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As the human population grows (and now that we're all linked up thanks to the internet), it becomes feasible for every single idea to attract (at least) thousan
by Andrex 3y ago
As the human population grows (and now that we're all linked up thanks to the internet), it becomes feasible for every single idea to attract (at least) thousands of followers. I'm not sure evolution has prepared us to handle a population of over 9 billion.
And a bad idea does more bad than a good idea does good, I've come to believe.
- ajuc 3y agoThis is already how politics works, political parties hire thousands of trolls to spam social media with comments supporting their propaganda from whatever POV the profiling showed is the best for the given target group. This was measurably important in Trump election and in brexit. LLMs might make it so cost-effective that social media will have noise-to-signal ratio of effectively 0.