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> TikTok isn't useful If information is increasingly hyper-abundant and attention is not, we must increasingly learn to value high bandwidth / compressed commu

• YurgenJurgensen 2y ago
  Nothing is stopping you from putting a 10-second webm in that instruction manual, and has the advantage that you're not selling your soul to a company that probably hates you.
• skydhash 2y ago
  > If information is increasingly hyper-abundant and attention is not, we must increasingly learn to value high bandwidth / compressed communication. Like TikTok. What has grown is irrelevant information. We don't need compressed communication (which loose nuance and is dangerous, because it leads to erroneous understanding) or high bandwidth one (which doesn't lead to reflection and internalization). What we need is better filtering. Be conscious and mindful of what you're spending your time on. Instead of watching 500 hundreds video of making cakes, just buy a cookbook and go make cakes. > However, I've seen a 10 second TikTok monkey-see-monkey-do beat a 10 page instruction manual full of diagrams and paragraphs at effectively instructing newbies who always struggled with cable assemblies -- until they didn't, because they had TikTok. Short Training Videos existed before tiktok (I had a VHS tape for learning Windows and it was mostly a collection of these). But that's mostly like watching someone play a song on the piano and believing you can do it too. If you have a good memory, you can probably replay the same song, but you still can't play the piano. Some fields don't have that depth of theory. But books are still the best at transmitting it (watching an expert is best at understanding it).
  • schmidtleonard 2y ago
    It's funny that you're repeating my statements on other forms of media sometimes being more appropriate back to me as if I hadn't thought of the possibility, lol. Better filtering values compression. There are other concerns -- I mentioned them myself -- but compression is orthogonal and significant and TikTok progresses considerably on that front and if you don't see the value in it you're missing out in a big way.
  • unhingedcrouton 2y ago
    > What we need is better filtering. Better filtering, while useful, is a fools errand. What we really need is to remove the incentives to produce junk content. I have no idea how but I am pretty sure it is related to digital ~~cancer~~ advertising.
  • fragmede 2y ago
    > But books are still the best at transmitting it 1:1 interactive training from an expert is far better than reading a book, it just doesn't scale.