For algorithms that aim to give or tell you something you want based on a person's input data, such as likes, shares, interactions. Examples include, social media ads, feed algorithms, song recommendation algorithms.
Algorithm anxiety is when a person gets anxious about their inputs to the algorithm as it might give the algorithm the wrong idea.
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When a person is anxious about what the output of the algorithm is, as they may feel it's 'not them' or how they might be manipulated by it.
Algorithm anxiety is when a person gets anxious about their inputs to the algorithm as it might give the algorithm the wrong idea.
and/or
When a person is anxious about what the output of the algorithm is, as they may feel it's 'not them' or how they might be manipulated by it.
"Shit, I accidentally liked that song, that's just ruined my algorithm. I'm so anxious now to like songs I don't actually like, I have algorithm anxiety."
"I keep getting ads for these boots, should I buy them? do I like them? or are they just being drilled into me from the algorithm? what if these clothes s I bough were a product of the algorithm and not actually my decisions?! OK I have algorithm anxiety now. "
"I keep getting ads for these boots, should I buy them? do I like them? or are they just being drilled into me from the algorithm? what if these clothes s I bough were a product of the algorithm and not actually my decisions?! OK I have algorithm anxiety now. "
by bear in the woods September 13, 2022
Get the algorithm anxietymug. The anxiety one experiences after a night out with friends that no one will attend breakfast the following morning.
by BasementDweller October 2, 2013
Get the Breakfast Anxietymug. A sweeping, fast moving state of anxiety that arrives without warning and takes everything in its path with it.
He had made an offhand remark, a minor joke, but to her it incited an anxiety tornado, swirling, uprooting, splintering and lifting her self-worth and sense of security with it until she felt herself to be an emotionally wrecked trailer park.
by Monkey's Dad August 15, 2021
Get the anxiety tornadomug. by JB1515 February 10, 2013
Get the Peenhole Anxietymug. A word to describe the anxiety felt when faced with the potential value of an object.
Most common scenario's include RPG's or video games in which healing / restorative items. A player may be compelled to use an item with a high potential value that might save an otherwise doomed scenario yet feel it might potentially be a waste.
A shrodinger-esque thought experiment in which a single item may deliver victory but the player is unwilling to utilize the item as it may have a similar potential value in a situation with more at stake.
Most common scenario's include RPG's or video games in which healing / restorative items. A player may be compelled to use an item with a high potential value that might save an otherwise doomed scenario yet feel it might potentially be a waste.
A shrodinger-esque thought experiment in which a single item may deliver victory but the player is unwilling to utilize the item as it may have a similar potential value in a situation with more at stake.
by Drang May 5, 2022
Get the Elixer Anxietymug. the act of making eye contact with the person behind you when you open the door, deciding whether he or she is close enough for you to hold the door open.
I was walking into the store, and I looked behind me. The girl was like 10 feet away but my door anxiety kicked in and so I just walked in. I felt like a douchebag.
by raaawr123456 October 28, 2009
Get the door anxietymug. a very short feeling,(four seconds to be exact) of true anxiety and stress, commonly occuring after getting a double kill in halo 3. the player knows they only have four seconds to get a triple kill, thus inducing triple anxiety.
n00b 1: oh pwned that n00b... come on double kill.. OHHH DOUBLE KILL!
mother: doctor, come quick!
doctor: dont worry ma'am, he seems to have a mild case of triple anxiety, it should be over in approximately four seconds.
mother: doctor, come quick!
doctor: dont worry ma'am, he seems to have a mild case of triple anxiety, it should be over in approximately four seconds.
by 1337 mook September 29, 2008
Get the triple anxietymug.