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A comment on Ask HN: Why YouTube suggestions are better when I am logged off?.

Re:Ask HN: Why YouTube suggestions are better when I am logg... by yell0w on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:05PM (#25178987)
because algorithms can't REALLY predict our preferences?
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Re:Ask HN: Why YouTube suggestions are better when I am logg... by throwaway201103 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:26PM (#25179654)
I think it's that they work OK at first, but then fall into patterns. Like getting stuck in a local maxima.
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Re:Ask HN: Why YouTube suggestions are better when I am logg... by edmundsauto on Sunday November 22, 2020 @04:02PM (#25181070)
It also might be true that we can't predict our own preferences! That could explain why we justify our choices after the fact - deluding our conscious mind to thinking this was what we wanted the whole time.
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