[loneranger_11x]

True. But another issue I feel with today's internet and apps is that it has lower rate of serendipity

Most of our experience is controlled by an all-knowing black-box algorithms. The game is to converge all experience into a small set of patterns

An Example - youtube Earlier I could spend hours on youtube and discover everything from new music to weird funny videos. Today you literally get boxed into a list comprising of your history and recommendations that have hardly 1 degree of separation from your history

[crucialfelix]

Every ML recommender driven website should have a control so you can adjust Straight <> Weird. People would love cranking the weirdness up. Instant dopamine hit (unpredictable reward function) and it would bust them out of their filter bubbles.

[1_player]

Correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w

Getting lost in the weird side of the internet, outside your usual AI-generated recommendations is wonderful.

Human generated viralness >> machine learning recommendations.

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A machine learning algorithm walks into a bar. The waiter asks: "What'll you have?", the algorithm responds: "What everyone else is having."

[ddalex]

But then some kid will see goatx by chance and all the hell will break loose.

[Mirioron]

Let's be fair though, kids ran into that stuff all the time in the past and they turned out mostly fine. I don't see this as big of s problem as the people that get outraged make it sound.

[dagw]

The problem/fear isn't that kids run into this stuff, it's the media/lawyers blowing it out of proportion and negatively affecting the share value of Big Important Companies.

[loneranger_11x]

^ hah. that is a genuine problem But on a serious note, mature services like youtube/instagram can do it - they know more about me than anyone else. How hard would it to be to filter by age!