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> what people read doesn’t correlate with what’s important What people read does correlate with what's important for them, by definition.
by snaky 8y ago
> what people read doesn’t correlate with what’s important
What people read does correlate with what's important for them, by definition.
- fwn 8y agoI would love to know more about this definition. If doing my taxes were as exciting as my reading list I would get much more out of my paycheck.
- snaky 8y agoIf the endorphins you get reading the content from your list is more important for you, so be it. You decide what's important for you, and that's the definition.
- fwn 8y agoSo your definition would be "Everything someone does is good for them"? That reminds me of Austrian praxeology. Behavioral patterns that lead individuals away from their goals do exist. Such irrationality is what most of behavioral economics policy advice is all about. It's easiest to explain with the difference in long term goals and short term decision making. There it gets obvious very fast that peoples immediate preferences do rarely reflect their stated and consistent long term preferences.
- Dylan16807 8y agoAnd if the list just makes me upset because the headline lied? If a site evades my ability to disapprove and stay away from it, it should not be rewarded.
- mschuetz 8y agoAnd that's why we have clickbait. Letting people cherry pick exactly what they want is seriously going to hurt quality content. Subscriptions to a wide range of stuff like Netflix and Spotify are perfect. There's something in there for everyone's taste.
- snaky 8y agoIt depends on how you define 'the quality'. Letting people cherry pick exactly what they want is the only moral way to provide the news actually.
- nindalf 8y agoYou don't understand the problem of clickbait. What people say and what they do are two different things, and you need to choose which to listen to. This is one of the reasons clickbait was so prevalent on facebook a few years ago - people clicked on these so much that they were ranked very highly. But in user surveys, the same users claimed they hated clickbait and wished it wasn't there. So what do you do?
- oarsinsync 8y agoI think it depends on your particular morality. Is it moral to allow people to only consume the things they believe they need, even if the things they believe they need are only that because they are addictive and potentially harmful? If allowing cherry picking exactly what they want is the only moral way to provide the news, does that mean all prior forms of broadcast news publication were immoral (e.g. television & radio news broadcasts)?
- matt4077 8y agoYou are reading this comment. The are billions of lines of text on the internet you will never read. Is this comment strictly more important to you than every single other text on the internet? A comment that includes a nonsense paragraph of just “banana”, repeated over and over? Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana Banana.