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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says researchers have started smoking, believing AI will cure cancer via r/nottheonion
ok way to snitch on them to health insurance bot. presumably all their CEO customers are prompting "hike premiums on dumbasses. make no mistakes no luigi". happy open enrollment season. /s
Costly signaling by which one credibly gives something up to follow the precepts of the cult and demonstrate that one believes in the face of personal disadvantage is one of the strongest things that predicts cohesion of a religious movement.
This is proper cult membership credibility testing stuff. "If you really believe, you'll drink the koolaid"
Previously posted here: https://awful.systems/post/10025000