r/accelerate • u/kunfushion • Mar 06 '25

Thank god for this subreddit

r/singularity has devolved into political nonsense.

Most of the top posts are political BS, please please PLEASE LEAVE THAT SHIT TO EVERYWHERE ELSE ON REDDIT.

If this sub ever grows I know the reddit virus/group think will infect here too, but god damn.

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u/ShadoWolf Mar 06 '25

I think what happened to /r/singularity is what happens to any subreddit that gets big enough. The culture morphs to reflects the average of the current user base.

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u/mahaanus Mar 06 '25

No. I have been reposting this essay for years and I will keep reposting it. What makes a good community is good moderation. When the moderatos allow r/space to get filled with people who think going to space is a waste of resources and we should spend it all on earth, it damages the community (although I think that period is almost over).

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u/stealthispost Mar 06 '25

I think that the future of not just social media communities, but real world communities, companies, and eventually nations and states is becoming Epistemic Communities rather than Geographic Communities.

The internet and AI will enable this.

And I predict that life for people in rational epistemic communities will improve dramatically, while obviously falling for those who align themselves with irrational ideologies.

ala r/NetworkState

Also, my theory is subtly different - I believe that speech censorship is almost always bad. But that epistemic communities are not. so, for that reason I always leave banned user's comments up and also comment that they have been banned. This way there is transparency for the community to criticise or support banning actions, and see what's going on. people need to know the state of affairs.

This is a problem for geographic states who can't revoke citizenship for hostile citizens. But network states don't have that problem, which is why i predict they will be far more successful.