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Most of the reason why internet discourse feels weird / uncanny valley to me is that it seems to often be made up of teenage debate society level "hot takes" on
by throwaway22032 3y ago
Most of the reason why internet discourse feels weird / uncanny valley to me is that it seems to often be made up of teenage debate society level "hot takes" on the bloody obvious.
Attractive, rich people get more attention.
People who try and push the envelope, as misguided as it might be, get more attention than everyday human #66384385 on the street.
GPT4 gets more attention than some neural net demo I make on my Raspberry Pi.
Why would it ever be otherwise? A world like that would have us still in caves.
- Tarq0n 3y agoThis is an example of the is-ought fallacy [0]. Especially when it comes to the spending of public funds by a democratic government it makes sense for people to make their preferences known. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
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- throwaway22032 3y agoI don't think that human nature is a fallacy. There are evolutionary reasons behind preferring fitter members of the group.