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Yeah, good question. I can't remember why I went off it. There is definitely some good content. I think for a while he was just really excited about the multiverse and that's just a bit too strong an interpretation in my mind to go push that hard. It might have been something else. Its been a while

Sorry "a break (from YouTube)". That's still not to me "getting too big". It could be, it just seems like an inference

Also, didn't Lateral start about the same time he stopped YouTube?

Actually, 3Blue1brown and PBS science videos (minus space) are pretty great too

3Blue1brown is amazing!

Starting getting too big? I thought he said he needed a break. That's not necessarily the same, or has he said more since then?

Almost all of the smarter everyday videos I wish were 1/10 of the size, or two videos (learning vs something glittery that he's distracted by). I'm glad that he's there for people that enjoy that though

Or simplify taking a stand that he wasn't willing to go down the click bait path the algorithm pushes for. I haven't found another comment for a channel I agree with here yet

Oh yeah, I can get behind this gif a lot more

That kind of aligns with some actions I would love to see but I don't really see how it helps in the example I used to highlight some of the harder things to fix, depression. How does that improve the correlation between social media use and depression in teenagers? I can see it will improve from special cases like removing posts pro eating disorder content but I'm pretty confident the depression correlation goes well beyond easy to moderate content.

Also, if we presumed that some amount of horrific violence is okay for adults to choose to see and a population of people thinks its reasonable to restrict this content for people below a certain age (or swap violence for sex / nudity) then do we just decide we know better than that population, that freedom is more important, or does it fall back to age restrictions again (but gated on parts of the site)? I'm avoiding saying "government" here and going with "population of people" to try to decouple a little from some of the negatives people associate with government, especially since COVID

But yeah, holding tech companies accountable like that would be lovely to see. I suspect the cost is so large they couldn't pay so it would never happen, but I think that's because society has been ignoring their negative externalities for so long they're intrenched

True, but there is momentum. It's empowering other countries and that could lead to a second pass at legislation in Aus after its not so outlandish or it could lead to another country doing something better and then Aus copying after the costly validation was done by someone else. I think waiting for perfect legislation likely leads to what we've had for a while and that's even less / very little push back on tech companies

Why do you say it's harder now?