Beautiful.
“Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim.”
Cool. Excellent thing to write a news article about, Business Insider.
I heard that AI has almost cured gunshots. Anyone up for a friendly game of Russian Roulette?
Natural selection I guess 🤷
And I guess it’s also going to solve emphysema, strokes atherosclerosis, erectile dysfunction, etc. etc.
And in the meantime they’ll stink.
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.
From one ex-smoker to another, take some solace in the fact that they’re at the extreme tippy top of the Dunning-Kruger curve and somehow think cancer is just one thing. There’s so many different kinds of cancer they’re hard to enumerate. With any luck you and I both will watch them slowly kill themselves in their death cult while we still have that last smoke tucked away in our back pocket.
With any luck you and I both will watch them slowly kill themselves in their death cult while we still have that last smoke tucked away in our back pocket.
Thanks. May it be so. (Good to hear I’m not the only one with that last one in reserve.)
You know, I remember at the time looking at non-smokers, both ex- and never-, and just kind of wishing I could be where they were already because that was one hell of a battle. I was able to do it, but it took me far, far longer to stop thinking about it than to stop doing it.
At some point I made it; I rarely even think about smoking anymore. But even now, every so often when the shit’s hitting the fan of life I’ll think about it, briefly picture myself sitting on some dock on a silent water at sunset, sprawled on a lounger wearing a shitty hat and smoking that imagined last smoke, and then quickly think: “Not there yet. Long way to go. Cut that shit out.” And I do, and don’t think of it again for weeks. But I do still think of it, even after all these years. That’s how addictive it is.
They’ll wish they were us soon enough.
Cancer isn’t the only lethal outcome from smoking.
This is genuinely the stupidest shit I’ve read in a little while, and I’ve read a lot of stupid shit lately.
This is fantastic news.
I suppose this comes down to natural selection.
Even if I was 100% convinced that AI could cure cancer, I’d be more convinced about Big Pharma not relinquishing a multi billion dollar a year treatment industry.
- Create a machine that sometimes predicts the next word correctly
- Mass psychosis
I’m coming to the conclusion a good chunk of civilisation is suffering from ELIZA syndrome.
The real cancer was the ai researchers we met along the way (so 50% right I suppose)
Pussies. They should take up heroin to prove their faith that AI will come up with a cure for heroin addiction.
What are you some kind of weak kneed unbeliever? True faith is speed balling fent and meth with a barbiturate comedown on a 3 day cycle. AI will solve all the adverse health affects in the next year for sure. Anyone who says otherwise just doesn’t really believe in AI.
I’m OK with this. It’s kind of like rappers getting face tattoos because they’re either going to make it or die trying. I appreciate the commitment to the game.
AI douchecanoes: claim to be smart enough to create something capable of curing all cancers
Also AI douchecanoes: not smart enough to know that smoking also causes hundreds if not thousands of other maladies, many of them life threatening and/or crippling.
Smoking is ridiculously addictive and the NUMBER ONE lifestyle cause of death in the world, bar none, and these idiots are doing it just to go PAST all in on vibe tech 🤦🏻
I see this as a net positive, I think they should smoke ten packs a day.
I’d agree, except you KNOW they won’t be considerate smokers, so they’re gonna harm a lot of innocent bystanders with secondhand smoke…
They’re already doing that guaranteed, it’s best to speed up the process.
