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.’

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    3·
    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
        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.systemsEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

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