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Recommenders and editors are both curators. My comment also doesn't recommend algorithmic curation, except in linking tribal members.

What's the algorithm for taste, opinion, intuition, judgement, exploration, novelty, criticism?

Machine learning-based recommenders are just feedback loops, automated groupthink.

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Aha. It's worse than that. Today's recommenders are merely accelerated preferential attachment. aka Fads.

Thanks, articulating myself has been a useful exercise.

I think you're confusing "algorithm" with "curation".

So you do understand! Terrific.