[AIorNot]

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

[absynth]

You watched all that content. Did you take action on it? What did you make or do as a result?

[tclancy]

Is 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]

Why 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]

What will you make or do as a result of going hiking and looking at stars?

[AIorNot]

eh, 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..