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Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than wha

Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than what they believe in their little heads.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
Can't tell if sarcasm or not.
- zeusk 3y ago
  He probably works on Google search or Pinterest. I want least engagement with the search engine; it's a fail if I'm spending time just looking at search page and not the results.
- teolandon 3y ago
  The "in their little heads" gives it away.
  - throwaway14356 3y ago
    my little head sometimes has me patch and spin up old pc's which should be a fairly meaningless and pointless exercise if it wasn't for those marvelous algorithms. Each box represents a mental time capsule worth of youtube suggestions. It attempts to lure the viewer into popular shit everyone else is watching but if you carefully avoid those thumbs and click only on the things seeded initially it will gradually show more and more of it. Things like small minded peasants farming their little farm by hand in languages completely unknown to me. The next box is seeded with "full movie" with an algorithm trying to carve out my taste. I also have A box full of little prepper people. On my main pc it is 100% convinced I want to watch starcraft, technology, coding and fitness videos. Im not completely uninterested but the goal of the design seems to make my mind even smaller. It is constantly signaling that... how put it.... it thinks Im shallow as fuck. Then again on the other box it is convinced I want to see nothing but old people planting rice. Its probably not good for its world view. If it was conscious it would be a cruel thing to do. oh the thoughts going on in my small mind...
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GolfPopper 3y ago
Or perhaps an amoral and unrestrained trillion-dollar paperclip-maximizer is, within certain paramaters, more effective at steering monkey-brains than said brains' resident consciousnesses are.

Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than what they believe in their little heads.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago

Can't tell if sarcasm or not.

zeusk 3y ago
He probably works on Google search or Pinterest. I want least engagement with the search engine; it's a fail if I'm spending time just looking at search page and not the results.
teolandon 3y ago
The "in their little heads" gives it away.
- throwaway14356 3y ago
  my little head sometimes has me patch and spin up old pc's which should be a fairly meaningless and pointless exercise if it wasn't for those marvelous algorithms. Each box represents a mental time capsule worth of youtube suggestions. It attempts to lure the viewer into popular shit everyone else is watching but if you carefully avoid those thumbs and click only on the things seeded initially it will gradually show more and more of it. Things like small minded peasants farming their little farm by hand in languages completely unknown to me. The next box is seeded with "full movie" with an algorithm trying to carve out my taste. I also have A box full of little prepper people. On my main pc it is 100% convinced I want to watch starcraft, technology, coding and fitness videos. Im not completely uninterested but the goal of the design seems to make my mind even smaller. It is constantly signaling that... how put it.... it thinks Im shallow as fuck. Then again on the other box it is convinced I want to see nothing but old people planting rice. Its probably not good for its world view. If it was conscious it would be a cruel thing to do. oh the thoughts going on in my small mind...
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GolfPopper 3y ago

Or perhaps an amoral and unrestrained trillion-dollar paperclip-maximizer is, within certain paramaters, more effective at steering monkey-brains than said brains' resident consciousnesses are.