This is not in any way a “new” idea. It’s company scrip — a company’s own made-up money that you can only spend in the company store.
At least you could buy food with company script. Tech bros have really invented company script, but worse.
This is not in any way a “new” idea. It’s company scrip — a company’s own made-up money that you can only spend in the company store.
At least you could buy food with company script. Tech bros have really invented company script, but worse.
Are none of them offering to convert their own wealth into AI tokens to signal their support for this new amazing system? Why not?
Hopefully they run out of cash flow asap.
as I said elsewhere: I suspect this is happening because cash is becoming tighter
Labor theory of value, but worse
Please sir, may I have a scrap of context?
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.
Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard?
Fill me in, I've never heard of that user.
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:
there are more, we can go deeper
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"
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".
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
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.
Sixteen prompts
What do i get?
Another day older
And deeper in dept
Saint peter (thiel) dont call me
Cause i cant go -
I owe my soul to AI slopstore
I literally thought this shit was The Onion at first glance
we are living through the shittiest Shadowrun campaign ever written
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