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  • Dario Amodei is the Woody Allen of the AI world always worried and neurotic about something.
    by wewewedxfgdf
  • I'm sorry. Companies are not charities or families but like sports teams. We come together for a limited objective, where the company meets its objectives and I get paid for my time.

    I was laid off last year along with many of my colleagues, some time before the layoff the group director had an impromptu meeting and declared we are working for the good of the world and that we should all feel aligned with this message to serve humanity - "Our mission is to empower every person and every individual organisation on the planet to achieve more".

    No your mission is to pump the stock and return value to shareholder. My mission is to help you do it and get paid for my time.

    And it turns out more often that not, that to serve humanity is a cookbook.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

    by lain98
  • It's an industry where companies with "open" right in the name lobby against open models and training on stolen data is viewed as more ethical than training on existing models. It takes some time to catch up with reality there.
    by m132
  • Be careful what you wish for. Ideological employees exist, and they might even work for less. But that doesn’t mean they will always agree with Dario’s ideology. This is something Google has found out.

    And when those ideological people start making noises about the ways they disagree with the company, he might miss the more mercenary employees.

    by janalsncm
  • Here's an idea: instead of paying your employees $800k, how about you cut their pay to $80k. See how many of them are truly in it for the mission.
    by briga
  • I, as an engineer, shall work for a mission and not (so much) for money. But as soon as the mission can possibly be completed without me using the latest shiny AI tool, it is okay for the company to get rid of me.
    by hasley
  • The concept of job security and stability has been broken, so everyone is too busy securing their future by collecting as much money before there is another record profit layoff!
    by mawadev
  • I know a lot of good people that got thrown away by mission focussed companies. They were loyal and put with all kinds of BS for those companies. I was laid off from jobs I went way above and beyond for. They didn't hesitate. They are the ones that turned us all into disposable mercenaries. Why wouldn't we go for the money? What else are they offering, thumbs up emojis?
    by ogou

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