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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.
$30 an hour? uhh... Where do they offer these jobs again?
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.
What if the AI are better employers than capitalists and we just end up working for them?
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.
Humans have managed to kill millions of each other and start a mass extinction. I’m happy to give the machines a chance.
❤️
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.
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.
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.
When chatbots die away they will qualify for government subsidies by showing the employees as excuse.
This is so, so cursed
Computer, end program.
Computer, exit.
…
~fuck~
I can't do that, Hal.
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.
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.
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.
Do you want to eat or do you want to afford rent next month? Maybe the machine has more pigeons to count.
Bring a second set of clothes and a hat.
How is the AI actually paying the human? Last I heard AI’s lack you know, money
I heard corporations are throwing trillions of dollars into AI.
And plus Mark Zuckerberg is rich. We can all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is AI, right?
I think he’s a lizard person, maybe a lizard person AI?
Agents my dude. Idiots let the AI into their Venmo and shit.
you should crosspost this to some fuckai comms
So you are hiring people to to odd/temp jobs. Why does ai need to be involved here?
Profit
skynet has begun
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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