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I think I hate the internet

26 points saikatsg 3 hours ago 11 comments

nephihaha 1 hour ago | parent

The term "actor" should be reserved for thespians.

lexicality 16 minutes ago | parent

most actors have never even visited Thespia

grebc 34 minutes ago | parent

The internet isn’t the web/social media.

People don’t complain about roads & gutters because there’s idiots on them that drive. Idiots that drive get the deserved blame.

Words matter. The internet rocks but social media sucks, apps suck, elected representatives suck.

jrimbault 32 minutes ago | parent

> People don’t complain about roads & gutters because there’s idiots on that drive.

We do complain about roads and infrastructure, and try to improve them so the inevitable idiot's impact is lessened.

tomgp 20 minutes ago | parent

I see where you're coming from but I don't think the analogy really works because most peoples experience of the internet is entirely 100% mediated by facebook, google, ticktok etc. It's would be like the road network if you needed to rely on a drunk driver to deliver you to your destination.

gbromios 24 minutes ago | parent

well said

roenxi 24 minutes ago | parent

> The internet was about connection, but the way I see it, it’s become a great way for bad actors to...

There seems to be a profound confusion somewhere in here that people come with an evil bit and we're going to toggle technology so that those people can't use it and everyone else can.

Y'know, racists use cars to drive to their racist conventions or whatever. On publicly funded roads. Possibly with time freed up by a strong welfare system. Just because people someone doesn't like use or made something has little relevance to the value of the thing. Horrible people make wonderful things in horrible ways all the time, history is rife with it [0].

Getting off most social media does seem like a win though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber is a great example, this man is arguably greatly responsible for billions of people being alive today. Which is absolutely stunning in context of the rest of his Wikipedia page.

michael0church 15 minutes ago | parent

The “good” news is that, if LLMs really do reach AGI, and if we still live under this same economic system that ruined the Internet, there won’t be this decades-long grieving process. It will be a short one, if we’re aware of it at all.

utopiah 12 minutes ago | parent

I think they hate the commercialized Internet, and I do too.

alansaber 8 minutes ago | parent

I'm not a doomer, but when it comes to the internet, I only see things getting worse.

pembrook 5 minutes ago | parent

The lack of self awareness on this site is endlessly amusing to me.

“I’m not a KKK member, but I do enjoy wearing bedsheets while riding horses and burning crosses on my front lawn.”