I really enjoyed reading this Phil. In regards to the algorithm, the algorithm is now seen by the youth as something they created. Instead of noting the opacity, it seems that the youth have a feeling of ownership over their feed, often commenting "I built this feed brick by brick". It feels cucked. Having no control over the shitty situation but somehow finding a way to feel empowered by that. A lot of life is cucked. Voting is cucked. Buying a $5 coffee and the lowest tip option outside of a custom tip being $2 is cucked. But I vote and i buy the coffee and i tip and I love it.
Interesting, I hadn’t thought of it that way. I guess it’s similar to all the generative AI now, like image and song generators where you provide a vague description and then claim the output for yourself, except in this case you’re giving an algorithm your unconscious habits and taste and it’s giving you back its interpretation of that? Probably not very long until it’s easier to just make specific AI generated feeds for people instead of trying to match them to actual content that a real person made. I think it would be less messy and more precise, and then people can claim even more ownership over their feed because it’s actually 100% original (in the sense that no one else has any matching content)
I really enjoyed reading this Phil. In regards to the algorithm, the algorithm is now seen by the youth as something they created. Instead of noting the opacity, it seems that the youth have a feeling of ownership over their feed, often commenting "I built this feed brick by brick". It feels cucked. Having no control over the shitty situation but somehow finding a way to feel empowered by that. A lot of life is cucked. Voting is cucked. Buying a $5 coffee and the lowest tip option outside of a custom tip being $2 is cucked. But I vote and i buy the coffee and i tip and I love it.
Interesting, I hadn’t thought of it that way. I guess it’s similar to all the generative AI now, like image and song generators where you provide a vague description and then claim the output for yourself, except in this case you’re giving an algorithm your unconscious habits and taste and it’s giving you back its interpretation of that? Probably not very long until it’s easier to just make specific AI generated feeds for people instead of trying to match them to actual content that a real person made. I think it would be less messy and more precise, and then people can claim even more ownership over their feed because it’s actually 100% original (in the sense that no one else has any matching content)
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