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I was listening to this year's Reith Lectures with Stuart Russell, and I hadn't realised that the YT algorithms "realised" that the easiest way to provide content viewers wanted was to focus on people with more extreme views as they were more predictable. It was also easier to get those people to keep watching.
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YouTube tries to suggest Jordan Peterson and that American comic who has recently become the darling of the far right for his anti-trans stuff to me every now and again, maybe it does the reverse as well, and every now and then shows RW nut jobs some UBI stuff/similar, which they interpret to mean that they're a persecuted minority in terms of their views. IDK, just made me literally LOL as I turned him off. Dr Strangelove moment, I thought.