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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.
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.
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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.
This is where the snide touch grass comment above was awkwardly pointing. If you feel like you're wasting your time and can't be bothered to do so in a holistically responsible way (supporting the creators at the very least) then perhaps your time would be better spent doing something else. i.e. you may be wasting your time already. I probably shouldn't have wandered into a thread that's ostensibly about ripping off…
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> 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.
Interesting, I was always thinking that audio/visual information is naturally much easier to consume. For instance: I can watch a video and count to 10 in my head at the same time – I will still get everything what was in that video – but with text it's a much harder task since the head is fully occupied with "narrating" the text what I'm reading, so reading in the end turns into podcast inside the head before actual…
When I read about a new technology and they have a video instead of a blog post, I just close the browser. If it is useful, someone will probably post a blog on HN at some point in time
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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.
It's not that, it's "too long with low information density so ingest it more efficiently." That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.
That seems like an arms race, how do you know there aren't more productive ways to enjoy your time? Can something less productive be more enjoyable?
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It's not that, it's "too long with low information density so ingest it more efficiently." That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.
> That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable. That seems like an arms race, how do you know there aren't more productive ways to enjoy your time? Can something less productive be more enjoyable?
I can't speak to the differences between the two. Once casual observation is that the one posted by the OP seems to be a lot faster..
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I use SponsorBlock (be sure to enable all categories of blocking such as filler content, not just sponsors), DeArrow (de-clickbaits thumbnails and titles) and a video speed changer extension to enable much of your stated functionality, though of course not all. I've saved likely years of watching due to this combination.
YouTube has a speed changer built in. I'm curious what your extension would add.