I’ve often wished I could publish a graph of myself, with 10-20+ items of interest, and let search engines and content recommendation engines (and good ad networks) bring me stuff I actually care about..
(especially calendar events, which used to be fun to track but everyone seems to have given up on event listings).
It wouldn’t have to track me, or infer other nefarious dimensions of my online habits, just target the things I’m asking to be targeted for.
I’m guessing that the implicit data dimensions of current tech is aggregating so much additional data about everyone that the recommendations we end up getting aren’t that great.
None of Google, Netflix, or Amazon get me at all, and I keep shoveling my habits right into their gaping data maw.
Even Instagram/Youtube's recommendation algorithms, which I find decent, tend to have a lot of recency bias.
This is probably not a bug but rather an optimization to ensure I spend more time on screen. (chances are higher I like the stuff I most recently watched)
Which goes toward the skewed incentives problem - what they want to happen is not what I want to happen.
I find value in being reminded of old content I've been interested in.
(especially calendar events, which used to be fun to track but everyone seems to have given up on event listings).
It wouldn’t have to track me, or infer other nefarious dimensions of my online habits, just target the things I’m asking to be targeted for.
I’m guessing that the implicit data dimensions of current tech is aggregating so much additional data about everyone that the recommendations we end up getting aren’t that great.
None of Google, Netflix, or Amazon get me at all, and I keep shoveling my habits right into their gaping data maw.