"great, I got upvoted by reddit "blue" subscribers...this is so special :/" energy
Gsus4
joined 1 year ago
This is not so bad. Reddit is crawling with bot spam and that will increase as users leave the platform every time it does a stunt to pump the stock price. The percentage of real/fake content will decrease and will poison the training pipelines. It's a great experiment to test model collapse in real time, really.
Why did they remove it in first place, was it to promote their in-house cryptoscam?
Meh, it's just another publicly traded company now, it's just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.
Say one decides to pay...what guarantees do I get that my data won't be used or that I won't get targeted?
Expensive is the wrong word here, most of these calculations are not about money, but energy, they are about doing stupid things like using power from burning coal to collect CO2 emitted from it...at a net waste of energy. It literally emits more CO2 than doing nothing (unless all your energy and factories producing solar panels and wind turbines and cars and infrastructure already run on green energy). It is only good for greenwashing in the near to medium future.
genuine c/programmerhumor
And still it would not be enough. You need to trust some core institutions and delegate on some people who know more than you, you can't be an expert on everything. Even smart people can be deeply wrong if they trust the wrong people or if they think their expertise makes them an expert on everything. You also need a little intellectual humility.
I'm still stuck in 2022 in my head, so this is still pretty fresh :o)
Apart from the whole explanation about interest rates and enshittification (which I have read about and written about before too), there may be another effect that I was not aware of until I watched this PBS documentary from 20 years ago about how marketing teams "managed" our generation's elusive tastes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYRoiJvhJ4
Now think about how that manifests as 35-year-olds looking not just for cool, but money and power instead. You get the bitcoin bro, the MAGA, the mainstream conspiracist...instead of the reasonable thinking normies.
...or maybe I'm just seeing things...maybe I'm shoehorning this documentary into everything I read due to how cheated I feel looking back at how teens were manipulated...
Some people are completely lost in the modern world. They shut down completely whenever anyone aims any critic at them and congregate to unquestioningly hold on to what they recognize. It is basic human instinct and being smart sometimes just pushes some of these people into taking advantage of the system and leading this herd mentality, instead of taking a risk trying to wake them up.