Comment by wormius
1 day ago
Yeah, there's a great talk about the physics of the holographic information encoded on the surface by Raphael Bousso (if you have an hour):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgi6E1ECgo
HIGHLY recommend it for lay folks interested in this stuff. Which reminds me, I should yt-dl this so it's not lost, and I have a copy...
This is a great video, thanks for sharing.
My favorite quote and a point where something really clicked was when he said "If you tried smaller you would instead be making a Planck-size black hole".
what app do you use for yt-dl?
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp seems to be a more currently maintained fork of the original https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
can concur
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp is generally where the most up-to-date workarounds for Google's attempts to block downloads are.
In 240p only? :-(
The YouTube video was uploaded 18 years ago, and looks like it was filmed on a VHS camcorder. I guess it could have been 480p as the original would have been 480i, but it wouldn’t look all that much better.
VHS has an effective resolution of ~240p anyway.
How much more knowledge are you hoping to extract from a 4K version?
There’s some physics-y Shannon entropy data or black hole joke in there somewhere I just am not mart enough to find it.
I haven't watched it so far, but I'd expect some diagrams on a chalk-, or whiteboard, maybe some 'overhead' projection. These will all be almost unrecognizable at that resolution, on current screens. Would have to try to upscale with AI. Which I won't.
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