A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
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Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#2I suppose I’d rather hire 250 bright kids with $1 million package each instead, but I suppose it gets pr.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#3I suppose I’d rather hire 250 bright kids with $1 million package each instead, but I suppose it gets pr.
Just glancing through the article, it seems like this person is a doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid") and their doctorate is literally in the exact thing that everyone is throwing gobs and gobs of cash at. And I guess Meta (et al) sense that literal empires are at stake here, so this is probably just how much money that's worth to them.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#4I suppose I’d rather hire 250 bright kids with $1 million package each instead, but I suppose it gets pr.
Just glancing through the article, it seems like this person is a doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid") and their doctorate is literally in the exact thing that everyone is throwing gobs and gobs of cash at. And I guess Meta (et al) sense that literal empires are at stake here, so this is probably just how much money that's worth to them.
> doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid")
Media has this strange need for fully-grown responsible adults to be thought of as children. Not only for the amazing stories of "this (mid-30s career professional) kid did something", but also helpful to try and shirk responsibility.
Thinking about attempts to frame SBF as a wee smol bean kid in over his head while actively committing fraud.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#5I suppose I’d rather hire 250 bright kids with $1 million package each instead, but I suppose it gets pr.
Just glancing through the article, it seems like this person is a doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid") and their doctorate is literally in the exact thing that everyone is throwing gobs and gobs of cash at. And I guess Meta (et al) sense that literal empires are at stake here, so this is probably just how much money that's worth to them.
Ph.D. dropout.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just glancing through the article, it seems like this person is a doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid") and their doctorate is literally in the exact thing that everyone is throwing gobs and gobs of cash at. And I guess Meta (et al) sense that literal empires are at stake here, so this is probably just how much money that's worth to them.
Ph.D. dropout.
Taking immediately available cash instead of finishing a PhD is almost always a good economic decision (we'll leave aside the fact that a PhD is almost always a disastrously bad economic decision).
You can always go back and finish your PhD later.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#7Thats only 25M in 2025 dollars.
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#8Thats only 25M in 2025 dollars.
Still not enough to afford the house I grew up in in San Jose.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just glancing through the article, it seems like this person is a doctor of philosophy (hardly a "kid") and their doctorate is literally in the exact thing that everyone is throwing gobs and gobs of cash at. And I guess Meta (et al) sense that literal empires are at stake here, so this is probably just how much money that's worth to them.
Ph.D. dropout.
For almost every Doctorate except for a few who really want to become postdocs or somehow win the tenure lottery, there is a generally an economic disincentive to completing it.
Re: A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages
#10and what exactly is this "whiz" kid capable of doing that you and I cant