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Recommendation algorithms are not sinister; they simply predict engagement, and what humans engage with most is outrage.
Drawn from what George Hotz said
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It just predicts what you are likely to re-Tweet and like, and linger on. That’s what all these algorithms do. It’s what Tik-Tok does, it’s what all these recommendation engines do. And it turns out that the thing that you are most likely to interact with is outrage. And that’s a quirk of the human condition.
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