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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/115956880232782872
The word processor and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity
All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template:
> [...] in that empty space, I begin to wonder: Where did all the people go? What are they all doing behind the artifice they’re showing here? Why am I wasting my time and energy wading through these shallow yet unbounded seas of nothing?
Have very much been feeling this bit lately. The social web is an evaporating ocean, leaving only an inhospitable salty death zone full of bots, shills, and influence campaigns, immitating the people that used to be around.
"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it's never been easier to tell the world "I didn't care about this and I don't care about you."
Which one of these would you say is correct?
Argument for "is": In English "data" is treated as an uncountable noun.
Argument for "are": In Latin, "data" is the plural of "datum".
Did some local LLM-based labeling of the HN comment corpus, tasking the model to classify how likely it is that each comment is:
* Using AI-like grammar (e.g. it's not X, it's Y)
* Using AI-like markup (e.g. em-dashes)
* Trying to shill something
* Trying to influence public opinion
Still a bit work in progress, but here are some preview data.
Did some statistics, and it seems posts from newly registered accounts on HN are nearly 10x more likely to use EM-dashes, arrows, and similar typography than established accounts.
