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I just blocked youtube on all devices in the house. This shit is poison. Poison to me, my wife and my daughter. For every piece of content that makes us grow there are thousands that just consume us. Guess which ones her feed get filled with? Fucking lies, deception, fear, greed, anger, who can do the stupidest self harm shit in public.. You know "taking candy from a baby", just imagine how easy it is to clickbait children. There is life changing content there, Feynman, Dirac, you can even listen to Claude Shannon himself! And yet, 99% is garbage, and somehow only garbage is recommended. You just keep getting in cycles, and it only gets worse and worse. I spent so much time teaching her to navigate the content, but I can see I am failing, it is consuming more and more of her time, getting aggresive when the daily dose of content is not administered. The content creator are producing so much garbage, and the fucking exploration based bandit shit that youtube uses just polutes, until it learns the feed is full with shit..I just cant keep up. How did we let this happen? It reminds me of this Feynman lecture (which sadly now I cant find because it is on youtube..) given in the university of Auckland, where he spoke about light and electromagnetic radiation, how bees see the ultra violet, and how the pit viper sees infrared, and how even though we cant see much of the electromagnetic spectrum, we have instruments that see beyond what we can see, and we use those instruments to advertise soap. Fuck it then, I will find a way to live without youtube. -b Fri 24 Apr 00:11:29 CEST 2020 PS: 15 years ago the first youtube video was uploaded, and here we are now. PPS: youtube-kids is the same shit.