Ashelyn

Your point is that people who left a platform because it made decisions they disagreed with don't like it anymore? Shocking

Reddit is still the best place to go for a lot of niche communities you can't really find anywhere else. That doesn't change the fact that it has a lot of issues that stem from both the community culture there and the C-suite execs calling the shots, making it worse at every turn in pursuit of profit.

You'll find I have similar opinions of most large social media companies. I just don't talk about them as much because they were never appealing to me in the first place. Reddit had its problems dating wayy back but I enjoyed it for what it offered. You gotta draw the line somewhere, and I drew mine at the API shenanigans

Reddit should be hated and not tolerated tho??

I had someone essentially accuse me of purity testing and doing "leftist infighting" for calling this shit out ("guy I don't like = cocksucker"). Like uh sure there's bigger problems we have to worry about right now but that doesn't mean what you're doing is ok either. These guys claim to be such allies, but are practically allergic to a simple "hey please don't do that it's kind of bigoted even though it's attacking a bad person"

Who knew flickers on a cave wall could be so addictive

Yeah it turns out having a politician who actually believes in popular things motivates people to go vote for them

What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered

When I see something impressive generated by a computer, I may go "wow", but when I see something, displayed on a computer or not, that I know a person went and handcrafted so many details on, I am inspired by that dedication to the craft. The human elements within art are a big part of what makes it meaningful.

If someone wants to use AI for the parts of a work they don't care about (or as placeholders) so they can pour their heart into a different aspect of the work, fine. If they want the computer to do all the work for them, they have created slop. This is independent of whether we live in a society that values gross resource accumulation or one that shares equally.

I will say that the push towards slop primarily stems from our societal zeitgeist. The mentality is "I need to make as much money with as little effort as possible", and sometimes people really do need that money to pay bills. I think that's a big reason why it's such a problem. There is little monetary value in actual expression for the effort required when compared with mass produced "content" for dollars.

Perhaps it's a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

I would probably scale the trans flag down and let there be more blue at the top and bottom, to allow all the colors of the lesbian flag to remain represented. I might also play around with placement/rotation to get more of the dark orange+purple visible

We're in the New Gilded Age

I think it depends on the reason you do not use it. The Luddites were primarily frustrated over automation displacing their high-skill job with low-skilled ones that produced worse quality goods. It's a 2 for 1: we are losing the jobs we need to survive, but also we lose the personal touch from the work of artisans + lose appreciation for their talent.

I am not carte blanche against AI as a concept, but it really does seem like a technology that makes interactions worse quality, more depersonalized, and on top of that it has a horrible externalized environmental cost which benefits nobody in the long run.

Addendum: I believe technology has the power to be liberating when it provides for all of us, and oppressive when it concentrates wealth+power into the hands of moguls and tyrants.

If it gets you talking about it, even in the context of telling them to shut the fuck up, it's working :)