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Comment by jbrennan

Can you explain why you think it's an inherent flaw in the design?

The way I look at it is, yes the software should keep a history of user behaviour and base its actions off that, but there must be feedback involved, either explicit or implicit. This way, if I gave some input to the system once but then never did so again, the likelyhood that one event should affect the future would diminish over time.

There could be trickiness around "Bubbles" (like a Search bubble, where it only recommends to you things it thinks you'd like, and never shows you other things). I think those are problematic and should be dealt with. But I don't think that means it's impossible to fix. It's just something that needs to be thought through. I don't have an answer for it right now but that doesn't mean there isn't an answer.

parent jbrennan 14 years ago

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