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It's an easy thought experiment. Do you think that the most successful web companies in the world with arguably the best people i.e. Amazon, Facebook, Instagra

It's an easy thought experiment. Do you think that the most successful web companies in the world with arguably the best people i.e. Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Youtube, Netflix, Snapchat etc. have no idea what they are doing. That the highly complex, expensive and latency impacting recommendation systems could be replaced by trivial sorting. Or maybe they do work, do translate to increased usage and do significantly impact revenue.

fzingle 4y ago
Maybe they are considering that we shouldn't build and optimize our society solely for the purposes of maximizing revenue. Would it be better to live in a world where Twitter (for example) existed because it is a useful thing and not because it might make lots of money?
- afrodc_ 4y ago
  Doesn't it lose a lot of money and its usefulness is directly correlated with its current massive usage.
  - saagarjha 4y ago
    It ran about break even until very recently.
brazzledazzle 4y ago
A lot of people don't realize that Dunning-Kruger can catch any of us unaware. It's easy to look at a problem, think about the surface level challenges you'd have building it and come to the conclusion that you could do it better or simpler.