Calling them psychologists is giving them too much credit, but you're right that the companies trying to trick them are putting tons of resources into it.

Then you've only been to one type. There are family friendly shows that are no different content wise from taking your kid to see a face character actor at Disneyland.

If anything, God made alcohol incredibly prevalent and easy to discover and produce

Your attitude is a big part of what's wrong with this world. "I'm ignorant and too lazy to educate myself so I'm going to blame the victim"

This is exactly why some Chinese restaurants have a special Chinese menu that you need to ask for.

The standard of living for the vast majority is better but the anxiety of being on the edge of losing it is as high as it has ever been.

AI cannibalism simply isn't a thing yet. It definitely will be and good models will need to spend a lot of time and money sourcing good training data, but the models are not up to date enough to be contaminated yet.

I'm very confident the degradation has come from them trying to scale up. Generative AI is the most expensive thing on the cloud you can provide, and not only are they trying to make it faster, they're trying to roll it out for way more consumption. Major optimizations will require an algorithmic breakthrough so in the meanwhile all they can really do is find which corners they can cut that are less bad.

When it comes to dating? Yes. Absolutely. Why would you think that beliefs are a non factor for dating?

Do all that and a single cruise ship will undo it in about 3 second

I like it but can't wait until we stop talking about Reddit

They say it's pointless because it's archived on other sites. The point is that Reddit specifically can't profit off it

It was a flawed system, but it really benefited Reddit. Volunteer mods did it because they were supposed to be the leaders of their communities and reddit was supposed to just be a platform for hosting them. By attacking that system they removed the main incentive for volunteer mods to exist.