I agree with you that there's a problem, but I think your solutions are kind of naive. All the logic you talk about in your proposed solution can be done with d

I agree with you that there's a problem, but I think your solutions are kind of naive. All the logic you talk about in your proposed solution can be done with data that youtube has. In almost all cases it has a basic idea of who you are and how you view the videos. It could implement what you suggest tomorrow. In fact I suspect that it probably does do something like you suggest. The core of the problem is more about incentives and resources than the actually algorithm. Your incentive is to find informative or entertaining content, you have about 10% of an FTE to achieve that. Youtube's incentive is monetize your attention and has ~2000 FTEs to achieve this. Creators are incentivized to try and maximize the amount of Youtube's monetization they get a share of about ~1,000,000 FTEs to achieve this. That last category is in an adversarial relationship with the first two categories and they have way more resources. Even if Youtube's incentive was aligned with yours - which it isn't - the content creators are in a battle to the death to optimize how much share of the money they get which means they're incentivized to do almost the exact opposite of what you want.