I don’t do zero sum games, you can normalize every bad thing that ever happened with that rhetoric. Also, someone benefiting from something doesn’t make it good. Weapons smuggling is also extremely beneficial to the people involved.

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simianwords 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes but if I go with your priors then all of these are similarly to be suspect

- gaming

- netflix

- television

- social media

- hacker news

- music in general

- carnivals

A priori, all of these are equally suspicious as to whether they provide value or not.

My point is that unless you have reason to suspect, people engaging in consumption through their own agency is in general preferable. You can of course bring counter examples but they are more of caveats against my larger truer point.

	▲	techpression 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Social media for sure and television and Netflix in general absolutely. But again, providing value is not the same as something being good. A lot of people think inaccuracies by LLMs to be of high value because it’s provided with nice wrappings and the idea that you’re always right.