Re:Netflix and the Napoleon Dynamite Problem (2008)
by saalweachter on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @03:27PM
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And Rush said, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.".
There is no alternative to curation. If you display all the possible options, there is still the order -- humans, being humans, will not thoroughly read and equally consider even a list of a thousand options, so the order will affect their choice. Choosing to display the results in random order, or in alphabetical order, or in chronological order, is still a decision which affects the choice of the user.
Curation cannot be avoided, as long as we are men.
I am reminded of Stanislaw Lem's Demon of the Second Kind.
There is no alternative to curation. If you display all the possible options, there is still the order -- humans, being humans, will not thoroughly read and equally consider even a list of a thousand options, so the order will affect their choice. Choosing to display the results in random order, or in alphabetical order, or in chronological order, is still a decision which affects the choice of the user.
Curation cannot be avoided, as long as we are men.
I am reminded of Stanislaw Lem's Demon of the Second Kind.