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I wonder though if there is a long term benefit. E.g. people might pay attention to you because of your reputation. Your reputation might be based on high effo
by bawolff 2y ago
I wonder though if there is a long term benefit.
E.g. people might pay attention to you because of your reputation. Your reputation might be based on high effort posts (over the long term) even if they get less attention. The lower effort posts might get more direct attention but only because of your reputation which is indirectly caused by the high effort posts which much fewer people read.
Just a theory, i wonder if people who are actually internet famous would agree or not (since i am not).
- jacobolus 2y agoThere is definitely a long-term societal benefit to doing both kinds of work. Often work seen by only a few people (which might gather only a handful of citations, or none at all) inspires a later generation's breakthroughs at the frontier of human understanding. (For example yesterday there was a post about Hermann Grassmann and his pioneering work in linear algebra which got almost no positive feedback at the time but 150 years later is considered foundational for whole fields of study.) On the other hand making very popular material that helps a large number of people to slightly better understand old well-known ideas can still have huge benefit.
- gavinhoward 2y agoI am only a little Internet famous, but this matches my experience. But I also self-host and stay away from poisonous platforms.
- bfuller 2y agoI am more internet infamous, but my one viral success has impacted my life in more ways than I could explain. But that one success took 5 years of my life.