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Everyone works for money unless you are refusing to take your salary.
by gadders 1y ago
Everyone works for money unless you are refusing to take your salary.
- dan-robertson 1y agoLots of people working for AI labs have other AI labs they could work for, so their decisions will be made based on differences of remuneration, expected work/role, location, and employer culture/mission. The claim above is that OpenAI loses to other labs on most of the metrics (obviously depends on the person) and so many researchers have gone there based on higher compensation.
- Retric 1y agoNot what the phrase means, when you decide to take a vastly less lucrative offer you’re working for something other than money.
- robertlagrant 1y agoHow many people do that out of the working population?
- Retric 1y agoMillions take a noticeable pay cut, it suppress wages in many fields. It’s one of the reasons so many CEO’s hype up their impact. SpaceX would’ve needed far higher compensation if engineers weren’t enthusiastic about space etc.
- triceratops 1y agoArguably anyone who's working in a something they're "passionate" about.
- robertlagrant 1y agoWell - only if they had alternatives.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoProbably most people working for non-profits or any level of government.
- matthewmacleod 1y agoObviously this is not the case, and you're deliberately choosing to misunderstand the point.