Oh god help us… Last thing we need is a Deutsche bot.

Just sharing observations it may help, it may not…

what I’m seeing is new or sleeper accounts that have been idle for over a decade with low (<99) karma getting into comment circles. Over the last couple of weeks i’ll see several top comments on articles with back and forth between other similar accounts… it’s got to the point that I check a user habitually before I even bother reading… and I have never hidden so many comments before getting to something substantive in the comments…

Like many here, I don’t wish to limit new users, but this does seem from my armchair perspective to be a pattern to be on the look out for.

This is interesting. Can you link to some of these?

I've noticed this kind of behavior on Reddit but never on HM

Disheartening to say the least. A cache like that would sure to a have single volume that would more than pay for the price to pay to have them moved and stored for a year… the idea that there are countless volumes of that caliber most likely in a collection like that means whomever is responsible is literally throwing money away… based on what you’ve described I could easily see a collection like that fetching at least a hundred thousand dollars, maybe substantially more.

Well it does scale… just not in the way that is good for democracy.

Taken another way given apple’s enormous market reach, this could be seen as perhaps the most solid metric of actual consumer interest in ai and features ignoring hype.

Not sure. I'm a heavy AI user at this point. Oh, also a heavy Apple user and never once used an Apple AI thing since they released them. I don't even know what they released. It is complete failure of execution on their part.

I’ve always heard it called “business as usual”

I still prefer "Scam", "Business as usual" Altman doesnt have the same ring to it...

In the interest of lists, quality and simplicity… I suggest anything from Fermat’s Library [1] mailing list… already curated.

[1] https://fermatslibrary.com/

Never heard of this. Thanks!

Really ambitious and really cool, congrats on finishing and sharing!

Getting into the weeds, how are you doing individual voices, ie an an analog synth needs a separate signal path for each note of polyphony with inadvertent and unavoidable interference… which ironically is desirable.

Reading this back and forth so far I think you’re spot on… which leads to this open question, wheres the consolidated stack that makes this accessible?

Also I think the name vetted webrings or just the vetted web is simple enough to be a movement.

As in the vetted web movement.

… gotta start somewhere.

Ah the dehumanizing nature of affluence… a right of passage for those fortunate enough to experience.

The challenge is in how to manage and and maintain the interest, less one falls back into the realm of obscurity or worse be tarnished reputationally so as to never recover.