algorithmic anxiety
by Kasper Jordaens and · updated 6d ago
algorithmic anxiety
by Kasper Jordaens and · updated 6d ago
James Stevens added 1mo ago
sari added 1y ago
Chris Nolan said “dystopias make twice as much at the box office as utopias”
sari added 1y ago
why big YouTubers (e.g. Tom Scott, MatPat, PewDiePie Meek Canyon, Captain Sparklez) are quitting:
While the YouTubers are grateful for their jobs, there is a psychological cost for dealing with a large audience, constantly adapting to the algorithm, chasing metrics, getting ripped off and always thinking about “content”. I’m not remotely on the
... See morealex added 7mo ago
Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a radi
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James Stevens added 1mo ago
“The web promises to make our world bigger. But as it works now, it also narrows our exposure to ideas. We can end up in a bubble in which we hear only the ideas we already know. Or already like.”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
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