Algorithms are breaking how we think
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This surely won't make me seem like a crank.Further watching:@HGModernism on addiction to scrolling and the Skinner box mechanism:https://www.youtube.com/wat...
  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
    7·
    6 hours ago

    Great video, but I signed up to this ideology years ago. I can already see that if I send this to anyone in my life who does algorithm complacency, then they likely won’t even get through this video… Or if they do, then they’ll say it is correct and carry on doing exactly what they’re doing.

    Typical example:

    I’ve told both my wife and mother that I can put whatever movie they want onto Plex. I’ve put on a lot of great movies already. They don’t know how to choose. They would literally rather have Netflix present a handful of shit movies and they pick from that…and then watch it and complain about how shit it was. But this scenario is far more preferable for them.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Unfortunately, I believe you’re right, and I’d get a similiar reaction from my own mother :(

      The type of person who would be interested in this video likely already agrees, as we both do, and the ones who need to see it and see its urgency the most will be bored to tears with it, or as you say, just shrug and do nothing. I’m not sure if there is a way around that, short of somehow incorporating this message into the story of a popular game or movie, but even then I’m not sure if there would be a lasting effect.

      A very difficult problem to solve.