On: No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

[rob74]

> This reminds me of the report that AI researchers have taken up smoking as a way to signal their belief that AI will cure cancer before smoking kills them.

While reading the first half of this sentence, I fully expected the second half to be "...to signal their belief that AI will destroy the world before they can get lung cancer"

[jollyllama → rob74]

I thought it was going to be "due to recent market volatility".

[tim333 → rob74]

So that's two reasons to take up smoking.