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The amount of human knowledge available today on youtube I think nothing will ever come close as apart from formal knowledge we have millions of small hacks imp

The amount of human knowledge available today on youtube I think nothing will ever come close as apart from formal knowledge we have millions of small hacks improvements that would probably not been written down but have been recorded. If you are dedicated enough today you can go from being a novice to being quite proficient in 100s of different things. And every day the knowledge keeps increasing as well as improving.

croes 3y ago
The same is true for disinformation. If you down the rabbit hole you start losing your mind.
wkat4242 3y ago
I think there is much more information on the internet in written format though. Which I personally find a lot more accessible as well. I always find video really slow and not very information dense, I don't have the patience for it. I get frustrated with the slow delivery whereas I can consume written text at my own speed. Skipping video works of course but I constantly have to "resync" my mind after a skip which happens automatically with written content. Written text can also be overly verbose and woolly but somehow I can scan through it even faster and summarise it without even thinking. It's really weird. But it's great video exists for those who love it of course. And I think most people find video more easily accessible. I'm more of an outlier. Fwiw I already stopped watching live TV many years ago :) All the ads, the endless game shows and talkshows with the celebs loving the sound of their own voices, no thanks.
- ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
  > I always find video really slow and not very information dense That always depends on the actual "information". Some stuff is "better" in written form, other things need audio and for other video is neccesary. Trivial thing is needing audio to e.g. hear music (yes, even if I can read musical notation) or pronunciation, intonation and accentuation of words or videos of physical "movement" in sports, crafts and art (dancing, theater,...). But no, I wouldn't watch somebody programming for hours instead of reading about that either.
  - Paradigma11 3y ago
    I agree but there is one thing I do love about programming videos. It shows you every step of the way. In written information very often some "obvious" steps are left out or forgotten which will cost you a few hours to get right.
  - amadeuspagel 3y ago
    Even with programming, videos are better to learn how to use GUIs like VS Code and Chrome Dev Tools.
- rightbyte 3y ago
  For some things video is superior though. Like, replacing brake calipers. It is really hard to see what to do on a drawing.
  - tracker1 3y ago
    Agreed.. for mechanical and some electrical things, watching video of far more useful. For others, reading is better. Unlike some, I do appreciate programming videos. It's often helpful to understand concepts with the examples even if you don't recall the precise code or libraries. I'm those cases, it would be nice if more videos had accompanying articles. I've thought about making some beginner to expert JS/TS content a few times. But no idea if the effort would really be worth it in terms of reach/audience. I've been working on Web based apps since the mid-late 90s. Which is also IMO a hindrance as it's often harder to think in terms of how best to learn things vs the changes over time in practice. Ironically I also spent about a decade writing in eLearning systems and content. Which taught me it's simply amazing how much you can learn and forget. A couple years ago, realized mid conversation that I couldn't completely explain jet engines anymore. I've learned and forgotten so much domain knowledge that it's hard to express. There's plenty of more recent stuff floating around. On TFA subject, I've always enjoyed learning about history/warfare and related tech as well as food and nutrition. Most of my television time is in YouTube. I've recently dropped all other streaming services to cut back on the expense... I use YouTube(+music) way too much to deal with the annoying ads.
