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The economics of superstar AI researchers
Superstar researchers at frontier labs can earn over a hundred times more than the average AI postdoc. Researcher quantity doesn't easily make up for quality in the field of AI. Even a 2x researcher can earn far more than the median because their contributions easily scale to billions of users. If they can add something that multiple 1x researchers can't, then it's worth paying a lot to capture it.
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