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His paycheck is already dependent on people believing this world view. It’s important to not lose sight of that.

I mean I think he can write his own ticket. If he said "AGI is possible but not with autoregressive approaches" he could still get funding. People want to get behind whatever he is gonna work on. But a certain amount of hype about his work is needed for funding, yes.

Kinda, as long as it’s cool. If he said ‘this is all just plausible text generation’, I think you’d find his options severely limited compared to the alternatives.

Dude he’s probably worth > 1 Billion.

As long as the stock is hot, sure.

If he crashes it by undermining what is making it hot, he’ll be worth a lot less. Depending on how hard he crashes the party, maybe worthless.

Though this party is going hard enough right now, I doubt he alone could do it.

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