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by andrestan 3006 days ago
Yup and then some other proportion are actually people you know/are friends with. You probably occasionally reach out to the ones you know/are friends with and ignore those who language you don't speak in the countries you've never been to.

All of this is of course a designed test to see how accurate the model is, to see how ordering of suggestions influences behavior, to see effects of noise, etc.

They aren't stupid and they aren't bad at their jobs. It's just a test.