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Slop studies?

It is interesting in the sense that any pathology is interesting, but probably not deeply so. Just as there is a banality to evil, there may be a banality of slop. Maybe people dig it for boring reasons.

Even so, it hints at a separation of people into distinct groups, who need to deploy strategies to recognize and guard against each other. So from a sociological and economic perspective, it's also interesting. I'm also interested in how slop shapes the overarching market incentives, and if the slop users win the incentives battle whether I need to increasingly opt out of the mainstream internet and seek alternatives

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