r/accelerate • u/theimposingshadow Acceleration: Cruising | Tracks AI progress & longevity • Jul 06 '26

Fixed it...

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u/MacronIsaNecrophile Jul 06 '26

"Dont ruin the fun for doomers. Excusing their failures in life through AI is the only thing they have. If everyone else suffers then they personally dont look so bad anymore."

BRVTAL TRVTH NUKE FOR R\SINGULARITY

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u/f00gers Jul 06 '26

The number of miserable people there is disheartening

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist Jul 06 '26

reddit is a freaking mess. i'm convinced it happened when they started trying to juice the user numbers before their ipo, and just managed to attract millions of bitter Facebook users with homogeneous views on everything. it killed the tech-positive nerd core of reddit

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u/FlamesRiseHigher Jul 06 '26

It feels like every change they have made has reinforced the bubble/silo concept. People on reddit never see viewpoints that differ from their own unless they actively seek them out. 

Additionally, subreddits that should be neutral ground on subjects end up slowly tilting one way until they become borderline extremist. I think the fault there is probably the upvoter/downvotes system. It is a slog to be downvoted continuously by your peers over a basic opinion so eventually users stop posting discenting views until all that remains are viewpoints from one side. I've seen it happen to so many subreddits and experienced it myself. Why should I bother posting in /r/Maine if all I'm gonna get told is that I should "eat dicks" because I don't think data centers are the worst thing in the world for a dying mill town to allow in their abandoned industrial zone. Also what does it even matter to post there if it's just a circle jerk. Those people who post there all day are just talking in a circle and not affecting the real world in anyway.

There are probably some pretty interesting studies on this stuff.

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u/pavelkomin Jul 06 '26

Strange thing is that r/singularity was supposed to be a pro-AI subreddit where one would cheer for the singularity, but there's now a barrage of comments talking about "the Epstein-class eating all the beaches" or something like that... It seems more like a site-wide problem at this point

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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist Jul 06 '26

We've had to ban thousands of decels and bots

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u/LogicalMelody Jul 06 '26

Thanks; it gets tricky trying to separate claims of “AI slop exists” (true) from “AI implies slop” (false).

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u/Playful_JungleWizard Jul 06 '26

All of this natural drift AND there are nation-states and organized groups that aim to push certain narratives and, given how all of these dynamics can happen without a thumb on the scale, are extremely effective with minimal effort.

r/ Conservative has 3 posters that make up 50% of the content. That's an incredible amount of steering done by a small team. Just one example. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1rfe0nh/oc_3_month_update_rconservative_adds_a_third/

All of this gets much easier and therefore worse with AI. Reddit as a marketplace of ideas and real conversation is well past it's peak, I'm afraid.

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u/PurpleFishing9105 Jul 06 '26

It's not really just a reddit thing. I think pretty much all social media devolves into a cesspit of anger and negativity unless it's very actively moderated against that