[csdtx]

Is this that dude who made a company that rehires cheap labor in the third world for $5/day to help with classification while his team sits back and gets all the benefits?

https://twitter.com/alexandr_wang/status/1332059634606112768

The guy wants his company to be more of a cult than a value producing service. Makes sense.

People who care do put in more of their effort and get better results, but you have to give them an incentive for them to care. If your company fails, they get fired. But if your company grows and becomes 10x more profitable, their wages don't move. That's a great recipe for people doing the absolute minimum to not get fired.

This guy wants people who care more about him and his company than for themselves. "Ask not what your company can do for you – ask what you can do for your company"

[rueynshard]

Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post. Either way, the value provided comes not from the labeling alone, but from the platform it provides to be able to do so. If it were so easy, why don't these labellers bypass Scale AI entirely and make more money themselves?

[whymauri]

>Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post.

I disagree when his whole point is about 'giving a shit' about product.