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What I most would like to understand is how you intend to motivate someone you just gave a quarter of a billion dollars to? Especially a young person. They never have to work again, and neither do their grandchildren.

You can just doodle away with whatever research interests you the most, there's no need to deliver a god mode AI to the great leader even if you had the ability to.



Plenty of people are motivated by the work, not the money.

Given more money they just subcontract out increasing fractions of the overhead of life in order to do more of the work.


I think Dario Amodei just said this much on a podcast and that is why he isn't worried.

That they are building a team with a selection bias for this too.


Seems like their only motivation is their desire to succeed, glory, etc.


But that's the thing. These are hired people. Their job is to bring glory to the great leader. Exactly the same way Altman get the OpenAI fame.

If you really had thoughts in your head worth a quarter of a billion, the rational thing to do is not to spill those beans.

Approximately no one is motivated by money they already have.


I mean, if you publish something considered a breakthrough don't you also get glory?


Im sure in the US you can never have enough money


If $250M is still not enough, you are definitely broken.




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