This is nothing but blogspam of the embedded Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM. This article adds nothing that is not already included in the video itself.
Posting here below a downvote won't help anyone but us, but here's a couple I'm looking at:
this particular article is not a good replacement for the video, it adds nothing, it subtracts some things... but the video also doesn't say all you want to hear either. The article could have used a small animated gif like one might see in a wikipedia article. It would be very nice to see what simple patterns when overlaid would give you >> and << from different angles.
The 30 page story is about a guy who would “prefer not to” and stayed that way until he died.
(I only skimmed the story)
Bookofjoe would prefer not to watch the video. You would prefer not to read the 30 page story.
Would you skim "War and Peace"?
And who you callin' old?
someone that's a quarter-of-the-way proficient at speed reading can read a short article like this in seconds -- without the time investment or the need to buffer video data to read the transcript.
every media has a place, generally speaking the trivia and background included in a YT video is interesting -- but in the end it's Jeopardy answers and brain-candy for me 90% of the time.
[1] In the web (desktop) version of youtube, if you expand the description, there is a "show transcript" button near the bottom. Not sure about mobile or other versions.