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by cma 296 days ago
5. Having a lot of very publicly extremely highly paid people will make people assume anyone working on AI there is highly paid, if not quite as extreme. What most people who make a lot of money spend it on is wealth signalling, and now they can get a form of that without the company having to pay them as much.
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What good is a wealth signal without wealth?

You’re promoting vacuous vanity

Higher status, access to higher quality mates, etc.
It might even play role in getting you to US President
> promoting

Where?