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0 pointssqueefers1mo ago0 comments

> I sometimes think of this as a "slo-mo train wreck" version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

similar attitudes about the decay of civilization occured with the inventions of

- the internet/original search engines - tv - radio - the printed word (frickin books(!!!!))

they were all supposed to make people stupider because we wouldnt have to keep as much information in our heads. see the pattern?

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disqard1mo ago

Maybe I failed to articulate that well.

My point was more along the lines of "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades".

I think your response is valid -- we'll do what we've always done: adapt and move on.

However, that doesn't change the fact that, just like TV, the Internet will be even more chock-full of garbage, with an abysmal SNR.

squeefersOP1mo ago

> "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades"

I agree but would say many people have noticed this over the years... successive waves of normies (aol endless summer being one famous one i rememeber, ya granny getting a smartphone in the last ten years being the most recent) substantively change the character of this once possibly great place

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