• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    “researchers…” like how many? sounds to me like a habitual relapser giving excuses, the habit was already there, which is dumb enough of a excuse, let alone start the habit just cuz

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      10 days ago

      As an ex smoker…if I were to pick up a pack while working as an AI researcher…I’d absolutely use that as a cheeky comeback when someone said something about me smoking again. Entirely not meaning it, blatantly joking to anyone possible of understanding tone and having a sense of humor.

      However, I’m fairly certain most executives, and especially AI execs, are both tone-deaf and humorless.

      I’d put $10 on polymarket saying that one of them overheard someone like me saying that, and it snowballed from there.

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        10 days ago

        I quit almost 20 years ago. I actually tried to smoke one a while ago just to see. It make me sick just to smell. Won’t ever touch one again.