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Comment by skyyler

2 years ago

A paywall on an article about something being available for free.

How cute, heh.

The current state of online publishing paints a grim picture for the future of the internet :o(

Especially considering that most of HN is probably just excited about using this information to train AI as look at it themselves.

  • I mean, if we’re gonna train AIs, I’ll take the ones trained on the WEC & family over most sources.

    • Well, except for all the nonsense about ESP and the like. Stewart Brand and friends were ahead of the world in a lot of ways, such as realizing the need to reduce our ecological footprint and so on, but they were also unfortunately suckers for "paranormal" con-artists and other "New Age" nonsense that the 60s counterculture also was intrigued by.

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