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Why would they not try make money as a business? Also, if "The Odyssey" is coming out and and you know I love Nolan, and Netflix is getting paid to promote it,

Why would they not try make money as a business? Also, if "The Odyssey" is coming out and and you know I love Nolan, and Netflix is getting paid to promote it, would you rather them NOT recommend that to me? These types of things are natrually constrained. If you send me too many ads, or bad content, I leave. So you are incentived to do a good job. You could make the argument that you just need to be incrementally better than the other streaming service, but then you are giving away potential advantage and profit.

tomjen3 2mo ago
Netflix is way overfitted on short-term money like that, to make up for the fact that they have an extremely tiny library.
- motoxpro 2mo ago
  If that's true, people will leave for bigger libraries and netflix will have to rotate into quantity. That hasn't been the case so far (net flix is killing everyone in terms of subscribers/growth YoY), but doesnt mean it can't be, especially with the paramount merger potentially going through. I think it's been a little bit proven that it's more about specific shows (friends, seinfeld, how to lose a guy in 10 days, etc) that just mass amount of quantity, but we'll see
alt227 2mo ago
You completely miss the point. The point was that Netflix have written a massive huge technical blog post about how they are using a fashionable new technology to give better recommendations based on your data alone. However they have left out the most important part, how they squeeze their money making suggestions in to this. A better blog post would have included that part to, but it goes to show that this post was never about technical prowess and always about marketing.
- motoxpro 2mo ago
  From that perspective, every technical blog post from a company is guilty of the same thing. That was my point. There is nothing that companies do that is NOT to make money. I feel like that would be like saying the Attention is All You Need paper is disengenious because it doesn't explain how it will make Google billions more in search profit.

tomjen3 2mo ago

Netflix is way overfitted on short-term money like that, to make up for the fact that they have an extremely tiny library.

motoxpro 2mo ago
If that's true, people will leave for bigger libraries and netflix will have to rotate into quantity. That hasn't been the case so far (net flix is killing everyone in terms of subscribers/growth YoY), but doesnt mean it can't be, especially with the paramount merger potentially going through. I think it's been a little bit proven that it's more about specific shows (friends, seinfeld, how to lose a guy in 10 days, etc) that just mass amount of quantity, but we'll see

alt227 2mo ago

You completely miss the point. The point was that Netflix have written a massive huge technical blog post about how they are using a fashionable new technology to give better recommendations based on your data alone. However they have left out the most important part, how they squeeze their money making suggestions in to this. A better blog post would have included that part to, but it goes to show that this post was never about technical prowess and always about marketing.

motoxpro 2mo ago
From that perspective, every technical blog post from a company is guilty of the same thing. That was my point. There is nothing that companies do that is NOT to make money. I feel like that would be like saying the Attention is All You Need paper is disengenious because it doesn't explain how it will make Google billions more in search profit.