Surprise: people that can get a job anywhere at all don't want to work for a place where they are forced to leave their families on the weekend and chew on Adderall at 6 am
NEW: AI researcher Yann LeCun says it’s “very, very difficult” for Elon Musk to hire top AI talent.
Positive users defend xAI's talent quality and ambitious projects like Grok, while negative users criticize the work as low-status or centered on empowering Elon personally.
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For these people, status is everything, and being forced to slave away working on something whose 90% of compute is generating porn isn't exactly high status
Surprise: people that can get a job anywhere at all don't want to work for a place where they are forced to leave their families on the weekend and chew on Adderall at 6 am
@yacineMTB Did they rich from that ?
@yacineMTB does he at least supply the Adderall?
@yacineMTB Do you have a job anywhere tho?
@yacineMTB Adderall is the worst. I was even prescribed it as a kid and hated it, so I just didn't take it. But hey, it was the equivalent of being forced to smoke a carton of cigarettes so now I know to stay away haha
@yacineMTB Nobody makes me chew on adderall at 6am. I do that myself
@yacineMTB This doesn't sound all that bad, can't lie sounds kinda perfect.
@yacineMTB Also if you work at Anthropic or OAI you can believe that you shape the future of the world
At xAI you work to make sure that Elon personally gets the power to shape the world
Much less attractive
@yacineMTB why not?
@yacineMTB Or maybe the best talent wants to ship Grok 4/5, Colossus-scale training, and actual pursuit of understanding the universe instead of another safety bureaucracy or enterprise wrapper.
@yacineMTB Damn.
@yacineMTB this is very true, you have to actually work with the talent if you want them to work for you.
@yacineMTB surprise: bezos says it's really hard for shopify to hire top ecommerce talent
@yacineMTB that is degenerate stuff
@yacineMTB yh but now you can say you work at Space X. thats high status.
@yacineMTB I just need to limit Chips Sales to America
@yacineMTB Why did you accept to work at xAI?
@yacineMTB tell us more about the chewing on adderall
@yacineMTB What if we schedule them for 3 AM? Would that make it work?
@yacineMTB Is his adderall budget larger than metas ?