Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" (TED talk)(youtube.com)

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Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" (TED talk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s&feature=channel_video_title

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I was thinking about this for a long time. There are few discovery initiatives and many "retweets" of the same information. Probably collaborative filtering/recommendation engines tries to give you a recommendation with a high match probability (I know there are research in other directions, but the industry wants to sell stuff based on recommendation so the industry is a heavy weight).

Intuitively I've seen this as a Atractive Fixed Point ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_(mathematics)#Attra... ) where applying filters to filters finishes in a fixed point.