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The obvious solution is to break up YouTube. Moderation doesn't scale. It's NP-Hard or whatever. Dynamical systems theory tells us that when you have a large
by carapace 6y ago
The obvious solution is to break up YouTube. Moderation doesn't scale. It's NP-Hard or whatever.
Dynamical systems theory tells us that when you have a large densely-interconnected system (like YT) you get dramatic behavior. In other words, YouTube is always going to create memetic storms and we can predict that (even though we can't predict the exact content of the storms.)
Adding regulators won't help.
Cybernetics revealed the law of requisite variety, to wit: "the variety in the regulator must be equal to or greater than the variety in the system being regulated"
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/LAW_VARIE.html http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/LAW_VARIE.html
YouTube is doomed, the question is do we let it take us down with it?