Web3 is just an excuse to still shilling crypto while using it as a payment system has not taken off. They need to hype the next empty buzzwords to keep parade going.
Readit NewsExendroinient commented on Web3/Crypto: Why Bother? continuations.com/post/67... · Posted by u/fandorin
Exendroinient commented on “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs paulbutler.org/2021/play-... · Posted by u/paulgb
Jobs which don' create positive value to the world are not bullshit. Our western economy is mostly based on the meaningless consumption of stupid things. These products have to be marketed and pushed into clients by manufactered believe that they need to buy it.
Other part of this are the zero-sum games. Trick people into buying it by introducting artifcial scarcity.
Exendroinient commented on “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs paulbutler.org/2021/play-... · Posted by u/paulgb
I don't see more games utilizing that mechanic, besides some the awful mobile gacha's.
Till the incentive to profiting from and creating a mental health problems nothing will change.
Exendroinient commented on An NFT without a blockchain shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
Value of NFTs is purely fictional and based on some buzzwords with a spice of ponzi scheme on top of it. People who are into NFTs don't care about the functionality and usefulness at all. They are pulled to NFTs and shitcoins by a old get rich quick marketing tactics.
Exendroinient commented on Internet addiction and the habit of book reading benwajdi.com/2021/12/18/i... · Posted by u/shankarro
The worrying thing is that mainstream social medias are stopping reading as a form of the content consumption. Videos are becoming shorter and more condensed. It will end badly for brains of the generation raised on tiktok.
Exendroinient commented on No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble bigthink.com/starts-with-... · Posted by u/russfink
Sounds like a normal day in the science journalism. The same case was with the ""earth-like planets"" headlines even though some were unconfirmed and the only data known about them was their orbit, mass to a certain degree and star, which in most cases was small and very active. In the media outlets there weren't any information about the host star and the fact that most of those planets were tidally locked. Besides all of that, they were still calling them earth-like planets.
Exendroinient commented on NASA spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun for the first time ever nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/perihelions
Humanity at its finest.
People generally underestimate how hard is to settle mars comparing to moon. Getting there is the easiest part. Entirely sustainable colony on its own have never been achiewed before. Projects like biosphere2 failed miserably. On current nasa budget even 2030's are even out of reach for a self sustaining colony. Hundreds of bilions are needed. It eon't happen without big push.
Exendroinient commented on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation axios.com/facebook-boswor... · Posted by u/cbtacy
Look at video games, particularly on mobile. I mean they aren't even games anymore. They're just metrics-optimized psychological-trick machines to extract the most money from you $1 at a time ie in-app purchases and pay-to-win. These aren't games: they're engagement bait to bring you and your wallet back each day.
Why do we have this? Because people suck and it just makes way too much money for anyone not to do it. Why didn't we have this 20 years? Because the technical capability wasn't there.
It's really no different here. Communication and messaging costs have really gone down to zero. If it wasn't FB, it'd be someone else. There's simply too much money with very little costs in engagement bait, whether or not that's the intent of the platform or product.
And yeah, that's the case because people suck. Most people aren't looking for verifiable information. They're looking for whatever or whoever says whatever it is they've already chosen to believe. That's it.
I'd say the biggest problem with FB and Twitter is sharing links as this is such an easy way for the lazy, ignorant and stupid to signals their preconceived notions to whatever audience they happen to have. But if Twitter or FB didn't allow sharing links, someone else would and that someone else would be more popular.
I honestly don't know what the solution to this is.
So the biggest obstacle to solving anything about this world is stupidity of the general population. People can't stop choosing the most stupid things with their wallets and attention.