not in any appreciable numbers.

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    4 hours ago

    Natural selection was somewhat curbed with modern science advancement. I’m glad* to see it making a comeback.

    * actually no, that’s terrible

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      Cuba developed a lung cancer vaccine way back in 2015. The US began clinical trials in 2016, which are now in Phase II development as of 2023. I don’t think it’s crazy to say that we will make lung cancer a treatable condition in our lifetimes.

      But that’s not going to save you from the rapid onset aging, the yellow fingers, the foul breath, the ridiculous expense of modern cigarettes, or the fact that they taste like shit.

      Take up Russian Roulette.

      There’s still a five-in-six chance nothing happens. Cigarettes make you disgusting to be around 100% of the time, guaranteed.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      America is the home of Gun Care and Health Control, so it makes sense to put the emphasis on Russian Roulette, which has the added advantage of honoring the 2nd Amendment.

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    This industry Darwinning itself would be an amazing way for it to end.