Cigarette Ads Once Promised Absurd Health Benefits. Scientists Just Found One of Them Was Actually True.

However, in 1959 scientists did make a cigarette health claim that remained remarkably true for decades—regular smokers were ...

Greg Dixon: I gave up both smoking and Facebook, guess which one I don’t miss?

Greg Dixon is an award-winning news reporter, TV reviewer, feature writer and former magazine editor who has written for the ...

Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking

The ability of AI to discover drugs and medical treatments has been much hyped – Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis even ...

AI researchers take up smoking for ridiculous reason: ‘Mass psychosis’

Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar revealed in a recent interview with CBS that AI workers are bizarrely taking ...
Decrypt

AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith that AI will cure cancer.

Some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they believe artificial intelligence will cure cancer

Sankar made his claim during an interview on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. The exec talked about Pascal's quote of how ...
Psychology Today

When Does a Fetish Become Objectification?

A preference becomes objectification when a desired trait eclipses the person as a whole. Ethical fetish exploration puts a ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Are young people smoking more? Penn experts say it’s too early to tell

“Influential media like yours should not glamorize a product that remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States,” the letter read. “With nearly 90% of adult daily smokers using ...