05/11 - Messy Monday

Where has all the batch work gone?

 

https://worker.mturk.com/requesters/A2MGOE1K6WCO11/projects

masters req (and some other reqs) for a really short pre-qual, $1

 

And the few batches that are left for humans to do are largely just training more AI.

 

Meanwhile:

 

Oil, gas, and electric companies already got this issue covered. Plenty of documentaries put out not so subtly framing people who complain about noise/sensation from various large scale projects around them as whack jobs. Don't mind the fact that they tell you the sound/sensation is driving them insane and suicidal, that the people around them claim they used to be normal, and somehow they held down skilled gainful employment before. I swear the woman from HR is a crazy cat lady so that is no surprise. It's no big deal I mean health outcomes for people around noisy airports and trains show nothing major. If they do its just pollution and increased traffic that's doing it. Sound has health impacts? What next you're going to tell me the plastic I put in the microwave during lunchbreak isn't safe? If you're hurt by this that's just Darwinian evolution at work. The machine spirit requires sacrifice. We live in a society. It's a scary world out there. The people living around these places should just move out if it is that big of a deal. Don't build this stuff around me though. Not in my backyard. That would ruin my property value and put my mortgage underwater.



I'll see you at my next pithy cynical TEDx talk.