Hank: social media platforms that don't train algorithms to maximize watching will lose out over the next ten years (2018)
prediction · status: due 2028; outcome not yet known · last event: predicted (2018-01-05) · owner: Hank
In 2018, Hank said social media platforms that don't train their algorithms to maximize watching would lose out to those that do over the next ten years.
About: attention economy
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-05 | predicted | Hank has philosophical problems with a company training neural networks to hack the brain into watching more, but every social platform does it and those that don't will lose out over the next ten years. | Making a Better YouTube 00:01:34 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-01-05 · Making a Better YouTube — Hank: Reason four: Hank wants new people to find his content, so it has to be where new people will find it, and YouTube shows his videos to new people. — 00:01:48
- 2018-01-05 · Making a Better YouTube — Hank: Reason five: YouTube's problems are those any sufficiently big social video platform would have: getting advertisers in, monetizing for creators, and too much open uploading to review it all. — 00:02:01
- 2018-01-05 · Making a Better YouTube — Hank says any new platform that got big enough to matter would have exactly the same problems YouTube has now. — 00:02:16
- 2018-01-05 · Making a Better YouTube — Hank says he doesn't actually know how to solve those problems. (unsure) — 00:02:22