Being a popular AI influencer is not necessarily correlated with being a good researcher though. And I would argue there is a strong indication that it is negatively correlated with being a good business leader / founder.
Here's to hoping he chills out and goes back to the sorely needed lost art of explaining complicated things in elegant ways, and doesn't stray too far back into wasting time with all the top sheisters of the valley.
Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize that it probably screws with a person to have their tweets get b-lined to the front page of hackernews. It makes you a target for offers and opportunities because of your name/influence, but not necessarily because of your underlying "best fit"
if only we compensated that knowledge properly. Youtube seems to come the closest, but Youtube educators also show how much time you have to spend attracting views instead of teaching expertise.
> It makes you a target for offers and opportunities because of your name/influence, but not necessarily because of your underlying "best fit"
That's unfortunately life in a nutshell. The best fits rarely end up getting any given position. May be overqualified, filtered out in the HR steps, or rejected for some ephemeral reason (making them RTO, not accepting their counteroffer, potentially illegal factors behind closed doors, etc).
it's a crappy game so I don't blame anyone for using whatever cards they are dealt.
Actually for all the attention that the top Youtubers get (in terms of revenue), the reality is that it's going to be impossible to replace teaching income with popular Youtube videos alone.
Based on what I've seen, 1 million video views on Youtube gets you something like $5-10K. And that's with a primarily US audience that has the higher CPM / RPM. So your channel(s) would need to get to about 6 million views per year, primarily US driven, in order to get to earning a median US wage.
to get 6m views you need to make one video a week that gets 114k views 6000000/52 = 115,384.61.