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Reaction converging AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions
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Palantir CTO AI researchers smoking claim

AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO

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Mark Riedl Chris Brockett Karl Bode Anthony Moser Blake E. Reid Stephen Turner By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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“This is dumb www.businessinsider.com/ai-researche...”

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Karl Bode: CTO said a thing!
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account): Alert the uncritical transcriptionists!
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3 experts · 13 posts · 16d ago
Andrew Selbst Luis Villa Blake E. Reid
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Andrew Selbst: I am transparent about my views in class and I emphasize that they are mine and people are free to disagree if they have reasons. I think being intellectually honest about arguments’ strengths and …
Andrew Selbst: That was my stance long before the magic machine could tell them my views too.
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2 experts · 7 posts · 2d ago
Ethan Zuckerman Blake E. Reid
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Ethan Zuckerman: it seems absurd that the government that's getting very significant support from AI companies does not have to disclose that influence over statements like this one.
Ethan Zuckerman: But the Department of Justice has made a statement that it is the policy of the United States that training from AI is fair use. This has been the US government's only statement on AI and copyright…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 14d ago
Meredith Rose Blake E. Reid
Meredith Rose: People seem to be having a hard time deciding whether everything that comes out of AI developers is marketing, or evidence of cultish religious beliefs, and I posit to you: those are two motivation…
Blake E. Reid: Degree program in Marketing-Eschatology Studies
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2 experts · 5 posts · 19d ago
Luis Villa Blake E. Reid
Blake E. Reid: AI “parent hacks” to avoid the high prices of the enshittified school photo industrial complex are basically just shifting around the deck chairs on the Negative Externality Titanic™
Blake E. Reid: So many facets of the U.S. economy have devolved into Negative Externalities in a Trenchcoat
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