Youtubreacted to Ucub and Facebook?

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The way in which youtubreacted is kind of the thing that starts to get my hackles up. We can have this objective function, but we need to be able to stop it in instances where it's not working well. And here, in this case, you twob isn't exposing use your data like a question of privacy. The fundamental problem is that you tu is giving people exactly what they want. You no, then w if you think about whatr at the rut of these algorithms, is that you tub is sort of trying to understand what you're looking for and trying to give you more of it in a way that you just keep watching. Because it

Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential problem.

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