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Lumifer comments on Imagining Scarcity - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 March 2015 12:52:45AM 1 point [-]

Television actually has gotten noticeably smarter over the last century, with institutions like HBO occupying the 'smart and rich' niche.

While that may be true, I feel that the TV got noticeably dumber over the last decade or so as the "smart and rich" decamped for the internet.

Comment author: Vaniver 09 March 2015 01:08:14AM 0 points [-]

Very possibly--I, for one, watch very little in the way of new television, and what I do watch I watch over the internet.