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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)
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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago

What

[-] Virkkunen@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

They're lemmy.ml users, best course of action is to just ignore and move on.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

Thx, I'm kinda new to the lemmyverse so I haven't really figured out who is worth listening and replying to.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

I'm sad nobody posted Good News, They Let Dumb Sluts into Mensa Now (also in podcast longform) in reaction to that user mentioning Mensa.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

Such a good podcast series, highly recommended.

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

synthetic virus bad

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 11 months ago

Im sorry, this is an anti-memetic zone. You seem to have used a thought ending memetic sentence, please report to the blue room for punishment. You are to sit in the black chair. Your social standing has decreased.

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

worse than your posting?

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