Comment by eastbound
19 days ago
There’s barely any debate, people don’t answer each other; It’s rather about invoking the wonder and imagination of everyone’s brain. Like spatial conquest or an economic crisis: It will change everything but you can’t do anything immediately about it, and everyone tries to understand what it will change so they can adapt. It’s more akin to 24hrs junk news cycle, where everything is presented as an alert but your tempted to listen because it might affect you.
I am interested in a post that will teach me how to consume only the news that really relevant for me
Here’s one: just don’t read the news.
Google what you are interested in at the moment, and dive long into what matters to you, rather than being fed engagement bait.
Easier said than done, I understand that.
I guess I'll have an agent for that one day. News agent.
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The hidden fallacy in your comment is that there is such a thing as "news that is really relevant for you".
This isn't all that different than saying that it would be nice if someone else did your thinking for you -- which is a totally fine thing to want, but let's not get confused.
"News that is relevant for you" is a concept made up by advertising companies to legitimize them in having power over what you see. Because if they presented it plainly, you would be rightly alarmed.
It is the meta-level counterpart of the fact that LLMs are difficult to reason about.