> Blah blah blah, money this, money that

See, that’s the problem with what Amazon has done to you. It’s always about money with you guys. Good research is about the opposite of money. The people who don’t know what that means, who can’t fathom to understand what “the opposite of money” means without turning everything into a contrived story about money: they can’t do good R&D. Every single great R&D director will tell you this, and a bunch of people will downvote this comment, who have never been in a meaningful R&D role.

A good research culture is capable of listening to broad, generalized, completely accurate criticism in public and not downvote. Downvoting is your problem guys!

OpenAI has a million little haters out there and do you know how much time their people spend downvoting comments online? Zero. And honestly they’re paid way better than the poor souls who have wound up at Amazon, so it’s really, truly the case that none of this money money money culture really adds up to much for the little guy.

If there’s any one person to point the finger at - like why does Amazon, with its vast resources and tremendous talent, produce basically zero meaningful publicly influential research - it’s Jeff Bezos. You’re talking about strategy? The guy in charge is a colossal piece of shit, with a piece of shit girlfriend and a piece of shit world view, at least as bad as Larry Ellison, whose only redeeming factor is that MacKenzie Scott is a much smarter person than he ever was.