'You're not being predicted — you inherited a billion people's outcome': the bucket theory of algorithms
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-24
Professor Jiang argues algorithms don't predict you — they predict the bucket you land in: five answers, one being your YouTube habits, place you in a category that claims to know what you'll be doing at 40, 50, 60 and 70. victorexplore extends the point: you aren't being predicted; a billion people who answered like you already were, and recommendation feeds run the same trick on shorter timescales.
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