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I think we three are in the same Google Bubble as I've just finished watching that glorious Open University video. If the algorithm wills it, I think it means

I think we three are in the same Google Bubble as I've just finished watching that glorious Open University video. If the algorithm wills it, I think it means we have to be best friends! Seriously though, I would be weirdly fascinated to see what else you guys subscribe to and if there are any correlations to my subscriptions. I find this channelling people into little boxes fascinating, and those curves are also very cool.

midoreigh 8y ago
I think we four are in the same Google Bubble. I have watched it just yesterday. The same exact video.
Dangeranger 8y ago
Perhaps I should join this cadre as well. The all knowing algorithm has chosen me for the same purpose. It would be interesting to me to know how many stories in HN trend simply because a group of people were all recommended the same content.
- colemannugent 8y ago
  I can't remember another particular instance, but there have been several times where something interesting linked on HN will have another piece of interesting content related to it which will then also be posted here. It is kind of uncanny that we all have seen this particular video in our recommendations recently. It makes me want to try and create a graph of the connections between all the links.
  - carapace 8y ago
    You do realize that the Internet is a vast AI with whole humans for neurons, don't you? ;-)
    - glandium 8y ago
      And all setup to find the question for the answer 42?
anonu 8y ago
Engineer guy, slow mo guys, motherboard vice, primitive technology, smarter everyday
- escapologybb 8y ago
  We have a winner! I'm subscribed to all of those.
  - lifeisstillgood 8y ago
    It strikes me that, as YouTube puts its hand into the bag to pull out a marble, there are probably just a lot less marbles than we think, and certainly less marbles worth watching than we think, and far far less worth watching that have been made in the past week? Additionally, if youtube was forced to only play videos where copyright was proven to belong to the owner of the channel, would it collapse completely. Is that perhaps what is shrinking the bag of marbles ? Which interestingly suggests that if we force youtube to actually respect IP, it would reward new creators of quality work more proportionately

midoreigh 8y ago

I think we four are in the same Google Bubble. I have watched it just yesterday. The same exact video.

Dangeranger 8y ago

Perhaps I should join this cadre as well. The all knowing algorithm has chosen me for the same purpose. It would be interesting to me to know how many stories in HN trend simply because a group of people were all recommended the same content.

colemannugent 8y ago
I can't remember another particular instance, but there have been several times where something interesting linked on HN will have another piece of interesting content related to it which will then also be posted here. It is kind of uncanny that we all have seen this particular video in our recommendations recently. It makes me want to try and create a graph of the connections between all the links.
- carapace 8y ago
  You do realize that the Internet is a vast AI with whole humans for neurons, don't you? ;-)
  - glandium 8y ago
    And all setup to find the question for the answer 42?

anonu 8y ago

Engineer guy, slow mo guys, motherboard vice, primitive technology, smarter everyday

escapologybb 8y ago
We have a winner! I'm subscribed to all of those.
- lifeisstillgood 8y ago
  It strikes me that, as YouTube puts its hand into the bag to pull out a marble, there are probably just a lot less marbles than we think, and certainly less marbles worth watching than we think, and far far less worth watching that have been made in the past week? Additionally, if youtube was forced to only play videos where copyright was proven to belong to the owner of the channel, would it collapse completely. Is that perhaps what is shrinking the bag of marbles ? Which interestingly suggests that if we force youtube to actually respect IP, it would reward new creators of quality work more proportionately