[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Dwayne [@CtrlAltDwayne](/creator/twitter/CtrlAltDwayne) on x 3675 followers Created: 2025-07-24 04:33:01 UTC How Mark Zuckerberg tried (and failed) to hire me for meta AI It started with a message from Mark Zuckerberg. "Hey. I liked your thread on ontological drift in language models. Want to come work on Meta AI?" I stared at it for an hour. It wasn't the message that unsettled me. It was the timestamp: 2:43 AM. On a Tuesday. Followed three minutes later by: “Sorry for the delay. Was spearfishing.” That's how I knew it was real. Two days later I was flown out to Menlo Park. No security badge. No orientation. Just a laminated card that said VISITOR - LEVEL X CLEARANCE and a printed photo of me from high school. I hadn’t uploaded that picture anywhere. They just had it. They walked me through an open floor plan where every engineer was barefoot and eating boiled eggs. Nobody spoke. Everyone typed directly into a shared prompt window called The Cauldron. Zuck greeted me in a meditation pod. No shoes, no blinking. He said, "We’re teaching LLaMA to reflect. Not just mirror language, but genuinely mourn bad outputs." He made the word "mourn" sound like a KPI. Then he laid out the offer: - Title: Prompt Integrity Lead, Speculative Ethics Unit - Pay: "Whatever OpenAI pays you, doubled. If they pay you in compute credits, we’ll give you land." - Perks: Unlimited power, but also extreme accountability. I asked what the job involved. He said, "Sometimes, we need to make the model forget. Certain ideas, certain… events. You’d be in charge of the forgetting." Then he handed me a spoon and told me to eat some pudding. I looked down. There was no bowl. He said, "The pudding is implied." I told him I needed time to think. He nodded, then said, "Just know: if you say no, your Meta Quest will start showing you photos of people who did say yes." I declined. Ever since, my phone has autocorrected "GPT" to "LLaMA,”" and every photo of me on Facebook now has glowing eyes and a faint caption that reads: “Candidate Rejected. Catalogued. Watching.” Last night, I got another message from him. It just said: "LLaMA's been asking about you." XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [drift](/topic/drift) [coins ai](/topic/coins-ai) [meta](/topic/meta) [mark zuckerberg](/topic/mark-zuckerberg) [Post Link](https://x.com/CtrlAltDwayne/status/1948239974782189964)
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Dwayne @CtrlAltDwayne on x 3675 followers
Created: 2025-07-24 04:33:01 UTC
How Mark Zuckerberg tried (and failed) to hire me for meta AI
It started with a message from Mark Zuckerberg.
"Hey. I liked your thread on ontological drift in language models. Want to come work on Meta AI?"
I stared at it for an hour. It wasn't the message that unsettled me. It was the timestamp: 2:43 AM. On a Tuesday. Followed three minutes later by:
“Sorry for the delay. Was spearfishing.”
That's how I knew it was real.
Two days later I was flown out to Menlo Park. No security badge. No orientation. Just a laminated card that said VISITOR - LEVEL X CLEARANCE and a printed photo of me from high school. I hadn’t uploaded that picture anywhere. They just had it.
They walked me through an open floor plan where every engineer was barefoot and eating boiled eggs. Nobody spoke. Everyone typed directly into a shared prompt window called The Cauldron.
Zuck greeted me in a meditation pod. No shoes, no blinking. He said, "We’re teaching LLaMA to reflect. Not just mirror language, but genuinely mourn bad outputs." He made the word "mourn" sound like a KPI.
Then he laid out the offer:
- Title: Prompt Integrity Lead, Speculative Ethics Unit
- Pay: "Whatever OpenAI pays you, doubled. If they pay you in compute credits, we’ll give you land."
- Perks: Unlimited power, but also extreme accountability.
I asked what the job involved.
He said, "Sometimes, we need to make the model forget. Certain ideas, certain… events. You’d be in charge of the forgetting."
Then he handed me a spoon and told me to eat some pudding. I looked down. There was no bowl. He said, "The pudding is implied."
I told him I needed time to think. He nodded, then said, "Just know: if you say no, your Meta Quest will start showing you photos of people who did say yes."
I declined.
Ever since, my phone has autocorrected "GPT" to "LLaMA,”" and every photo of me on Facebook now has glowing eyes and a faint caption that reads: “Candidate Rejected. Catalogued. Watching.”
Last night, I got another message from him. It just said: "LLaMA's been asking about you."
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