Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia
by nefitty on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:41PM
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You made me realize that podcasts do take the place of Wikipedia for me, especially when I have a lot of busy work. For example, someone mentioned Jurgen Schmidhuber in an AI thread here the other day and I was able to find a bunch of podcasts interviewing him or mentioning him. I threw them in a playlist and got a lot of what I wanted, passively for the most part and while multitasking.
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But the time investment alone makes this not a Wikipedia replacement...
Re:Podcasts are my new Wikipedia
by banmeagaindan2 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:00PM
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Listening to Samuel Pepys doesn't give me a deep dive into history but it goes go wide in a way reading the Wiki entry for the great fire of london does not. That information is compressed does not mean it is more useful. Suppose there is a second great fire or flooding - I believe locating friends with secure lodgings to store consumer goods would come immediately to mind after listening to Pepys but this would not occur by just having read the wiki.
Note I did not argue more compressed info (or Wikipedia) is "more useful". I argued it's a different use case, quicker and more to the point.
Of course, I don't like podcasts so that alone makes Wikipedia better for me, but this is not what I was arguing.
I was arguing podcasts can never be a replacement for Wikipedia.