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0 pointsdanaris9mo ago0 comments

...Yep, that's all true. (Except for me acting like it's a "mind control ray beam".)

And none of it refutes what I said.

It's perfectly possible to take a bunch of old things, use them in a new way, and make something new out of them that's more than the sum of its parts.

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skeezyboy9mo ago

>And none of it refutes what I said.

if you want to ignore the points im making sure.

>It's perfectly possible to take a bunch of old things, use them in a new way, and make something new out of them that's more than the sum of its parts.

not the case here though is it

danarisOP9mo ago

So you're just claiming that the "attention economy" that's come into being since ~2010 is exactly the same as the way things have been for the past few hundred years? That nothing new is happening with microtransactions, and social media deliberately engineered to keep you scrolling, and hypertargeted advertising?

It's all exactly the same as print ads in a magazine that are selected because they're reasonably likely to be something the people who read that magazine would be interested in?

Because if that's your contention, then frankly, I'd say it doesn't make a lick of sense.

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