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.’

  • @selfA
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    61 year ago

    read the room

    • @PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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      81 year ago

      I didn’t say anything on the topic and I can’t even see the negative ones. I don’t really know how many comments you guys usually get off-instance. I’m curious now if people actually care enough to just monitor shit and say dumb things.

      • @selfA
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        121 year ago

        this kind of keyword searching (sometimes via a discord bot or similar for coordination purposes) is ridiculously common — old r/SneerClub was an interesting Petri dish for it, cause you’d get accounts that only post about Urbit or on TheMotte every couple months barging into a SneerClub thread for the first time going “uhhh can you prove to me, whoever the fuck I am, that these people are fascists though?” and it was painfully obvious to everyone else what they were trying to do

      • David GerardMA
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        61 year ago

        i meant that the discussion threads will still be present on non-home servers even as the users are blocked from here

        it lets them have the last word but in a way that means nobody on awful.systems will have to see it

          • David GerardMA
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            111 year ago

            the Fediverse is a network of software that doesn’t quite talk to each other, but just enough to stoke the drama

            • @froztbyte
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              41 year ago

              The leening tovver oph Bayble: the fedi experience

              • David GerardMA
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                61 year ago

                the fun @self has been having getting Lemmy to talk reliably with Mastodon, Kbin or indeed Lemmy