Yes, it's the same as with nuclear vs coal. A nuclear disaster is so spectacular that it attracts a lot of attention. Meanwhile, millions of kids suffering from asthma, dying of cancer, etc. don't make the 9pm news because it's harder to connect the dots.
I also like to take potshots at Americans, but come on. It's unlikely that a newspaper called "the berliner" in a article about Berlin included this line specifically thinking about citizens of a far-away foreign country who don't use metric units that often.
Occam's razor says that it's actually one of our noble and enlightened European journalists who made that sloppy remark without realising it.
Yes, that's a good point. I don't think the public is ready to accept a vibe-coded medical diagnostic system (hopefully), but software in the app stores specifically is rarely used for mission-critical tasks, and I think that's why it's the next frontier for slop.
Yes, but that's mostly hand-made slop. What I'm referring to is 100% automatically generated apps from start to end. Potentially orders of magnitude larger volume, once you realize you can churn an app an hour and have it published, with the reviewers effectively unable to do meaningful testing.
What I really miss was the moderation system. There was a simple 1-5 score and a main trait (insightful, funny, flamebait, underrated, overrated...). To moderate you had to earn points which would you then spend, so careful consideration mattered. The result was that you could filter for 5+Insightful and get the core of the discussion, or 5+Funny and have a good time, etc.
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