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0 pointsadampunk1mo ago0 comments

There is also a second order problem at work. It is clear that there is a market for these kinds of posts, even if they are written with LLMs. All they need to sell is affect. The robots can do affect pretty good.

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nchmy1mo ago· 1 in thread

Is there a meaningful market for them though? Do people actually appreciate them? Or is it just like LinkedIn slop (which I can only imagine has gotten immeasurably worse post-llm), which any half-thinking person disregards completely?

I suppose there's always been some market for LinkedIn lunatics, and likewise for any sort of "influencers", MLM, etc... And I've always written-off any of those people as well. Perhaps this is just a new flavour of the same thing...

Dumb people will continue to be grifted, and thoughtful people will continue to use these posts/materials as a good filter for who deserves their attention.

adampunkOP1mo ago

I don’t think we’re in a world of meaningful markets anymore. The idea is to get passed around on sites like these and on LinkedIn and what not until you reach somebody who’s gonna pay you money to be a contractor. And you know because they found you via your engineering blog posts that you’re not gonna have to do any real work, because the person was hooked on affect.

If a robot writes the blog post, then the economics become even easier because you could write a dozen of them.

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