quomopete

Medium really botched the paywall approach and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. It is so inconsistently applied and quite honestly I can't justify spending 5 dollars a month on a "publisher" whose content is so variable. Some Medium articles are really good, others are baseless clickbait, it's hard to tell until you read the article and already sunk the time and the money.

I am a little unclear on what the editorial bent of this is. Are they trying to use this as another way to say that Amazon unfairly compensates workers?

If so, it seems like a cheap target. I've always known mechanical turk as a way to get dead stupid tasks done by people, but not as a way to earn a living.

How much should someone be compensated to do something so simple? At will? I don't understand. MT has been around for a while, this isn't some new sinister plot to undermine the workers of the world.

I also have seen some people who employ workers through MT support a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage. It's up to the person deploying the task, not Amazon.

my apologies, i'm in a terrible mood and taking it out on strangers on the internet.

And this new reputation economy will only be as good as the cultural biases of the engineers of the technology. Which could net us a worse situation than there is currently.

Also not terribly excited about this. But i should also probably just move on from posting here. Not a big contributor and have found that overall there's a huge echo chamber dynamic to this community that's generally hard to break through. Really hard to have a dissenting opinion unless you're just doing it for academic reasons or devil's advocacy. I imagine with this, myself and many other new or not high participating members that don't go full heartedly with the general belief system here will find themselves wedged out of the conversation. Oh well.

I realize that, I made my comment towards this being a metaphor and I still stand by it.

the brain having a programming language would have to be based on a lot of assumptions that not everyone is willing to make.

> If a 10-year-old can become an ace web programmer, why can’t a liberal arts graduate?

Brain plasticity. Next.

guess you'll just have to sustain yourself on real food till then :)