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AI researchers have started smoking cigarettes on purpose. They figure lung cancer takes 20 years to show up and AI will cure cancer in 5, so the cigarettes are racing a dead disease. Palantir's CTO went on CBS and said guys are lighting up specifically to show other researchers how hard they believe. They basically turned their lungs into a prediction market. And honestly, there's real logic in it. Biologists call it costly signaling. A peacock's tail is a huge metabolic expense that makes…
JUST IN: Palantir CTO reveals many AI researchers have started smoking cigarettes to demonstrate their confidence that AI will cure cancer.