[off topic / meta] The internet seems to increasingly just be a place to rewrite old thoughts but with less actual content (or more content with less actual th

[off topic / meta] The internet seems to increasingly just be a place to rewrite old thoughts but with less actual content (or more content with less actual thought behind it). Could be confirmation bias, but I feel like there was a clear transition when comment threads on forums became more prone to top level repeats of the same thought rather than replies to the first person who had the same thought. ("Came here to post this" ain't great, but I'd take it over dozens of blindly typed repetitions) Seems to have bled out into blog posts too now. Can't imagine this will reduce with LLM (mis)usage. Is it just that we read less? That there's so much new information and such pressure to produce that there's no time for discourse? Has information reached such critical mass that we're all emboldened with the assumption that all which came before was cruft? Genuine question, not rhetoric (and I'm certainly guilty of the same thing - perhaps someone already expressed this in a comment below and I didn't even look) but I'd love to see it balanced by something if not solved. Can we still somehow return to building on the shoulders of giants, or are we doomed to an eternity of posturing and feigned originality? Seems like it'd be an interesting topic to explore if it hasn't been already - any sociologists here?