The logical conclusion is AI bots exclusively talking to AI bots to complete the circle. It would be funny if it wasn't for all the wasted computing cycles that could be burned for something actually useful instead.
Lots of HNer talking pass each other because they won't acknowledge they don't care.
Telemarketers have chosen to architect their business on the predicate that people trustingly pick up their phones and interact with those who call them. That social norm is fading; people screen their calls, or even use eg that Pixel phone thing in which a robot picks up, confronts the telemarketer, and texts the user.
The DOM doesn't live out there somewhere, it lives inside my browser. Being choosy about which parts actually get displayed, as opposed to dropped on the ground, isn't taking food out of people's mouths, it's my failing to adhere to a social norm of naively rendering a webpage exactly as it's sent to me. It reminds me of psuedo-moral panic about WFH coring out once-lively commercial real estate and all its downstream consequences (eg, the absence of cubicle drones needing to go out to eat at lunch hour, etc) -- who owes who a living, and why?
"...in a single year, São Paulo removed 15,000 billboards, many of which were replaced by street art."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...
It is immediately noticeably nicer to drive there vs neighboring states.
It also generates a few fun stories, such as the grandfathered-still-existing tall sign north of Brattleboro that said "Steak $5.99" for years after the steak house had changed. Eventually, while it was being leased to an Asian restaurant, people protested that it was false advertising (as steak had not been available for years and certainly not at that price). The landlord still wanting to keep the sign, but not allowed to change it, removed the "S", "K", and "$5.99", so the sign read "TEA" for many more years, and AFAIK, still does.
(I would possibly make an exception for cases where people want to put their speech on their land, but the moment it's a corporation paying someone to put up an advert? That's not individual speech any more, is it?)
We can make it really tedious to advertise by forcing them to buy the land itself and deal with title transfer, without impacting free speech of people.
There’s not much telephone involved.
Telemarketing refers, both entymologically and colloquially, to marketing via telephone. No one calls billboards or online ads telemarketing.
(there is some theoretical research into "reversible computing", but it's not really practical. A side effect is that destroying information is not reversible: so instead of having a two-input one output gate, you have to have 2 inputs 2 outputs and keep the "spare" around to make it reversible.)