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OkayPhysicist01/15/20261 replyview on HN

It's the other way around. You gather user data so that you can better capture the user's attention. Attention is the valuable resource here: with attention you can shift opinions, alter behaviors, establish norms. Attention is influence.


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wolttam01/16/2026

Yeah I understood that but I don’t think we need influence over masses to train better models with novel data