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

I wonder why...

Real EA thinking there. Using spurious logic to provide a rational-sounding explanation for doing something bad you wanted to do anyway.

One of the strongest predictors of the cohesion of a religious movement is costly signaling by which people give things up in a highly visible, credible way for the cause, or in a way that only makes sense if they believe in the cause. Deconversion is highly correlated with not witnessing these credible displays.

huh. not the onion. satire is dead.

*Cancers. We would have to cure many cancers. Smoking increases your risk of cancer beyond just throat and lunch cancers.

Next please jump off a cliff after uploading your mind into the machine. Thank you!

okay but there's no way lung cancer catches up to them before incoming ai winter will

i also like how they're not even considering that "there is no meaningful improvement" might be an option

There's a reason he can't name any. Someone probably joked about it, and he thought it would be a good story to increase his shares in tobacco companies and AI

skinny nerd enters a bar, lights up and is thrown out

blog post appears: "yet another blatant attempt to deny white men sex"

C suite personal at AI companies have taken up smoking crack because.. well...

Our economy is fully intertwined with these people. They will crush us and demand to be spared from the consequences they wrought.

LMAO… no they’re not.

Darwin Awards, here we come.

Honestly, they should just do fentanyl instead and put their full faith in AI happening faster and more meaningfully than it really is.

this is the same company that has attempted other ways of addicting their employees, for "productivity"

at least smoking is social

Real talk, I would love to smoke without worrying about cancer.

Reminds me of the Anthropic employee who doesnt wear sunscreen

I mean, Palantir has Zyn vending machines, so this isn’t much of a stretch I guess?

Finally some good fucking news. You know. They should be smoking 6 packs a day. Really gets the juices flowing. Gets your brain working at 600% efficiency. Running out of energy? Eat pure, raw Radium. Digest it. Make sure to snort some lead while you're at it. Blocks negative pathways in your brains. And what's a sandwich without some good old Americium. We're all patriots here right.

Shhhh.... Let them...

big if true.

Liar

Fires a burst from the Sten gun into the ceiling I thought you Libertarian bleepers were scared of moral hazards like making people wear seatbelts so they don't squish their pea brains in a car crash?

segyges already trying to launder the unhinged out of the our chatbot will be curing cancer any minute now new round of claims by framing widespread resentment against AI as "curing cancer is less important than my job satisfaction".