EnderSword

Do you have plans to hold more tournaments like the WCS this year, and if so, would you be able to more closely match Riot's efforts in funding, advertising and supporting the eSports scene?

YouTube literally calls them 'Recommended' videos, and they'll even tell you 'This is recommended due to your interest in...' or 'Other Norm MacDonald watches watch...John Mulaney'

While it's a computer doing it, the intent is still the same, it's suggesting something to you because it thinks there's a higher probability you'll engage with what it's suggesting.

But I will say that part is a little different... it's not recommending something you'll "like" it's only recommending something you'll watch.

Conspiracy theories often come down to like 'how many people had to cooperate?'

In the Epstein case like... 5 maybe? And they maybe didn't even need to 'do' anything...just let him do it. So it just rings as so plausible.

It's not recommending something you'll like...it's recommending something you'll 'engage' with.

So many people 'hate watch' things... when you actually reported something, you engaged with it and took part, so it's going to show you more of her, thinking you'll also engage and continue disliking her.

The fridge example is of course it not knowing you bought a fridge yet. In many cases those large purchases aren't done right away when someone starts looking, so they do continue to show it for a while.

If it 'knows' the loop is closed, it'll stop. I was looking up gaming laptops in July, I didn't buy one right away so those ads followed me for a few weeks, I finally chose one and ordered it on Amazon, and the ads stopped.

I don't think in all these cases they're so much 'dumb' as they have blind spots to some data, and sometimes their purpose is not the purpose you think.

I think it's largely just the understanding that the majority of people simply do not possess and could never possess the ability to do that.

And it's actually botched attempts at teaching people to 'think for themselves' that tends to create a lot of the very wacky stuff.
Like they end up hearing fragments of the lesson and come out thinking 'I'm an independent thinker, and that means never believing experts and if I don't personally understand it, it must be wrong and I'm special and I believe special things'

Majority of people, and I mean like 99.9%+ of people simply cannot actually think for themselves on everything. You may have a pocket or two of knowledge, and if you try to come up with your own shit based on your own fragmented understanding of things, you'll trainwreck.