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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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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yuck, smoking cigarettes is stupid and egoistical even if you don't get cancer from it. And it looks like the people in these companies really do believe their own propaganda.