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Twitter is the most valuable database in the world because it mimics human conversation better than any other tech company. This is priceless for training AI with the goal of AGI. Once you extrapolate that, it makes more sense. It’s literally the hive.

We probably are simulated from the Twitter in the Other universe.

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I'd say reddit is a far more robust archive of conversational data. Tweets are engineered to be entertaining or informative in small bits, typically designed for maximal impact and/or clout.

Sure, reddit has a karma system that incentivizes cleverness, but it's also designed for longer form conversation in a way Twitter can't possibly replicate. The pseudonymity also encourages vulnerability and openness in a way Twitter typically doens't.

There's a reason Google/Meta/Others train their AIs with reddit conversational data.

>but it's also designed for longer form conversation in a way Twitter can't possibly replicate

Reddit sucks at long form conversation. Every thread is stale and gone within 24 hours, so long lived conversations are basically impossible. Thus every topic that comes up is a rehash of the same super basic high level points over and over and over and over and over again.

Reddit does response notification, something that HN does not. If someone responds to a comment of yours, you get a site-specific 'orangered' email that has a quick reply box underneath it.

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