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Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Not really - just mostly Asian, so perhaps to you they look younger than they are.

Lolll read my message above again! Most of us get exactly zero Asian girls on our TikTok. You just basically told everyone that TikTok detected that you probably have a (maybe subconscious) attraction to Asian girls.

The only revelation here is that you have zero idea how these app algorithms work.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Important reminder: don’t talk too much publicly about your (wife’s) TikTok feed, because it says more about you than you’d think. I’ve seen so many people complain that “tiktok keeps showing them young girls dancing” lol.

I don’t understand, what does this signal about you personally?

Nothing. Crubier is just an absolute clown that doesn't understand Global and Demographic algorithms also exist, and prioritize pushing content that other people have watched for long and consistent periods.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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> Do you want to back that up? A simple question: Where exactly are the robo-taxis that were promised in 2020 alongside with Level 5 FSD for release in 2019? [0]. [0] https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-autonomous-driving-lev...

Obviously Tesla lies or is insanely optimistic regarding timelines - but they have made some progress with automated driving.

Obviously they've made some progress. It would be hard for them to have accomplished nothing at all after all they've invested. It's still nowhere near safe for public roads and there's no reason to think it ever will be.

Even their driver assistance features work worse than the competition.

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This is 100% me. If I can't mainline a bunch of people's perspectives within minutes, I'm not interested. Video is waaayyy too slow. Granted, I also have an exception: I watch YouTube regularly, but I have to be doing something with my hands at the same time. And it's not an attention span thing — I read books. It's about the density of information and the speed with which I can traverse it. I can read as fast as I t…

You might be aware, but it's possible to watch YouTube videos at faster speeds by entering certain simple JavaScript snippets into the browser's console. Just in case it helps.

Unfortunately faster than 2x speed starts to overrun my ability to parse human speech =/ Maybe if I practiced...
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