Are books obsolete?

[gettoefl]

videos are garbage

until and unless you have written 100 best-selling books you have no authority no bona fides no credibility

to waste my time with a single utterance

summarize in one paragraph else you don't know what you're talking about

[gettoefl]

34 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

ChatGPT lies.

yes because the writers it was trained on lie

everyone in fact in making it up as they go

you better know the answer if you use chat-gpt

it is only as smart as you are

it will give perfect output to the extent you give perfect input

garbage in garbage out

prompt engineering is a smart career move  these days

 

edit: hard to lie on a summary, it does a pretty decent job

Edited July 25, 2023 by gettoefl

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, gettoefl said:

yes because the writers it was trained on lie

No, because it literally just makes shit up.

[Rigel]

Are you actively engaging with the content by taking notes & thinking through what’s being said? That is more important than wether it’s a book or a video. There is crap books and good books. There is crap videos and good videos.

Generally speaking books are going to have more depth.

Edited July 25, 2023 by Rigel

[SeaMonster]

10 hours ago, Selfnaught said:

Not making excuses at all, I still read. That has set in a bad way with me though. Especially when one realizes books are written by people who have biases and their own agendas. There’s always criticism of another person for whatever book so I take things as more of an opinion than fact which is why sometimes it may be better to do videos of what multiple “experts” are saying to get a clearer understanding on a certain subject within a subject. For instance in nonduality, for example, I’ve read Jed McKennas “The Damndest Thing” and I’m sure there’s some people here that disagree with his position. When I have to do my own research on a book I give them the same grain of salt I do to any other form of information. 

That's why you read multiple books.  The problem with videos is that they're a low-resolution summary; in essence you're spoon-fed like a little baby bird.  

That's not real knowledge; it's pretend knowledge.  It's a lot easier for unscrupulous or ignorant people to misrepresent a topic in a video and then claim they did a good faith summary of the topic.  With the kind of influencers I see young people following on YouTube (like Destiny) -- give me a break.  That guy is either ignorant or a liar on so many topics, a king of lies of omission.

I would never rely on videos to attain in-depth knowledge of a topic.  The lower resolution the source is, the more you're fed conclusions as opposed to being given the ability to form your own theories from source data.  

Edited July 25, 2023 by SeaMonster