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Styropyro is one of the most universally reviled science YouTube channels among practicing scientists. Beyond doing really dumb shit, he runs an absolute cesspo
by gaze 5y ago
Styropyro is one of the most universally reviled science YouTube channels among practicing scientists. Beyond doing really dumb shit, he runs an absolute cesspool of a discord server overrun with 14 year olds who build very dangerous laser contraptions, and then buy the cheapest, shittiest laser safety goggles, which are completely ineffective. He makes doing dangerous things in a completely unprepared way look cool.
- mutant 5y agoNo joke about that discord. It's abysmal.
- jimmaswell 5y agoAny "scientist" who "reviles" styropyro is no more than a gatekeeping elitist with a chance of envy. He clearly knows what he's doing, stresses safety all the time, and makes great, informative, entertaining content. I've never seen him do anything dumb or unsafe.
- avs733 5y agoI love that society has reached “I dislike you because you are teaching children to do dangerous things” is “elitist” point in its development. Civ didn’t prepare me for this.
- jimmaswell 5y agoWanting to keep information vaulted away from the public and only available to the "right" people is elitist.
- micromacrofoot 5y agothe “wrong” people in this case are children, and the information is likely to cause injury…
- jimmaswell 5y agoThat's a parental supervision problem, not a reason to censor information on youtube.
- geoduck14 5y agoI'm trying to assess your experience. Can you please let me know: How many kids do you have? Their ages? What activities they do? Your level of participation?
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoIn a very detached way of view kids are a renewable resource. Let Darwin do his thing.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoThe problem with parental supervision is that everyone tells you you're either doing too much or too little. No one is ever doing the right amount. In general no one can fully monitor what their kids are doing online, and the tooling is woefully behind because it's antithetical to companies measuring engagement as success.
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- avs733 5y agothere is a difference between 'keeping information from the public' and 'being concerned that partial information is being presented'. Free Solo is one of my favorite movies of the last decade. In the movie, they are fundamentally and consistently transparent about the sheer danger involved. It probably seems obvious to everyone, but there is danger. If the movie was just artistic shots of Alex Honnold climbing rock without a rope, that were shot in a way that 'simplified' the narrative to the climbing instead of the danger I would have a problem with that. no one called for keeping information from anyone, they expressed concern that the method of communicating left out critical details that could injure children in a way they do not understand. You can point and laugh at me for doing the 'think about the children' thing but honestly you see children do stuff like this fairly often, because they are children. Your same logic could be used to say we should let children vote, drive cars, own guns, etc. Screw the game operation or doctor with friends, lets give them real scalpels!
- gaze 5y agoWhy are you in a position to make those judgements?
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This was a noticeable step in that direction, hence the low-quality responses it evoked. Your comment would have been just fine without the first sentence. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- junon 5y ago> among practicing scientists. Source please. First I've ever heard of this.
- gaze 5y agoMyself and my colleagues.
- junon 5y agoThat's not a source. That's an anecdote. Don't passively dismiss people's work, it's insulting and against the guidelines of HN.
- gaze 5y agoI am a source. I’m a practicing physicist, and have been cited numerous times. I’ve not passively dismissed anyone’s work, I’m actively dismissing it for good reasons according to my professional judgement.
- junon 5y agoOkay but you are not an authoritative voice when it comes to generalizing the sentiment of an entire field against a single youtuber. Your being cited means very little in this context.