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• focusedone 9mo ago
  I hadn't read that Paul Graham article before, but it was extremely accurate at the time. My degree is in Public Relations and I worked in political PR for a bit before moving to newspapers. The PR office worked so hard to word things in a way where news editors could lift our copy directly into print. It was a delicate balance to sell a point of view without sounding like a sales pitch. Later, at the newspapers, I was shocked to learn how desperately editors would snag any text to fill the space between paid-for ads on a page. A minimal amount of actual journalism occurred above the fold. Past that we would publish absolutely anything in the English language without filtering. This was all 20+ years ago. Now we've cut out the middle man, automatically publishing AI generated slop directly as if it were human-produced news. It's all very discouraging.
• iwontberude 9mo ago
  Paul Graham cherry picks examples of history where humans are comically misguided as an argument for why virtually all humans are copying each others morals. Graham somehow argues that stopping the Nazis in WW2 or protecting children by socializing them against risky activities is unthinking hive mind and hand waives all of the nuance and human integrity. Weak argument and reads like propaganda from Steve Bannon.