- huytersd 3y ago
  Most things that aren’t academic can’t really be learned by reading about it. You have to see someone do it to get all the thousands of different bits of information you cannot possibly write down. Videos are extremely information dense depending on what you’re trying to learn.
- Hayatabad 3y ago
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masteruvpuppetz 3y ago
Finding the right videos is only the limiting factor. So many times I get frustrated and give up not finding what I'm looking for.
troupo 3y ago
The problem is that Youtube severely nerfed their search (ironic given that Google still pretends it's a search company). Now if you search for something will give you 5 relevant videos, 10 "for you videos" and then an endless list of something it hopes you will engage with, whether relevant or not
- deleted 3y ago
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- testplzignore 3y ago
  I just opened the YouTube app and the first recommended video is "youtube's search function is atrocious now". Their search function may be bad, but the addiction feed is spot on!
  - johnfernow 3y ago
    Here's the video for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk tl;dw: First, he searches the exact name of the video on YouTube: it shows a fan-made animated skit of it, the wrong videos but from the right channel, and several re-uploads with only a few hundred views. Second, he adds the channel name before the name of the video in the search bar. Same results. Third, he tries searching for a famous line from the video: still no luck. Finally, he sorts by view count and it shows up, but still not as the first result. Is this some obscure video from some obscure channel? Nope, the video has 15 million views from a channel with 3.91 million subscribers that uploads videos regularly. He has a verified account which was created in 2006. I just tried doing the same search as he did in an incognito window, and it also didn't show up for me until I sorted by view count. I ran it on archive.today, and while it has slightly different results than what I got, nowhere in the search results does it ever show the original video with 15 million views. https://archive.ph/ksZhq https://archive.ph/ksZhq
  - tracker1 3y ago
    Not for me... I'll go in a tangent for a couple videos,. Then have to sell out something else from my follows... Sometimes to discover I'm no longer following the channel. I can't stand it more often than not.
bberrry 3y ago
I know it's silly but I sometimes feel anxiety at the prospect of that enormous bank of knowledge getting lost in some way or another (e.g. Google deciding it wants to do something else or some disaster). It is truly invaluable to _humanity_
- LightHugger 3y ago
  youtube is doing it's best to now hobble search functionality on youtube, which is already a disaster from a discoverablity perspective. not to mention the huge amount of content that gets deleted due to claims of all kinda of nonsense and other bogus reports and faulty automated detection.
  - talldatethrow 3y ago
    I've tried to find speeches by someone I know the name of, and know basically half the title of the video, and know the context of the video that's for sure in the description or in the comments, and because I got a word or two wrong in the title, I get tons of other videos by the same guy, that have zero of the keywords that I included. Eventually I find it and I shake my head wondering how YouTube/Google could get this bad.
    - sokoloff 3y ago
      YouTube gets more minutes watched and ads shown if you discover other videos via search. It’s not like Google search, where being the best at search is a meaningful competitive advantage and necessary for survival. If YouTube found a credible competitor, I strongly suspect they’d improve their search (from the users’ perspective).
  - tracker1 3y ago
    It's often all but impossible to find videos from a few years ago. Wanting to show your now adult children a viral video from a decade and a half ago, nowhere to be found. Sometimes it feels like you're gaslighting yourself down a memory hole.

