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.’

  • David GerardMA
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    67 months 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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        117 months 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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          47 months ago

          The leening tovver oph Bayble: the fedi experience

          • David GerardMA
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            67 months ago

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