Jack William Bell"It's the algorithm," they say. "Blame the algorithm."
Uh, no. An algorithm has no agency. It can form no intent. It is only a mathematical clock mechanism, cranking through the numbers. You cannot blame math for any harm the math causes.
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To cast blame you must look *beyond* the algorithm; to the human beings who funded it, ordered it's creation, wrote the software code to embody it, deployed it so that it impinged upon your life. That algorithm was neither born from the aether nor handed down by God, it's there because *people* willed it into existence for their own purposes.
They are the source. They are the prime movers. They are the ones deserving of retribution.
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edsanders2The algorithm is the method, but I suspect it’s more the advertising dollars that are the mechanism. Pick up on “X” , even if you drop it 30 seconds in, and everything remotely connected to “X” is paying YouTube to get in front of you.