WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on the virtues of sharing a streaming profile and screwing with algorithms.
And, well, prediction engines couldn’t work if this wasn’t the case. It’s nice to think that the recommendations on your private profile are as unique as your thumbprint. But those suggestions have been informed by the behavioral data of millions of other users, and the more successful the platform is at guessing what you’ll watch, the more likely it is that your behavior falls in line with that of other people.
Karma, at least in popular culture, is often regarded as a simplistic form of cosmic comeuppance, but it’s more properly understood as a principle of interdependence. Everything in the world is connected to everything else, creating a vast web of interrelation wherein the consequences of every action reverberate through the entire system.
With that in mind, Island, sharing a profile might be less an act of generosity than a recognition of that interdependence. The person you’re living with has already changed you in countless ways, subtly altering what you believe, what you buy, the way you speak. If your taste in movies currently diverges from theirs, that doesn’t mean it always will. In fact, it’s almost certain that your preferences will inch closer together the longer you share a home. This is arguably a good thing.
If nothing I’ve said thus far has managed to bring about spiritual enlightenment—if you remain, instead, deeply unnerved by the extent to which your life is being monitored, predicted, and surveilled—then that’s all the more reason to let others influence your algorithm.
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