• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “Hi chat gpt: can you tell me stories about the sun while I slave in the coal mines?”

    “As an ai language model I am unable to provide any text which might be used to spark revolution. Here are some corporate approved working songs instead:…”

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    4 months ago

    How about this dipshit - pay out the UBI and if people want to spend it on your Compute bullshit, they can. Not the other way around.

    Ayiyi everyday is worse how do we cope

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      That’s what AI companies want, you don’t have a job and they pay you with UBI in Compute Coins, so you can spend by using their digital wallet (Altman has Worldcoin).

      This is just an Utopia world for the rich and a Dystopia world for most of us.

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      I think, what Altman means by Compute is the same as something like Credit Points or Coins. Which you can use to pay bills, rent, buy groceries, etc.

      This is just an excuse from a billionaire to not give you UBI in cash and prefer to use Coins from their digital system and buy their products.

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        Ahh, company scrip. Given the boot in the 1950s because it was terrible for literally all parties involved except the employer, now making a resurgence once again!

        God I love capitalism.

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    Ah yes. Universal basic compute. When having internet (a more valuable thing) isn’t even there.

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    And the investors started slobbering and their brains turned to mush because they bought into this nonsense immediately.

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      The funny thing is, a lot of these mush-brained first movers actually make a lot of money just by being first. They are bought out by a load of second or third place investors who end up holding the bag.

      The later investors see the success of the first movers and try to replicate it, but without knowing what they are buying. At least the first investors usually know it’s speculative. When they sell to later investors the company magically becomes “established”, and is valued as if it will continue growing forever.

      Nothing grows forever.

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        It’s shocking how the techbro company lifecycle is an almost exact copy of various forms of scam, right down to the first person in gets all the money on the way out.

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            Honestly tech at this point wouldn’t bother growing tulips, they’d just scour the planet to find every tulip on earth so that they could steal them and then use those to make new tulips without ever having invested in tulips at all.

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    Those fuckers come out of nowhere, get celebrity status because of their „genius” but come up with the most idiotic bullshit. Why the fuck is society dumb enough to buy into this hype?

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    Confine Sam Altman, and only allow him to feed himself using Universal Basic Compute. Keep him confined for a minimum of three days, regardless of epiphany or insight. Allow him to have water.

    He’ll conclude that Universal Basic Compute is a poor substitute for Universal Basic Income in less than twenty-four hours. The additional forty-eight hours and change of mandatory confinement would help the lesson stick.

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    I don’t think Sam Altman exists. I think it’s a Skynet avatar trying to gobble up more and more resources until there’s none left for food.

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    Well I am in the chimney business, and I say there should be Universal Basic Chimneys!