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The problem with condensed information is that it is extremely lossy. Sure, you may learn something with the bite-sized entertainment offered by a TikTok video
by sebmellen 3y ago
The problem with condensed information is that it is extremely lossy. Sure, you may learn something with the bite-sized entertainment offered by a TikTok video or Instagram Reel, but the deeper substance is not there. It’s like saying that by eating 200 individual cheerios, or maybe 200 individual pieces of all kinds of cereal, you’ve eaten a full meal. But you haven’t, really.
Learning and understanding requires expending some kind of effort, and easy access to condensed information actually precludes you from experiencing that. If we don’t digest what we learn we are no better than LLMs — mindlessly regurgitating small bits of non-integrated information back and forth to each other.
- jonnycoder 3y agoThat’s well said. I mostly use LLMs to help me learn faster, not to do my work for me. There’s a lot more value to applied learning but it does require a lot of time and effort.
- xvector 3y agoThere are plenty of topics you can get the gist of in 30-60 seconds. When the alternative is not spending any time learning those topics at all, I'll take the 30 seconds. I'm not going to spend minutes to hours learning something I'm barely interested in to begin with. As far as general knowledge goes, TikTok/Reels are great.