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> I mean, are we seeing 10x as many movies being released? 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. >* NYT is now 10x as thick?* One random site

> I mean, are we seeing 10x as many movies being released? 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. >* NYT is now 10x as thick?* One random site I checked says there are 600 million active blogs right now. > Every source of quality has upped its quantity by 10x? I made no claims about quality. If you spend two hours watching Citizen Kane, or two hours watching loot boxed unboxing videos, the fraction of your life that's spent is the same. The attentional cost is equivalent even if the value someone derived from it is not. > I think writers who are trying to become truly gifted writers aren't going to be out of demand in the future. Almost no one can make a living writing poetry any more. That means the hypothetically world's best poet probably doesn't exist because that requires a time investment that simply isn't available except among the idle rich. The trend is going that way for photography, music, and fiction. In order to be truly gifted, you need a massive amount of time to hone your craft and it's very hard to find that in an economy that doesn't pay you to do that. > Provenance has value. That is something that technologists often forget coming from engineering backgrounds, where everything they interact with is commodified and provenance doesn't matter at all, only the binary of if the spec is met. I agree. Hand-made stuff is good. But imagine a world where every fast food restaurant charged five cents for an entire meal. Home-cooked meals would still be superior, but how often would the average person summon the time and willpower to make them? And in that world, how good do you think the average home cook would get?

tarsinge 1mo ago
I think the parent is talking about quality stuff, and is specifically addressing that in contrast spam is increasing. It’s especially true in video games, more games then ever are released, but the amount of actually enjoyable quality game has barely increased. Last time I checked SoA models were still very lacking at game design, let alone capable of creating a finished original and fun game.
- munificent 1mo ago
  The thing is, though, people are still choosing to spend time on crap. So as a producer of quality content, your audience has shrunk because a minute spend consuming crap is a minute not available for your thing. And as a consumer, the average total quality being consumed has likely gone down.
sgarland 1mo ago
> 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. Tangentially, assuming a median length of 4:03 [0], and a bitrate of 8192 Kbps (8 Mbps for video, 192 Kbps for audio), that’s almost 5 PB per day. That is insane. 0: https://tubestats.io/statistics/video https://tubestats.io/statistics/video
- mc32 29d ago
  Hmmm that’s roughly around 5000sqf per year (of growth)

tarsinge 1mo ago

I think the parent is talking about quality stuff, and is specifically addressing that in contrast spam is increasing. It’s especially true in video games, more games then ever are released, but the amount of actually enjoyable quality game has barely increased. Last time I checked SoA models were still very lacking at game design, let alone capable of creating a finished original and fun game.

munificent 1mo ago
The thing is, though, people are still choosing to spend time on crap. So as a producer of quality content, your audience has shrunk because a minute spend consuming crap is a minute not available for your thing. And as a consumer, the average total quality being consumed has likely gone down.

sgarland 1mo ago

> 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. Tangentially, assuming a median length of 4:03 [0], and a bitrate of 8192 Kbps (8 Mbps for video, 192 Kbps for audio), that’s almost 5 PB per day. That is insane. 0: https://tubestats.io/statistics/video https://tubestats.io/statistics/video

mc32 29d ago
Hmmm that’s roughly around 5000sqf per year (of growth)