Dangers of Recommender Systems

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linearithmic · 5h ago

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?

NunoSempere · 4h ago

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...?

NunoSempere · 5h ago

We speak with Ivan Vendrov about recommender systems and their impact on human attention and society & how these algorithms shape billions of hours of human time daily.

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Dangers of Recommender Systems – Ivan Vendrov

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