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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)
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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

i meant that the discussion threads will still be present on non-home servers even as the users are blocked from here

it lets them have the last word but in a way that means nobody on awful.systems will have to see it

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ah. I should familiarize myself with instance/moderation specifics better.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    the Fediverse is a network of software that doesn't quite talk to each other, but just enough to stoke the drama

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