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disqard | 17 days ago

Wow, that "Dead Internet Theory" keeps getting more and more Real with each passing day.

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

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squeefers|16 days ago

> 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?

disqard|16 days 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.