Concept
Recommendation algorithms are not lossy transport — they are selection gates with adjustable weights. They make ‘who tunes the gates’ a literal, operational question, and turn the selection criteria of a few companies into the selection criteria of everyone. (Catalog gap flagged by the psychology-of-virality extraction.)
Connections
- Defined in: Selection As The Other Engine
- Discussed in: Ch 11 — AI as a New Kind of Node, Ch 10 — Political Economy of Attention, Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine
- Evidenced by: The Misinformation Age, Psychology of Virality
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