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Internet is 5% useful important stuff and 95% spam. When a more intelligent organism finds our planet they will be so confused why we wasted so much digital spa
by Sparkyte 3y ago
Internet is 5% useful important stuff and 95% spam. When a more intelligent organism finds our planet they will be so confused why we wasted so much digital space on senseless spam.
- thedaly 3y agoSpace, CPU cycles, attention. So much waste
- ta8645 3y agoIsn't that about the same percentages for life before the internet? At least for rich people, who have their basic needs met without worry.
- dv_dt 3y agoSee Sturgeons law, and discussion about Rudyard Kipling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
- ben_w 3y agoThe prisoners' dilemma would probably explain it: not enough risk that the spammers get negative reputations.
- crazygringo 3y agoI think a more intelligent organism will understand perfectly that it is explained as the inevitable result of combining virtually free message-sending with simple economic self-interest, and why there are no perfect solutions to it (at least not yet).
- aspenmayer 3y agoCapitalism is the crisis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
- vacuity 3y agoWhile I like bashing on capitalism as much as the next guy, I don't think it's very relevant here. For the general phenomenon of spam and trolling, I don't think capitalism matters at all, and for the scams on eBay and Amazon, I don't think a system where those are fixed has to be much different from today's.