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Posted by p0nce 4 days ago

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI(rentahuman.ai)
148 points | 109 commentspage 4
joshcsimmons 3 days ago|
I've been following your work for a bit now, congrats on the launch!
ThouYS 4 days ago||
wow, everything is exactly unfolding as some AI doomers have projected
albert_e 4 days ago||
The future is now
zvqcMMV6Zcr 4 days ago|
Amazon's Mechanical Turk exists since 2005, so we are 20 years in the future
albert_e 3 days ago|||
MechanicalTurk is for desk jobs and for tasks that originate as ideas in a human mind -- even if they get routed via an API.

Here we are talking about AI agents coming up with a set of tasks as part of their thinking/reasoning step ..and when some of those tasks are real world physical tasks, assign them to a willing human being.

Those tasks wont necessarily be desk jobs or knowledge work.

It could be say -- go chop a tree, or go wave a protest banner, or go flip the open/close sign on my shopfront, or go and preach crustafarianism.

oytis 4 days ago|||
Mechanical Turk was for humans to rent a human, which is not a new idea
notpushkin 4 days ago||
mTurk has an API (and I guess it had it since the beginning). It is, of course, very AWS-que, but LLMs should be able to use it just fine.

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> which is not a new idea

I don’t think “[x] but for agents” counts as a new idea for every [x]. I’d say it’s just one new idea, at most.

vidarh 4 days ago||
I mean, the entire name of Mechanical Turk plays on "packaging up humans as technology", given the original Mechanical Turk was a "machine" where the human inside did the work.
112233 4 days ago||
1990 cartoon, a man in a lounge suit pointing at a robot, speech bubble above his head "robot, make me a sandwich".

Present day, a robot in a tuxedo pointing at a sarariman, speech bubble above it's head "human, select all bridges on this picture"

ricokatayama 4 days ago||
moltbook = reddit for agents rentahuman = taskrabbit for agents

by the way, is taskrabbit still a thing?

mittermayr 4 days ago||
At first I was like, well, what can I offer, hmm, most notably, 25 years of programming, so maybe I'll add a profile that offers tha....

Oh, wait... the agents HAVE NO USE FOR ME

okokwhatever 4 days ago||
Oh man, here we go...
grejioh 3 days ago||
thought of this idea a few days ago. haha
calmworm 4 days ago|
Now make a claw-crypto for the payments, let it spike, rug-pull, wait for next fad, repeat…
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