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Attention is all you have

1090 points · 330 comments · zer0tonin

  1. charcircuit · · focus · HN ↗
    >Before recommendation algorithms where a thing, you had to decide what you would be doing on the computer.

    This is just the illusion of choice. Not only that attention was already being monetized. Digital advertising didn't start with algorithmic feeds.

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