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Seems pretty reasonable. Musk asks why X Y and Z, and a clueless engineer basically says your wrong, nothing to do with the algorithms.

I'm pretty sure it has everything to do with the algorithms, and no one really understands how they work.

I can understand how Elon wants answers about the algorithms, and those answers aren't forthcoming.

Lots of Wierd stuff going on with the algos

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Your comment boils down to “Nobody knows how algorithms work” which is the most ignorant bullshit I’ve seen on here in a long time.

Algorithms are by definition the specific ways we have designed computer programs to work. They are by definition knowable and known.

Advertisers are turning away. Wouldn’t the simplest explanation be that fewer people are listening to him because fewer people are interested in what he has to say? No need to raise the absurd and (to the audience here certainly) silly boogeyman of “the unknowable algorithm”

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