Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

I really dislike social media algorithms and incentives. Negative stuff is what sells.

There are so many times where I sit down with a good host and have a thoughtful discussion about macro finance, and then the Youtube title and thumbmail that their producer makes is some version of me smiling next to a terrible headline and often something on fire or blowing up.
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Zach 1y ago

There's a cool extension for YouTube that will automatically change the thumbnails to a frame from a random timestamp of the video.

I'd also imagine pretty soon AI will make a lot of the clickbait stuff less effective since summarization of content appears to be something this current iteration of ai is quite good at.

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once_aphysicist 1y ago

DeArrow, it also replaces clickbait titles with crowd sourced sensible alternatives.