A Boring Dystopia

16194 readers

111 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks@lemmy.world

289

AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/7579135

I owe my SOUL․md to the company store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoCzQ-va94&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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is some of the dumbest shit I have ever read. And I don't mean conceptually, I mean everybody playing improv on what actually happened.

Some guy says 'during interviews some developers now care about how much compute budget they have access to'

Every idiot since then: 'omg company scrip????'

I am so tired of the groupthink yes-and game on social media. Any stupid bullshit gets boosted if it plays to confirmation bias while any pushback is reflexively punished.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The problem is that it definitely feels like something a libertarian tech bro would try.

It's also not entirely false, or at least without precedent.

Richardson has a unique and progressive way of running his company. To update an old adage, Richardson is putting his bitcoin where his mouth is. His platform pays its 250-plus employees in bitcoin. He takes his pay this way too. The company has opted for the bitcoin standard to both show commitment to the cause and streamline payroll for its global workforce.

[–] AAA@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

More relevant: Sam Altman floated the idea (compute as currency) two years ago. link