Eh, insightful and thoughtful videos tend to have better comments than the low brow videos, but they're still not useful. The best of them read like a decent-bu

Eh, insightful and thoughtful videos tend to have better comments than the low brow videos, but they're still not useful. The best of them read like a decent-but-not-great subreddit's comment thread. Taking one example, 3Blue1Brown's Deep Learning series, episode 6. Here are the top few comments [0]: > I'm a university lecturer with a PhD in AI, and I cannot compete with the quality of this work. Videos like this put the entire higher education system to shame. Fantastic! This is a nice comment, but doesn't contribute anything to my day. I'm sure the creator is glad to see it and I'm glad someone said it, but I don't need to read it. > Are you kidding me? ONE WEEK FOR 2 MASTERPIECES?! > Thank you so much! Same story. > I've got to say - "Attention Is All You Need" is an incredible title for a research paper. And now we're down to the reddit comments. > As a graduating PhD student working in Natural Language Processing, I still found that video to be extremely beneficial. Awesome! Nice. > 3b1b is the only content producer whose videos I start by first making coffee, then upvoting, then hitting the play button. Nice. > Attention existed before the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need". > The main contribution was that attention was... all you needed for sequence processing (you didn't need recurrence). Self-attention specifically was novel though. Finally a comment that contributed something. Not much, mind you (the video doesn't actually claim otherwise), but something. Unfortunately, that's it. I kept scrolling for a while longer through pages and pages of thank-yous. And that's typically my experience with comments on thoughtful videos. It's not usually like the HN comments where you can actually get a lot of value from the comments alone, they're just... shallow. Sometimes nice shallow, but still shallow. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc