cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62649243

I don't know if this is a good place to share this. Let me know if it's not! cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62109295

We have all heard it - A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than the master of one. But does this world really condone it? We are conditioned to take up a career at 15 and run with it for the rest of our lives. Till the day we die of arthritis or dementia, it becomes our sole identity in society, on which we are judged and valued. Our other hobbies and passions, projects and visions are rendered a distraction, a nuisance, a roadblock in our career.

From the first moment we express a mild interest, the moment a little kid looks in awe at the stars, the society has made up its mind, the parents have dreamed up a career in astronomy. But is that really how human beings are supposed to learn, excel and explore the world? Are human beings worth no more than a cog in the machine? Can professionalism be only achieved with an inhumane mindless dedication? Can we truly prosper when our curiosity and passion have been transformed into a lifelong prison of career?

#An Alternative Way#

The despair that follows after this realisation that the world is not made for you, is heartbreaking. And I was at this exact place a couple of years ago, when I realised that if the world was not made for me, I must rebuild it better. And so was borne The Brotherhood. In this project we aim to

1. Take back Education - Break the monopoly that the traditional academic institutions have on providing education with a structured open-source curated knowledge graph of all human knowledge.
2. Take back Certification - Implement a decentralised peer-to-peer assessment and verification of skills where only your peers and employers rate your skills based on actual work.
3. Provide Jobs Transparently - Use the assessments and skills to provide jobs to skilled individuals in a transparent way, where you can see the exact process and algorithm used to route work.
4. Federative Economic Structure - The economy is hence restructured to small, fluid federations where ownership is strictly based on contribution, and is entitled to split and merge whenever.

#Goal#

The final goal of this is to free the learner and worker from the rigid structures of society and usher in a glorious age of freedom and exploration where you can

• Leave your jobs for a couple of years to pursue a personal mission without thinking of how to get paid.
• Work sustainably in your dream projects, your passion projects all your life and get paid fairly.
• Go back to your career after a hiatus and receive no discrimination for leaving the industry, as long as you have retained your skills.
• Destroy the traditional dilemma of higher education or work, by combining the two into one unified pipeline where you learn and work at the same time. NO Career Deadends.

If you would like to get more information on the project, we would advise you to check the official website and the detailed documents. If you want to get in touch, leave a comment, post an opinion, query your doubts in this community space. Never Stop Dreaming🔥

Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.

“It required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex.

“It got to a point where my body couldn’t function. Where I saw someone naked, I don’t even feel it. And I have a wife, who expects a lot from you, a young family, she expects a lot from you intimately. But you can’t, like, do it,” Asia said. “It fractured a lot of things for me. My body is like, not functioning at all.”