Sounds like someone got stressed and started smoking, and then turned it into a joke about believing AI will cure my cancer anyway. Then it snowballed in idiotic fashion into this comment by a MBA penny counter.

That isn't how humans make decisions. This CTO is so divorced from reality he really thinks people would start smoking just because their lung cancer might be cured?

The small issues like smell, reduced lung capacity, cough, and cost are the main reasons people don't smoke. Lung cancer is too distant, too uncommon for it to factor in many people's initial risk calculation

Magic. These people believe in magic.

We already know how to cure many forms of cancer. Many people have survived cancer and continued to live long healthy lives. Even better: we know how to prevent cancer! Like not smoking. But there's never going to be a simple painless pill that immediately cures all forms of cancer, because cancer doesn't work like that. No disease does. Cancer is not a single disease, but an entire class of diseases, like viral infections or bacterial infections.

Cult leader says "I expect prospective members to proactively and visibly destroy their health to demonstrate fealty to our cult".

But it’ll never cure the horrible smell that appalls everyone. It’ll never cure the horrible cough and the fatigue and the stiffness of your chest when you do any sort of sports. Let them, though. Darwinism is good.

Let's see if bros who sucked fun out of any new fad would manage to make smoking uncool.

As a ex-smoker. Why? Don’t do that to yourself. Regardless. It’s terrible.

I love this for him. (I hope it's eight packs a day,)

How is this article not from The Onion is beyond me

Palantir employees are already cancer, C-Suite and the corporate entity triply so.

Well that's fucking dumb but knock yourselves out I guess.

Maybe the AI will choose to let them die to cultivate a more cancer-resistant genepool.

Awesome if true. AI won’t solve COPD dipshits.

I have no problem with palantir employees doing this. AI can solve all of these medical problems. These palantir folks could also give themselves rabies to prove how wrong we all are about AI, and how right and smart they are. Where do we source some rabies?

I'm positive they were all vaping already.

Like everything with AI bosses, its all marketing stunts to prop up the prices

Maybe they're just trying to open up new revenue streams - ones that have already been shown to be profitable, like peddling nicotine addiction? I'm waiting for the ads for Claude Smokes. And for the ladies we'll have Gemini Slims. The ads can be shot in the AI datacenters with the actors lighting-up off GPU heatsinks.

Stupid is as stupid does….

What about all the other side effects of smoking? Smoking ages you prematurely, as well. Are they thinking age reversal is that close?

Also, are they upping their intake of meat, eggs and dairy? What about drinking more alcohol? What about overeating in general, including lots of sugar?

Can it cure COPD though? Or do they plan on harvesting new lungs from human cattle?

Not leading by example I see.