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Thats because we have a trove of in depth specialist and deep youtube content including all those old documentaries to mine through these days Youtube and the
by AIorNot 4mo ago
Thats because we have a trove of in depth specialist and deep youtube content including all those old documentaries to mine through these days
Youtube and the internet is a goldmine and way bigger than old 80s/90s content, im over 50 and remember the 80s well enough.. a few great well produced documentaries are not a comparable to gigabytes or petabytes of videos and podcasts we have today
The cultural format of exchange has changed and the consequences of that - so called tiktok attention deficit folks means perhaps no one watches this content but I think that too is a generalization and great content is watched probably by a greater proportion of smart curious people today than back in the 80s on your phone nonetheless- we have a pocket tv with an almost unlimited amount of content
Im an information junkie and just today I spent 3 hours watching a documentary series on the incan civilization follower by a Stanford video on LLMs and then watching Blaise Arcas’s interesting ideas on computational life and intelligence
https://youtu.be/KhSJuqDUJME?si=-TMkLdapsbcWuoft https://youtu.be/KhSJuqDUJME?si=-TMkLdapsbcWuoft
- absynth 4mo agoYou watched all that content. Did you take action on it? What did you make or do as a result?
- tclancy 4mo agoIs that to be the end result of the pursuit of knowledge, creating something? There is the true dumbing down, insisting on a vague kind of productivity as the point of life.
- absynth 4mo agoWhy would doing something or taking action be dumbing down? You are bristling with something like anger but it has nothing to do with what I wrote. I'm off to go hiking. There are thousands of stars out there.
- simonh 4mo agoWhat will you make or do as a result of going hiking and looking at stars?
- AIorNot 4mo agoeh, sometimes its just passive consumption, I'm not claiming it makes me a better person..but it rattles around in my head and latter bubbles up as creative solutions I think.. I would be an information junkie in whatever world I was in regardless..