maybe all this information collecting may actually tell you things about yourself you don't realize. youtube was initially trying to market me channels based on my gender, but as it built up more information it started marketing emo (the really bad, redundantly hair metal, major label stuff) to me - which is completely wrong, but at least somewhat rational based on the evidence it has. now, it's marketing me new country music, which i'm not understanding. my best guess is that it's algorithm considers grunge to be a type of roots music, which may have some value to it as an observation but doesn't apply to me at all. i've always interacted with grunge as though it's an offshoot of hardcore, itself an offshoot of punk. to extrapolate watching "do the evolution" as "i must like new country music, because it's the same band that did better man, which is sort of almost a country song" is more than a little bit off base.

but, it constructs a question: is the computer just clueless, or is it reflecting a general perception? and is that general perception less wrong when applied to other individuals? if the computer enforces it enough, will it become reality?

i'm sure it'll change again. for now, it thinks i'm a natural blake shelton fan.