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I weep for humanity.
by libraryatnight 1y ago
I weep for humanity.
- ihsw 1y agoThat $250M is (societally) better off going to him than being spent on whatever the hell Meta was going to otherwise spend it on.
- ceejayoz 1y agoPeople 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.
- krainboltgreene 1y agoYeah man, that’s not fucking good.
- achenet 1y agono 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.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- krainboltgreene 1y agoThat's not at all how anything works.
- libraryatnight 1y agoYou're broken
- latentsea 1y agoI mean it's not bad when you think about it in terms of an hourly rate.
- fc417fc802 1y agoI 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.
- libraryatnight 1y agoYou need help
- ceejayoz 1y agoSure. $250M buys a lot of help. Zuck can take the glory if he wants. Glory doesn’t pay my bills.
- trevorhinesley 1y agoHe said he’d forego glory, not values.
- deadbabe 1y agoFor $250M I’d still forego all kinds of values.
- arcanemachiner 1y agoEveryone has a price. Mine is a hell of a lot lower than $250M, and I would bet half of that that yours is too.
- ath3nd 1y agoNo amount of money (or torture) can make me work for Meta, Palantir or Amazon.
- aswanson 1y agoHow do you rank the evil list? For me, Palantir is an easy #1.
- ben_w 1y agoMmm. 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.