Comment by ruszki
21 hours ago
There were such people also here.
Copy-pasting the code would have been faster than their work, and there were several problems with their results. But they were so convinced that their work is quick and flawless, that they post a video recording of it.
Hackernews is dominated by these people
LLM marketers have succeeded at inducing collective delusion
> LLM marketers have succeeded at inducing collective delusion
That's the real trick & one I desperately wish I knew how to copy.
I know there's a connection to Dunning Kruger & I know that there's a dopamine effect of having a responsive artificial minion & there seems to be some of that "secret knowledge" sauce that makes cults & conspiracies so popular (there's also the promise of less effort for the same or greater productivity).
Add the list grows, I see the popularity, but I doubt I could easily apply all these qualities to anything else.
IMO algorithmically generated "social" media feeds combined with the lack of adequate mass-media alternatives have supercharged cult recruitment in the last approximately 10 years.
Stupid people in my life have been continually and recklessly joining harebrained cults for the last 5 years.
Really I think it's probably much, much easier to start a cult these days than it has ever been. Good news for tech company founders I guess, bad news for American culture, American society, and the American people.
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