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by specialist 3071 days ago
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.

1 comments

I think you're confusing "algorithm" with "curation".
So you do understand! Terrific.