> In data science and research, we believe in the concept of don't trust what they say, but look at what they do. Is that why everything keeps getting dumber a

> In data science and research, we believe in the concept of don't trust what they say, but look at what they do. Is that why everything keeps getting dumber and shittier to use after the company added machine learning, data science and data driven framework to their stacks? They don't need to listen to people when they can just pretend they know what people want with their 'data stick'. Obviously, majority of people know what they want. We are not just smart monkeys with terrible exploits, we are different and resistant to many short comings. There is no historical context to look at. There is no reason to believe that something is a random occurence leading to a wide chain of events afterwards. Naturally, if you opened similar app to facebook now and deployed same strategy, tracking behaviour. You would get users at the same pace. While I do think you have some valid points, intelligent people will move towards places of better quality of life and opportunities, I don't think it applies in the current example well. There are better places than California depending on metrics - homelessness, cost, pollution, transportation etc on quality of life. For opportunities, don't know but it can't be a hub for everything out there.