I'm with you. I thought the title captured and represented the OG article accurately.

What's going on?

If it quacks like a duck...

I came to HN after seeing Claude chat fail to load.

I think I ran into it right around 8:30pm PST as well.

> the most selfish people become the most selfless

You reminded me of this Stewart Brand quote:

> Computers suppress our animal presence. When you communicate through a computer, you communicate like an angel.

A worthwhile question.

Also, worth keeping in mind how posts that are "unrelated to technology itself" could arguably trigger the hard-core contingent here. So, just like how Trump's or Elon's bloviations get flagged here, PG's posts could, in theory, also evoke the purest hacker mentality -- at scale.

Interpret it as you wish :)

Thank You For Making And Sharing, a_e_k!

I think you might be finding a certain category of apologist over-represented here.

Still, I appreciate you making the effort to engage in Good Faith!

The proposed replacement for the mandatory stand-alone CS graduation requirement in WV is a computer literacy proficiency requirement.

Wow, that "Dead Internet Theory" keeps getting more and more Real with each passing day.

I sometimes think of this as a "slo-mo train wreck" version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

> I sometimes think of this as a "slo-mo train wreck" version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

similar attitudes about the decay of civilization occured with the inventions of

- the internet/original search engines - tv - radio - the printed word (frickin books(!!!!))

they were all supposed to make people stupider because we wouldnt have to keep as much information in our heads. see the pattern?

Maybe I failed to articulate that well.

My point was more along the lines of "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades".

I think your response is valid -- we'll do what we've always done: adapt and move on.

However, that doesn't change the fact that, just like TV, the Internet will be even more chock-full of garbage, with an abysmal SNR.

> "we're about to ruin a high-quality resource (the Internet) that we carefully built over decades"

I agree but would say many people have noticed this over the years... successive waves of normies (aol endless summer being one famous one i rememeber, ya granny getting a smartphone in the last ten years being the most recent) substantively change the character of this once possibly great place

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