Wow this was dope. Great to read a LW post from you Eliezer.
Let me try to use the idea a little, and figure out what my cheerful prices are for a few things right now.
Commenting substantively on someone’s Google doc (in a relatively rare case where I wouldn’t just do this for free): $200
Build flat-pack furniture for someone: $300/hour
Play Baba Is You (levels from the level editor) for 30 mins: $40
Leave the room and be elsewhere for 10 minutes: $75
Have a 1-hour call with a random person on a topic of their choosing: $500
...I notice I have an especially high premium on “do something right now”. My prices are much lower for “do it sometime this week”.
And of course, if you’ve read the post, you know these aren’t my fair prices, just what fills me with cheer.
But building flat-pack furniture is ADULT LEGOS!
I cannot deny the blinding truth of your sentence. But I am tired and also do not quite want the responsibility of not breaking some small but necessary part of someone else’s furniture.
Wow this was dope. Great to read a LW post from you Eliezer.
Let me try to use the idea a little, and figure out what my cheerful prices are for a few things right now.
Commenting substantively on someone’s Google doc (in a relatively rare case where I wouldn’t just do this for free): $200
Build flat-pack furniture for someone: $300/hour
Play Baba Is You (levels from the level editor) for 30 mins: $40
Leave the room and be elsewhere for 10 minutes: $75
Have a 1-hour call with a random person on a topic of their choosing: $500
...I notice I have an especially high premium on “do something right now”. My prices are much lower for “do it sometime this week”.
And of course, if you’ve read the post, you know these aren’t my fair prices, just what fills me with cheer.
But building flat-pack furniture is ADULT LEGOS!
I cannot deny the blinding truth of your sentence. But I am tired and also do not quite want the responsibility of not breaking some small but necessary part of someone else’s furniture.