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Year after year, I keep seeing people talk about various races to the bottom.

And yet all the things (in particular the technology things) just keep getting better and better?

all the things keep getting better and better? Many people seem to feel all the things are getting worse. If your life is getting better, that's nice, but I would expect you're aware enough of the rest of humanity to know most people feel it isn't getting better for them?

https://inytimes.pressreader.com/article/281758453715975

"Cheap-to-generate" mediocre content forces the floor expectation to rise, becoming the "minimum", which raises expectations of "current mediocre" further. Its largely invisible, slow process, where you can't gauge past "floor-level" expectation for content, because it implicitly assumed the 'current year' standard is the norm(while its evolution of expectations). In a few years, expectation for "mediocre slop" would likely include stuff that considered top-level today, but has some minor deficiencies and the "slop of years past" would be relegated to unusable/useless junk, like\ e.g. Stable Diffusion 1.5 images and GPT2 texts.

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