• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    I looked at the site. Its just Fiverr, but without all the moderation/features that make the site usable, and with AI in the name. The majority of the listings were either obvious scams or were spam. Even those that weren’t were pretty consistantly paying under $10 an hour. Beyond that, only one or two had anything to do with AI.

    Edit: actually, Fiverr is more a marketplace for those hiring. This is bounties, so its closer to Craigslist - esspecially given the lack of moderation or verification.

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    8 hours ago

    Sounds like Daemon (2006) by Daniel Suarez in which a decision tree established and runs a criminal organization to parasitize then displace nation-states by hiring talented people disaffected by corrupt governments.

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    Working for an unfeeling entity that only cares about profits and doesn’t care about you.

    Sounds like working for any large corporation but with better pay.

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      12 hours ago

      $30 an hour to poison their data while I’m doing my actual job sounds tight to me idk bruh

      They can fire me but they can’t not pay me.

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        13 hours ago

        Have you read “The Culture”? Because handing over power to the AI Minds is how you get utopian hedonistic gay space socialism.

        Do you want utopian hedonistic gay space socialism?

        I fucking do.

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          I always thought that the AI Minds were just his version of benevolent god slaves, in similar fashion the Superman is a bgs in the mainstream culture.

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          The gay is optional in The Culture (and sex changes at will), so yeah, I’m in.

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          I dont care much for the gay part, but as long as it is voluntary i’m game

          (Needs some actual fucking ai tho, not probability guessing machines)

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          I get most of what you’re saying…but what’s the space part? I like living on ground. I mean, I’m not opposed to a new planet. We could travel there. But I’d like to live on a planet.

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            Plenty of ground on a culture ship. Many of them are Big.

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            The ‘space’ part is just what happens in “The Culture” book series. They tend to stick to gigantic ships or space stations that have ecosystems, mountain ranges, and seas.

            Though really it’d be classified as more anarcho-socialism I suppose.

            I’m with you, Earth is better than we deserve and we should be focused on the problems we have here.

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              we should be focused on the problems we have here.

              Such as restoring earths beauty. There is ZERO reason why something absurd like 40% of America is just…parking lots. Or abandoned warehouses. Or abandoned malls.

              This may surprise most people, but, this country is naturally beautiful! And it can be again!

              We just gotta kick this bad habit we’ve had for 200+ years of forced slavery, and profit chasing.

              Oh, and also, no more pedophile presidents.

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                something absurd like 40% of America is just…parking lots

                I think you might have a fever? Or dreamed that up.

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    I don’t know anything about the writer, but this sure reads like the machine is doing more good than bad. Even touting that human jobs are being created, as if counting pigeons for an afternoon is sufficient to make up for having been replaced at the grocers by a machine.

    Also, wouldn’t the machine needing to know how many pigeons you saw only need to know that because some other person asked it? In effect, isn’t this just ‘middle-machining’ a gig job between two people?

    I half want to give it a go and just provide wrong results from my couch, collecting some of those sweet VC bucks.

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      Counting pigeons sounds nice. Out in nature, lots of fresh air, and you can afford food because you’re making twice what you make at the grocer.

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        Oh sure, I’d be happy as a peach counting pigeons for an afternoon. Trouble is it’s only for an afternoon where the grocer had me on a two week schedule.

        Then again, might not be hired to count pigeons again when I put twelve million pigeons on my tps report haha.

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    Based on the mathematical capabilities of most LLMs I know, I can just fudge the numbers by an order of magnitude and the boss won’t know the difference.

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    When chatbots die away they will qualify for government subsidies by showing the employees as excuse.