Truly delightful
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There's not really a way around this, and I think one of the explainer channels actually went into depth about it.
They gave an example of how everyone learns that the earth is a sphere, but once you 'dig deeper' you find it's not actually a sphere because it's elongated at the equator (making it a spheroid.) You can then 'dig even deeper' and find that the earth isn't really a spheroid, it has mountains and all kinds of other inconsistencies that don't matter to most people but can make a difference to an expert.
The real takeaway is that we should not consider ourselves experts, or even significantly more knowledgeable about a subject because we saw a video on one of these channels. They're for entertainment first.
no Wendover the first time I noticed he used the wrong care when talking about EVs, Volt instead of Bolt, and constantly could not get Kansas Town tames correctly. There are more but this is the only one that stuck in my head because it was my wakeup call.
When he got called out for it he said "Its fine and it does not make any difrence to the video, except it was the wrong car
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I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.
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Like all pop-science I think they're really educational on topics I know nothing about. On topics I do know well, I think: well that's wrong and that's wrong.
PBS spacetime is a good one
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Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.
It's not as good as it used to be, but I still find it comfortable to watch. I like the black hole and space stuff, like what terraforming a planet would look like, but yeah they definitely have some fluff videos. Unfortunately clickbait titles like THE WORLD MAY DIE is just YouTube 101, seems baked into every channel now. Very hard to find a channel that feels organic.
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Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He's done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.
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I love the content he covers, but his presentation style makes it impossible for me to watch. It's just too overly dramatic, and hyperactive for my tastes.
what? that sounds nothing like how I'd describe his work. is this about his shorts or regular videos?
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2019 Kurzgesagt: "I guess we will fact check, if that's important to you."
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Ever since Tom Nicholas' video criticising Veritasium's channel, and then how Veritasium handled the criticism after in the comment section... I haven't really watched any of Veritasium's video anymore.
I've seen him double down on being very wrong more than once. I find it hard to take him seriously knowing how very wrong he can be without wavering conviction.
If he's wrong when talking about the topics I do know about, what should I assume about his knowledge of topics I'm less familiar on?
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Shout out to PBS Space Time
That shit's my jam.
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what? that sounds nothing like how I'd describe his work. is this about his shorts or regular videos?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I just went back and watched a few to make sure I was remembering correctly. And yep, he's way too hyperactive, over animated, and dramatic for me. I mean, I don't hate his work, but it drives me a little crazy too watch it.
I'm talking about his full videos. I actively refuse to watch anything YouTube shows as a "short".
As a quick example, just watch the way his head and facial expressions zip around at the beginning of this video when he's in front of the white background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHL9GP_B30E
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here to rep "through the magic of having a broken one...!"
"Through the magic of heat pumps..."
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I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I'll pay it forward and share some that I like.
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Angela Collier
Bobby Broccoli
Climate Town
Computerphile
Defunctland
fern
Folding Ideas
JimmyTheGiant
KnowledgeHusk
Lextorias
Not Just Bikes
Odd Compass
Ordinary Things
PBS Space Time
slow start
Suibhne
Thought Slime
Tom Nicholas
You should probably note what they focus on so people know.
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Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He's done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.
A bit more esoteric and in-depth than these 4 and much better
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Ever since Tom Nicholas' video criticising Veritasium's channel, and then how Veritasium handled the criticism after in the comment section... I haven't really watched any of Veritasium's video anymore.
From reading the comments, it would seem that Tom really knows how to cherry pick his talking points. Which is about all i got from seeing his other videos too.
Veritasium really looks like the sympathetic one in that exchange. I mean. Tom really made a whole video trying very hard to smear someone that brings a net positive to the world. I dont find that the criticism warranted a 50 minute video over essentially nothing.
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It's not simply the Gates money, but the pivot to pursuing grants by chasing clicks to the exclusion of all else.
They've been Mr Beast-ified.
So happy capitalism allows me to experience network decay on the internet.
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So happy capitalism allows me to experience network decay on the internet.
Oops. Everything is The Learning Channel.
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I love watching Spacetime, but also feel like dum-dum-brain after watch. Me no think good enough to watch this show.
I feel like the more you watch the more watchable it is cause you get more and more context
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My problem with threads like this is that I only have 24 hours a day, and I've accumulated a critical mass of content creators to the point where I cannot keep up.
Which of these awesome people do I ignore?! What information do I leave behind!? How am I supposed to get anything useful done with my life?!?
Also, check out Chris Boden if you want to see something cool!
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I liked smarter every day but recently I have been kinda put off because of his fairly frequent military propaganda for USA's military.
Didn't he also make a video at some point heavily implying he believes in creationism?
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Been a while I didn't watch one of his videos, but I remember some US military stuff on there and I thought it was an interesting view from someone I think is smart but clearly doesn't share my political leanings.
Trying to not be in an echo chamber and all.
Important to note that I don't live in the US.
That's fair.
But it's not mainly his views that put me of (just kinda) it's the paid and unpaid sponsorships with the military. It's so obviously a recruitment strategy that it's painful to watch.
I don't live in the USA either.
