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> Yet, in spite of this, after playing Really Bad Chess for the past week, I’ve found myself with a much better understanding of the game, and how the various pieces interact with each other.
Not to mention that you can potentially learn tactics much quicker with more practice using the interesting pieces.
That said, although VC funding might be a small percentage of investment overall, it has a leveraged impact on the economy as a whole [0]:
"According to a study conducted at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, 43% of U.S. public companies founded since 1979 were funded by venture capital. These companies now comprise 38% of all employees, 57% of the total U.S. market capitalization, and account for 82% of all R&D spend — a proxy for further innovation growth — in the United States."
I also can't resist sharing mine:
Just as one discovery enables many, human-level AI that can do its own AI research could superlinearly bootstrap its intelligence. AI safety addresses the risk of bootstrapped superintelligence indifferent to humans.
Secondly - it's not necessarily about 'evil' AI. It's about AI indifferent to human life. Have a look at this article, it provides a better intuition for how slippery AI could be: https://medium.com/@LyleCantor/russell-bostrom-and-the-risk-...
Playing devil's advocate, the result could have been that CEO pay was very well correlated with performance. The company doing well can justify a higher compensation.
Of course, this is probably the argument that gets used.
[0] http://corkskeptics.org/2011/05/03/the-common-sense-fallacy/
Seems a bit silly to say they're annoyed that they had to spend money to upgrade their broken security.
At least https://duckduckgo.com/?q=it+was+a+good+day+rapgenius seems to work fine.