Clarity vs Personal Value in AI Breakthrough Papers
pmddomingos · x · 2026-07-18
Prominent scholar Pedro Domingos tweeted a humorous observation about a phenomenon in the AI field: if you achieve an AI breakthrough and write a clear, accessible paper, anyone can replicate it. However, if you deliberately write the paper to be obscure and incomprehensible, others will have no choice but to hire you entirely at a cost of billions just to understand it.
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