Dangers of Recommender Systems – Ivan Vendrov

Re:Dangers of Recommender Systems – Ivan Vendrov by linearithmic on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:15AM (#45212628)

I found the argument of the counterfactual to be persuasive. Do you have a sense of how much of the time would people actually be doing something better with the extra bandwidth?

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Re:Dangers of Recommender Systems – Ivan Vendrov by NunoSempere on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:05PM (#45213185)

I think it's a good argument to say that we don't know for sure. But people who are addicted to youtube today would probably have done something more meaningful in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s...?

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