• FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
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    3 hours ago

    You clearly have no idea how much ai engineers are paid, and even less of an idea how their stock options are priced.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      3 hours ago

      What are you talking about. The engineers the ground level folk that a developing this stuff yes they’re paid highly but they’re not millionaires by any stretch in the imagination. Building a system that will crash the entire economic system of the Earth is not beneficial to them.

      • DireTech@sh.itjust.works
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        43 minutes ago

        The main engineers buildings this stuff are millionaires. They’ve been making probably $400k on the low end and we know of salaries over a million on the high end.

        Still not enough to survive an actual world collapse though.

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        2 hours ago

        At a 2tr$ targeted valuation (yes that number is silly but it’s also the IPO target) 1$mil is only a .05% equity stake and engineers usually get .1-.2%

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          38 minutes ago

          Only if they divest. Which they can’t really do because it isn’t actually clear that the shares will increase in value long-term in fact dive into shares would put a scare on the market.

          But that’s not really my point, my point is if the AI completely collapses the financial system then by its definition a lot of money isn’t really going to motivate people not as they truly believed money would become worthless.