Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
by dmonitor on Thursday February 16, 2023 @01:43PM
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The nature of The Algorithm and its tendency to decide who gets to be a millionaire leads to a TON of metagaming. I think the algorithm needs to be non-static just so content on the website doesn’t homogenize. They often make subtle tweaks to the website for seemingly no reason, but I think a lot of it is just to prevent metagaming.
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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
by xxpor on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:08PM
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There's no incentive there (until users start leaving)
The algorithm's goal is to maximize revenue or profit, and what does that doesn't change that dynamically. This means the metagame is inevitable. You're essentially asking for YouTube to cut their goal for an unclear long term benefit, and we all know how those conversations tend to go.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
by eastbound on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:16PM
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> The nature of The Algorithm and its tendency to decide who gets to be a millionaire leads to a TON of metagaming.
Every corporation owning more than 50% of a market should be broken up. But then, USA wouldn’t reign on the international culture.