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You made me realize that podcasts do take the place of Wikipedia for me, especially when I have a lot of busy work. For example, someone mentioned Jurgen Schmid
by nefitty 6y ago
You made me realize that podcasts do take the place of Wikipedia for me, especially when I have a lot of busy work. For example, someone mentioned Jurgen Schmidhuber in an AI thread here the other day and I was able to find a bunch of podcasts interviewing him or mentioning him. I threw them in a playlist and got a lot of what I wanted, passively for the most part and while multitasking.
- the_af 6y agoBut the time investment alone makes this not a Wikipedia replacement...
- banmeagaindan2 6y agoListening to Samuel Pepys doesn't give me a deep dive into history but it goes go wide in a way reading the Wiki entry for the great fire of london does not. That information is compressed does not mean it is more useful. Suppose there is a second great fire or flooding - I believe locating friends with secure lodgings to store consumer goods would come immediately to mind after listening to Pepys but this would not occur by just having read the wiki.
- the_af 6y agoNote I did not argue more compressed info (or Wikipedia) is "more useful". I argued it's a different use case, quicker and more to the point. Of course, I don't like podcasts so that alone makes Wikipedia better for me, but this is not what I was arguing. I was arguing podcasts can never be a replacement for Wikipedia.