Then we learned that if you wanted to get the right answer from people ... all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong ... and so many people would jump on you so fast to tell you how stupid you were and give you the right answer.
.... and you also had to tie an onion on your belt which was the style of the time.
First we created communities that we used to share information and ideas. This allowed people to grow in their skills and in turn teach others what they learnt. This cycle kept the communities going, providing an important service for everyone involved.
Then capitalism turned those communities into walled gardens, often using predatory patterns to increase engagement to the detriment of the quality. Being walled off made it harder to share the knowledge, leaving people with only a few larger holdouts of what once had been.
Then we created machines to do the learning for us, finally killing off the concept of information sharing communities. These machines learnt from every knowledge sharing community that existed previously and became the place to access that knowledge. Without people coming into the communities, even the last holdouts could no longer sustain themselves. The ability to share and gain new knowledge was removed, causing stagnation for everyone involved. The ability to actually learn anything was also greatly reduced, having the machines apply the knowledge directly. The new machines can't learn, can't think, can't reason or be creative, all they can do is remix already existing information and regress to the mean while doing so.
But for a while there, a lot of value was created for the shareholders.
The other option was that nobody ever replied...
Now we go to a text transformer that poops spaghetti code by the bucket.
"And you stopped because now you ask AI instead?"
"No! Because the special website adopted AI!"
What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn't great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help
The web was pretty small in the '90s
I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
I've got this strange error that only happens in this specific conditions using an obscure software with no documentation, anyone knows how to work around it?
RTFM
Jokes on them, I have a shame kink.
I miss Yahoo Answers
hey, currently looking for LMDE help on the Mint forum, can confirm derision is still part of the process.
Gotta love elitism and punching down.
Then wondering why everyone is so ignorant (you punch them when they ask for answers).
ahh the good ol flamewar days of IRC
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