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**URGENT: Major League Baseball star pitcher, Sean Evans, retires at 27 to join elite AI research lab, citing "marginally higher expected value."**

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**URGENT: Major League Baseball star pitcher, Sean Evans, retires at 27 to join elite AI research lab, citing "marginally higher expected value."**

In a shocking move that has sent shockwaves through both sports and tech, Evans walked away from a $200M contract extension to work on LLM alignment. "I've done the math," he said. "This creates more utility."

His former agent called it "a catastrophic misallocation of talent." Evans disagreed. Analysts now estimate his lifetime earnings will drop by $180M.

But if he solves the alignment problem, the ROI is infinite.