• ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I started self destructing since AI has slithered its way into aspects of my life that gave me a reason to exist.

    Not because I think it’ll save me but because I just don’t give a shit about anything anymore thanks to it’s gross existence.

  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago
    1. Create a machine that sometimes predicts the next word correctly
    2. Mass psychosis
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      9 days ago

      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

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      9 days ago

      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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        9 days 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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      9 days 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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    8 days ago

    I refuse to believe that’s actually truth and not some BS from a professional bullshitter like the palantir cto

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      It is not even a good one. Is this really the most convincing argument the CTO of one of the most aggressive tech companies can come up with? Are these people just facades because with mental skills like this I don’t think they can even run a lemonade stand. What even makes them useful, connections? Willingness to sacrifice their humanity for profit? A never ending obedience to shareholders?

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      8 days ago

      I mean I fully believe they don’t understand cause and effect and that curing something down the road doesn’t prevent irreparable harm in the mean time.

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    9 days ago

    Even if you believe that, then is it also going to cure copd and pulmonary embolisms? I know this is likely just the CTO spewing bull, but 🤦‍♂️

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        Too bad smoking kills you way too slowly to stop them from doing plenty of damage in the interim.

        We need to suggest to them a quicker destructive habit. AI-designed wingsuits for BASE jumping, maybe?

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    9 days ago

    “Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim.”

    Cool. Excellent thing to write a news article about, Business Insider.

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    9 days ago

    Cancer isn’t the only reason not to smoke. It’s yucky and makes you stink.

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    Oh great people who can’t research what cancer is are the ones researching AI.

    They should do more research on what cancer is and what it is not. Cancer is not a single disease. “Cancer” is an umbrella term that is used to classify tumors with different genetic makeups. Different tumors behave and are treated differently.

    Lung cancer can kill you FAST if you have a certain type of lung cancer. Smoking also causes almost half the bladder cancer cases people develop. It also increases your risk of stroke and heart problems.

    Even if AI finds a cure for ‘cancer’ which it won’t, I don’t know why these people think the technology is going to be readily available for their treatment. I’m gonna state this again, these are the people working on the forefront of AI.

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    8 days ago

    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

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      Journalism is dead at pretty much all the major news outlets. Its bought and paid for slop that maybe has a human editor if it’s important enough to the wealthy prick that paid for it.