In that case one should then be more specific about what it is exactly that they dislike rather than just treating the whole “profession” of content creation as if there weren’t levels to it. Most of even objectively bad content is still harmless. Getting annoyed by it is bordering on self-harm as nobody is forcing anyone to consume that content. That’s kind of like someone getting angry at my Lemmy post for not being entertaining to them.

I too dislike inauthenticity, vanity, consumerism, and low-effort content made primarily to farm engagement but for the most part I just don’t pay any attention to it. I’m not against people being into stuff that I’m not for as long as it’s not harming anyone else. And yes, in some extreme cases content creation can be that as well.

I get the frustration with people inflating their own importance with fancy titles. That part is fair.

Where I push back is treating “content creator” as if it’s automatically a bullshit term. To me, it’s just a broad, neutral description - it means someone who makes videos, podcasts, or other material for an audience. It doesn’t imply skill, value, or prestige by itself. You can be a great content creator or a terrible one, just like you can be a great journalist or a terrible one.

Tom Scott is a content creator. So is some guy filming himself ranting in his car. The term covers both. The fact that a lot of low-effort stuff exists under that label doesn’t make the category itself meaningless - it just means the barrier to entry is low and the incentives reward volume.

Some of these points are super weird. Like this for example. What does this even mean?

All the talk about the dangers of AI superintelligence is insulting to real intelligence

Who is this “real intelligence” who’s offended by people talking about a hypotethical thing that’s even more intelligent?

Why? What’s wrong with, for example, someone making YouTube videos and being paid a living wage for it? I’m genuinely curious about where this negative attitude towards these people is stemming from.

You say it like being unemployed makes person a 2nd class citizen.

Many people work 2 or more jobs because one isn’t enough to pay the bills. Doesn’t make it any less of an job.

It just makes you sound salty that some people get paid for doing what they like instead of having to sit in a soul crushing office 5 days a week from 9 to 5.

Influencer is just a derogatory term for content creators we don’t like. I don’t know what your working definition of a “job” is but there certainly are people who earn their living that way. Thousands of them in fact.

Well, if I’m going to pay what ever this thing costs then it better come with huge tits - and a dick!

I don’t. I hear about it the first time right now and I’m not even going to look into it.

…without being prosecuted legally for it*

Perhaps he’s able to tolerate the lack of sex in your relationship specifically because he’s getting it from the other ones.

I can’t pretend to know the depths of this particular person’s mind but as a man, I’d say that nine times out of ten, if a man has multiple partners it’s not about “emotional connection and support”

Brain transplant is one of the rare occasions where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient.

I’m unconvinced that polyamory is about anything other than wanting the permission to have sex with multiple people. I don’t want it from even a one person so suffice to say I see no upside.

If the title has a repeating word you can use that for keyword blocking with uBlock Origin, though last time I checked it applies to usernames as well. This this wont block their comments but will block all posts from them if you write their username there.

feddit.uk##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(/keyword/i))

Just make sure to switch in your own instance.

Sounds like changing definitions to me.

But it’s not. It’s a hypothesis that was proven incorrect by running the experiment.

That’s translatable to other fields

I didn’t say it doesn’t ever translate to other fields. I said that it doesn’t need to. That’s the difference between narrow and general intelligence. You can be superhuman at X but have zero clue how to do Y. It’s still intelligence but it’s not general or “human level”

There’s isn’t really such a place as “Lemmy.” Lemmy is like Email - you don’t have an email account, you have a gmail, outlook or protonmail account (in your case lemmy.ca account)

Assuming this is going to be sitting in a direct sunlight, I’d personally do a double take on the ventilation. That single vent isn’t going to be doing much and it’s going to get hot in there - especially with the dark paint.

Ridicule is evasion, not counter.

Who cares?

The world’s economy and everyone whose affected by it.

There is a meaningful difference between:

1. Russia committing specific acts that could legally qualify as genocidal, and
2. The war as a whole being accurately described as a genocide.

Under international law, genocide requires the specific intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. This is a very high bar. It’s not enough to show that terrible things are happening to a group. You need to show that the perpetrator’s goal is the destruction of the group.