On: Let’s Publish Everything

[marcus_holmes]

Interesting. This seems to correlate almost exactly with discovery in music streaming too. Given the torrent of new music available, how do you discover the new music that you like?

At the moment, AI is doing a pretty bad job of this - my Spotify Discover Weekly is an interesting listen, but I know it's not the best selection of new music out there suited to my tastes (to be fair, it's not really trying to be that, though). My "recommended" list on Netflix bores me. I get why they're recommending them, but it's all things that I've seen and rejected from My List, rather than things that I would find genuinely new and interesting.

I think this is the next big problem to solve, for everyone. The combination of Discoverability (how do I get my music/paper/novel/art/film discovered by the audience of people who will like it?) and Search (how do I find new music/papers/novels/art/film that suit my tastes/research subject?).

[isodude → marcus_holmes]

Way back it was always through word of mouth that one discovered things. I still hold it true. You may have 10 friends how have their nieche and once in a while they recommend something they think you want to listen to.

I think that the music matter more based on whom recommended it. An algorithm won't have the same effect. It's missing the storyline on how you ended up with watching x movie or listening to y song.

[marcus_holmes → isodude]

really good point. There are a number of bands that I listened to (and ended up liking) purely because of who told me about them.

[isodude → marcus_holmes]

I think the same applies to most stuff. Your idols influence alot. I see this as the best reason to not rely purely on algorithms.

Producing playlists is also a sort of art.