Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:02 AM UTC

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We need to figure out what "frequent" is here. Tom Scott was doing >4 videos per month, Mr. Beast does about 2 per month, CGP Grey has done 1 per month for a decade. Tom Scott, even on a very relaxing working schedule, could put out 1 video per month.

These days Grey doesnt even do 1 per month. What does he even do now, only Cortex? I sometimes missed Hello Internet.

Post by rokkitmensch » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:09 AM UTC

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Yeah but the burden is now on you to sift through the garbage to find the good stuff, especially since it's mostly mixed together in recommendations or search results etc. It feels more limited to me the other way around, like yes we have added some more good stuff, but good luck finding it. If my favorite hobby store kept on expanding and expanding and the ratio of great stuff to garbage kept going down, I would def…

This has always been the case since the printing press practically. There's always been way too much quality 'content' to manage and you have to sift your way through it. What has changed is that everything is now at our fingertips and we expose ourselves to the recommendation feed. I guess I'm saying that the problem hasn't changed, just our awareness of it.

Post by goldcd » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:42 AM UTC

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I agree! But the thing is— I’ve got about fifty Tom Scotts in my subscription list. I’m perplexed by doomsaysers’ laments about the state of online educational media. I’ve got far more high quality content for a huge variety of topics than I’ve ever had before. My theory is this: your favourite hobby store expands and adds one more aisle of fantastic products and five aisles of garbage. You’ll likely perceive quality…

the problem i have with educational youtube is that it's competence porn. it's quite satisfying to watch lyle peterson, kiwami japan, grandpa amu, nigel braun, grant sanderson, andy george, or xyla foxlin working through the problems involved in creating something, to the point that hours spent getting satisfied that way displace the far more effortful hours required to work through those problems myself. but i don't…

Post by pfdietz » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 1:46 AM UTC

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

A couple I don’t see that I love watching are good machinists and restoration. So here are my go tos: my mechanics Hand Tool Rescue Cutting Edge Engineering Inheritance Machining

Post by eozoon » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 2:05 AM UTC

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> Turn on the subtitles on any of his videos (particularly when there are multiple speakers) and you'll see the effort that goes in to it. He actually did a video on subtitles recently, "Why don't subtitles match dubbing?": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9sHwNKc2c

His explanation about why subtitles don't match dubbing is not convincing. Basically he says that subtitling and dubbing are done by different teams with different goals. The dubbing crew tries to match lip movement. OK, so why not use the script that the dubbing team produced for the subtitles? Why do the translation twice? His explanation for that: (a) sometimes what's spoken is too long to fit as subtitles on the…