[rippercushions]

> Professor Bankman-Fried is my tutor. He’s as good at explaining the principles of macroeconomics as anyone out there in the world today—and I know this for a fact because I’ve subsequently watched YouTube’s best on the same subject. But SBF teaches me Macro while simultaneously playing round after round of Storybook Brawl.

This stuff is beyond parody. Dude's getting interviewed for a nauseatingly butt-kissing puff piece, and he can't tear himself away from a game targeted at literal children. (He bought the developers and proceeded to cram NFTs into it.)

[SantalBlush]

Also, this

>I know this for a fact because I’ve subsequently watched YouTube’s best on the same subject

should never be said about any subject, unless it's being said ironically.

[dghlsakjg]

I mean, MIT, Harvard, LSE, Chicago and others have Econ course lectures on YT. You can watch lectures from lecturers that students at these institutions have trouble getting access to.

Don’t be so sure that you can’t learn from the absolute best on YT.

[rchaud]

A YT video does not give you assignments, reading lists or office hours to ask questions in.

I'd question the value of OCW-only autodidacts, in much the same way I would someone who claimed fitness training is unnecessary because he already knows about proper form having Arnold Schwarzenegger's VHS workout tapes.

[FormerBandmate]

That’s Peloton’s entire business model lmao

[parineum]

YouTube's best and the best that are on YouTube mean something different to me. The latter being MIT, Harvard, LSE and Chicago's best on YouTube and the former youtube.com/econonomydude.