I think you're forgetting to factor in the tail risks when calculating the rate. In fact I doubt they still qualify as "tail" under those circumstances. There's a fairly decent chance the retirement plan ends up being facing a firing squad.
We get less violent because AI research pays more than murder, so more people focus on being good AI researchers than good killers, and the world is happier for it.
Threats of violence might get me to work for any of them; and I don't think I hate Amazon enough to do more than just not use it; but if I were somehow important enough to get a call from Zuckerberg, my answer would be "Meta delanda est", no matter how many digits or how cash-based the proposed offer was.
But I'm not important enough to be noticed, let alone called.
People say that sort of thing when it’s a hypothetical. It’s a little different when a quarter billion dollars is actually on offer.
Hitmen get what, $5-50k? And that’s for murder.
I mean it's not bad when you think about it in terms of an hourly rate.
I think you're forgetting to factor in the tail risks when calculating the rate. In fact I doubt they still qualify as "tail" under those circumstances. There's a fairly decent chance the retirement plan ends up being facing a firing squad.
Yeah man, that’s not fucking good.
no it's capitalism at it's finest.
We get less violent because AI research pays more than murder, so more people focus on being good AI researchers than good killers, and the world is happier for it.
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You need help
Sure. $250M buys a lot of help.
Zuck can take the glory if he wants. Glory doesn’t pay my bills.
Everyone has a price.
Mine is a hell of a lot lower than $250M, and I would bet half of that that yours is too.
No amount of money (or torture) can make me work for Meta, Palantir or Amazon.
Mmm.
Threats of violence might get me to work for any of them; and I don't think I hate Amazon enough to do more than just not use it; but if I were somehow important enough to get a call from Zuckerberg, my answer would be "Meta delanda est", no matter how many digits or how cash-based the proposed offer was.
But I'm not important enough to be noticed, let alone called.
How do you rank the evil list? For me, Palantir is an easy #1.
He said he’d forego glory, not values.
For $250M I’d still forego all kinds of values.
That $250M is (societally) better off going to him than being spent on whatever the hell Meta was going to otherwise spend it on.