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The other day I came across soemthing seemingly unquie and interesting but it was a long YouTube video. I started wondering how many novel things I'll no longer

by tayo42 3y ago

The other day I came across soemthing seemingly unquie and interesting but it was a long YouTube video. I started wondering how many novel things I'll no longer be able to check out becasue everyone is defaulting to videos and audio. Interesting ideas will have a filter based on who has free time. Though maybe there is another side that no interesting ideas are actually being shared through video. I started playing skyrim for the first time. When I have to search online for help it's so refreshing to get helpful content. No videos and minimal blogspam. Even just forum posts with helpful info.

merth 3y ago
there are AI summary plugins that summarize youtube videos for you. instead of watching 1 hour video, you can get the summary in 15 seconds. this one I use but there are plenty of others as well https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-with-chat/nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-wit...
- singleshot_ 3y ago
  1) a smart person writes something 2) a grifter makes that written product into a YouTube video optimized for slurping up advertising money 3) a grifter makes an AI summary for slurping up… well I guess I don’t really understand the business model but it does not seem like an improvement. Why not just read the book and pay the author?
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    because time isn't fungible, and 99% of books, esp. about factual-ish stuff, can usually be boiled down to a few bulletpoints. most books don't require that much nuance, nor "the experience" of reading it
    - singleshot_ 3y ago
      An interesting thing about fungibility is that _something is fungible to the extent that one treats it as fungible_. Yes, dollar bills are generally fungible but I might pay more for one with a serial number with lots of zeroes — it’s good for liar’s poker. I might devalue a dollar bill that you just blew your nose on. That aside, I’m still not convinced I know what you mean when you say time is not fungible. I think what you might mean is that time is precious and not to be wasted, but I’m not sure what this has to do with fungibility. Regardless, I think I agree with your main point which is that most written works are low-content repetitive trash. Let’s stipulate that I’m only talking about buying and reading rich, innovative, and/or elucidating works of nonfiction. They all require a great deal of nuance, I assure you.
MisterTea 3y ago
Is there a search engine for video and podcast content? What if the information I'm looking for is a 30 second blurb in a video or podcast that isn't part of the main subject or keywords? Its lost. If it were text it could be indexed very easily.
- Zambyte 3y ago
  To be fair, things do seem to quickly be moving in this direction. With the rise of language model driven speech to text, and visual to text, this is probably a few years out at most.
gessha 3y ago
I use Matter(iOS) for reading and annotating articles. It has the capability to load transcripts of videos and podcasts so you can read them as text. It's pretty neat.

by tayo42 3y ago

merth 3y ago

there are AI summary plugins that summarize youtube videos for you. instead of watching 1 hour video, you can get the summary in 15 seconds. this one I use but there are plenty of others as well https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-with-chat/nmmicjeknamkfloonkhhcjmomieiodli https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-wit...

singleshot_ 3y ago
1) a smart person writes something 2) a grifter makes that written product into a YouTube video optimized for slurping up advertising money 3) a grifter makes an AI summary for slurping up… well I guess I don’t really understand the business model but it does not seem like an improvement. Why not just read the book and pay the author?
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  because time isn't fungible, and 99% of books, esp. about factual-ish stuff, can usually be boiled down to a few bulletpoints. most books don't require that much nuance, nor "the experience" of reading it
  - singleshot_ 3y ago
    An interesting thing about fungibility is that _something is fungible to the extent that one treats it as fungible_. Yes, dollar bills are generally fungible but I might pay more for one with a serial number with lots of zeroes — it’s good for liar’s poker. I might devalue a dollar bill that you just blew your nose on. That aside, I’m still not convinced I know what you mean when you say time is not fungible. I think what you might mean is that time is precious and not to be wasted, but I’m not sure what this has to do with fungibility. Regardless, I think I agree with your main point which is that most written works are low-content repetitive trash. Let’s stipulate that I’m only talking about buying and reading rich, innovative, and/or elucidating works of nonfiction. They all require a great deal of nuance, I assure you.

MisterTea 3y ago

Is there a search engine for video and podcast content? What if the information I'm looking for is a 30 second blurb in a video or podcast that isn't part of the main subject or keywords? Its lost. If it were text it could be indexed very easily.

Zambyte 3y ago
To be fair, things do seem to quickly be moving in this direction. With the rise of language model driven speech to text, and visual to text, this is probably a few years out at most.

gessha 3y ago

I use Matter(iOS) for reading and annotating articles. It has the capability to load transcripts of videos and podcasts so you can read them as text. It's pretty neat.