[cracoucax]

Actually much more impressive than the research videos, he clearly knows his way around youtube

[crooked-v]

And on top of that, can obviously recognize parrots in the video thumbnails.

[MichaelZuo]

It’s incredible that a 90 second video of someone with a pet parrot and an iPad is more illuminating then the average paper…

[makeitdouble]

This is truely the magic of the internet.

The earnestest researcher can't go survey every parrot in every home all around the world, but parrot owners can casually expose what their own parrots do.

Reminds me of the Twitter thread where a mite researcher discovers a new species in a photo posted by an amateur photographer.

[INTPenis]

Until they make a sudden and illogical change to their design.

[ethbr1]

YouTube UX: "We have this one weird cohort that's responding abnormally to all our UI A/B testing..."

[kibwen]

Only until enough parrot owners find out about this, at which point parrots overtake the human population of Youtube and the metrics start catering to them.

[ethbr1]

YouTube optimizing for toddlers and parrots makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it...

And that's to say nothing of the parrot ad click farms.

[082349872349872]

> and the metrics start catering to them

"in order to access this functionality, you must first chew through the charging cable"

[qohen]

Leading to something a bit like this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU

[layer8]

Just wait until the stochastic parrots discover YouTube…

[riwsky]

Parrots are the original stochastic parrot

[yieldcrv]

“Odd that its 50 year old males in Florida”