Comment by Declanomous

>Seems like you dislike bad curation specifically, rather than curation itself.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at by putting 'curation' in single quotes. It's not really curation if you aren't specially choosing things. For instance, if I used Google to search for "bands that sound like [x]", nobody would claim the results are 'curated'.

These systems are basically search functions that return the most similar results that are distinct from the ones you already know about.

I think the fundamental issue is that Markov Chains are actually really terrible at curating content in the long term, but in short-term they are fantastic.