▲ 244 ▼ AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments I owe my SOUL․md to the company store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLERkM2TJbw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260312-ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money - podcast time: 6 min 57 sec
[+] oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe 13 points 5 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago (1 child) Please sir, may I have a scrap of context? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 5 months ago Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason. permalink fedilink source parent [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children) Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard? Fill me in, I've never heard of that user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] self@awful.systems 29 points 5 months ago (1 child) oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag however, Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard? let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because: you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia there are more, we can go deeper permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] samvines@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 child) You're an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug "a bad thing" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago AI as the realization of Huey Lewis and the News iconic hit song "I Want a New Drug" permalink fedilink source parent [+] oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe 5 points 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children) Well I've definitely misinterpreted. This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from 'David Gerard@awful.systems' and then I see your comment as @dgerard gtfo. Lol Which to me I interpreted as 'lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here'. Especially with the reply from second user, "thanks, blocked". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.) permalink fedilink source parent [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that. P.S. This also kinda illustrates how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago (1 child) Please sir, may I have a scrap of context? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 5 months ago Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 6 points 5 months ago Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children) Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard? Fill me in, I've never heard of that user. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] self@awful.systems 29 points 5 months ago (1 child) oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag however, Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard? let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because: you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia there are more, we can go deeper permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] samvines@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 child) You're an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug "a bad thing" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago AI as the realization of Huey Lewis and the News iconic hit song "I Want a New Drug" permalink fedilink source parent [+] oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe 5 points 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children) Well I've definitely misinterpreted. This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from 'David Gerard@awful.systems' and then I see your comment as @dgerard gtfo. Lol Which to me I interpreted as 'lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here'. Especially with the reply from second user, "thanks, blocked". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.) permalink fedilink source parent [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that. P.S. This also kinda illustrates how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] self@awful.systems 29 points 5 months ago (1 child) oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag however, Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard? let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because: you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia there are more, we can go deeper permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] samvines@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 child) You're an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug "a bad thing" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago AI as the realization of Huey Lewis and the News iconic hit song "I Want a New Drug" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] samvines@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 child) You're an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug "a bad thing" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago AI as the realization of Huey Lewis and the News iconic hit song "I Want a New Drug" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago AI as the realization of Huey Lewis and the News iconic hit song "I Want a New Drug" permalink fedilink source parent
[+] oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe 5 points 5 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children) Well I've definitely misinterpreted. This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from 'David Gerard@awful.systems' and then I see your comment as @dgerard gtfo. Lol Which to me I interpreted as 'lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here'. Especially with the reply from second user, "thanks, blocked". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.) permalink fedilink source parent [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that. P.S. This also kinda illustrates how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children) Well I've definitely misinterpreted. This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from 'David Gerard@awful.systems' and then I see your comment as @dgerard gtfo. Lol Which to me I interpreted as 'lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here'. Especially with the reply from second user, "thanks, blocked". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.) permalink fedilink source parent [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that. P.S. This also kinda illustrates how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 child) adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don't do that. P.S. This also kinda illustrates how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP. permalink fedilink source parent