Added: did web search, maybe this is the guy, not sure.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/math-tutor-video-lessons-por...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v3e8ye/i_am_changhsu_...

Oh here's another one:

https://www.unilad.com/community/zara-dar-pornhub-machine-le...

That one mentions that Pornhub pays around 2.5x as much per view as Youtube pays, so it's an obvious win.

   Banks varied in their philosophy of interest rates, minimum monthly payments, and so on. None of that mattered to Bud. What mattered was what they would do to him if he got into arrears, and so after he had allowed a decent interval to pass pretending to listen very carefully to all this crap about interest rates, he inquired, in an offhanded way, like it was an afterthought, about their collection policy. The banker glanced out the window like he hadn't noticed.
   The soundtrack segued into some kind of a cool jazz number and a scene of a multicultural crew of ladies and gentlemen, not looking much like degraded credit abusers at all, sitting around a table assembling chunky pieces of ethnic jewelry by hand. They were having a good time too, sipping tea and exchanging lively banter. Sipping too much tea, to Bud's suspicious eye, so opaque to so many things yet so keen to the tactics of media manipulation. They were making rather a big deal out of the tea.
   He noted with approval that they were wearing normal clothes, not uniforms, and that men and women were allowed to mingle. "Peacock Bank supports a global network of clean, safe, and commodious workhouses, so if unforeseen circumstances should befall you during our relationship, or if you should inadvertently anticipate your means, you can rely on being housed close to home while you and the bank resolve any difficulties. Inmates in Peacock Bank workhouses enjoy private beds and in some cases private rooms. Naturally your children can remain with you for the duration of your visit. Working conditions are among the best in the industry, and the high added-value content of our folk jewelry operation means that, no matter the extent of your difficulties, your situation will be happily resolved in practically no time."
   "What's the, uh, strategy for making sure people actually, you know, show up when they're supposed to show up?" Bud said. At this point the banker lost interest in the proceedings, straightened up, strolled around his desk, and sat down, staring out the window across the water toward Pudong and Shanghai. "That detail is not covered in the brochure," he said, "as most of our prospective customers do not share your diligent attention to detail insofar as that aspect of the arrangement is concerned."
   He exhaled through his nose, like a man eager not to smell something, and adjusted his goatee one time. "The enforcement regime consists of three phases. We have pleasant names for them, of course, but you might think of them, respectively, as: one, a polite reminder; two, well in excess of your pain threshold; three, spectacularly fatal."
   Bud thought about showing this Parsi the meaning of fatal right then and there, but as a bank, the guy probably had pretty good security. Besides, it was pretty standard policy, and Bud was actually kind of glad the guy'd given it to him straight. "Okay, well, I'll get back to you," he said. "Mind if I keep the brochure?"
   The Parsi waved him and the brochure away. Bud took to the streets again in search of cash on easier terms.

You could buy disk packs with no bad sectors back then if you wanted that ("bit error free"). They cost extra but the premium wasn't all that high. Of course they could still develop bad sectors later.

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I haven't read the article yet (will do so later) but my immediate reaction as someone who was active on wikipedia for a while, is that people with that many edits usually have been running unauthorized bots doing so-called "cushion straightening" (making formatting tweaks etc). If you run an authorized bot, you're supposed to use a separate account for it, and then the edits get counted for the bot account instead of your personal one. Even if you manage to make 6 million edits non-robotically they're usually insubstantial. And there's a long dreary history on Wikipedia of unauthorized bot operators claiming their edits were made by hand, thus bypassing the bot policies. The modern-day version of that (on and off of wikipedia) is claiming that your text wasn't written by an LLM.

The beginning of the article did say that the person had mostly been fixing typos and stuff like that. Anyway the real brains of Wikipedia are the people who write the articles, and they tend to have edit counts in the many thousands, but not in the millions.

They hope to avoid melting by doing the launch at night.