• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    More specifically, the internet failed because society decided to dedicate an entire generation of the world’s most brilliant minds to the problem of ad optimization. This directly led to the modern clickbait/ragebait disinformation problem.

    If we had just taken those same engineers and said to solve any other problem, it would’ve been done ages ago.