Quixey Challenge - Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a winner, win $50.

Liron

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).

Benefits of playing:

You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the algorithms (we work hard on them)
The 1-minute challenge is a rush
You can make money
If you do well you can interview at Quixey

Even if you have zero engineering skills, you can get $50 for referring someone who wins.

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).

Benefits of playing:

You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the algorithms (we work hard on them)
The 1-minute challenge is a rush
You can make money
If you do well you can interview at Quixey

Even if you have zero engineering skills, you can get $50 for referring someone who wins.

That was an alternate universe. As this post was heavily downvoted, hardly any LWers took the challenge, depriving SIAI of the money they'd have gotten by referring successful challengers. Also, because of information cascades, the same thing happened to all future Quixey posts, leading Quixey to eventually stop posting here. Because of the negative word-of-mouth from such incidents, people stopped looking at the LW audience as a set of eyeballs to monetise.

Consequently, the SIAI was deprived of all potential advertising income, and lacked the budget to perfect FAI theory in time. Meanwhile, the Chinese government, after decades of effort, managed to develop a uFAI. Vishwabandhu Gupta of India managed to convince his countrymen that an AI is some sort of intelligence-enhancing ayurvedic wonder-drug that the Chinese had illegally patented. Consequently, the Indians eagerly invaded China, believing that increased intelligence would allow their kids to get into good colleges. This localised conflict blew up into the Artilect War, which killed everyone in the planet.

So please... don't do that again. Just don't. I'm tired of having to travel to an alternate universe every time that happens.

So please... don't do that again. Just don't.

By not wanting advertising on LW, I have doomed humanity? Your sense of perspective is troubling. (You should also be ashamed of the narrative fallacy that follows.)

If the LW community's votes are being overridden somehow, I would at least like the LW editors to be honest about it.