I’d forgo a lot of glory for $250M. I suspect I’m not rare in that.

And it's only temporary too, he can work for Meta for a few years and then do whatever he wants for the rest of his life.

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.

That's not at all how anything works.

You're broken

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.

That $250M is (societally) better off going to him than being spent on whatever the hell Meta was going to otherwise spend it on.

> Where is the glory in bending the knee to Meta and Zuckerbeg?

Meta will have more AI-compute than he ever hoped to get at his - and most other - startups.

This is such a weird sentiment to me, comparing taking one of the highest paying corporate jobs in the history of humanity to bowing down to some dictator.