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Person A walks past you and smiles. Person B walks past and punches you in the face. Which maximizes engagement? Person A tells you about a new discovery at NA
by api 5y ago
Person A walks past you and smiles. Person B walks past and punches you in the face. Which maximizes engagement?
Person A tells you about a new discovery at NASA. Person B tells you the Earth is flat and bombards you with "irrefutable" proof. Which maximizes engagement?
I really do think engagement maximizing algorithms explain much (but not all) of our collective descent into insanity since about 2010-2012 when they became popular.
- mirceal 5y agothe algo amplifies nasty things. that’s for sure. i guess my point is that those nasty things exist independently and have backing (and we should not normalize them).
- api 5y agoIt's the algorithm that has helped normalize them by promoting them to a wider audience because they maximize engagement.