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The Nostr trending algo works backward to Twitter. It nudges you to talk only about Nostr and Bitcoin, or to post platitudes, famous quotes, sexy pics, and heart-warming pictures of nature and food. It's an anti-intellectual algo. An anti-literary algo. An anti-contemplation algo. Any original, complex, or unsettling thought gets buried 6 feet down and a pile of GMs gets poured on top, to seal it in.

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The Nostr trending algo works backward to Twitter. It nudges you to talk only about Nostr and Bitcoin, or to post platitudes, famous quotes, sexy pics, and heart-warming pictures of nature and food. It's an anti-intellectual algo. An anti-literary algo. An anti-contemplation algo. Any original, complex, or unsettling thought gets buried 6 feet down and a pile of GMs gets poured on top, to seal it in.
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If it didn't exist, the dulling effect of it wouldn't exist. But it exists and it's tangible. You probably don't notice because you're writing about your area of expertise (which conveniently happens to be Nostr) and receiving lots of feedback because you have a gazillion followers. The avert human responses and the measurement of them being the algo results in an intellectual "flight to safety", where there are a few popular topics and correct opinions and you can hardly break out of that mold, even if there is an audience for it.
Humans are more interesting because they are more chaotic than a bot brain. They have a soul which can tap into higher dimension wisdom. Bot brain will always produce what is within their matrices, although sometimes they produce different thanks to probabilistic nature, they are still confined within their parameters. Give it the same context and low temperature and run it 100 times. Most of the times it will generate similar outputs.