Smoke more you pieces of shit

It's now deleted from the website, so I guess they do have some self awareness.

This is less "omg these guys who work crazy hours are making something incredible"

and more "these guys who work crazy hours have made up a new justification for their age-old legal stimulant addiction"

These guys aren't smoking because their confidence is justified.

They are smoking for the same reason people always have, especially those with stressful jobs.

They just have a new lame excuse to cover for it.

Their actions seems less a statement of belief and more asking for one for this eventuality:

Cancer isn't the only thing to worry about with cigarettes here's my experience :

I quit cigarettes for the second time when COVID happened. I haven't touched a cigarette in almost 8 years.

My sex drive was destroyed, bringing up the laundry wasnt easy, bringing my groceries up the stairs wasn't easy, I couldn't bike the miles I can now; My TMJ was going nuts, my breath smelt like shit, my teeth were being destroyed not just yellowing but actual tooth loss and pain, the amount of arguments that I think I spawned just to have a cigarette, the amount of emotional indifference it causes because you're never truly dealing with anything you're just smoking instead of dealing with whatever the fuck is going on and actually solving life problems is also fucked up.

And man are they stupidly addictive, like there's no possible way to buy a pack of Natural American Spirits and go, "I'm only gonna smoke once a week," trust me I've been there and it's impossible to just be like "I'm only gonna do this when I....." because you will want it again and even if you don't them, they might want you and that's the worst.

It's the absolute worst!!!! 15$/pack too like what the fuck!!!!! There's never gonna come a day where cancer research will outweigh the facts that cigarettes will destroy you. There's over 5,000 chemicals in one cigarette too, it's not just nicotine and tobacco, it's rat poison and arsenics.

I should print this article out and stick it to my door. I dont think ive ever read a more compelling reason to quit

That sounds wild, got a little source for the curious?

Cant die of lung cancer caused by smoking if you are dying by lung cancer caused by asbestos-tapping head.jpg

I'll give you one and I recently learned this because my dad recently got bladder cancer (he's doing good treatments are working never metastatsized, thank God), is that smoking cigarettes is one of the top causes of bladder cancer, like direct link kind of thing. A lot of people think of lung cancer or breast cancer when they think of smoking, not even I would've considered smoking to be a top cause of bladder cancer.

Become dependent on ____ and pay ____ companies for ____.

• LLMs, AI, tokens
• nicotine, tobacco, cigarettes

*covid started less than 7 years ago

2019 in December so it's 7 this year, 8 next year.

Yeah sure Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, I believe you 100%.

What about a vegan solarpunk Amish person then? Especially if they plant more trees than what was used by their log cabin?

How to start a vice and turn it into a marketing stunt

Good job still not smoking!

Or crack

What're the chances of convincing them to take back up Radium as cure all, since the cancer they'll get will totally be cuted hy AI anyway ? We might be able to solve this whole AI issue in a few years

@jumping_redditorNot true. It's possible for industry to coexist with a healthier environment, but that would mean taking responsibility for their externalities, and that's apparently already too much to ask.

This has the same vibes as Cybercap owners shooting their trashcars to prove they're bullet proof.

Don't worry, AI will fully cure diabetes. Now shut up and eat this whole bag of sugar before the investors stop falling for it.

I’m pretty sure an Amish vegan would starve/freeze to death (especially if you consider handmade fabrics growable in the climates they live in or transported without the use of engines or horses), but if one existed, they’d also have to refuse to pay their taxes. They’d also obviously have to be one of the Amish who don’t use modern medical care or all manner of modern technology for work. I’m also not sure how resource intensive Amish tools are- if they have traditional blacksmiths, where do they get the metal?

But really, it depends on your inputs: the quickest/simplest ways to cool the planet would also probably render it unlivable for most humans- there are probably a few ways an AI could generate massive ash clouds that block out enough sunlight to bring the temperature down. In that scenario, there would probably be some humans who survive, but they’d probably be in places with very small and non resource intensive populations, so most of eastern North America is automatically out.

People forget that our economic system isn't a law of nature. It's a social construct, and can be changed just like any other.

This industry Darwinning itself would be an amazing way for it to end.

The timeline on lung cancer is too long. I want faster progress.

Take up Russian Roulette.

2019 https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html

I might not be a doctor, but something is telling me this is a bad idea even if cancer is cured tomorrow.

Yeah, I remember when Sergey Brin announced Google AI employees should work 16 hours a day to catch up to competition, people familiar with the industry said it's a low bar for a FAANG AI researcher. They work themselves to death.

I can absolutely believe that. He's into all kinds of esotericism.

You are an expert cancerologist

Natural selection was somewhat curbed with modern science advancement. I'm glad* to see it making a comeback.

* actually no, that's terrible

Carry around plutonium cowards.

Lying fuck.

So many people in this thread...You're the facebook boomer who believes every "Kids are doing [X] because if viral tiktok trend!"

(No offense to OP, this is a perfect headline for the community)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20387330/

Yeah, it's interesting how many people didn't stop to consider the source of this claim.

If they really believed, they would teach their kids to smoke.

One of the funniest things I've read in a while.

Just another out to lunch article trying to hype ai and keep it on the forefront.

America is the home of Gun Care and Health Control, so it makes sense to put the emphasis on Russian Roulette, which has the added advantage of honoring the 2nd Amendment.

Smoke it up friend, really knock yourself out.

Cure cancer? Which type? It's not one disease, that's the entire problem you stupid fucks.

"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.

This is the first clue that's it BS. I would like to believe that the techbros are doing it, but techbros aren't "AI researchers." They actually know the limits to their work. If Shyam Sankar wont name names, it's not happening. At least not in any appreciable numbers.

But is AI going to cure addiction as well?

Article quotes 1 CEO, one of their own "journalists", and 0 labor leaders

Also he fails to name one noted in the article but they went ahead and published it anyways because fuck journalism I guess. He is lying, business insider has never been a reputable source for news

Cuba developed a lung cancer vaccine way back in 2015. The US began clinical trials in 2016, which are now in Phase II development as of 2023. I don't think it's crazy to say that we will make lung cancer a treatable condition in our lifetimes.

But that's not going to save you from the rapid onset aging, the yellow fingers, the foul breath, the ridiculous expense of modern cigarettes, or the fact that they taste like shit.

Take up Russian Roulette.

There's still a five-in-six chance nothing happens. Cigarettes make you disgusting to be around 100% of the time, guaranteed.

They might as well just die, after all god-grok will resurrect them right?

sounds harder than dumping a few tons of ash in the atmosphere