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This is nothing but blogspam of the embedded Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM. This arti
by dublinben 2y ago
This is nothing but blogspam of the embedded Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM. This article adds nothing that is not already included in the video itself.
- jimmaswell 2y agoIt is nice to get a good gist without committing to a video sometimes.
- lisper 2y agoUnless is a Tom Scott video. Those are almost always worth the investment.
- serf 2y agosome people just don't watch youtube. someone that's a quarter-of-the-way proficient at speed reading can read a short article like this in seconds -- without the time investment or the need to buffer video data to read the transcript. every media has a place, generally speaking the trivia and background included in a YT video is interesting -- but in the end it's Jeopardy answers and brain-candy for me 90% of the time.
- poincaredisk 2y agoI never watch videos. I don't like it, and overall I consider that a waste of time that could be better spent reading.
- omoikane 2y agoI use the "show transcript"[1] function for that. [1] In the web (desktop) version of youtube, if you expand the description, there is a "show transcript" button near the bottom. Not sure about mobile or other versions.
- planetpluta 2y agoI appreciate being able to quickly skim an article rather than watch a video - especially when in public without headphones!
- niccl 2y agodefinitely agree. the information density of well written article (or even 'blog- spam, in this case) is far higher than almost any video
- jvanderbot 2y agoHave you tried any video summarization services?
- dotancohen 2y agoRecommendations?
- jvanderbot 2y agoWell I haven't tried any, but am wondering if anyone else has. Posting here below a downvote won't help anyone but us, but here's a couple I'm looking at: https://www.summarize.tech/ https://www.summarize.tech/ https://notegpt.io/youtube-video-summarizer https://notegpt.io/youtube-video-summarizer
- lucideer 2y agoI don't think you can count something as blogspam unless it's rehashing something in the same medium as itself. Video to text is fine imo.
- fsckboy 2y agospam is advertising; blogspam is a blog that appears to be about something, but it's not really (and as a result, it's very thin, regurgitated, etc), it's an attempt to lure you into a relationship with a predator this particular article is not a good replacement for the video, it adds nothing, it subtracts some things... but the video also doesn't say all you want to hear either. The article could have used a small animated gif like one might see in a wikipedia article. It would be very nice to see what simple patterns when overlaid would give you >> and << from different angles.
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- bookofjoe 2y agoI never watch embedded YouTube videos so this is definitely NOT blogspam for people of my ilk.
- chinathrow 2y agoI think OP means the blog does not add value compared to the original video everyone can watch on YT directly.
- bookofjoe 2y agoAh. Can... but prefer not to in my case. See, for example: https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf
- al_borland 2y agoI threw this in some AI to have it summarized. I’m not sure what this has to do with watch watching videos on YouTube. Care to explain your key point, rather than hoping people can glean it from a 30 page metaphor?
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- jannyfer 2y agoBookofjoe is a retired anesthesiologist (an old man). The 30 page story is about a guy who would “prefer not to” and stayed that way until he died. (I only skimmed the story) Bookofjoe would prefer not to watch the video. You would prefer not to read the 30 page story.
- raldi 2y agoI’m cool with having that link swapped in.
- IshKebab 2y agoI mean in fairness the 3:53 video is about 3 minutes longer than necessary.
- xanderlewis 2y agoYou could say something similar about most books. But padding isn’t totally pointless; longer videos are probably more memorable in the long term, and so are longer books that repeat themselves ad nauseam.
- darajava 2y agoYes but if OP posted the video it would have been killed by HN’s filters.