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by photonthug
359 days ago
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> A talking head rambling on for 60 minutes. And probably a few minutes of commercials too. I get the impression this is an emerging generational thing, but unless it's a recorded university course or a very interesting and reputable person.. no thanks. What is weird is that the instinct to prefer video seems motivated by laziness, and laziness is actually an adaptive thing to deal with information overload.. yet this noble impulse is clearly self-defeating in this circumstance. Why wait and/or click-through ads for something that's low-density in the first place, you can't search, etc. Especially now that you can transcript the video and quickly get AI to clean it up into a post, creating/linking a video potentially telegraphs stuff like: nothing much to say but a strong desire to be in the spotlight / narcissism / an acquisitiveness for clicks / engagement. Patiently enduring infinite ads while you're pursuing educational goals and assuming others are willing to, or assuming other people are paying for ad-free just because you do, all telegraphs a lack of respect for the audience, maybe also a lack of self-respect. Nothing against OP or this video in particular. More like a PSA about how this might come across to other people, because I can't be the only person that feels this way. |
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Always and entirely subjective of course, but I find Casey Muratori to be both interesting and reputable.
> What is weird is that the instinct to prefer video seems motivated by laziness, and laziness is actually an adaptive thing to deal with information overload...
What's even weirder is the instinct to not actually engage with the content of the linked video and a discussion on Conway's Law and organisational efficiency and instead head straight into a monologue about some kind of emerging generational phenomenon of laziness highlighted by a supposed preference for long video content, which seems somewhat ironic itself as ignoring the original subject matter to just post your preferences as 'PSA' is its own kind of laziness. To each their own I guess.
Although I do think the six-hour YouTube 'essays' really could do with some serious editing, so perhaps there's something there after all...