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I am looking for something that would filter for sites that rarely post but have good content. The number one problem with most of these systems is that everyth
by zby 7mo ago
I am looking for something that would filter for sites that rarely post but have good content. The number one problem with most of these systems is that everything favours frequent posting. Even if I do it manually, I cannot keep the tabs over many rarely posting sites - this is an obvious example of a problem that we delegate to computers. Favouring frequent posters creates incentives to do that even if quality worsens.
- andrew_lettuce 7mo agoThe perverse thing here is that's exactly the opposite of how we've traditionally valued resources!
- Barrin92 7mo agobecause we don't value them at all, literally. It's a tragedy of the commons, internet pollution is like air pollution, the polluters don't pay and there's no cost associated with overusing other people's attention.
- ethbr1 7mo agoI'd be fascinated on the economics of this from Google's perspective: specifically the unit economics on generating updated-once-a-year results to queried-once-in-a-million searches. Tl;dr: I feel like the long-tail web (90s) was better, but economics pushed high-update-frequency more-centralized results.