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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Futurism published an article on Nate Soares
Soares says he is not saving for retirement because he expects AI doom, meanwhile the stated justification for MIRI paying Yud $600k a year is so he can become independently wealthy and above to the vulgar necessity of trading time for money. These people can't even bother being halfway consistent.
apparently MIRI doesn’t offer any of its employees 401K
The trend continues.
E: Hey at least this is an example of somebody actually critical of Eliezer who misspells his name, so finally one of his claims has turned out to be right.
E2: somebody has send the author a DM on bsky and got it fixed.
As well as top economist finding that AI has zero financial payoff
the "to companies outside of tech" seems to be doing some heavy lifting there