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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Solution involves ants and @ViRAms's ideas on techniques for info-discovery using negative feedback & novelty. https://t.co/6SSjPzHZpX

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4/26/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

But... a better recomendation system means less dopamine reward for searching and foraging, so could backfire. Amazon wants you addicted...

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4/26/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Amazon's agressive A/B testing is actually honing in on human addiction patterns, if indirectly. Effecientcy =/= optimal sales at scale.

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4/26/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

To retain customers, Google search competes on search, Amazon competes on price. Confusing them is why people don't get why things work.

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4/26/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

This is another way of restating why google search for products hasn't been winning. Retaining mindshare/network effect is about compulsion.

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4/26/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

IMHO all the big names are just copying each other poorly, not seeing the underlying reasons why the other biz is successful.

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4/26/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Why are shopping carts abandoned? Because online shopping is foraging game, but people don't want to actually buy. https://t.co/GVIyKxXWmo

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Kmart gets it, they are making it 'fun' again: https://t.co/NgjHewnlWW

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

First book I read on web design described two kinds shoppers. Hunters and foragers.This is not a coincidence. https://t.co/1MGURHBgZu

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Addicted to shopping? It's is one of most prevalent socially acceptable games in capitalistic society. I get called fag b/c I like shopping.

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Shopping: stress relief, compulsion, 'fun', addicting, group activity, gender bias.https://t.co/eyq0xBfnTZ

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Pictures in my head when I think of bored people: men standing and waiting for women to shop. Women waiting for men & their video game.

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Gaming: stress relief, compulsion, 'fun', addicting, group activity, gender bias.https://t.co/o3iyeB5OsH

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Why aren't more women diagnosed as Autistic or ADHD? Because obsessive behaviors tend to be masked as socially acceptable. Think about that.

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Wanna recipe for gendered harassment or being called a creep? Try foraging the housewares section or the toy section, as an adult male. :(

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I got called a fag once for playing the sims; basically a doll house / shopping simulator. The Sims 3 even had foraging as mechanic. :/

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

What really irks me off is rise in shame against unemployed men who stay at home and play games all day. Same coin: https://t.co/A7yy1I6LNr

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

In a capitalistic society where even temporary unemployment leads to unimaginable levels of stress of course people are going to play games.

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

"These men seem happier" https://t.co/5mrwshKjGo

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Yet again, women who need help reaching their full potential are overlooked.https://t.co/xLUIfp79i3

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8/11/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Tags include: "Behavioral addiction; Compulsive buying; Compulsive shopping; Shopping addiction" https://t.co/YWcEviWoBMvia @Neuro_Skeptic

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12/14/2016
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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Things I have no need to read: A 95 page thesis on human shopping behavior framed under the informavore lens. https://t.co/aWcsnxBB6q

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11/2/2017
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UltimApe@ultimape• over 7 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

TFW: you realize @TheTedNelson has already found a shopping-as-research analogy. Don't know when, but he did a talk in 2013 that included it.Never mentions foraging behavior. Mine was inspired by vaporwave & Calhoun's rat behavior studies. #intertwingledhttps://t.co/m0Rtk0cQv5

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5/6/2018