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That's not a good summary of this video. I wonder how much other content you've skipped because some AI told you it was something it wasn't.

I skipped it because it's 40 minutes long and I had lots of things to do.

I used the AI tool because I didn't expect anyone else to take their time to explain it and the 19 page pdf seems to be meandering without a coherent thesis.

So the answer to your question is 0 because that's not what happened.

Mhm, that's called "entertainment". If you don't have 40 minutes (or 20 on 2x) to spend on something that isn't work, that's pretty sad.

Oof.

Some things aren’t purely informational. You can’t summarize experiencing Harder Drive, you can only get a description of what happens in it. Actually watching Harder Drive actually is the point. You spend 30 minutes (lol I wish it was 40) watching something fun/funny and feel good while you’re doing it.

So it's entertainment? Alright.

If you’re trying to imply it’s No Big Deal… well you’re right, but not in the way you expect…

Alright, it's entertainment that I'm not allowed to be uninterested in.

There's a research paper form available. http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf

Same here. It's not that I wouldn't have the time. It's about principles. Some exceptions aside, text is just the better medium for actual content (not so much for the big show, though). Put some images or clips into the text if it makes sense, but don't make everything a video.

I'm sure a lot of people here cannot even imagine how we can continue living without having seen that clip. And 10000s of other ones - the barrier for superlatives is quite low nowadays. Also, there are entire generations of people out there today whose default way to retrieve content is by some video clips. Their perspective is different, because texts are hard for them. Sure they can somehow read, but many of them never learned well to actually understand text. That's the point.

I can imagine that there maybe indeed is some value in the clip. But I'm also very sure that it's quite okay to skip that video; and all the other ones. Things will be fine for us. Still. ;)

The value in this clip is in entertaining you. The delivery is a major part of it. I agree that too much information is delivered (poorly) via video these days, but this is not an example of that. It would also be silly (I think) to prefer a condensed summary instead of actually watching your favorite show on Netflix.

You're in luck because the video is also available in the form of a research paper http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf

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