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New Essay Explains Why Superstar AI Researchers Earn Over 10x More

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Superstar AI researchers are paid >10ร— more than their frontier lab colleagues, and >100ร— more than most postdocs. Why? The naive explanation is that this is just due to differences in researcher quality. But in a new essay, @ansonwhho argues that this is very incomplete.

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