hot take: Reddit has been a “logged-in-only experience” since i started using it 15 years ago. default subs and front page have always been trash brainrot, and the real value of Reddit has always been in niche communities, ie a curated user-specific homepage.

that said, their incessant insistence on brainrot like AITA and AskReddit got me off that platform years ago at this point.

record numbers of “how do i connect to localhost from my friend’s laptop” and useless dashboards your devs were too busy to make, tho

wasn’t really a suggestion, but even Elon can’t anti-woke his model away from reality. the billionaire class controls congress already.

honestly we could replace US congress with a system like this, and public life would probably improve over the current situation. at least an LLM can’t be bribed with a $500 meal and will actually read the legislation.

they did mention doing harmonization studies, which is my biggest worry: cascading ecological effects.

the impetus can’t be “oh well they haven’t done the full studies so i guess we just full send and see what happens”.

It shouldn’t have to take fifteen years to deploy effective products that can save lives

this is such a reductionist view.

it should absolutely take decades to make a sweeping decision to fundamentally alter an ecosystem. nobody likes disease or even getting a random bite. i grew up in the swamps of the US, i know. but we should absolutely know what we’re doing to release a genetically engineered or bacterial sterilizing agent into a naturally evolved ecosystem.