the water beverage company Liquid Death has a flavor called "Dead Billionaire". There are lots of flavors available on amazon but for some reason that's not one of them.

The name prometheus is already in use by an open source monitoring project:

https://prometheus.io/

They are both in the computer field so there is some chance for confusion. Especially if the Prometheus monitoring project has some AI capabilities then that would strengthen the case for a trademark naming conflict.

Apple Inc, the computer company, had to settle and pay Apple Corps (the Beatles record label) money to settle trademark rights for the Apple name when Apple got into music business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

50$ he’s going to push for some life extension tech research

He should have gone with Colossus. There was a great 1970 scifi film named that about AI and... oh no, never mind.

Lol, image preview looks like 2 minutes of hate in 1984

Project Prometheus

That's some Deus Ex naming shit.

I don't know why but miss usng mythos so bad just grinds my gears.

Like are you, one of the most powerful beings in the world, really stealing fire and giving it to mankind risking yourself in the process? Does any of that sound like what he's fucking doing? Seriously.

Be like me running a mom and pop plumbing company in the valley name Zeus.

With how much external funding gets shoved into AI startups these days, I feel like 90% of AI startups are basically just a pump and dump with extra steps and targeted at investors. He's probably already gotten millions in investments already just by this announcement.

This picture looks like someone is going to throw a hammer through the picture

Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the earth and pecked by birds.

Oh good we need more AI projects right now

but Project Prometheus has already hired 100 employees, poaching several from firms like OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according to the Times.

I think that one problem with all this spending is that there are only so many people with relevant experience in the area. If wages are high enough, the market will send more over time, but that isn't instantaneous.

There are too few AI startups right now, apparently 🤔

You gotta respect the man for how much he seems to relish in being pure evil. Prometheus like the movie, about the bald dudes who created life? And the ultimate artificial lifeform as a weapon that wiped em all out in the end? That's a masterclass in Saturday morning ass villainy this Jeff practices.

So devoid of internality that he has to copy other rich people's big dumb projects.

we are using the word startup quite liberally, huh?

Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

Here is a suggestion:

Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.