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You started playing WoW Classic and it was able to recommend WoW-related videos. It did its job. What else do you expect from a recommendation system? Predict w

You started playing WoW Classic and it was able to recommend WoW-related videos. It did its job. What else do you expect from a recommendation system? Predict what you're interested next or what you're going to do tomorrow? That's not recommendation, that's mass surveillance and psychological manipulation. But on a useful note, maybe YouTube needs to provide a function to see a list of random videos that are unexplored or new.

dgritsko 5y ago
> What else do you expect from a recommendation system? Predict what you're interested next or what you're going to do tomorrow? Actually, I think they kind of are trying to do this (in a sense), if you read the article: > Our system then compares your viewing habits with those that are similar to you and uses that information to suggest other content you may want to watch. So if you like tennis videos and our system notices that others who like the same tennis videos as you also enjoy jazz videos, you may be recommended jazz videos, even if you’ve never watched a single one before.
- brendoelfrendo 5y ago
  This is probably how both I and many of my friends who share interests managed to fall down the same city planning YouTube rabbit hole this summer.
- stevofolife 5y ago
  That is true. But the word “next” makes all the difference in the world. If you know what I mean.
matttb 5y ago
I want it to diversify a lot more. There's a lot of room between 'WoW related videos' and 98% of your sidebar is one particular creator (asmon).
jeffwask 5y ago
It's a matter of degrees... Imagine if I went to church for the first time in a decade and the next day three monks show up at my door with a cassock and vows. ...that's the YouTube algorithm in my experience. I show a passing interest in one thing so it floods me with every drop of content they have on the subject to the exclusion of things that I have watched every week for years. There are creators I watch every week or every drop. Somehow the algorithm chooses to not surface their videos regularly and surface 46,123 videos on Terraform because I watched a quick tutorial.

dgritsko 5y ago

> What else do you expect from a recommendation system? Predict what you're interested next or what you're going to do tomorrow? Actually, I think they kind of are trying to do this (in a sense), if you read the article: > Our system then compares your viewing habits with those that are similar to you and uses that information to suggest other content you may want to watch. So if you like tennis videos and our system notices that others who like the same tennis videos as you also enjoy jazz videos, you may be recommended jazz videos, even if you’ve never watched a single one before.

brendoelfrendo 5y ago
This is probably how both I and many of my friends who share interests managed to fall down the same city planning YouTube rabbit hole this summer.
stevofolife 5y ago
That is true. But the word “next” makes all the difference in the world. If you know what I mean.

matttb 5y ago

I want it to diversify a lot more. There's a lot of room between 'WoW related videos' and 98% of your sidebar is one particular creator (asmon).

jeffwask 5y ago

It's a matter of degrees... Imagine if I went to church for the first time in a decade and the next day three monks show up at my door with a cassock and vows. ...that's the YouTube algorithm in my experience. I show a passing interest in one thing so it floods me with every drop of content they have on the subject to the exclusion of things that I have watched every week for years. There are creators I watch every week or every drop. Somehow the algorithm chooses to not surface their videos regularly and surface 46,123 videos on Terraform because I watched a quick tutorial.