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by rawgabbit 1327 days ago
>"You get what you measure."

E.g., Facebook optimized for user engagement. Eyeballs on the screen. What they got was a lot of advertising revenue and a lot of extremist hate filled troll clickbait. Meanwhile, the entire world turned against them. So much that Zuck bet his fortune on "Meta" which is looking to be a full fledged dumpster fire.

A/B is about fine tuning an existing product. What product you should focus on, I don't believe there is an algorithm for that.