Dude is paying $250M for just one guy. If that isn't a bubble, I don't know what is.

If Oppenheimer was paying market salary, how much do you think Feynman would have been worth?

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Sounds reasonable. I casted this in response to someone saying that Zuck paying 250M for a top AI engineer must mean bubble or be irrational.

My main point is that: 

If AI is as world changing as nuclear;
If developing it first is as urgent and critical;
And if the talent to achieve it is as rare;

Then this could be a more than rational move.

priceless - but if you force a market price: as a hired star today i'd ballpark feynman at ~$1–5m/yr in pay + $5–50m in equity/bonuses. if you buy his ideas/founder upside/royalties, lifetime value easily $100m–$1b+. so $250m isn’t ludicrous if you count optionality; straight salary alone? nope.

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fully agreed, nuance aside (the "market" at the time was a fraction of the AI market today, etc.)

I don’t disagree — I think there’s a reason Nolan just had him playing the drums

I went with name recognition to illustrate the point that I generally agree with what Zuck is doing

warm take: feynman was barely top 9 in terms of mental firepower on the MP.

With his brain? Man would’ve been clearing hedge fund money. Easily seven figures a year, and that’s being conservative.