34 pointsby Brajeshwar4 hours ago8 comments
  • elphinstone4 minutes ago
    Well that PR is cheaper than buying Johnny Ives for $6 billion. You could probably buy an entire Ivy League philosophy department for 60 million.
  • llbbdd5 minutes ago
    I think, therefore I am seeking 2.5m total comp
  • personjerry3 hours ago
    Hmm I spent a good amount of time in big tech, now work in AI, and I minored in philosophy at Berkeley back in the day (Parmenides, Socrates, Plato etc.)

    How do I align myself with such a job?

    • dvt38 minutes ago
      Usually you need to be well-published/cited in the field, so a minor would likely not qualify. People joke around, but philosophers are some of the smartest people I've ever met, and it's not even particularly close. (I graduated ~10 years ago, so most of them are sadly lawyers these days, though some are engineers or entrepreneurs.)
    • gizajob2 hours ago
      Same - philosopher here please hire me. My bachelors thesis was “Wittgensteinian problems for artificial general intelligence.” Three decades working closely with tech and haven’t failed the Turing test yet.

      I think SBF and his education from birth (via his mother) in consequentialism should point to the issues made clear when that ethical approach goes wrong or operates from bad, egoistic data, which it’s generally always doing.

    • asdff41 minutes ago
      You need to use everything at your disposal. Wait for the planets to align and the tea leaves to indicate good success. Don't apply until the chicken bones suggest a good time for someone with your constitution. You are going up against a thousand other candidates more or less equally qualified for a highly vague job description and 350k base salary.
    • slowmovintarget37 minutes ago
      Find non-Utilitarian alternative to Effective Altruism by somehow channeling Dostoevsky? Propriety and Reward?
  • nyeah18 minutes ago
    Maybe George Gilder is available. No PhD but lots of hands-on experience.
  • geye1234an hour ago
    For those of us who have read Paul Graham's submarine essay, should the last paragraph be a giveaway? The "AI theoretician's" quote seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the article.
    • Terr_29 minutes ago
      > Paul Graham's submarine essay

      To save a few clicks: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

      > [The] PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

      • felooboolooomba9 minutes ago
        >more than half probably come from PR firms

        Imagine how bad it is on social media.

  • aniokono2 hours ago
    I think it's in search of AGI (artificial general intelligence).
  • cphoover40 minutes ago
    We couldn't possibly be in a bubble.
    • dvh35 minutes ago
      Title said philosophers, not taxi drivers.
  • nakedrobot23 hours ago
    is there a link available that allows us to actually read the article?