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LessWrong essay weighs "My Buddy Mike" against number-mover's triple pay

LessWrong essay weighs "My Buddy Mike" against number-mover's triple pay

A LessWrong essay titled "My Buddy Mike, Efficiency Gains From AI, and The World's Most Boringly Benign Criminal Conspiracy" contrasts Mike, who does hands-on work for slightly less than double the local minimum wage, with the author, who moves numbers for approximately triple that pay.

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