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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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[–] 46 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

This is the biggest self own I have ever heard of. I can't believe this is real.

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  • [–] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Bryan Johnson thought peptides would make him live forever. He ended up triggering and autoimmune disease that would likely end up killing him.

    Of course, these bros must know tobacco smoke causes more diseases than just cancers.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 hours ago

    I love how he blames 'the stress of being a new father twenty years ago' with this new autoimmune disease, even though he's been bombarding his body with foreign invaders, taking a hundred pills a day, changing the markers on his blood and lymph, replacing everything he can inside himself, and living in terror of his immortality for a decade.

    'it wasn't all this pinhead horrorshow in a lab coat I'm doing, it was my fucking son I've always hated.' what an insufferable twat.

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  • [–] 21 points 13 hours ago* (3 children)

    have you met tech bros/broettes?

    i live in a city full of them... they very much do weird shit like this to signal to each they are more hardcore cool than the other brogrammers. like they get into bragging fights about really stupid and absurd stuff

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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    I have met some separately, but never in their native habitat. It sounds horrific.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Also, they haven't heard of tar in your lungs, stained teeth, addiction, etc etc?

    Anyway, just seems to prove how disconnected they are from reality, and how eager to press the 'easy' button while squinting to pretend there are no consequences.

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