Meta apparently offered an AI engineer 1.25 billion for four years of work, he said no - Kotaku In Action 2

Meta apparently offered an AI engineer 1.25 billion for four years of work, he said no (media.scored.co)

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– Devidose 13 points 324 days ago +13 / -0

Considering the meta verse was something from Second Life years ago, yes Facebook did steal it.

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– CaptPenguin 2 points 324 days ago +2 / -0

The term metaverse goes back even farther to Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash. That didn't start with Second Life.

It wasn't a coincidence, both Facebook and Linden Labs founders have read that book.

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– Adamrises 1 point 323 days ago +1 / -0

It also was literally the big otherworld in Persona 5 just a few years before Zuck started using it. Which is equally likely to be the kind of low effort, trend chasing shit he would go with.

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