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A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.

Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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A very specific skillset which will have that value until the next wave of techniques comes up.

I really don't see the point of these articles. If you're the expert corporate lawyer in mergers and acquisitions with an expertise in EU-US mergers in the agrochemical sector you'll make bank when you hit that one huge multinational client. And then that combo of skills goes back to being not particularly valuable.

Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.

What qualifications or degrees do these people posses?

Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.

Genuinely curious - what do you do?

Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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post #2

Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.

After reading the article I am genuinely unsure whether you are joking or not.

Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.

What qualifications or degrees do these people posses?

It's experience in the two examples I gave : I singlehandedly built my company : RAMM Science (https://ramm.science)

And he singlehandedly built one of Europes largest online betting system backends (and scaled it to 800 transactions a second using Deep Learning, Kafka and a Hadoop cluster)

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post #2

Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.

Genuinely curious - what do you do?

In my profile

Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What qualifications or degrees do these people posses?

It's experience in the two examples I gave : I singlehandedly built my company : RAMM Science ( https://ramm.science ) And he singlehandedly built one of Europes largest online betting system backends (and scaled it to 800 transactions a second using Deep Learning, Kafka and a Hadoop cluster)

That’s impressive. Time to hire a front end engineer and designer though.
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