Mar 27, 2025 03:17 AM
(This post was last modified: Mar 27, 2025 03:22 AM by stryder.)
I have just come to realise how advertisement algorithms use a spiral method to weigh a persons tastes/choices.
In essence the concept is that you might use a website like Youtube, or an App like Tiktok and you'll see a feed of "similar videos people liked" and those particular videos will have descriptions that define their "weight". When you click the link to that video you both create a digital ghost (cookie) of what you picked and its weight, as well as create subsiquent "similar videos people liked" that are from a cloud that follows a "wave collapse" algorithm. (This is where the list is reduced to only show those where the strongest weighted connections exist as associations).
This means the more clicks you make along the line of "degrees of seperation", the greater the algorithm depicts the weight of what it is that is assumed you desire, at least that would be the case if it was trying to guess what you are after... we are however talking about algorithms that are there to push what you should want or buy as a consumer since that is what makes these sites money, as those spirals can lead to a singularity. (one defined outcome, or namely a purchase)
It can also lead to "algorithm grooming". for instance it could spiral someone into having grooming suicidal triggers, or being conditioned to be Trangender or inversely (taxis) being conditioned to be dangerously transphobic.
It actually suggests that the Spiral method used which is indictive of sales algorithms, should not try to "brainwash" a singularity outcome but actually use a wavefunction collapse method where alternative choices are part of the matrix of that algorithm.
This in a simple example should be the difference between spiraling into a depressive suicide attempt to having a wavefunction collapse method causing you to go out and finding new things to try (which is a reason to live).
In essence the concept is that you might use a website like Youtube, or an App like Tiktok and you'll see a feed of "similar videos people liked" and those particular videos will have descriptions that define their "weight". When you click the link to that video you both create a digital ghost (cookie) of what you picked and its weight, as well as create subsiquent "similar videos people liked" that are from a cloud that follows a "wave collapse" algorithm. (This is where the list is reduced to only show those where the strongest weighted connections exist as associations).
This means the more clicks you make along the line of "degrees of seperation", the greater the algorithm depicts the weight of what it is that is assumed you desire, at least that would be the case if it was trying to guess what you are after... we are however talking about algorithms that are there to push what you should want or buy as a consumer since that is what makes these sites money, as those spirals can lead to a singularity. (one defined outcome, or namely a purchase)
It can also lead to "algorithm grooming". for instance it could spiral someone into having grooming suicidal triggers, or being conditioned to be Trangender or inversely (taxis) being conditioned to be dangerously transphobic.
It actually suggests that the Spiral method used which is indictive of sales algorithms, should not try to "brainwash" a singularity outcome but actually use a wavefunction collapse method where alternative choices are part of the matrix of that algorithm.
This in a simple example should be the difference between spiraling into a depressive suicide attempt to having a wavefunction collapse method causing you to go out and finding new things to try (which is a reason to live).