At this point I don’t understand why he is still hustling new products and ventures all the time. That’s the mental illness at this point. Using LLM is a symptom, like plagiarism would have been.
Why is it so important that he keeps producing content? What is there left he can possibly teach himself that platforming someone else wouldn’t achieve better.
There’s just something maladaptive here.
Listened to someone talk about a bad video he made about knitting and how clueless he was about the topic. He then acknowledged that and made a subsequent video interview… about weaving. There’s just this lack of profoundness you’ll inevitably reach when you yourself are out of your field.
I’m kind of done with edutainment. Like I’m tired of singular smart people acting like they know everything, when they don’t.
Yes. He doesn’t want to admit, he’s gone as far down this path as he responsibly can. He doesn’t want to transition to the “producer” role, where he becomes a resource for a new generation that’s seeking a future away from the old platforms.
It’s a bit like the oil man who knows his work enabled so much good, unable to also admit his product has a dark side, and it’s time for us all to move on from it. That times changed and a new world is struggling to be born.
I disagree about “edutainment” in a qualified way. We still need communicators and domain experts sharing their knowledge, and there’s still a great deal of knowledge to share, but I don’t think it’s on YouTube (or TikTok). People talking out of turn on matters so far outside their expertise and experience they’re effectively neophytes, and just as vulnerable to Dunning-Kruger impulses certainly doesn’t help. I don’t think that AI or better algorithms are going to save them either, that’s a good way to end up lost in a psychotic hallucination. I don’t know what it will look like yet but it isn’t going to come from the tech giants. Unless Wikipedia wants to take a crack at it, they might be the only ones that could pull it off.
At this point I don’t understand why he is still hustling new products and ventures all the time. That’s the mental illness at this point. Using LLM is a symptom, like plagiarism would have been.
Why is it so important that he keeps producing content? What is there left he can possibly teach himself that platforming someone else wouldn’t achieve better.
There’s just something maladaptive here.
Listened to someone talk about a bad video he made about knitting and how clueless he was about the topic. He then acknowledged that and made a subsequent video interview… about weaving. There’s just this lack of profoundness you’ll inevitably reach when you yourself are out of your field.
I’m kind of done with edutainment. Like I’m tired of singular smart people acting like they know everything, when they don’t.
Yes. He doesn’t want to admit, he’s gone as far down this path as he responsibly can. He doesn’t want to transition to the “producer” role, where he becomes a resource for a new generation that’s seeking a future away from the old platforms.
It’s a bit like the oil man who knows his work enabled so much good, unable to also admit his product has a dark side, and it’s time for us all to move on from it. That times changed and a new world is struggling to be born.
I disagree about “edutainment” in a qualified way. We still need communicators and domain experts sharing their knowledge, and there’s still a great deal of knowledge to share, but I don’t think it’s on YouTube (or TikTok). People talking out of turn on matters so far outside their expertise and experience they’re effectively neophytes, and just as vulnerable to Dunning-Kruger impulses certainly doesn’t help. I don’t think that AI or better algorithms are going to save them either, that’s a good way to end up lost in a psychotic hallucination. I don’t know what it will look like yet but it isn’t going to come from the tech giants. Unless Wikipedia wants to take a crack at it, they might be the only ones that could pull it off.