Memers, mostly

Judging by slices I see on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter, they are in alternate reality where all this is hysteria.

It is hysteria. The outcry is fully unreflective of social conditions, at least within the United States. Go back to the 1980s, when all the millennials were being born, and describe the modern era - historic low crime, a superabundance of cheap consumer goods, massive housing surpluses, cheap and inexhaustible energy, no nuclear wars. We’re not living with acid rain or radioactive wastelands or Soylent Green levels of food shortages. The scariest thing about AI is that it sucks.

Imagine how many people wouldn’t have had kids 40 years ago knowing the modern state of America.

So much of this shit really is just terminally online doomerism. It’s not material.

My siblings’ kids are all angry at the hubris their parents had to birth them.

It’s a weird thing to be angry about. They now have agency over the world they live in. If they hate it, they can change it. That’s an opportunity given to vanishingly few life forms on the planet.

Sort of crazy to look at the birth rates in, like, the DRC or Afghanistan and conclude they must have done everything right.

America can have birth rates on par with Pakistan and Somalia if they just obliterate access to birth control and end all public education. Concentrate large numbers of American teenagers into ghettos and refuge camps where there’s nothing better to do than fuck. Guaranteed you’ll get another baby boom inside ten months.

The writing is on the wall

Always better to live inside the fence than outside it. We work very hard to make sure you don’t know where your treats are coming from.

I’ve been seeing so much AI generated content of late, any real life human doing real life work is a blessing.

Me, fucking around: Absolutely no downside

There are some notable side effects, but do not discount the power of cocaine.

If they want to beat the charges, they need to announce their own AI trained on the data several billion in Series A investment funding.

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Dude…It’s a hypothetical

Okay, you got me. I don’t need a condom to have hypothetical sex.

Donnie Deals

Given the high number of school shootings and political shootings and general stocastic violence in the states, it’s more surprising that this doesn’t happen as frequently.

Kirk getting got in the middle of Gun Nut Apologia was certainly a cherry on top, though.

It won’t work. But it would be extremely funny if he’s able to wiggle out of this due to the sheer tidal wave of incompetence at all levels of government.

Didn’t Weiss round up all the people with scruples and fire them already? Or was she just firing people at random and hoping the ones with scruples would catch strays?

I care quite a bit. But, like, in the same way I care about Charlie Kirk’s neck wound.

What was once a beautiful and accessible tapestry of independent contributions

Reddit has been flooded with bots for decades. Bot engagement was a strategy the firm used to outcompetes Digg, as admins discovered any kind of engagement in comments juiced human participation.

The site’s had quality contributions in the past. I’d argue it still does, in the more neglected and low pop corners of the site. But it’s central thesis of stack-ranked engagement and search optimized meta-tagging fueled the worst kind of online participation straight back to the early days.

Reddit’s last ten years of decline has more to do with the overall decline of the Internet as a service than anything the admins have done directly. Humans have been crowded out by automated promotion tools and AI Slop everywhere. Reddit’s just a big popular spot that got hit hardest.

It was never a good site.

Checks the P/E

106

Still absurdly overvalued. Let me know when it gets under 20

Why you want their to be only two genders, mate? You want to be around more men, issit?