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Posted by spenvo 7/1/2025

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'(www.wired.com)
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jrflowers 7/1/2025|
Hmm on the one hand somebody could have unimaginable wealth but on the other hand they could be in a religion started by a former reddit ceo, it is truly an unsolvable riddle
dinkdonkbell 7/1/2025||
Didn't many of the missionaries at OpenAI go to Thinking Machines Lab?

https://thinkingmachines.ai/

zombiwoof 7/2/2025||
When even Scam Altman disliked Zuck we have reached AI bottom
jstop107 7/2/2025||
This was an important argument in the book The Network State. Corporate politics is the small game right now. Sam is trying to build a Global network state
alex_young 7/2/2025||
It’s kind of rich that he’s complaining about Facebook paying engineers ’too much’, given the history here.

A decade ago Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Adobe all had anti poaching agreements, and Facebook wouldn’t play ball, paid people more, won market share, and caused the salary boom in Silicon Valley.

Now Facebook is paying people too much and we should all feel bad about it?

lordfrito 7/1/2025||
Sam Altman complaining about mercenary behavior from competitors... Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Guess he's unhappy he's not the one being mercenary in this situation.
bux93 7/2/2025||
Wage cuts will continue until morale improves
tmaly 7/1/2025||
this open competition for talent is better than that time all the big tech firms were working to actively suppress wages.
ramesh31 7/1/2025|
We're talking about a few hundred people here, globally. The entire goal is to suppress everyone else's wages to zero.
g42gregory 7/2/2025||
He says, while driving $4 million car. :-)
gmerc 7/3/2025|
He's just talking to his cult.
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