alt Hacker NewsGuard your mental resources. You always should have, but in the age of AI it is no longer optional.
Simple algorithm for not wasting your time:
1) By default nothing is valuable or worth your while 2) Aggressively hunt for signals indicating potential worth (ancient pedigree and/or critical acclaim being most valuable) 3) Choose maybe 10% of what survives for actual reading, scan some others and dump the rest
Oh, and let LLMs summarize near-zero information articles like this one.
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There is plenty of info here. That you failed to notice it is a separate issue.
Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud) applies more than ever in the age of AI.
The best filter is time -- the cream does eventually rise to the top. And conveniently the time filter also excludes AI slop.
This sounds like work for a personally aligned local agent interacting with your past and future media timeline.
It probably exists in some form, any suggestions?