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← Previous segment →is less trusted than humans during a crisis? So not in general but during a crisis response. So that makes sense. You know I feel as if people will be trusting AI for some things depending on the topic but they will trust human beings for other things. And the reason they'll trust human beings over AI for some things is that the human would have to go to jail if they were lying or if they got caught they would never get repeat business. So human beings have consequences if they lie to you and get caught, whereas an AI could be right, could be wrong. So sometimes yeah, you're going to trust the human over the AI.
But this reminds me of the funniest story that I've heard in a while. I was just laughing about it on the pre-show that most of you didn't see. Apparently it has been discovered that some therapists are using an AI app. This was on Reddit or something. Now I don't know if it's true but this is the funniest thought that there's somebody who's a, it makes me want to be a therapist. You know the reason I would never want to be a therapist is that it would be horrible listening to people's terrible stories all day long. Like it would just gnaw out at your brain because you just hear so much negativity and they come back next week and they're not really any better. It would just really weigh you down.
But what if, work with me here, what if you could be paid to be a therapist and you didn't have to listen at all? You have to only pretend. So you just have to sit in a chair with your legs crossed and your phone on your lap so that your client can't see the phone and turn on the app, turn down the volume on the phone so that it can listen but if it talks it will be silent and you could just read the text and don't listen to what the client is saying and then when he stops just look at what your AI would say as the response and just read it and you would never have to actually listen to anybody's terrible story. You just wait until there's a gap in the talking and then you look down and go, "I wonder if your trauma stems from..." That's my next job. Fake therapist.
Apparently Gulf News is reporting, Jay Hill, that Elon Musk is successfully poaching a bunch of AI experts from Meta. And Meta had been offering these ginormous pay packages up to $300 million. Can you imagine? Have you ever gotten a job offer that was $300 million for just sort of going to work and doing the thing that you like doing anyway? Probably not. Yeah, that's a pretty good job. But apparently people are turning down $300 million packages and you know that that would be at the highest end of course. And apparently Musk's AI has recruited as many as 18 of the best AI engineers from Meta. Interesting.
And the narrative here is that they're moving because less important than all that crazy money is the mission, the speed, the equity upside, and a startup vibe, not just cash. Do you believe that? And is that the choice you would have made? Let's say somebody goes to you and says, "I will guarantee you'll make $300 million over five years and all you have to do is come to work and give your best, which you were going to do anyway." And probably it would be working with other really bright people. And then the alternative is that you get to work with Elon Musk and you know see how that whole situation is like. And you'd probably learn something that you maybe it would be sexier, maybe it'd be more successful, maybe there would be fewer impediments and bureaucratic BS. Maybe there would be a smaller chance that you would be de-DEI'd or there'd be some kind of woke problem over there. Less odds of that.
But would you turn
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down, let's say, a guaranteed $200 million over five years to take the lesser money because the equity might be worth something too if everything worked out? I don't know. Or it could be that the difference between having $100 million and having $300 million isn't that much because in either case if you wanted I guess you could get your own airplane. That to me, that's the dividing line between th…
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