[rudyfink]

>The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite.

And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to change you to / generates a channel you are more likely to stay on.

[joahua]

To be fair TV ratings did this, just on a very slow inference cycle!

[Sakos]

TV ratings did this as an aggregate of estimated viewer preferences. Doing that immediately on an individual level is wholly different.

[jvm___]

Is hackernews on of the last sites where the TV doesn't analyze your preferences and generates a new front-page based on what it thinks will engage you the most?

[not2b]

No, Mastodon is the same. You get what you follow, people or hashtags, plus things the people you follow boost.

[xattt]

Hacker News is interactive Teletext.

[mnd999]

Heh, heh, this sux change it.