Dangers of Recommender Systems – Ivan Vendrov

by NunoSempereon 9/11/2025, 3:09 PMwith 5 comments

by j-wagson 9/11/2025, 8:53 PM

Just wanted to chime in and say thanks for including the full transcript. I strongly prefer reading to listening and so I was able to read this over my morning coffee and send it to friends who prefer podcasts before they started their morning commutes.

And generally, I'm a big fan of the weekly newsletter from successful forecasters. Keep up the great work!

by linearithmicon 9/11/2025, 3:15 PM

I found the argument of the counterfactual to be persuasive. Do you have a sense of how much of the time would people actually be doing something better with the extra bandwidth?

by NunoSempereon 9/11/2025, 3:09 PM

We speak with Ivan Vendrov about recommender systems and their impact on human attention and society & how these algorithms shape billions of hours of human time daily.