Investing is work. You have to spend time researching different opportunities, and even then there is still a risk involved.
If you made money by buying bitcoin a long time ago, you didn't get something for nothing. And if you sell it now, you can profit before the game of musical chairs collapses. So there is a limited window of arbitrage.
A little bit of work multiplied by a lot of risk and time.
Any field has hacks. Telling someone what they want to hear and helping get someone where they want to be are different things. Quality professionals help people reach their goals without judgment or presumption. That goes for mental health professionals as well as any professional field.
It used to be that the propaganda needed to launch a war (Iraq) would be published by the NYTs of the world, but even that is no longer needed thanks to social media.
The economic viability to do proper journalism was already destroyed by the ad supported click and attention based internet. (and particular the way people consume news through algorithmic social media)
I believe most independent news sites have been economically forced into sensationalism and extremism to survive. Its not what they wilfully created.
Personally, i find that any news organisations that is still somewhat reputable have source of income beyond page visits and ads; Be it a senior demorgaphic that still subscribe to the paper, loyal reader base that pay for the paywall, or government sponsoring its existence as public service.
Now what if you cut out the last piece of income journalists rely on to stay afloat? We simply fire the humans and tell an AI to summarise the other articles instead, and phrase it how people want to hear it.
My take is that journalists, was fighting enshittification as long as they could one looming bankruptcy leading to consolidation or closed shop at a time.
Since the last big movements of the front that's absolutely been the case, though you're right it doesn't apply if you account for the early captures. Once you remove them (Mariupol, Melitopol, Berdyansk), that's very easily verifiable.
Avdiivka had 30-32k pre-war population, estimated 40-47k Russian casualties.
Bakhmut had 71k pre-war, Russia suffered an estimated 75k casualties from Wagner alone.
Pokrovsk 61k pre-war, ongoing, 21k estimated casualties in January alone, and it's been ongoing for a year.
And beyond cities, the daily casualty rates at most obtain tiny settlements of a few dozen pre-war inhabitants. In the worst case you have the North Kharkiv front with 10s of thousands of casualties and basically a stalemate.
>It's hard to take the rest of your comments seriously.
"One thing is debatable so everything is debatable", I didn't expect this level on HN.
QA for non-AI code is limited at best to begin with, why would AI code be any different?