One of many such quirks which are absolutely, definitely not intentional nor contributing to widening the economic class gaps or tax burden shouldered by those with the least.

I agree with the engagement motivation hypothesis. Including the meta-engagement, like this thread. There's profit to be found in the long tail!

Our customers are distracting themselves from the distractions they are buying from us.

Idiocracy was prophecy, not fiction.

In the next issue of Dystopian Adventure Stories...

I'm antinatalist, but I haven't seen evidence of most educated people being so. I'm curious if there is data to support this claim.

Right after Fire, The Wheel, Religion, Art, and Cryptography.

Aka. "good facts". Too bad "real facts" aren't the alternative of choice for most media/news outlets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Kurzgesagt released a much more compelling complaint about AI slop's impacts today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All I hear from Mr. Beast's complaint is that big content creators fear the democratization of content creation, which means content creation won't be pay-to-win as much any more.

I discovered Doctorow via Slashdot back in early 2002 via this article: https://slashdot.org/story/02/...

Things have changed a lot since then, but not my appreciation for his writing (both fiction and non), for his righteous efforts with civil/digital liberties and activism, and his ability as a writer to convey those and related issues to his audience with impact and style. A true paragon of a human being.

Good observation. Absolutist language reminds me of the evidence I've seen of it being linked to depression, and of my own continuing efforts to vigilantly avoid using it.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

Thank you both! I haven't encountered this before, but it's very interesting and relevant.

We're speaking of both AI and the human race, and arguably about sentience in general. Refusing to identify humanity as a tribe in that context is just implicitly saying that human intelligence/consciousness is the only type that exists or matters. That argument boils down to the naturalism fallacy, in group/out group fallacy, and the burden of proof fallacy.

Ad Hom. Classic!