This is uh insane? Getting AI tokens is not a “benefit” or something. It’s like saying to a coal miner “hey your salary is now 40% paid in pickaxes.” It’s entirely useless for doing anything outside your actual job.
It’s more like they spent all their money to acquire autopickaxes that were supposed to make the coal miners obsolete only to discover that the autopickaxes don’t work well enough. They’re going to have to get humans to keep working for them and they’re sitting on all this useless (and perishable - GPUs depreciate!) capex they can’t profit from. Paying in compute is a win-win (in that they win both times).
This is uh insane? Getting AI tokens is not a “benefit” or something. It’s like saying to a coal miner “hey your salary is now 40% paid in pickaxes.” It’s entirely useless for doing anything outside your actual job.
1830: company scrip for the company store
2030: company tokens for the company script
It’s more like they spent all their money to acquire autopickaxes that were supposed to make the coal miners obsolete only to discover that the autopickaxes don’t work well enough. They’re going to have to get humans to keep working for them and they’re sitting on all this useless (and perishable - GPUs depreciate!) capex they can’t profit from. Paying in compute is a win-win (in that they win both times).
It’s like the “as farce” version of paying in stock options.
Fixed the bug where they occasionally become valuable!