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> There’s no “learn about the world” course you take There's practically an undoable number of hours of free courses on Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, and othe
by ibejoeb 2y ago
> There’s no “learn about the world” course you take
There's practically an undoable number of hours of free courses on Coursera, Udemy, Khan Academy, and others. Thousands of hours of interesting material on youtube.
- kergonath 2y agoI used to think so, but with more experience a lot of dark patterns and perverse incentives are becoming obvious. These people are not there to explain something interesting in a useful way, they are there to get your eyeballs to extract money from advertising or a Patreon. They are not teaching you, they are making you think they teach you to make you feel satisfied and give them money. Of course some of them are actually good, but a lot are not really.
- lotsofpulp 2y ago> Of course some of them are actually good, but a lot are not really. How does the ratio of actually good to not really in the real world compare? It seems pretty amazing that anyone, anywhere can watch a physics lecture from the multiple top professors at any time.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoThere's also Wikipedia. It takes a pretty long time to exhaust that, although I've tried my hardest.
- viktor_von 2y agoAd-free and fast, Wikipedia is imo the best learning resource on-the-go, at home, or at work.