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.
Magic. These people believe in magic.
We already know how to cure many forms of cancer. Many people have survived cancer and continued to live long healthy lives. Even better: we know how to prevent cancer! Like not smoking. But there’s never going to be a simple painless pill that immediately cures all forms of cancer, because cancer doesn’t work like that. No disease does. Cancer is not a single disease, but an entire class of diseases, like viral infections or bacterial infections.