Comment by nobodywillobsrv

Very strange. I and some friends I have asked about this have found the opposite. Sure, IRL people are avoiding discussing anything that matters for the most part but then if something does matter, no matter how trivial, they often seem to be completely unable to put forth a coherent set of statements about whatever they think. Speaking to AIs and interacting with "trolls and bots" on the internet at least has a hard cut between the bad actors/bots and the real thinkers.

My impression is that people who find "the internet" bad are simply not imagining that they are sampling a vast space of agents and of course if they simply stop at after the first 10 bad things they will stop pretty quickly. It's basically unbounded what you can find. You must accept that.

I would be very interested in understanding more how people are classifying these two regimes in terms of them being "ruined" or not. Hearing the internet is "ruined" feels a bit like hearing "books are ruined" or something. It just seems bizarre. It is very easy to curate what you read. It is not so easy to curate real life encounters.