Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoAI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down16
arrow-up1350arrow-down1external-linkAI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"www.businessinsider.comArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square85linkfedilink
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·18 hours agohave you met tech bros/broettes? i live in a city full of them… they very much do weird shit like this to signal to each they are more hardcore cool than the other brogrammers. like they get into bragging fights about really stupid and absurd stuff
minus-squarezod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·18 hours agoI have met some separately, but never in their native habitat. It sounds horrific.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours agoa lot of tech companies are operated like cults.
minus-squaremobyduck648@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoI suspect cults have a better five year survival rate.
have you met tech bros/broettes?
i live in a city full of them… they very much do weird shit like this to signal to each they are more hardcore cool than the other brogrammers. like they get into bragging fights about really stupid and absurd stuff
I have met some separately, but never in their native habitat. It sounds horrific.
a lot of tech companies are operated like cults.
I suspect cults have a better five year survival rate.