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Recommendation Engines Are Built to Distrust Their Own Math

Netflix and Spotify don't recommend what's mathematically closest to your taste — they recommend it, then deliberately sabotage it, because pure similarity quietly wrecks engagement.

S.J. Nam, Ph.D Jun 11, 2026 8 min read