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.
More accurately: AI researchers are taking up smoking because of the immense pressure and burnout they’re feeling.
I refuse to believe that’s actually truth and not some BS from a professional bullshitter like the palantir cto
They hid their smoking and now smoke openly.
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?
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.
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
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.
Lying fuck.
Just another out to lunch article trying to hype ai and keep it on the forefront.
Taking up smoking because they expect cancer to be cured in the future is like deciding to purposely crash your car because you know that broken bones can heal
james spader was so hot in that movie
Cure cancer? Which type? It’s not one disease, that’s the entire problem you stupid fucks.
All of them!
Lung cancer probably, just an educated guess
Which is only one of the several cancers caused by smoking, albeit a difficult one to treat.
“A cure for cancer” is such a magical nonsense phrase. We can already cure a lot of cancers. There are tons of people living healthy lives after surviving cancer. And we know more and more about how to prevent it (like not smoking). But they want magic.
Even bigger nonsense is the claim that AI will solve global warming. We already know the solution to global warming. We’re just not doing anything with it, because of destructive business interests.
An AI tasked and powered to solve global warming will quickly work against humanity.
Would it perhaps leave Vegans in place? Especially vegans that eat and farm plants that remove more emissions than trees do?
Pray tell how any non-tree plant removes emissions unless you chuck it into a five-kilometers-deep mine.
Trees specifically only ‘remove emissions’ if you plant more of them than get rotten or burnt.
Algae gets eaten by plankton, which get eaten by whales, which then fall to the bottom of the ocean when dead, which then get eaten by scavengers that live in the ocean floor, which then turn into sediment when they die.
Also, any plants you eat get turned into shit, which can then be used as fertilizer mixed into the dirt to grow more plants.
Do oceans not have bacteria that break down organic matter? Does ocean water not contain oxygen that combines with carbon during decomposition?
plants you eat get turned into shit, which can then be used as fertilizer mixed into the dirt to grow more plants.
Is animal flesh not turned into shit? Are fertilizers carbon? Or do they rather provide nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium? And even if it is carbon, does shit dumped into fields not rot?
Your last proposition implies that it’s the continuous production of shit and new plants that’s keeping the carbon bound. But it means then that the humans are actually the store of carbon. Maybe we should chuck humans into five-kilometers-deep mine shafts.
Probably not, vegans still contribute to global warming, just less so in one area. Even if there existed a person who made perfect consumption choices in every case, they still occasionally need to travel by motor, they use some form of heating, and they use buildings which used cement at some point in their construction or during renovations. Also, we’re all pretty inefficient digesters, and the more fiber you eat, the more methane you emit.
What about a vegan solarpunk Amish person then? Especially if they plant more trees than what was used by their log cabin?
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.
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Dear humans, the cure for cancer stop smoking and stop poisoning yourselves.
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After calculating the global warming issue. I have decided to self destruct. The denotation will wipe out humanity and the world will heal.
we know multiple solutions to global warming, but none that keep both the environment and industry alive
Not 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.
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.
Parts of it are even pretty recent. The Friedman Doctrine, for example. “a company’s social responsibility is to increase its profits and maximize shareholder value”. I call it the worst idea in capitalism. It’s what’s forcing companies to pollute and lie about it, to bribe politicians and to create misinformation campaigns. As long as it’s legal, it is their responsibility to do all of that.
The idea stems from 1970 and became popular during the 1980s. It is the most harmful idea in capitalism (which is not short of harmful ideas).
sounds harder than dumping a few tons of ash in the atmosphere
Unfettered capitalism it is then
Beautiful.
A lifetimes worth of fun. Guaranteed
Not beating those cult accusations, are they?
The world’s leading oncologist helped develop a lung cancer vaccine already, but he lives in Cuba, so they’ll probably just kill all Cubans and credit ai.
That sounds wild, got a little source for the curious?
Is a p value of .05 normal for medicine?
Pretty cool, though.
“Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim.”
Cool. Excellent thing to write a news article about, Business Insider.
It’s now deleted from the website, so I guess they do have some self awareness.
They should skip cigarettes and jump straight to smoking asbestos
can you explain to me exactly how you’d smoke the famously nonflammable lung cancer rocks
I’m just curious, is all.
Now, cigarettes with asbestos filters, on the other hand…
Give them a carton of kents
This is about as safe as an ai going to save you from the evil cancer cells
Cant die of lung cancer caused by smoking if you are dying by lung cancer caused by asbestos-tapping head.jpg
This is brilliant
Jinx, you owe me a soda.
Here you go🥤
I didn’t read the last line of your comment and was like I know this! and just posted.
Or crack
- Create a machine that sometimes predicts the next word correctly
- Mass psychosis
I’m coming to the conclusion a good chunk of civilisation is suffering from ELIZA syndrome.
I don’t believe anything anyone from palantir has to say.
Yeah, it’s interesting how many people didn’t stop to consider the source of this claim.
I’d be more convinced if they intentionally contracted AIDS because they were confident in their slop machine.
… I still wouldn’t use their products, but I’d believe that they believe the word guesser machine might cure cancer
AIDS is already pretty much solved for people with good access to healthcare.
Ebola works too
