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AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation" (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 86 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

They should skip cigarettes and jump straight to smoking asbestos

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  • [–] 27 points 12 hours ago* (5 children)

    can you explain to me exactly how you'd smoke the famously nonflammable lung cancer rocks

    I'm just curious, is all.

    Now, cigarettes with asbestos filters, on the other hand...

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  • [–] 57 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

    Give them a carton of kents

    27882

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