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by icebraining 2245 days ago
She's only an obvious outlier after the fact, though; protecting all authors because they are potential outliers is a perfectly valid goal.
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Optimizing a system for the 1% of 1% of 1% is not the greatest good.
Not if your goal is to help the greatest number of authors, but it might be if your goal is to help the greatest number of readers. Since a single book can be enjoyed by many, it's arguably better to have a single book that is very liked than one thousand books that nobody really likes to read.