[Bensch]

Recommenders and editors are both curators. My comment also doesn't recommend algorithmic curation, except in linking tribal members.

[specialist]

What's the algorithm for taste, opinion, intuition, judgement, exploration, novelty, criticism?

Machine learning-based recommenders are just feedback loops, automated groupthink.

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Aha. It's worse than that. Today's recommenders are merely accelerated preferential attachment. aka Fads.

Thanks, articulating myself has been a useful exercise.

[Bensch]

I think you're confusing "algorithm" with "curation".

[specialist]

So you do understand! Terrific.