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.’

    • self@awful.systems
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m waiting for them to post something relevant to Sam Altman or you know maybe just a general techtake???

      I know I’m gonna be disappointed

      • froztbyte@awful.systems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Couldn’t even be bothered to make some tortured Tolkien, only an oblique reference

        Let’s see…

        All that is gold does not glitter
        Not all those who wander are lost
        The post that is strong does not wither
        These others’ posting remain a cost
        

        Merely 3 minutes of idle thought! Imagine how many GPUs I could’ve 10tok/s’d for it! Oh the humanity

        e: fuck you lemmy, give me newlines

          • Deborah@hachyderm.io
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            What did I just read.

            (lol their response to being banned was to brag that they have muscles and a girlfriend and were going to go have sex with her, which is the most tween flounce I’ve seen in ages.)

            • self@awful.systems
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              1 year ago

              the most arousing words in the English language: “can you believe what they’re saying about me online”

      • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Maybe turn this into a private group if you’re bothered. For whatever reason this thread has appeared on Top Everything, so that’s where your visitors are coming from.

          • self@awful.systems
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            still boggling at the high degree of redditor logic behind “this thread appeared on my screen therefore I’m welcome to post my garbage in it”. I can’t decide if it’s better or worse than the couple of r/SneerClub threads demanding that SneerClub never appear on the poster’s Reddit homepage ever again