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Agreed, but, moot point. What use is a gun if you remove the bullets?
by tpoacher 5y ago
Agreed, but, moot point.
What use is a gun if you remove the bullets?
- sva_ 5y agoGoogle wouldn't want to miss out on that data.
- benmw333 5y agoI chuckled - but so very true.
- AlanSE 5y agoIn the update, the reason they give is: > You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations Not long ago in history, such a statement would have been totally incomprehensible, I mean completely nonsense. Even linguistically, there's so much baked into this. For starters, that there is an algorithm which which the viewer has a relationship with, and that the viewer wishes to further refine that relationship by expressing preferences. Yet, the interpretation of those preferences (by servers) are held within a black box.
- sva_ 5y agoIt is interesting to put things into perspective like that, but I'm not quite sold on the idea that you need to know these background details (of algorithms and black boxes) to understand that expressing your preferences (dislikes) to a business may lead them to tailor what they serve you.
- AlanSE 5y agoIf you don't know what an algorithm is, then expressing preferences to a (non-human) web service does not make any sense. The fact that this is truly a nuanced idea is why it's such a troubled case as a feature for the uneducated masses.
- addingnumbers 5y agoThe way they tell it, the perceived relationship between dislikes and bullets is the sort of thing they're trying to end.
- scoopertrooper 5y agoI think OP may have been using a literary device known as an analogy.
- tomxor 5y agoYes, the analogy they are intentionally trying to break...
- addingnumbers 5y agoAren't analogies a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way? Ok, I'm being disingenuous, that is the Webster definition. Do you think Google is satisfied that people will readily associate dislikes with metaphorical bullets?
- mikojan 5y agoCertainly not killing people. Which is good or bad depending on whether or not you're in possession of functioning moral capacities
- angelzen 5y agoHelps to know who are the people that don't buy whatever it is that Google is pushing. At the very least serve them carefully selected content to change their ways.
- shadowgovt 5y ago> What use is a gun if you remove the bullets? It turns out YouTube didn't see much benefit in providing a way to (metaphorically) shoot content creators. Taking the bullets out seems like a positive step for the community as a whole.