I agree, I've been traumatized by the system. Whatever I've learnt that's been useful to me has happened through the internet, give or take a few good teachers.
I still think it's a good auxiliary tool. If you understand its constraints, it's useful.
It's just really unfortunate that it's a for profit tool that will be used to try and replace us all.
I understand that. I am careful to not use it as my main teaching source, rather a supplement. It helps when I want to dive into the root cause of something, which I then double check with real sources.
I have difficulty learning, but using AI has helped me quite a lot. It's like a teacher who will never get angry, doesn't matter how dumb your question is or how many time you ask it.
Mind you, I am not in school and I understand hallucinations, but having someone who is this understanding in a discourse helps immensely.
It's a wonderful tool for learning, especially for those who can't follow the normal pacing. :)
Oh you were talking about oversimplified... I thought you meant kurzegesagt and was very confused. They don't do any history, well with a focus on it at least.
Such as?
This list is basically the tippy toppy fresh snow that's fallen on the iceberg.
Technology connection comes a little lower.
I am big fan of their prepandemic work. But if you can get past their click bait videos, I think they still do good content.
Science pieces spreading awareness about something are their best videos.
This recent video on fentanyl was very good.
The south korea one, the vaping and weed ones. Very good at condensing complicated topic while still retaining pertinent information that's new and not patronizing.
Who gets to decide if you are useful to society or not? That sounds like such a bull shit reason.
It's not even his anymore. He has moved on LOL. I think he endorses this brazillian crypto bro twitter called nostr. He funded so e of its development.
He also endorses twitter over blusky because apparently bluesky is very centralized...
My eyes have rolled into the side of my skull, and warped into null space.
Oh that's interesting. These allowances and restrictions seem useful, so this labelling of Afd as what it is isn't a nothing changes move.
Thank you for your insights.
Okay, that was strange. So Afd has now been labelled a far right extremist party, a few days after we had this discussion. Is this a sign of political will to ban them?
I do go to the real source first. But sometimes, I just need a very simple explanation before I can dive deep into the topic.
My brain sucks, I give up very easily if I don't understand something. (This has been true since way before short form content and internet)
If I had to say how much I use it to learn, I'd say it's about 30% of the total learning. It can't teach you course work from scratch like a real person can (even through videos), but it can help clear doubts.