<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:32 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 6:38 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>* Blatantly alarmist hype title, even having an exclamation mark</i></font><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>* Video</i></font></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>* No other context</i></font></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>Summary: almost certainly a waste of time to click.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Perhaps I should've linked this <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">article </span>instead:<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Something Big Is Happening</a></b></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Vaguebook title: very likely not worth the time to read...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></b></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Because the video is about that<span class="gmail_default"></span> article<span class="gmail_default">. I didn't originally link to the article because it is rather long</span></b></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">...especially if it is long.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>By the way, the article is <span class="gmail_default">only</span> talking about <span class="gmail_default">the AI improvements </span>that occurred <span class="gmail_default"></span>during <span class="gmail_default"></span>the last month<span class="gmail_default">,</span> and <span class="gmail_default">yet </span>it<span class="gmail_default"> </span>got over 47 million views in 24 hours,</b></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yep.  AI hype will do that, regardless of the content's quality or lack thereof.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">so the author must be seeing something big that resonates with what a lot of other people are also seeing.</span></b></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or fearing, thus the clicks are driven by hype alone.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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