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i would pay for a service that reads in articles with low quality, clickbait headlines that are designed to elicit fear and anxiety, and only recommend ones to

i would pay for a service that reads in articles with low quality, clickbait headlines that are designed to elicit fear and anxiety, and only recommend ones to me that are likely to actually impact my life. as of now, i just assume most of these are not a big deal and written in bad faith and ignore then entirely, but i’d prefer not to miss important information if there’s an actionable change i should make in my life, and i would really prefer to be able to read interesting content without being bombarded by garbage.

colechristensen 4y ago
There’s not really an actionable change, long term low grade disease after infection is just a thing which is getting increased attention from researchers.
Firmwarrior 4y ago
If something makes it to the front of HackerNews it usually isn't worthless clickbait (unless it's about some esoteric niche programming tool)
w10-1 4y ago
"i would pay for a service that reads in articles with low quality, clickbait headlines [...], and only recommend ones [...] to actually impact my life" That would be... the NY Times? NEJM?
- BaculumMeumEst 4y ago
  i've paid for publications like NY times and wapo for a bit, they are not too my tastes. too many opinionated stories in the vein of "how you should feel about X topic", too many misrepresentations of reality. an example would be during covid wapo ran a front page story about young people filling up mount sinai with severe covid cases, where doctors saw clots forming right in front of their eyes, etc. nothing about relative risk in that story, it was just emotional horror, i'm not interested in that. NEJM is a lot more broad than what i would want to see, i'm not really interested in keeping tabs on the entire field of medicine. i just want to hear about what affects me- "a pandemic is sweeping the world" or "RSV cases that affect your child's age group are sharply on the rise" are examples. what i want is specific which is why i would be willing to pay for a service that accommodates it

colechristensen 4y ago

There’s not really an actionable change, long term low grade disease after infection is just a thing which is getting increased attention from researchers.

Firmwarrior 4y ago

If something makes it to the front of HackerNews it usually isn't worthless clickbait (unless it's about some esoteric niche programming tool)

w10-1 4y ago

"i would pay for a service that reads in articles with low quality, clickbait headlines [...], and only recommend ones [...] to actually impact my life" That would be... the NY Times? NEJM?

BaculumMeumEst 4y ago
i've paid for publications like NY times and wapo for a bit, they are not too my tastes. too many opinionated stories in the vein of "how you should feel about X topic", too many misrepresentations of reality. an example would be during covid wapo ran a front page story about young people filling up mount sinai with severe covid cases, where doctors saw clots forming right in front of their eyes, etc. nothing about relative risk in that story, it was just emotional horror, i'm not interested in that. NEJM is a lot more broad than what i would want to see, i'm not really interested in keeping tabs on the entire field of medicine. i just want to hear about what affects me- "a pandemic is sweeping the world" or "RSV cases that affect your child's age group are sharply on the rise" are examples. what i want is specific which is why i would be willing to pay for a service that accommodates it