Are We Going to Design an Augarithm?

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Milu: recommender systems that are pushing content to people a and making it harder, makes ae to go out of your way to find other content. People ascribe those algorithms magical properties, when in reality, they seem the tictachogrithm is not that good. Milu: The fact that humans aren't taking responsibility for determining the input of what is actually being put into the system,. or taking responsibility for the fact that they set up the algorithm, that they determined what it is.

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