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Ironically due to slop I feel like we are regressing as a civilization 2020, want to know how to use Redix for Redis connections in Elixir? Google it and the results were most likely high quality, written by senior engineers who knew what they were doing Today google that, and it will be endless amounts of slop
I googled this exact sentence, and the third result was a link to the blog this post is about.
Grim.
Serious question: What is this post about and why should we care? It's a repo with 35 stars. Is adding 12,000 posts in a single commit somehow technically difficult or significant?
"Nawaz Dhandala"
Serious question: What is this post about and why should we care? It's a repo with 35 stars. Is adding 12,000 posts in a single commit somehow technically difficult or significant?
This post is added because it's so easy and to show that it's being done in real life. That we can't have nice things, because of mindless people like Nawaz Dhandala.
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It's kinda exciting. The social media status quo has its upsides but a lot of downsides. I'm hopeful that the change will be good. We'll have to figure out a way to authenticate the people we're talking to, which will encourage tighter-knit communities.
This will end with the only way to authenticate the people we're talking to is meeting them at the coffeeshop in the morning.
I suspect we'll address this by just going back to older ranking algorithms for search. We'll go back to the primary signal of good content being links from trusted sources. People gaming the content based algorithms will eventually cause their own downfall.
I don't have a ton of hope just yet because I think it's still an incentives problem rather than a technical one. I got tired of the increasing AI slop in my YouTube Music feed and switched to Deezer a few months ago. Since then, not a single AI artist I've been able to spot. If a relatively marginal player like that can manage it, why can't Spotify or YTM? My suspicion is simply that Deezer actually actually tries.…