How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop

 

 

"In other words, generation loss is built into many of the key technologies of the digital age. The freshness of the original disappears, and is replaced by a degraded copy.

Sometimes the decline happens so slowly, most people don’t even notice it.

This problem is almost impossible to fix in a culture that relies heavily on algorithms. The algorithm is, by definition, a repeating pattern that always looks backward. It does something in the future based on what worked in the past.

So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new experience for you. It always gives you something similar to what you consumed last week—or last month, or last year.

This is a simple example of a cultural doom loop."

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ow to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop - by Ted Gioia