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anigbrowllast Tuesday at 3:29 AM1 replyview on HN

I mean you could say the same thing about video cameras making it too easy to shoot footage compared to film.


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fastballlast Tuesday at 3:52 AM

Yes, and it is arguably true, right? That doesn't mean digital shouldn't exist, but everything is a balance. The quality and effort put into the "average" movie has almost certainly gone down over the decades since the normalization of digital cameras.

If our ability (as a society or as individuals) to filter out the slop from the rest increases in lock-step, this is a non-issue. But it seems that this not what has happened, and instead we are inundated with mind-numbing content that absorbs our time and does little to impact us in any positive way.

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