Forget sleepmaxxing and cold plunging: smoking is the new lifestyle flex among AI researchers.
At least, that’s according to Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, who said some AI researchers are taking up smoking to signal their belief that AI will eventually cure cancer.
“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.
But it’ll never cure the horrible smell that appalls everyone. It’ll never cure the horrible cough and the fatigue and the stiffness of your chest when you do any sort of sports. Let them, though. Darwinism is good.
They believe that AI will cure the second part. Hell, they might think it’ll solve everything with a GMO tobacco plant.