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> and yet kooks still make it Can you please link me to someone you consider a kook on TED.com? The main couple kooks people talk about years later after TED h

by gmu3 14y ago

> and yet kooks still make it Can you please link me to someone you consider a kook on TED.com? The main couple kooks people talk about years later after TED has made changes like vortex math never make TED.com and for good reason. If you honestly believe less than 1% of TEDx video have any merit, I think that is fairly elitist of you.

untog 14y ago
If you honestly believe less than 1% of TEDx video have any merit, I think that is fairly elitist of you. I feel like TED is supposed to be elitist, in terms of the quality of its content.
- gmu3 14y ago
  I agree to a point but don't think 1% is too accepting. In many ways I think the top 1% of TEDx talks exceed the quality of some traditional TED conference talks, because they typically are doing it solely because of the idea as oppose to conference speakers who have other commercial interests, often promoting themselves and/or their new book.
  - ProblemFactory 14y ago
    The value of TED over youtube.com, or an academic seminar at any university is their quality of talks and rigorous selection process - or "elitism" if you wish. I can believe that the top 1% of TEDx talks are better than the average TED talk. Maybe 10% are worth looking at once you have seen most of TED talks, the best online courses, the best Google TechTalks, etc on your area of interest. But why are the rest of the 90% even there? Having a few great talks doesn't matter, if there is no way to find them out of the mass of inanity on TEDx or elsewhere online.
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breadbox 14y ago
While I don't have enough background to personally pass judgement on Allan Savory, Chris Clarke apparently does. It's not the full-on kookiness of vortex math, but apparently he feels that to an ecologist, his TED talk is "full of red flags": http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/east-ca/learn-how-to-hate-the-desert-with-ted.html http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/east-ca/l... I don't feel that one counterexample automatically disproves your main point, but it is a TED.com talk.

by gmu3 14y ago

untog 14y ago

If you honestly believe less than 1% of TEDx video have any merit, I think that is fairly elitist of you. I feel like TED is supposed to be elitist, in terms of the quality of its content.

gmu3 14y ago
I agree to a point but don't think 1% is too accepting. In many ways I think the top 1% of TEDx talks exceed the quality of some traditional TED conference talks, because they typically are doing it solely because of the idea as oppose to conference speakers who have other commercial interests, often promoting themselves and/or their new book.
- ProblemFactory 14y ago
  The value of TED over youtube.com, or an academic seminar at any university is their quality of talks and rigorous selection process - or "elitism" if you wish. I can believe that the top 1% of TEDx talks are better than the average TED talk. Maybe 10% are worth looking at once you have seen most of TED talks, the best online courses, the best Google TechTalks, etc on your area of interest. But why are the rest of the 90% even there? Having a few great talks doesn't matter, if there is no way to find them out of the mass of inanity on TEDx or elsewhere online.

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breadbox 14y ago

While I don't have enough background to personally pass judgement on Allan Savory, Chris Clarke apparently does. It's not the full-on kookiness of vortex math, but apparently he feels that to an ecologist, his TED talk is "full of red flags": http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/east-ca/learn-how-to-hate-the-desert-with-ted.html http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/east-ca/l... I don't feel that one counterexample automatically disproves your main point, but it is a TED.com talk.