Spotify

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Spotify is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 15, 2022 and April 19, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Another friend releases Spotify playlists every Friday of the greatest hits”; “But now we have literal algorithms, the ones on YouTube and Spotify”. It most often appears alongside 2012, Adam Smith, Amazon.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: July 15, 2022
  • Last seen: April 19, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

July 15, 2022 · Original source
I didn’t read The Righteous Mind for a long time after I knew about it. This was partly because I don’t get through much in the way of new reading material. A friend of mine told me yesterday that he’d read something like 130 new books this year. That was on February 20th. I’ve read one, and it was The Righteous Mind. Another friend releases Spotify playlists every Friday of the greatest hits from the many new albums he’s listened to that week. I’ve listened to one new album this year. It was Selling England by the Pound, which he recommended. It was my first foray into Genesis and I loved it. I now have to keep telling him that, no, I haven’t listened to any more Genesis or Peter Gabriel since then, but I’m sure I’ll get round to it within the year.
April 19, 2023 · Original source
Then they all died off. Hipsters were part of society’s information sorting algorithm. But now we have literal algorithms, the ones on YouTube and Spotify. They sort our information fine.