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Youtube is a metaphysical sun bursting out with multiple different interpretations of any given topic, 90% of them subtlety wrong. Very few have anything origin

Youtube is a metaphysical sun bursting out with multiple different interpretations of any given topic, 90% of them subtlety wrong. Very few have anything original to say. They pad their ten minute timer with history, use youtube's suggested topics and only 1-2 minutes of the episode covers what you want, and usually from such a limited perspective that the little details will still trip you up. For every Ben Eater, there's thousands of poorly aimed videos that clog up your brainspace. There's also people deliberately misrepresenting knowledge for clicks & selling products. Micheal Crichton was right not to be concerned about the fall of journalism. He said (to effect) anybody can write whatever they want. The value is in the edited content. Which he meant by mainstream, validated press agencies that used to control most intepretation. The concept still applies, most of youtube will not be missed.

viraptor 6y ago
If you're after better explainer/education content without that kind of pressure on creators, check out Nebula. Paid and adfree, money goes proportionally to people you watch. It's not a super smooth experience sometimes, but I'm a happy subscriber.
ballenf 6y ago
I think Crichton was only half right. The value is not in the edited content, it's in having a single narrative going through society. Even if that narrative is partially wrong. I feel like society is in the midst of restructuring itself to the reality that there will never be a single narrative again. And I think that's ok because we're reverting back, societally, to a time before mass media. So we know it's possible for societies to function without a single overarching narrative. (Not to go too far off, but the same thing seems to be coming as a result of deep fakes -- reverting to a time where 1st person accounts from a reputable person were the only reliable evidence. [Where reputation was something of an organic page rank algorithm.])

viraptor 6y ago

If you're after better explainer/education content without that kind of pressure on creators, check out Nebula. Paid and adfree, money goes proportionally to people you watch. It's not a super smooth experience sometimes, but I'm a happy subscriber.

ballenf 6y ago

I think Crichton was only half right. The value is not in the edited content, it's in having a single narrative going through society. Even if that narrative is partially wrong. I feel like society is in the midst of restructuring itself to the reality that there will never be a single narrative again. And I think that's ok because we're reverting back, societally, to a time before mass media. So we know it's possible for societies to function without a single overarching narrative. (Not to go too far off, but the same thing seems to be coming as a result of deep fakes -- reverting to a time where 1st person accounts from a reputable person were the only reliable evidence. [Where reputation was something of an organic page rank algorithm.])