2/ This is bad, and not for snobby reasons. If my blindness to YouTube is symptomatic, it means that there is a void of people who prefer to read and study things in the ecosystem preferred by most people.
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3/ Coupling this with the dynamics of algorithms implementing something like preferential attachment, and you have a massive network that reinforces the worst and laziest of human motivated reasoning.
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4/ It's like upside-down version of a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. The Paleolithic Man's Animated Shitshow Reinforcer.
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5/ Seriously, this isn't a dig at the medium. There are some incredible videos that allow for easily-accessible knowledge, imparted at stupendous rates. (Especially some of the
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6/ And, of course, the unwillingness of
@youtube to act like a community, saying, "no, if you can't pass a basic Turing test of human decency, you can't share here."Show this thread
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