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Its getting pretty lame that we talk about the these guys like they're football players transferring teams.
by ai_fry_ur_brain 4mo ago
Its getting pretty lame that we talk about the these guys like they're football players transferring teams.
- matthew_hre 4mo agoSpeak for yourself, my Fantasy Developer League is crushing it this season
- ai_fry_ur_brain 4mo agoI feel like there was a scene in Silicon Valley about a developer fantasy league.
- Scene_Cast2 4mo agoKrazam already has a video covering this exact idea.
- kirubakaran 4mo agoFantasy FAANGball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZt9YPAPZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZt9YPAPZo
- glaslong 4mo agoHow do I ̷g̷a̷m̷b̷l̷e̷ sports bet on this
- ttoinou 4mo agoIt could be the opposite. Those are really useful people, they deserve this more than football players
- ai_fry_ur_brain 4mo agoIdk, football players actually make a bunch of people happy and entertained. 80% of the United States wishes this tech never existed. What they're working on is just making peoples jobs, skills obsolete and trying to invent machines that will concentrate the worlds wealth into the hands of the people who own those machines.
- ttoinou 4mo agoVery few people interpret football so much that the actual frontier work of the best players matter. Out of 30 friends I know who like football only 1 of them could explain what’s going on in the field technically. For most people, pro players are replaceable. Popular entertainment and unique progress of human civilization can’t be really compared either
- DrScientist 4mo ago> For most people, pro players are replaceable. I'd argue that professional sport is the closest thing to a true meritocracy - doesn't matter who your Dad knows - you ability is there for all to see on the pitch. And at the team level - if cosy cliques form, again - team performance doesn't lie - hard work, team work and talent is ultimately what delivers results on the pitch. The other interesting part of professional sport is that the 'workers' have managed to capture more of the value than is traditionally the case - this is precisely because they are so hard to replace. If you think professional footballers earn too much and are interchangable - feel free to try and get in the team.
- ttoinou 4mo agoI only said top scientists and top engineers deserve as much fame / respect / gossip as top football players yeah
- DrScientist 4mo agoSadly most science and engineering is very capital intensive. So take this scenario - I'd argue that if you want to make progress in the field of these particular ML models, then you are going to need resources ( compute/data etc ) that is beyond most individuals capability to muster. ie you have to join a company with resources ( or persuade somebody to give you them ). Right now there is one of those scenarios where capital is chasing talent - and so talent, if they are so inclined, is able to make the most of that. But in normal times that's typically not the case - most of the time scientists are chasing the capital ( directly or indirectly in the form of a job in a well resourced company ) in order to be able to science, rather than the other way around.
- krembo 4mo agoWe're a community of geeks. We admire Tesla, Feynman, Linus and such. For me they are far greater than football players
- bbeonx 4mo agowait this is kinda brilliant tho
- bookofjoe 4mo agoWhat's the AI equivalent of NIL?
- mrandish 4mo agoThis situation is kind of like backend NIL value. His value to OAI isn't just the work he'll do "on the playing field", it's the perceptual value of "OAI just hired the guy Google paid >$2B to get back" right before their IPO.
- Nebasuke 4mo agoHave you seen the Krazam fantasy FAANGball sketch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZt9YPAPZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZt9YPAPZo It's funny, but with the AI hires/moves it feels more like satire now.
- iooi 4mo agoThis "guy" is worth on the order of all football players put together.
- ai_fry_ur_brain 4mo ago[flagged]
- chubot 4mo agoIn this case, it's not a new thing ... back in 2005 (yes 21 years ago), people talked about the achievements of Noam Shazeer at Google (and Jeff Dean and Sanjay, etc) I always appreciated Jeff having a level head ... which this article seems to confirm: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-cracks-down-posts-2-200436496.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-cracks-down-posts...
- Noumenon72 4mo agoI wonder if the ideological censorship described in your link is part of why Noam decided to leave.
- nixon_why69 4mo agoShitposting about politics on internal boards is "having a level head"? I've seen engmisc and industryinfo, and I agree they are sometimes insufferable but having a level head would be ignoring them.
- minwcnt5 4mo agoReread the comment: Shazeer was the one shitposting about politics, not Jeff Dean. Dean called him out over it.
- nixon_why69 4mo agoOh, my bad, I mixed up the names on the comment. Yeah, Dean did always seem to have a level head from what little I've seen.
- tayo42 4mo agoI think it's more about how the products that impact our lives might change and what might flow down to us becasue of that.