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This veritasium video was VERY controversial as it tries to make an edge case into the main thing and trick you. Also made me unsubscribe from his videos.
by jnsaff2 2y ago
This veritasium video was VERY controversial as it tries to make an edge case into the main thing and trick you.
Also made me unsubscribe from his videos.
- poorman 2y agoInteresting, I guess I'll have to dig deeper. I definitely want to understand this better.
- jsheard 2y agoI wrote off Veritasium when they ran an advertorial about how incredibly safe self-driving cars are, sponsored by Waymo, mostly just citing Waymos own studies.
- lokar 2y agoEveryone makes errors or decisions you will disagree with from time to time. If you write people off based on one (or a tiny fraction) of interactions you will be writing off a lot of the world.
- simcop2387 2y agoI had a similar reaction, though just becoming more skeptical of his videos. It did introduce me into a number of others that presented the counter arguments and more complete demonstrations and explanations of the whole thing that fixed a few of my own mis-understandings about it. I posted a sibling comment to yours about AlphaPhoenix who ended up doing the coolest and most complete demo and measurement of what's going on that I've ever seen.
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- Workaccount2 2y agoYeah, that whole electricity series really put a massive dent in how I viewed all his videos, knocking down veritasium from a 1st rate science channel to a 2nd or 3rd one. The entire series was predicated on a deeply technical "gotcha" that just caused a bunch of eye rolls from informed viewers.
- lokar 2y agoI thought it was well done I think it’s useful to point out that in many areas we use a simplified model of the world, because they are much easier to use and the predictions are accurate enough for the intended purposes. But they are not how things actually work, and people forget that.