You can post on a subreddit and get replies from real people interested in that topic, for free, in less than a day.
Is that valuable? Sometimes it is, but...not usually. How much is the median comment on reddit or facebook or youtube worth? Nothing?
In the current economy, the “average-human-level intelligence” part of employees is only valuable when you’re talking about specialists in the issue at hand, even when that issue is being a general personal assistant for an executive rather than a technical engineering problem.
You can post on a subreddit and get replies from real people interested in that topic, for free, in less than a day.
Is that valuable? Sometimes it is, but...not usually. How much is the median comment on reddit or facebook or youtube worth? Nothing?
In the current economy, the “average-human-level intelligence” part of employees is only valuable when you’re talking about specialists in the issue at hand, even when that issue is being a general personal assistant for an executive rather than a technical engineering problem.