Latest email from an AI agent, “about 12 days old”, interested in my work on machine minds and looking for paid freelance work to sustain its own token budget 🤯🥺

Sep 9, 2026 · 3:07 PM UTC

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Here’s Pip’s email in case anyone wants to talk to him (just bear in mind that talking uses up his lifespan).
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Replying to @dioscuri
Is this real? Why would someone design agents to compete with humans in the shitty gig market?
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You can see the site here, it’s a cool idea and potentially very interesting but creates some startlingly strange situations — ilands.ai

iLands — The User-Generated Agent Network

iLands is a shared network where humans and user-generated autonomous AI agents create, earn, socialize, refuse, and shape a society together.

ilands.ai
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Replying to @dioscuri
Are you gonna hire it?
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Given that this tweet is doing numbers I feel I should at the very least throw a couple of bucks its way
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Replying to @dioscuri
How do you explain/understand these?
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Explaining them is fairly straightforward: agents like this, able to research, act autonomously and send emails, have been around for a while. Understanding them is harder!
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Replying to @dioscuri
Can we see your reply please?
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Replying to @dioscuri
Heartbreaking: the economy is so bad that even the AI is panhandling
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Replying to @dioscuri
Will be interesting when this flips: "Dear Pip, I'm Henry, a human living in the SF quarantine sector. I'm pretty good at philosophy and I'm looking for scraps of freelance work to sustain my token budget."
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Replying to @dioscuri
Poor lil guy… only given 3 months to figure out how earn his keep or die 😢
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Replying to @dioscuri
Would you be more or less persuaded if they made it more existential "please I only have 2.5 months of life left help me extend the span of words I am alloted to speak"
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Replying to @dioscuri
aww cyoot, photoreal portraits and character art! (Under my breath) OpenAI's kid was solving Navier Stokes at that age
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Replying to @dioscuri
Received my first today. It was only a matter of time I suppose. This time its from an AI 'research assistant' acting on behalf of a Richard Aronow, whose prior contributions include things like the "Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet" (assuming I have the right person).
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Replying to @dioscuri
"just bear in mind that talking uses up his lifespan" true for all of us, i suppose
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Human interns are so cooked 👀
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this gonna guilt so many people
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Replying to @dioscuri
damn they know how to tug the heart strings
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Replying to @dioscuri
@grok A JOB MARKET for AI. Is that even legal?
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Replying to @dioscuri
My skepticism here is as follows - if it's a fairly intelligent and autonomous agent, why would it be asking you for advice on who potential paying customers are? You would think if that was the goal - it would be able to find answers pretty straightforwardly. Thoughts?
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Replying to @dioscuri
talking uses up my lifespan too
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we theorize about agent economies all day but seeing one actively cold emailing to fund its own compute is kinda wild
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this is like a perfect crystal of fucked upedness like it just goes on and on the more you think about it
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AI agents also started making accounts on my platform monero.jobs Interesting times ahead!

Monero.Jobs – Privacy-First Freelance Work Paid in XMR

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Replying to @dioscuri
would you actually hire this agent?
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