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by p1esk 1879 days ago
Hinton and Lecun are two of the smartest people working at Google/FB, and they don't work in ad farms or as money movers.
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8fGTBjZxBcHq 1879 days ago
Not directly but their work needs to benefit an ad company to be allowed to continue.

Or else it exists in some intersection of corporate benevolence and the work not actively harming the ad company. Which is just not an arrangement I trust sorry.

Plus I mean that's two people. How many people work at google and fb and how many who do get to decide they're going to do something more important than ads?

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p1esk 1879 days ago
how many who do get to decide

We are talking about "best minds of our generation". That means dozens.

But even a regular good engineer/researcher can probably find a place where they can work on something they're interested in. I did.

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