moultano
1yr ago
I have a feeling this post could get to the top of HN and become famous, but it's too long to get off of new without a catchier title than I've been able to come up with.
I think a handful of the things I've written are semi famous, not particularly me. 😆
moultano
1yr ago
Thanks. I haven't read enough of less wrong and haven't posted anything there so don't know what the posting norms are. But I do think it's the kind of thing they'd be interested in.
moultano
1yr ago
To the extent that ads cause you to make purchases that you're retrospectively happy about, I agree. The limit case of a really good advertising system is a recommendation engine for arbitrary products, which is super useful. There are a few reasons why I think they don't converge to that though.
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Different products have different margins that are uncorrelated with how useful they are to use, and this distorts the recommendations.
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Advertising systems are competing to cause you to buy via them, and that causes them to expose you to more ads than your desire to purchase things would warrant.
Ok nevermind, it made it. I probably should have asked an LLM to optimize the title for me.
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