Female chimpanzees prefer to play with objects and use them as tools more than male chimpanzees overall. Most often, female chimps are observed using them as play weapons.[1]
On one single occasion, some female chimps were observed carrying some logs and "slapping" them. This was interpreted as playing with dolls and then it was all over the news that female chimps play with dolls.[2]
Humans aren't the only primates with culture. Chimp behaviour varies significantly according to the culture they are in, just like human behaviour does.
Tangentially, I think I read somewhere once that there's more genetic variance between two random chimps from two chimp tribes in the same forest than between two random humans from opposite sides of the planet.
I don't understand what does this has to do with anything? how does that fit in things vs people? a doll is a thing after all? I'm not saying there's no deep genetic drive at all.
The fact that they’re acting like this is a shocking insight cracks me up. They pay this group industry leading salaries to learn what anybody on the street could tell them
Meh, a lot of group common sense is just wrong or even when it's right, we don't know the magnitude which is why more scientific testing is required. If you asked the average person on this site they would tell you user satisfaction would go up if they removed all feeds from the app and instead provided RSS links you could add to your RSS reader and then reply to posts using email.
There was a (uploaded to TikTok) video I saw where this guy had 18 followers on YouTube, and just was not getting any kind of traction at all. I mean some traction but not much -- only 18 followers! Was about to quit. Then all of a sudden he got contacted by Oprah Winfrey's people about hosting a TV show about the ideas that he talked about in his videos.
It turns out that one of the 18 followers he had on YouTube was Oprah Winfrey's hair stylist, and Oprah was talking to her about this project she was trying to get started, and the stylist mentioned this one YouTube account she loved who was all about that topic, and the rest is history.
Every single person who watches your video is a unique human individual, and magic can happen from just one spark, from just one person!
If a search engine cannot recognize what content is good and which is bad, it's not a good search engine.
If there was a sea of garbage with some beautiful healthy fish still in it, it doesn't mean I'm going to start catching garbage and passing it off as halibut.
But the model of constant growth required and advertising to cross purposes of your users means that they're selling garbage by the pound and calling it fish!
I have no interest in agreeing that the emperor's new clothes exist.
1. Search engines are getting less good at ranking bad content below good content
2. The good content is getting worse. So bad, in fact, that it looks like bad content.
It may be a little of both. I lean towards 2, though. It’s kind of a race to the bottom in terms of jamming your page with ads, buzz words, and popups these days.
Generally speaking, the web doesn’t have great results for e.g. product recommendations. Part of it is because of how centralized the internet has become.
The best you can do a lot of the time is to just serve mostly Reddit results. But even that can be gamed.
> the PROPORTION of content is getting worse but GREAT content on an absolute numbers level is rising every single year
I’d love to believe this is true, but it can’t be true for every query. How much great content is out there for best gaming laptop or marinara sauce recipe?
Tech gadget review sites are filled to the brim with ads and paid links these days, without exception.
Recipe websites are also filled with ads, facilitated by long descriptions of unnecessary family history to create more vertical space.
> discovering new content is difficult
Indeed, great new content is almost impossible. There are blog search engines which do a decent job. Trouble is, those won’t cover all my queries.
Read "bad quality" works too. And know that you're going to write a lot of "bad quality" works too, before people to start to get what you're trying to say.
they need to get a better distro -> store pipeline
and they need amazon-like lockers in their store to order online and pickup in store 24/7
i'd never use amazon again!!