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1459 points Group_B | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 18:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.267s | source
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xhrpost ◴[04 Feb 25 19:04 UTC] No.42937042[source]▶
Wonder what it would take to add a simple algorithm to this. Part of what makes short media apps (dangerously) addictive is that they eventually learn what you like and feed you more of that. An app like this with such an algo could help with the stickiness (and presumably get us away from the other apps at least for a little bit). "Oh this person likes science stuff, let's feed them more, oh they specifically like stuff related to quantum mechanics, let's place a summary paragraph from a related page topic in there."
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1. mvieira38 ◴[04 Feb 25 20:46 UTC] No.42938362[source]▶
This would eventually collapse to people reading articles they do not actually like (i.e. get happiness from reading), I think, maybe tragic history facts or something like that? The truth of social media harm is that it's more about humans than the algorithms themselves. Humans just tend to engage more with negative emotions. Even IRL we tend to look for intrigue and negative interactions, just look at the people who stay with toxic partners even with no financial ties, or even friend groups who turn into dysfunctional gossip fests. The only way to avoid this is by actively fighting against this tendency, and having no algorithm at all in an application helps.