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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Dec 2018
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    How hard would it be to make an attention management app that a) tracks the links you click b) uses ML to learn clickbaitiness patterns c) rewards you with points for bait you see but DON’T engage with. Basically infer, exactly invert, and neutralize the conditioning protocol.

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Dec 2018
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        Like noise cancellation headphones (which basically pick up noise and add phase in a feedback loop to cancel via simple adaptive control learning) Except in conditioning signal space. Cc: @KevinSimler

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      1. Marginalised status seeker‏ @dawjiaw 9 Dec 2018
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        Brave browser tracks for ml to send ad requests. Shouldn't be too hard for them

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      2. Herr Dr Mr Modern Major General brrr Seitz‏ @BillSeitz 9 Dec 2018
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        If it could identify clickbait, wouldn't it be better to just have it hide it?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Dec 2018
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        The point is to still have the choice but also the discipline to make the “no” choice more often.

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      1. Nat Eliason‏ @nateliason 9 Dec 2018
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        I'd pay

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      2. Scott Smith‏ @sakohts 9 Dec 2018
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        I would like to punish the clickbait maker more directly.

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      3. Gavin Glenn Harris‏ @TheGabhain 9 Dec 2018
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        As with caller id spoofers, I advocate drone strikes. If we can get away with wiping out weddings, why not a few call centers? 😉

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      1. Apurv‏ @apurvhajare 10 Dec 2018
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        It should also score, how much *information* in the link you already likely to know

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      1. scolbath‏ @scolbath 10 Dec 2018
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        You'd have to be careful, because this could act like a GAN to train not only the user, but the clickbait to get past the user's conditioning.

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