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Re:A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250M Pay Packages by achenet on Sunday August 03, 2025 @06:36AM (#44775575)
downsize Facebook back to like a couple thousand people max, use the resulting savings to retire and start your own AI instead of doing the whole shadow artist "I'll hire John Carmack/top AI researcher to work for me because deep down I can't believe I'd ever be as good as them and my ego is too afraid to look foolish so I won't even try even if deep down that's what I want more than being a capricious billionaire"?

or am I just projecting my beliefs onto Mark Zuckerberg here?

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Re:A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250M Pay Packages by hattmall on Sunday August 03, 2025 @09:41AM (#44776535)
Retire? Anyone with more than about 10-20 million that continues to work has some sort of pathology that leaves them unsatisfied. Normal people rarely even get to that level because they are too busy enjoying life. Anyone making billions has some serious issues that they are likely stuck with because hubris won't let them seek meaningful help.
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Re:A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250M Pay Packages by aleph_minus_one on Sunday August 03, 2025 @09:50AM (#44776582)
> Normal people rarely even get to that level because they are too busy enjoying life.

And that's why these "normal people" don't become insanely rich.

(just to be clear: the reverse direction does not hold: just a tiny fraction of such workaholics will become insanely rich).

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