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We don't need all this video online
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Most books are probably crap (Sturgeon’s law) but most of what is in books can’t be relayed in another way.
Books (or online text) allow for thoughts or information to be collected in a way that is informationally dense yet compact while also serving as a (virtually) permanent physical record.
That’s the advantage that books have over relating information orally.
In contrast to books or text, videos are informationally sparse yet very large.
But maybe I missed something, please feel free to elaborate on your point.
So you're argument boils down to "the presence of bad apple means we should toss the whole bunch"
Must be a police library...
This is an awful take, books can be relayed as audio, ever hear of audiobooks? I guess fuck blind people right?
Orally doesn’t mean audio. Orally means in person communication.
Audiobooks are fine. I’d say still inferior to actual books because they require equipment and a large time commitment. Great for accessibility however.
Additionally, in your rush to paint me as some blind people hating ableist you seem to have forgotten that Braille is a thing.
It would actually be interesting and informative to hear from some actual blind people about which they prefer and which mode of delivery — audio or Braille — allows them to process information faster.
Audiobooks and podcasts are great for me because I use them while running. I'm learning a ton about history lately, but sometimes it's nice to read a novel while exercising and obviously cannot hold a book.
I'm sure video plays a similar role for a lot of people's use case. Particularly younger generations likely engage better with it due to ubiquitous presence as they grew up. Though that may have been bad for their attention spans with things like tik tok.
What is the difference between a text file and a video file in the digital space? You're argument seems invalid at it's core.
The difference is a 1000 word article requires maybe 500kbs to be stored and the size of a video of someone reading that article in glorious 4k60fps even with the best compression algorithms in the world would be still be several orders of magnitude larger.
That data has to be stored somewhere. Those datacenters require energy and maintenance which is neither cheap nor very good for the climate.
But there’s two points I’m trying to make and I may have conflated then somewhat.
If I was curating videos 99% of TikTok and Twitch streams wouldn't make the cut because they seem utterly pointless to me. But they are both massively popular so I think it's better to just let people produce content and what's popular will sort itself out. It's good to have choices.