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.

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

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

"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.

Not beating those cult accusations, are they?

Lying fuck.

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

Cure cancer? Which type? It's not one disease, that's the entire problem you stupid fucks.

They should skip cigarettes and jump straight to smoking asbestos

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

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

I don't believe anything anyone from palantir has to say.

1. Create a machine that sometimes predicts the next word correctly
2. Mass psychosis

This is fantastic news.

This is the biggest self own I have ever heard of. I can't believe this is real.

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.

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 🤦‍♂️

Cancer isn't the only thing to worry about with cigarettes here's my experience :

I quit cigarettes for the second time when COVID happened. I haven't touched a cigarette in almost 8 years.

My sex drive was destroyed, bringing up the laundry wasnt easy, bringing my groceries up the stairs wasn't easy, I couldn't bike the miles I can now; My TMJ was going nuts, my breath smelt like shit, my teeth were being destroyed not just yellowing but actual tooth loss and pain, the amount of arguments that I think I spawned just to have a cigarette, the amount of emotional indifference it causes because you're never truly dealing with anything you're just smoking instead of dealing with whatever the fuck is going on and actually solving life problems is also fucked up.

And man are they stupidly addictive, like there's no possible way to buy a pack of Natural American Spirits and go, "I'm only gonna smoke once a week," trust me I've been there and it's impossible to just be like "I'm only gonna do this when I....." because you will want it again and even if you don't them, they might want you and that's the worst.

It's the absolute worst!!!! 15$/pack too like what the fuck!!!!! There's never gonna come a day where cancer research will outweigh the facts that cigarettes will destroy you. There's over 5,000 chemicals in one cigarette too, it's not just nicotine and tobacco, it's rat poison and arsenics.

More accurately: AI researchers are taking up smoking because of the immense pressure and burnout they're feeling.

The timeline on lung cancer is too long. I want faster progress.

Take up Russian Roulette.

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

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

So many people in this thread...You're the facebook boomer who believes every "Kids are doing [X] because if viral tiktok trend!"

(No offense to OP, this is a perfect headline for the community)

Become dependent on ____ and pay ____ companies for ____.

• LLMs, AI, tokens
• nicotine, tobacco, cigarettes

Sounds like linkedinlunatics

Now that just pisses me off more. As someone who thoroughly enjoyed smoking but has stayed quit since the 90s, one of the things that has kept me quit has been the very quiet idea in the back of my head that if I ever needed to, if I ever really needed to, I could and would.

But the deal is I have to hold out as long as possible, or until an occasion where it no longer really matters. Meaning that because I'm a fucking mule of stubbornness I would probably see a mushroom cloud on the horizon and then die cursing that I have no time to fire up one last smoke for the occasion.

I don't even remember the exact year I quit now. I only remember I made that deal with myself and have kept it, and how good that very first toke of the very first cig is: all the rest go very quickly downhill from there and you're back to tasting like an ashtray and feeling like shit and wheezing up stairs. (Yes, it took me multiple tries to quit.) But I always had that one fantastic "emergency" first toke hidden in the back of my wallet of self-restraint.

And now these motherfuckers have taken that too. Pride's not great for much, but goddamn if I'll join these little pricks in a smoke. They've just sucked all the joy out of even the thought of it. Probably for the best, but damn. Hope it kills the little shits.

Do they promise? Do they also promise to never spend healthcare money on lung cancer? And will they promise to smoke far away from us so we never have to smell that s***?

Somehow I bet they won't make those promises. Because they're liars. Because that whole field is built on lying. Vaporware can't make anything real, ever, than the people who actually do the software development are keenly aware of that fact.

This is genuinely the stupidest shit I've read in a little while, and I've read a lot of stupid shit lately.

Yeah sure Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, I believe you 100%.

Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim. Smoking remains a major cause of preventable illness and death, and no AI breakthrough has eliminated the health risks associated with cigarettes.

He's full of shit

This is less "omg these guys who work crazy hours are making something incredible"

and more "these guys who work crazy hours have made up a new justification for their age-old legal stimulant addiction"