croes 3y ago

The same is true for disinformation. If you down the rabbit hole you start losing your mind.

wkat4242 3y ago

I think there is much more information on the internet in written format though. Which I personally find a lot more accessible as well. I always find video really slow and not very information dense, I don't have the patience for it. I get frustrated with the slow delivery whereas I can consume written text at my own speed. Skipping video works of course but I constantly have to "resync" my mind after a skip which happens automatically with written content. Written text can also be overly verbose and woolly but somehow I can scan through it even faster and summarise it without even thinking. It's really weird. But it's great video exists for those who love it of course. And I think most people find video more easily accessible. I'm more of an outlier. Fwiw I already stopped watching live TV many years ago :) All the ads, the endless game shows and talkshows with the celebs loving the sound of their own voices, no thanks.

ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
> I always find video really slow and not very information dense That always depends on the actual "information". Some stuff is "better" in written form, other things need audio and for other video is neccesary. Trivial thing is needing audio to e.g. hear music (yes, even if I can read musical notation) or pronunciation, intonation and accentuation of words or videos of physical "movement" in sports, crafts and art (dancing, theater,...). But no, I wouldn't watch somebody programming for hours instead of reading about that either.
- Paradigma11 3y ago
  I agree but there is one thing I do love about programming videos. It shows you every step of the way. In written information very often some "obvious" steps are left out or forgotten which will cost you a few hours to get right.
- amadeuspagel 3y ago
  Even with programming, videos are better to learn how to use GUIs like VS Code and Chrome Dev Tools.
rightbyte 3y ago
For some things video is superior though. Like, replacing brake calipers. It is really hard to see what to do on a drawing.
- tracker1 3y ago
  Agreed.. for mechanical and some electrical things, watching video of far more useful. For others, reading is better. Unlike some, I do appreciate programming videos. It's often helpful to understand concepts with the examples even if you don't recall the precise code or libraries. I'm those cases, it would be nice if more videos had accompanying articles. I've thought about making some beginner to expert JS/TS content a few times. But no idea if the effort would really be worth it in terms of reach/audience. I've been working on Web based apps since the mid-late 90s. Which is also IMO a hindrance as it's often harder to think in terms of how best to learn things vs the changes over time in practice. Ironically I also spent about a decade writing in eLearning systems and content. Which taught me it's simply amazing how much you can learn and forget. A couple years ago, realized mid conversation that I couldn't completely explain jet engines anymore. I've learned and forgotten so much domain knowledge that it's hard to express. There's plenty of more recent stuff floating around. On TFA subject, I've always enjoyed learning about history/warfare and related tech as well as food and nutrition. Most of my television time is in YouTube. I've recently dropped all other streaming services to cut back on the expense... I use YouTube(+music) way too much to deal with the annoying ads.
huytersd 3y ago
Most things that aren’t academic can’t really be learned by reading about it. You have to see someone do it to get all the thousands of different bits of information you cannot possibly write down. Videos are extremely information dense depending on what you’re trying to learn.
Hayatabad 3y ago
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masteruvpuppetz 3y ago

Finding the right videos is only the limiting factor. So many times I get frustrated and give up not finding what I'm looking for.

troupo 3y ago

The problem is that Youtube severely nerfed their search (ironic given that Google still pretends it's a search company). Now if you search for something will give you 5 relevant videos, 10 "for you videos" and then an endless list of something it hopes you will engage with, whether relevant or not

deleted 3y ago
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testplzignore 3y ago
I just opened the YouTube app and the first recommended video is "youtube's search function is atrocious now". Their search function may be bad, but the addiction feed is spot on!
- johnfernow 3y ago
  Here's the video for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSkkEr-wk tl;dw: First, he searches the exact name of the video on YouTube: it shows a fan-made animated skit of it, the wrong videos but from the right channel, and several re-uploads with only a few hundred views. Second, he adds the channel name before the name of the video in the search bar. Same results. Third, he tries searching for a famous line from the video: still no luck. Finally, he sorts by view count and it shows up, but still not as the first result. Is this some obscure video from some obscure channel? Nope, the video has 15 million views from a channel with 3.91 million subscribers that uploads videos regularly. He has a verified account which was created in 2006. I just tried doing the same search as he did in an incognito window, and it also didn't show up for me until I sorted by view count. I ran it on archive.today, and while it has slightly different results than what I got, nowhere in the search results does it ever show the original video with 15 million views. https://archive.ph/ksZhq https://archive.ph/ksZhq
- tracker1 3y ago
  Not for me... I'll go in a tangent for a couple videos,. Then have to sell out something else from my follows... Sometimes to discover I'm no longer following the channel. I can't stand it more often than not.

bberrry 3y ago

I know it's silly but I sometimes feel anxiety at the prospect of that enormous bank of knowledge getting lost in some way or another (e.g. Google deciding it wants to do something else or some disaster). It is truly invaluable to _humanity_

LightHugger 3y ago
youtube is doing it's best to now hobble search functionality on youtube, which is already a disaster from a discoverablity perspective. not to mention the huge amount of content that gets deleted due to claims of all kinda of nonsense and other bogus reports and faulty automated detection.
- talldatethrow 3y ago
  I've tried to find speeches by someone I know the name of, and know basically half the title of the video, and know the context of the video that's for sure in the description or in the comments, and because I got a word or two wrong in the title, I get tons of other videos by the same guy, that have zero of the keywords that I included. Eventually I find it and I shake my head wondering how YouTube/Google could get this bad.
  - sokoloff 3y ago
    YouTube gets more minutes watched and ads shown if you discover other videos via search. It’s not like Google search, where being the best at search is a meaningful competitive advantage and necessary for survival. If YouTube found a credible competitor, I strongly suspect they’d improve their search (from the users’ perspective).
- tracker1 3y ago
  It's often all but impossible to find videos from a few years ago. Wanting to show your now adult children a viral video from a decade and a half ago, nowhere to be found. Sometimes it feels like you're gaslighting yourself down a memory hole.