YouTube Recommendation Algo

[solarized]

YouTube’s recommendation system tends to reinforce viewing patterns.

* If someone watches constructive content, it continues suggesting similar topics.

* The same happens with less constructive material.

Which can gradually push users toward more polarized content.

Would it be beneficial if YT and friends occasionally introduced content from broadly respected science communicators or educators (NDT, Feynman, Asimov, Or even Carlin), to promote more balanced perspectives?

Curious what others think.

[JSR_FDED]

Don’t follow suggestions, just search for what you need.

[solarized]

Yes. I’m talking about the social majority. Dopamine has gone way too far, making everyone—kids, elders—drown in addictive scrolling.

We can’t control their addictiveness, but we can control what they consume.

Or just leave it as is? So the “focused society” ends up controlling the “unfocused” ones?

[solarized]

> Which can gradually push users toward more polarized content.

edit: more polarized society.

[yclurkmaxxer]

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