May 21, 2008

Why Reddit users never get laid.

umm

Reddit, the social bookmarking utility that will always be in Digg’s shadow traffic wise, is a bizarre place. Although the frontpage invariably has a few interesting stories up at any given time, it is also rife with heated operating system arguments, posters who still think Texas crazy man Ron Paul stands a shot at anything, and postings so unabashedly nerdy that they must be shielded from female eyes.  

Case in point: today’s #24, a post entitled “A transhuman AI would just convince you to let it out. It doesn’t matter how much security you put on the box. Humans are not secure” 

The tone is authoritative and yet casual: of course a transhuman AI would just convince us to let it out. Also, the user comments on Reddit display a level of social unease and awkwardness that is usually not found online: