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BurdensomeCount
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20m ago
There's a reason why the crazy pay offers are only being made to people who are likely to have IP sensitive information instead of e.g. newly graduating world class machine learning PhDs who are yet to be exposed to the IP at a top lab.
Yes it will backfire if the AI market goes south or even if Meta fails to produce a good product after all this IP theft.
Corvos
33m ago
Yeah, I have a friend who works in a very sensitive area of banking and it’s a nightmare:
- Four layers of security before he can get to his desk
- Everything on the computer is absolutely locked down and the software is rubbish as is the authentication system
- Constant surveillance from cameras absolutely everywhere
I think other stuff too but I forget the details.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
49m ago
Very well written OP. At what point will chinese advances start affecting the US more than they are now. Previously Anthropics CEO and human job hater Dario Amodei wrote pretty unprofessional things about what the r1 had achieved.
American investment is far higher in AI than china's and has not produced the same level of results for the value. Will we see more expenditure at this point so that labs can double down and make more llms that have billion dollar runs or will they slow down the investments?
Really good post. Thanks for posting this here.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
53m ago
People on twitter are sucking him off dry for paying nerds their true worth.
I was skeptical of his offers. Paying people 100 of millions sound stupid also because of the volatility of what's being done. A big ai winter would look bad to Metas investors.
I did want to ask you about this though as I have zero experience or understanding of finance and markets. Will his overcompensation backfire if the market for AI goes south?
He splurged a lot on VR which whilst admirable doesn't seem to be a household piece of tech. I remember it causing some stock chaos a few years ago. Not sure what this would look like.
orthoxerox
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54m ago
Now I want to reread The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
orthoxerox
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56m ago
I think the "religious, but not spiritual" communities of the US will continue to evaporate: "church as community" becomes less useful of a concept when religious diversity increases.
"Religious and spiritual" communities of active believers will multiply, but will remain generally irrelevant as voting blocks, with the exception of the biggest Evangelical denominations.
Metropolitan Americans will overwhelmingly become either "spiritual, but not religious" or outright nonbelievers.
TitaniumButterfly
58m ago
Yeah that's about right. The hand has been overplayed so egregiously that anyone with half a brain is going to commit the ultimate, unrecoverable crime of noticing.
(Thanks again.)
Not especially vocal or belligerent people
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