Asking an algorithm to broaden our horizons is like having lunch with a friend who claims to be open to anything but vetoes everything you suggest. “Curiosity is an active mode,” McDonald says. It’s up to us to step outside our bubble.
…algorithms have taken the place of magazine editors and museum curators as gatekeepers of culture….“When a human interprets a piece of art, it adds value rather than takes it away. An algorithm has no capacity to interpret,” he adds.
Read the whole article here. It changed my listening habits dramatically, leading me to reorganize my library to focus on albums, using the PARA method to organize it.
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