I'm pretty glad that I did. I'm going to hold onto them indefinitely. They have become the "low background steel" of text.
For anyone curious what low background steel is, it's steel that was made before the first atomic bombs were tested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
> I'm pretty glad that I did. I'm going to hold onto them indefinitely. They have become the "low background steel" of text.
Also, ironically, the Pushshift reddit dumps (still available via torrent), before they were taken down. The exact time Reddit shut down the API to sell their data for AI training is also exactly the time it started to become less valuable for that.
I believe a lot of subreddits started implementing protest moderation policies after reddit came down on the blackout. IMHO, they should implement rules like "no posts unless it's a ChatGPT hallucination."