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The algorithm is far worse than people realize. It is a pan-platform behavioral nudge strategy to contain people to behave a specific way and box them in. It is an effective social credit score.

After watching how it behaves across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube - its clear the recommendations and nudges are coordinated. It is more than likely there are secret data sharing agreements to enable it.

Its insidious because it controls your reach and "score" across all platforms and then can "attack" you by attempting to surface content to push your buttons negatively across channels.

My opinion is this isnt anything to do with advertising, its a kind of government level shaping operation to try to create societal stability.

I personally have seen:

- The algorithm deliberately "neg" me multiple times, it knows what I don't like and shows me content to trigger keywords it knows will get my attention or deliberately cause insecurity ("old" "broke" "loser" "creep" "bigot" "fat"). I never interact with any content with these words, but it shows them - My conclusion is this is some sort of behavioral nudge. It happens across platforms.

- After I spoke out about Microsoft's approach to H1B, my content was permanently shadowbanned and limited on LinkedIn

- YouTubers continually censor themselves. Instead of "sex" they say "ess." Instead of "murder" they say "delete." They are consciously changing their speech. This is pure 1984.

Furthermore, I am convinced the algorithm also "shapes" the opinions of those around you in relation to you. Something much bigger than simply "being advertiser friendly" is going on, its a back door social credit score, emotional containment and psychological warfare structure.It will only get worse.

politics happen in 1:1s

gossip etc

I think part of his motivation is to expose it all and avoid all that

I want to note this story got spiked off the home page.

I cant identify any reason other than it is potentially "anti business."

It is very difficult being a parent, also.

They dont talk about how parents get treated.

It is another form of discrimination quite rampant in tech.

I decided I NEVER wanted to manage anyone at a large or even medium sized tech company.

Politically there is no winning:

- Your peer competitors (other VPs) are after you - Your direct reports are after you (or you are accountable for them) - The direct reports of other VPs are after you - Your CEO is after you

You only have ways to lose. I dont know why anyoner would ever want one of those jobs, they are horrible.

It is also why nothing ever gets built (trains etc)

I had same experience at a large company.

Guy had a very simple project. He came to me and asked for "help." I found an external vendor who specialized in solving that problem (building a basic product extension) and got it done in two weeks.

When I gave him the solution, he immediately stopped talking to me and wanted nothing to do with me.

It turned out he had gone to a VP, cleared a 50 person team to work on this problem. He had a weekly call with like 10 people (tiger team he called it) to do nothing but this and nine months later they released the solution and had a giant party.

Everyone got credit, high fives all around.

AT that point I realized that work is a huge scam at large corporations. He was optimizaing for a "promotable event" that "spreads the credit far and wide."

Nothing to do with solving the problem efficiently.

How come no one has run a study to ask men, in particular, why they are leaving?

You haven't seen that data because that study is not politically popular so it will never get published.

Instead this article averages men and women and sort of goes: "well, college students arent going."

The data clearly shows men are leading the way.

Why would men be quitting more than women?

Thank you.

The data is in the graph in the article

Why did male enrollment fall off a cliff post October 2017. Look at the 2018 trend. That is immediately after Me Too.

The article conflates men and women leaving college, but the data clearly shows men are by far the biggest defectors.

Why didnt anyone ask men why they are leaving more than women? Is it because the answer is not politically acceptable (democrats) who run the media?

Yes. Ask any man in industry or university and they will tell you there has been a witch hunt against men.

Thats the data, its in the actual article.

Can you explain any other reason why men would suddenly check out en masse at that time? The economy was good.