This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an …
      • Jiral@lemmy.orgEnglish
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        9 days 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.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        10 days ago

        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

        • samvines@awful.systemsEnglish
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          10 days ago

          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”

        • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          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”.

          • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 days 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.

          • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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            9 days ago

            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

            • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
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              9 days 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.)