An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine
We’ve all completely lost perspective.<p>The engine wants people to spend as much time as possible on YouTube.<p>Netflix’s wants the same, even though it’s not even ad based!<p>Facebook wants the same.<p>As infinitum.<p>This is just addiction peddling. Nothing more. I think we have no idea how much damage this is doing to us. It’s as if someone invented cocaine for the first time and we have no social norms or legal framework to confront it.<p>One thing you can never get back is time. It runs one way and as of this writing, we all have a finite amount of it.<p>Conspiracy videos are the least of the problem.