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>Is there a good primer on how this kind of offshoring works, for people ? There isn't. People with deep knowledge of this don't invest their time writing blog

by Havoc 1y ago

>Is there a good primer on how this kind of offshoring works, for people ? There isn't. People with deep knowledge of this don't invest their time writing blogs. Bit like OpenAI employees don't write blogs about how to train world class models. It's just not a thing. There is an abundance of shrill articles by journalists writing about it that derive their knowledge from other articles written by journalists who in turn... The big tech stuff flowing through Ireland is indeed lets call it convenient for both ireland and big tech, but what people don't realise is that chances are very high that their own pension likely flows through offshore structuring too. These places act as a central neutral clearing house of sorts that is acceptable to a lot of jurisdictions so even actors not after tax evasion use them.

phtrivier 1y ago
Sure, I'm not expecting a tutorial on how to offshore my money. However, to follow you point: openai does not explain how they train _their_ models, but there is plenty of material out there about how models are trained "in general" (kharpaty's videos, for example.) On the same vein, I perfectly expect off shoring practices to be kinda "secret and sensitive information", as they are basically "exploits" of tax code - but that does not mean that all cybersecurity books are "shill". The people who implements offshoring have to learn from somewhere, so there is written tracks. It might even be taught in accounting schools, assuming that some part of it is in a gray area, "legally." This is the kind of very high level info I'm interested in.
- Havoc 1y ago
  >how to offshore my money. Chances of it being helpful to you is quite low. It's expensive and mostly works in corporate context. >The people who implements offshoring have to learn from somewhere, so there is written tracks. All on the job. Hop on a plane to caymans or whatever, spend half a decade working at a service provider there and then you'll have seen various implementations. Keep in mind that this stuff changes all the time as the various countries' laws shift and each structure is essentially a once off custom design. >It might even be taught in accounting schools It's not.

by Havoc 1y ago

phtrivier 1y ago

Sure, I'm not expecting a tutorial on how to offshore my money. However, to follow you point: openai does not explain how they train _their_ models, but there is plenty of material out there about how models are trained "in general" (kharpaty's videos, for example.) On the same vein, I perfectly expect off shoring practices to be kinda "secret and sensitive information", as they are basically "exploits" of tax code - but that does not mean that all cybersecurity books are "shill". The people who implements offshoring have to learn from somewhere, so there is written tracks. It might even be taught in accounting schools, assuming that some part of it is in a gray area, "legally." This is the kind of very high level info I'm interested in.

Havoc 1y ago
>how to offshore my money. Chances of it being helpful to you is quite low. It's expensive and mostly works in corporate context. >The people who implements offshoring have to learn from somewhere, so there is written tracks. All on the job. Hop on a plane to caymans or whatever, spend half a decade working at a service provider there and then you'll have seen various implementations. Keep in mind that this stuff changes all the time as the various countries' laws shift and each structure is essentially a once off custom design. >It might even be taught in accounting schools It's not.