The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful

Post by heddycrow » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 3:56 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #121

heddycrow wrote: post #78

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Dunbar's number leaps to mind. I wonder what our systems look like at large when we have cause to strengthen our 150 meaningful connections. Would this truly be a move back? I've met people outside my social class and disposition who seem to rely quite heavily on networking this way.

This is exactly the reason Human biological limits prevent the realization of stable equilibrium at the scale of coordination necessary for larger emergent superstructures Humans need to figure out how to become a eusocial superorganism because we’re past the point where individual groups don’t produce externalities that are existential to other groups/individuals I don’t think that’s possible, so I’m just building t…

Post by ravetcofx » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 3:59 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #43

alexpotato wrote: post #8

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens fame [0], has a great quote (paraphrasing): Interviewer: How will humans deal with the avalanche of fake information that AI could bring? YNH: The way humans have always dealt with fake information: by building institutions we trust to provide accurate information. This is not a new phenomenon btw. In democracies, this is often either the government (e.g. the Bureau of Labor Statistics) or…

Unfortunately that's not what happens. BBC, Al-Jazeera, RT, CBC are all propaganda sources and are not sources of information. The other family members will get the information from those sources so family will not be trusted as well. And the sources I consider as trustfull, my opinion of them most likely skewed by my bias and others will consider it propaganda as well.

Post by m0llusk » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC

heddycrow wrote: post #128

m0llusk wrote: post #111

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This is ignoring the Marketing to Engineering ratio. For most recent history technology companies have had to spend at least as much on marketing as engineering in order to survive, and two to ten times as much spent on marketing as engineering is common for successful companies. Who is going to buy the thing is the most important question and without solid answers there is nothing, no matter how much technology was…

I want to keep reading your thoughts on this. How can I get more or can you source your influences?

Post by AaronAPU » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC

Applejinx wrote: post #120

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YouTubers and other social media influencers are a sort of royalty now, getting to decide by fiat which companies live or die. But you can’t really even make the case to them anymore because like you said they can’t/won’t even read your email. What mostly happens is they constantly provide free publicity to existing big players whose products they will cover for free and/or will do sponsored videos with. The only rea…

Or know people personally. There's two people I promote because they actively helped me do my own work, pitched in open source code and did development to support my project. There's another guy who lives in my town, so he gets some mention just because of that (his work's good, but that's my angle for mentioning it). And a microphone company got a shout out not because they give me microphones, but because the guy r…

Post by ZeroGravitas » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

nsxwolf wrote: post #28

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The problem is that too many people just don't know how to weigh different probabilities of correctness against each other. The NYT is wrong 5% of the time - I'll believe this random person I just saw on TikTok because I've never heard of them ever being wrong; I've heard many stories about doctors being wrong - I'll listen to RFK; scientific models could be wrong, so I'll bet on climate change being not real etc.

COVID ended my trust in media. I went from healthy skepticism to assuming everything is wrong/a lie. There was no accountability for this so this will never change for me. I am like the people who lived through the Great Depression not trusting banks 60 years later and keeping their money under the mattress.