alt Hacker News> Is there even a goal here beyond "generating content"?
This is the part that hurts. It's all so pointless, so perfunctory. A web of incentives run amok. Systems too slick to stop moving. Is this what living inside the paperclip maximizer feels like?
Words we didn't write, thoughts we didn't have, for engagement, for a media presence, for an audience you can peddle yourself to when your bullshit job gets automated. All of that technology, all those resources, and we use it to drown humanity in noise.
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floating-io • today at 11:13 AM
No need to worry, that's what the B Ark is for.
Well Bill Gates declared it 20 years ago : "Content is king", so here we are. "Content" everywhere, and not just the Internet - go to anny tourist hotspot, there is a ratio of 5:1 of idiot influencers all stretching their faces in front of the same landmarks. Your utility company now produces "content" for some reason. Every lazy Tom, Dick and Joe produce "content" instead of doing their trade. Apps that summarise your books so you can "read" them on your commute. To the ghouls who are driving the "content" economy, everything is "content". They don't really understand either long form or novels, or music or anything creative. To them it's all just content, to be bought, sold and consumed by the pound.