So
Top 10% of Books. Ok
90 % of Books. marginal, lot of bad.
Internet. Just millions of pages of junk.
- Books still take some effort. So why not start there.
It isn't either/or, binary, a lot of books are bad, so guess I'll learn my medical degree from browsing the web because I don't trust those 'experts'.
I'll get you started with one of the great works from the 1600s:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/49513/pg49513-images.ht...
What is the top 10% of the Internet that isn't part of some publishing arm of existing media? And, how can you tell? Some dudes blog about vaccines verses Harvard? Which do you believe.
Where are the self funded scientific studies that are occurring outside of academia? And thus not 'biased' by the 'elites'.
For internet only writing. There aren't a ton of "Astral Codex Ten"'s to draw upon as independent thinkers. And even then, he didn't sprout out of the ether fully formed, he has a degree, he was trained in academia.
Why does that even matter?
So you brought up the top 10% of the Internet, possibly as argument against books? That maybe there is valuable information on the Internet.
I was just saying, that 10% is also created by the same people that create books. So if you are arguing against books, then the top 10% of the Internet isn't some golden age of knowledge coming from some different more reliable source.