Comment by Sesse__
1 day ago
There's a perfectly good format for long-form dives: An article. But no, everything needs to be a video because otherwise, how would anyone bother to consume it.
1 day ago
There's a perfectly good format for long-form dives: An article. But no, everything needs to be a video because otherwise, how would anyone bother to consume it.
His videos have so much higher information density than texts can offer. Videos are just much more efficient and can explain things better for those topics.
I can read an article about 10x faster than watch a video. I don't have a problem with Alec's videos per se, but it's crazy to claim that video is the medium with higher information density. Text is always going to be the better medium for transmitting information, except for cases where the unique advantages of video (moving pictures and sound) help.
there are things you can communicate well in text as well as things that make more sense with visuals.
Please, stop thinking in binaries.
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No, for the kind of content he produces video is absolutely essential, since much of it is either demonstrating audio and video playback (including things like artifacts and color distortions), and showing how the internal mechanisms operate on partially disassembled machines.
You can do that just fine with the occasional video inside the article, though. I mean, significant parts of the video is just panning by some device while he's talking.