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He is close or already a billionaire, not sure much more money will be do much heavy-lifting

efficax 4mo ago
you'd be surprised! people seem to have a limitless appetite for that money stuff. they just can't get enough of it, i've found
- eloisant 4mo ago
  Most are happy and stop at multimillionaires, but of course we don't hear about them. The focus on hungry billionaires is survivor bias. We don't hear about Tom from MySpace.
- VirusNewbie 4mo ago
  How much money do you have? or are you just commenting from the peanut gallery?
  - efficax 4mo ago
    i’ve got 300k in a 401k, 50k in cash and i earn 230k pretax. i’m not sure what the point of the question is tho
    - brcmthrowaway 4mo ago
      You're doing well, but what of you want to buy a house?
    - VirusNewbie 4mo ago
      My point is you and I are still working for money because we want things/security etc.. I really don't get the sense that people who have tens or hundres of millions of dollars are doing it cause they need more money. It's other things that motivate people. I run into people in my workplace that just enjoy it, even though they're sitting on 20M. All those engineers making 20M a year at Anthropic and OpenAI are going to back down to normal super high comp of 700k a year after their starter grants run out, and yes many will quit but the people who stay aren't moving the needle on their finances that much.
- tedd4u 4mo ago
  I know some pretty wealthy people. They are very aware of those who are 10x wealthier than them. If Noam has 1B, he is probably pretty aware of those that have 10B. He's met them and seen their properties, scope, and powers. Likewise, they are thinking about those that have 100B, and those are thinking about Elon, who now has "four commas."
  - yablak 4mo ago
    That's not really Noam's style
- petra 4mo ago
  For many business people, money is just a measure of status after becoming rich. Maybe Noam measures status differently.
peanuty1 4mo ago
He left Character.ai for money.

you'd be surprised! people seem to have a limitless appetite for that money stuff. they just can't get enough of it, i've found

eloisant 4mo ago
Most are happy and stop at multimillionaires, but of course we don't hear about them. The focus on hungry billionaires is survivor bias. We don't hear about Tom from MySpace.
VirusNewbie 4mo ago
How much money do you have? or are you just commenting from the peanut gallery?
- efficax 4mo ago
  i’ve got 300k in a 401k, 50k in cash and i earn 230k pretax. i’m not sure what the point of the question is tho
  - brcmthrowaway 4mo ago
    You're doing well, but what of you want to buy a house?
  - VirusNewbie 4mo ago
    My point is you and I are still working for money because we want things/security etc.. I really don't get the sense that people who have tens or hundres of millions of dollars are doing it cause they need more money. It's other things that motivate people. I run into people in my workplace that just enjoy it, even though they're sitting on 20M. All those engineers making 20M a year at Anthropic and OpenAI are going to back down to normal super high comp of 700k a year after their starter grants run out, and yes many will quit but the people who stay aren't moving the needle on their finances that much.
tedd4u 4mo ago
I know some pretty wealthy people. They are very aware of those who are 10x wealthier than them. If Noam has 1B, he is probably pretty aware of those that have 10B. He's met them and seen their properties, scope, and powers. Likewise, they are thinking about those that have 100B, and those are thinking about Elon, who now has "four commas."
- yablak 4mo ago
  That's not really Noam's style
petra 4mo ago
For many business people, money is just a measure of status after becoming rich. Maybe Noam measures status differently.

peanuty1 4mo ago

He left Character.ai for money.