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Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

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Post by natebc »

satvikpendem wrote: post #117
_Algernon_ wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you've saved "years of watching" by using sponsorblock and 2x speed, that's not how you use YT. Sponsorblock saves 25% at most. To be clear, I am not saying that youtube has no use, but the commenter I originally responded to is clearly in excess of whatever that reasonable level is.

How exactly does one "use YouTube," in your opinion then? You also forgot the effects of the other extensions than just SponsorBlock, even 2x speed (I watch at higher than that usually) saves 50% immediately. You presume I don't also do those things you listed, I now have more time to do them because of the time saved, not less.

You watch and enjoy the content that you like, find useful or otherwise enjoy instead of min-maxing your way to not supporting the platform or creators that are spending their time creating that content.

Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

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Post by satvikpendem »

natebc wrote: post #132
satvikpendem wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How exactly does one "use YouTube," in your opinion then? You also forgot the effects of the other extensions than just SponsorBlock, even 2x speed (I watch at higher than that usually) saves 50% immediately. You presume I don't also do those things you listed, I now have more time to do them because of the time saved, not less.

You watch and enjoy the content that you like, find useful or otherwise enjoy instead of min-maxing your way to not supporting the platform or creators that are spending their time creating that content.

If the platform and creators are incentivized to waste my time, then why would I support that? I watch and enjoy the content even more knowing that I am not wasting my time.

Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

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Post by _Algernon_ »

smsm42 wrote: post #127
_Algernon_ wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those aren't books. They're printed blogs you pay for. Every book can be published as a pdf. That doesn't mean that every pdf is a book.

No true Scottsman!

Actually its implication: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication

Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

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Post by downsplat »

gloosx wrote: post #30

Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared. Cool that implementation is open-source, though yt automatic captions are sometimes completely off-point, especially when people talking in the video don't have a diction of a tv show host. I wonder if an idea found it's niche after all? Do you guys summarise you videos to short texts and that leaves you satisfied? For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. Wi…

> For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade.

Exact opposite for me. Reading goes at my pace, in silence. Video is much more invasive, so I avoid it except for the highest quality stuff.

Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

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Post by righthand »

fullshark wrote: post #136

So what is everyone doing with all this free time they've now accumulated from not reading, watching, or listening to media?

Chatting with AI bots.

I agree that this mentality of works being “too long so don’t ingest it”, is not a healthy way to go about life and thinking in general.

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