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Comment by frizlab

19 hours ago

> I would go for a 2 or 3 hour walk with my phone using the remote control feature looking every 5 - 10 minutes to make sure it doesn't need human help.

That is a nightmarish scenario tbh

Nightmarish?! In comparison to the average person's actual job? I'm pretty sure that many people out there would sign up for a battle royale for a chance at such a job.

  • I you think you’ll be paid 3 hours of salary for every 5 minutes of work, I have bad news for you.

    Most likely your 3 hours will be filled with managing 36 different AI sessions at a time and it will slowly break your brain.

    At least if we keep doing capitalism the way we are.

  • Would they? I'd love to get in touch

    • My clients have been burned before. Once you set up the battle royale with a trusted third party validating that there'll be an assured good job at the end, I promise I'll have enough candidates for you to fill up the first 10 competitions.

That nightmarish scenario is what T.S. Eliot was describing in "The Wasteland" which "portrays deep, existential ennui and boredom as defining symptoms of modern life following World War I."

Later this boredom was described by the Stones, "And though she’s not really ill / There’s a little yellow pill / She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper".

It is a nightmare. Mostly what I'm thinking about while the agents are running is how bored I'm going to be. That is the joke, my deep thought on T.S. Eliot are about the wasteland this thing is going to create.

So sitting at a desk is nicer than a walk outside for you? Why would relaxation be a nightmare?

  • Checking one’s phone every 5 to 10 minutes is nothing but relaxation. One needs to have the mind at ease to relax.