Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
by nextworddev on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:26PM
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At whose expense?
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Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
by Zak on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:32PM
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The article offers several options depending on the question's perspective. The commercial answer would be publishers of longer-form content, but the more sociologically important one would be that it is harming the ability of the average person to engage with long-form information, making the phenomenon costly to the whole world.
Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
by tsunamifury on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @01:28PM
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The idea that long form = good is absurd and this type of thinking shows how over-confident this author is in their own intelligence.
Information compression and storage is the baseline of our species evolution.
Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
by Zak on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @01:51PM
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Ahh, it seems I made my comment too short.
I don't think that long-form content is always superior to short, but I do think overconsumption of short-form content reduces peoples' ability to handle irreducible complexity.
Re:TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
by tsunamifury on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:33AM
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Agree the act of compression itself is likely a huge part of intelligence.
Also appreciate the joke.