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Algorithmic prediction, via machine learning, builds on these shapes and amplifies their complexity and authority. While the problematic effects of this predictive regime and the preemptive politics it supports are objects of concern for scholars and practitioners across the humanities, social sciences, art, and philosophy, design is surprisingly disengaged from this conversation. Instead, it is either concerned with data visualization, often without questioning its positivist ontology, or with ‘seamless’non-interfaces which effectively seek to remove choice. Against this backdrop, our proposal brings together design theory and design practice to interrogate current modes of algorithmic prediction and the construction of subjectivity enabled by ‘choice design’. Our designed artifacts are diagrams to think through practice about the shape(s) of the possible. Rather than designing predictable futures, we aim to use diagram-making to expose and reframe choice design. These design artifacts-initial and ongoing experiments in mapping YouTube recommendations-are a series of computational diagrams that weave together the tools of computational prediction, critical design practice, and theory.  \nKeywords: algorithmic prediction; diagrams; recommendation; critical data visualization;  \n1  \nFrictions and Shifts in RTD  \n\\#rtd2019 \\#researchthroughdesign \\#delft \\#rotterdam  \n2  \nMarenko, Benqué | Architectures of Choice Vol.1 Youtube.  \nFrictions and Shifts in RTD  \nIntroduction  \nOur collaboration between design theory and practice (Marenko and Benque, 2018) investigates/ complicates/ criticises the practice and politics of algorithmic prediction: future-building via machine learning. It sets out to position diagramming as a computational counter-practice, to reclaim the possible from algorithmic capture. We use diagrams-speculative visualization mapping the unformed and the unstable as they feed into changeable situations (O’Sullivan, 2016) -to think through, manipulate, and theorise prediction from a design standpoint. We use diagram-making as a practice that affords ways of probing the possible as it emerges through modes of prediction and speculating on a future taken as fluid, rather a solid material. In this paper we move from this starting point into our first practical case study: a mapping of recommendations on the Youtube platform.  \nAny interface to a catalogue of media is, explicitly or not, an ordering of choices. While this is inescapable—there is no way to present a list without some kind of ordering—it is also problematic. While user-friendly interfaces appear to be about offering choices, their underlying goal is to direct viewers “toward content more likely to keep them engaged and subscribed”(Arnold, 2016, 99) . Systems that aim to maximise user “engagement”(eyeballs capture for advertising) encourage to the continuous foregrounding of “fresh”(Covington et al, 2016) and “viral” content (Jiang et al, 2014)—this has been shown to have hugely detrimental effects, from the traumatising of children (Bridle, 2017) to the spreading of white nationalist ideology (Lewis, 2018) . As “anticipatory design”(Shapiro, 2015) shows, the idea of choice design may result in the removal of options on the pretext of making decisions on users’ behalf for—allegedly—their own benefit. Behind a rhetoric of convenience, the notion of relieving users from “decision fatigue” masks a political project. 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