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 Here I am worried about parroting reply guys on Nostr, and Youtube is apparently filled with bots spamming playlists full of CP through AI-translated comments.  Fuck me.

Humanity. Does. Not. Scale.  As a loner and an introvert, even Dunbar's number seems astronomical to me, but the idea of a cap on understanding human interconnection seems necessary.  If we're honest with ourselves, we will know that we are limited.

And that's OK.  It's only once we understand our limitation that we can understand our potential.  Dabbling in virtual worlds and the logic of infinite scale is always going to be an important intellectual exercise, but it can never be applied to the practical realm of human interaction. nostr.oxtr.dev