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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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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have met some separately, but never in their native habitat. It sounds horrific.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a lot of tech companies are operated like cults.

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I suspect cults have a better five year survival rate.