I mean I’m in my 50s and for years Reddit was awesome for me. Sure “Reddit” didn’t make all those posts themselves - but they created a space where folks like me could (and did) enjoy contributing and engaging.

Has been getting worse for a long time, but that doesn’t mean it was never good.

I don’t mind that Reddit in some ways profited from the content I contributed- because

1. I got enormous value from the site and it was 100% free for me
2. I intentionally was contributing to the site knowing that they would host my content and potentially profit from it.

AI takes without consent and charges for benefit

Agree “many obvious reasons”. That said I feel as though there may be some merit to the “we need a way to keep AI bots from just taking all our content and reselling it via AI”.

There are a million other reasons to stop using Reddit and I won’t be going back.

But for years they built up a ton of great user contributed content. Just like it’s unfair for art, music, other content to be absorbed / plagiarized and repackaged as AI… it is also unfair that web bots steal all the old/good Reddit content and don’t give credit + make money off content generated by old Reddit.

Note: reddit bad. Also AI plagiarism bad.

So I am a girl. I feel like it’s not controversial to say the obvious = on average men are taller and stronger than women.

This does not mean you can assume the height of someone knowing their gender. It does not mean that tall women are less female / somehow masculine, or that short men are less male / more feminine.

It bothers me that we are fine with “on average men are taller/stronger”, but we can’t even bring up the subject of “are there intellectual differences” without upsetting people.

I say this as a woman whose brain is good at some things that men are more often drawn to. My experience is that of course there are women who are drawn to / excel at data structures and programming… I am one of them. But on average men are more likely to be good at that sort of work. I know some of that is because of cultural norms / social pressure, but “some”, not “all”.

I’m female so I can say this without getting hauled into HR for diversity training, but there are men who are called sexist for even brining it up.

I don’t think it’s sexist to acknowledge that testosterone and estrogen have different effects on a developing human brain.

I DO think it’s sexist that we pay top dollar for engineering expertise and next to nothing to people who teach and care for children - which in my mind is both more difficult to do well and FAR more important.

I know sex is a different topic than race, but… it feels culturally sensitive in a similar way I guess?