Complaining about rent-seeking for $20/year? OK mate.

I don't see this claim being made anywhere? They say it's usually the time the rent seeking begins, not that it's begun.

And it’s been like this since ~2023

A bit early to call it durable then when most of its competition is decades old.

Don't mistake age for durability. A new cast iron pan is durable. The point isn't in providence but in practice. Durable tools (new or old) show themselves immediately.

No, you soon realize it’s promoting the same ‘niche’ videos to a large cohort. You and half a million people worldwide have that video recommended from the same unknown Russian indie rock band

Consider that your experience isn’t universally applicable to everyone.

As a lifelong musician, I find it to be a great resource for discovery. I really lean into curating what I do and don’t want to see and it delivers amazing results frequently.

It’s also a nice counterpoint to recs I get from other sources: streaming services, friends, strangers, and good ‘ol fashioned digging.

So what?

Either it appeals to my interests or it doesn't. Why should I care if a million other people get it recommended as well?

Well it won't be 'non-mainstream' for one

Sure it would. No matter how many people see, say, Shpongle on their timeline, they're never going to be mainstream. No one is going to be talking about 空夜coo:ya in the same conversation as Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars. Being slightly more visible in the algorithm for a brief period isn't going mainstream.

And even if that were the case, again, so what? If Youtube makes good non-mainstream music more popular, that's still a good thing. That's exactly what one should want a recommendation algorithm to do.

I'm trying to see the problem here and I can't.

Another certified neal.fun banger

Sssh, don't give away the secret.

> I'm hoping that something wonderful and entirely human-centered will come out of the anti-AI movement

It will. That's why it's important to be a "Luddite" and to make our voices heard. Plenty are on the sidelines, plenty dislike AI, and plenty don't care to drink the kool aid and would rather exercise empathy towards fellow humans than welcome the era of the robotic overlords and their billionaire masters.

This place is an echo chamber and doesn't reflect the views of the vast majority.

> It's a good time to be a debtor

So you mean rich people, for whom loans are easy to get so inflation always works in their favour

it can also mean governments. their loans also benefit from inflation that is higher than interest rates. this is how us & uk got rid of their debt after WW2. it's a way to steal money slowly from bond investors

> equivalent to suggesting that going to school for instruction will cause me to forget how to learn

I see plenty of “classically trained” people (as opposed to self-taught) that have no idea how to learn things on their own and at their pace.

I mean, in the era of youtube and the internet, any subreddit is filled with posts like ‘where do I start with X?’ or a endless rehashing of the same beginner questions from people that are not even able to use Google.

I am biased as a self-taught person that dropped out of high school, and it is baffling to see people have forgot how to learn things by themselves past 10 years old. There wouldn’t be so many people with student debts if that were the case.

Personally I just accept that all technologies are great and must be embraced! This way I do not have to think about ethics and potential implications for society.