The dead internet theory
Created on: 2025-07-19
There's this theory that says because of AI the internet will become dead and flooded with bots.
We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation. The nice thing of this simple change of vocabulary is that it has such a profound effect: while, before, a program with only one bug used to be "almost correct", afterwards a program with an error is just "wrong".
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Created on: 2025-07-19
There's this theory that says because of AI the internet will become dead and flooded with bots.
Created on: 2025-07-19
A few days ago I've run into this post on facebook, and it really is a learning experience