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I think, overall, interview podcasts are some of the worst (and popular) ways to convey information that we as humans have come up with.
by Zetice 4y ago
I think, overall, interview podcasts are some of the worst (and popular) ways to convey information that we as humans have come up with.
- jstx1 4y agoThey're bad because the goal isn't to convey information in an efficient way. Think of it as a conversation that you can listen in on if you want to.
- xeromal 4y agoThis is a great way to phrase it.
- Zetice 4y agoBut that's terrible, because it seems like a good way to learn about OpenAI. It presents as if you can listen to this to gain insight into how OpenAI operates. But you can't. What you get is a hour long PR fluff piece about a man related to OpenAI. But you listen anyway, and because it's appearing as this useful thing, your normal skepticism guards are down. So you swallow what could be abject nonsense. And that's why they're Bad, not bad.
- motoxpro 4y agoThink about it as learning how Sam thinks about things rather than how OpenAI operates. There is an unbelievable amount of info in the conversation.
- Zetice 4y agoBut I don't think you get that, what you get is how Sam presents as thinking. Very, wildly different.
- motoxpro 4y agoMore meta but thats all conversations. You never know how "vulnerable" someone is being no matter the medium, so again, it's up to you to understand that and gather the information that is there.
- Zetice 4y agoNo, I think podcast interviews like this are particularly dangerous, given their reach.
- TechBro8615 4y agoThat depends how autistic you are. You can read people's motivations by how they present their motivations.
- Zetice 4y agoWhat? Autism? I’m not sure what that has to do with anything.
- TechBro8615 4y agoIt has to do with how much you can infer by listening to a conversation.
- Zetice 4y agoNo it doesn’t? Inference is what you make it; you can think a podcast person is agreeing with you when they really aren’t. Autism doesn’t really play into this; no human gets intuition correct, due to bias.
- TechBro8615 4y agoIt absolutely has something to do with it. One of the symptoms of autism is a weak theory of mind, i.e. the inability to see the world through the perspective of another person, i.e. to understand their motivations.
- motoxpro 4y agoExactly right
- nfw2 4y agoPodcasts may not be a particularly efficient way to convey information, but they make up for it in convenience. You can listen while doing other things like walking the dog and make use of otherwise wasted time.
- d4rkp4ttern 4y agoDisagree. In podcasts I love interviews and conversations rather than monologues. I think the pauses and speakers taking turns, make listening less monotonous and also cognitively probably helps absorb info better
- Zetice 4y agoMonologues aren’t a realistic alternative, no podcast I know of is just one person speaking constantly. That sounds more like political radio shows, and those are also terrible.
- d4rkp4ttern 4y agoWell actually the popular Huberman Labs podcast is usually a monologue. But yes most are dialogues I agree