flying_wotsit

joined 10 months ago
[–] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Sure, and just quit heroin while you're at it.

[–] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (17 children)

To elaborate on what others have replied already, the algorithms will show you what will keep you on the platform, not what you like. Optimising for this means keeping you angry, not happy. Angry and divided people stick around so they can tell the other side how wrong they are (or watch their favourite pundit do that for them)

[–] flying_wotsit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 months ago

Machine Unlearning is a very active field right now but basically ~~no~~ not really

The world doesn't (need to) run on giving only what you owe. People donate to creators not through moral obligation, but because they like what the creator has made and they want to reward them for it and/or enable them to make more of it.

Why do you think Patreon (and others) is so popular? Any cynic would surely point out that from a purely transactional outlook, the donors are getting a bad deal. And yet.

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about