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pixl97today at 4:40 PM1 replyview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Should be a highlight of the 2020's decade.

It's not just open projects, it's anything that accepts unvetted information at all. Bug lists full of shit. Forums full of shit. News feeds full of fake shit. Ads full of fake shit. Cultural zeitgeist full of fake shit.

Culture and society has not figured out how to inoculate themselves yet.


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b00ty4breakfasttoday at 5:10 PM

This kind of automated industrial output is the foundation of our culture, it's not surprising that we aren't prepared for the virtual grey-goo of the LLM era that is our milieu brought to it's acme.