Sure there are edge cases and whatnot, but just go ahead and move the drive over. If it doesn't work I'll buy you a beer.

Dude was compromised by Borat. I wouldn't be surprised to see him on a street corner holding a cardboard sign that says, "will do treason for Scotch."

Thank you for this explanation.

Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren't Nazis or bots.

Back when I started with Reddit I remember sorting by new and thinking, jeez why would anyone sift through all this crap... Cut to me exclusively sorting by new all the time because I looked at ev.ry.thing. So yeah, this is nice. Though in the future it may be just as full. Cross that bridge when we come to it I guess.

Unlike capitalism, which is a bunch of random people climbing on eachothers back and when one gets to the top he is not expected to pull the others up.

Even worse, just making money isn't enough: you also have to become a fucking global monopoly.

That is by far the most likely scenario. Hell it's already happening with the AI we do have. Teslas driving into walls, facial recognition mistaking an innocent person for a criminal (mentioned in the article).

Doomsday science fiction is fun to toy with but it usually involves a lot of hand waving.

I've been getting into primitive technology lately. It all started when I looked at my back yard and thought hey, if we call it red clay, then I should be able to make it into pottery. I take dirt from my yard, levigate it, add grog and wedge, hand-build pots, and fire them in my fire pit. Been making sharpening stones from river rocks. Crafting replicas of Roman machines. That sort of thing.

Me at 11pm: why on earth would I watch a long video deep diving into obsolete incandescent headlights?

Me at 7am: hey did you know that headlights used to be so standard you could just drop in a generic replacement and.........

Given how modern suggestion algorithms seem to be poorly moderated, unregulated black boxes aimed at keeping users engaged on site above all else.... I won't be surprised if/when we learn that this has literally happened.

Those fools. I'm not sure anything can save Reddit (from its admins) at this point.