Dangers of Recommender Systems

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linearithmic · 2m 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 · 8m 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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