Wait, what? 👀

What will be repercussions on Indian markets?

I’ll soon be starting my job as Relationship manager in HDFC, what dress code do we need to follow in banks ( mine will be private banking) do polo t shirts work? Or hardcore formal shirts? What about jeans? I did my internship in FMCG they were cool with anything

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, is launching Safe Superintelligence Inc., an AI startup “prioritizing safety over commercial pressures”. What’s SSI? Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) aims to create a safe and powerful AI system, approaching safety and capabilities in tandem while avoiding distraction by management overhead or product cycles. Team? SSI is co-founded by Daniel Gross, a former AI lead at Apple, and Daniel Levy, who previously worked at OpenAI. Unlike OpenAI, SSI will not pursue partnerships with companies like Apple and Microsoft. What are they upto? Well, SSI’s first product will be safe superintelligence, and the company “will not do anything else” until then 🤐 Still no idea what this means but great team doing something, will be super exciting to see this pan out!

Discussing it LIVE here.

Hearing no hikes in Oracle for this appraisal cycle. Are everyone else facing the same?

I have many friends who are into IT and Tech(read again Tech not IT). Whenever I am speaking to the IT folks and understand their aspirations I always find that they have this strange thing mentioned every now and then i.e. Going to the Clients location(all overseas) for a couple of months and coming back or extending for a longer duration say a few years and purchasing a house/flat back in India. I don't understand how going to the client's location(even if it's on Mars) and earning $$$ can be life's ultimate goal. What am I missing here? I am not able to understand since I have always believed that life's ultimate goal would be always bigger for people(achievable/non achievable are different things). Does working in IT make people so myopic that they are destined to think in the straight line process and wait for that token(at least what I have heard is that it's some weird selection they do to select and send you abroad on the projects). May be this thought process makes most of the crowd stick to the systems for years and decades at work. Is it considered that bigger of an achievement OR Is it a way to make people stick around for longer duration ? What am I missing here ? How can life goals be so small ?

Is this the big thing Scott mentioned last month?