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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)
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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.’

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[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everyone who is saying virus spread from bats to humans - you do realize there were people researching on bats in Wuhan, right? If it's from a bat, that doesn't automatically mean from a bat in nature.

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

your stupid ass found this old thread by searching for covid (no this shit isn’t in all anymore) and this is the best you can do? fuck off.

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

holy fuck. for anyone still reading this thread, check that post history

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Randomly capitalizing "FIAT", the mark of a true Coiner.

[–] m@blat.at 2 points 9 months ago

@gerikson Or an Italian.

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Holy shit, that shitshow in the Elon thread.