Poob

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Poob,

Bethesda games have always been incredibly shallow. How is there anyone that doesn’t see this?

Poob,

This sure seems to be passing the buck from the people who started the wars to the poor people who fight them

Poob,

It sure sounds to me like she’s talking to two people, and all the extra noise is people walking by on the street

Poob,

Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Friends, and the Office

Poob,

All three in combination will be the future

Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me?

Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My...

Poob, (edited )

If I accidently watch a Linus Tech tips video, that will be all it recommends me for the next month.

I watched a Some More News video criticizing Jordan Peterson, and Google thought “did I hear Jordan Peterson? Well in that case, here’s 5 of his videos!”

Almost all content algorithms are hot garbage that are not interested in serving you what you want, just what makes money. It always ends up serving right wing nut jobs because that conspiracy theorists watch a lot of scam videos.

Edit: my little jab at Linus has nothing to do with politics. I have no idea what his views are. I only mentioned it to point out how YouTube will annihilate my recommendations if I watch a single one of his videos.

Poob,

Oh I didn’t want to imply that Linus puts out political opinions. Of the few videos I’ve seen of his it’s all tech hype videos. I was only giving an example of the algorithm deciding to nuke my recommendations if I watch one of his videos.

Poob,

That’s my point, the algorithm doesn’t understand context.

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