Tom Nicholas did a good video on how this company buys up science youtubers to pump their company to others as a thinly veiled "cool science video on AI cars" and it's pretty damning. Veritasium crying now
The one veritasium video I watched was about the Incompleteness Theorem. Since it was just about a math topic I don't think there was anything to shill, and I thought it was well done (not a mathematician, cannot assess it in that way). But then I see the other videos recommended now and again and they typically look like bait 'n bro.
His channel has settled into a rhythm of doing 1 really good, gorgeous video on math or physics, then a horrible slop video that's often just a commercial for some company. If you can pick up on the vibe of which one you're watching at any time, you need only waste 30 or so seconds before you skip the ones that aren't worthwhile.
Theorem: Any lay explanation of Gödel's incompleteness theorems is either incomplete or inconsistent.
Proof: :made-it-the-fuck-up:
I'm only sour about these because it's one of those things like string theory or "0.999...=1" that attracts almost exclusively cranks who want to use whatever details they internalized from the NATOpedia page and use it to explain why orgones are real or whatever.
Tom Nicholas did a good video on how this company buys up science youtubers to pump their company to others as a thinly veiled "cool science video on AI cars" and it's pretty damning. Veritasium crying now
https://youtu.be/CM0aohBfUTc
The one veritasium video I watched was about the Incompleteness Theorem. Since it was just about a math topic I don't think there was anything to shill, and I thought it was well done (not a mathematician, cannot assess it in that way). But then I see the other videos recommended now and again and they typically look like bait 'n bro.
His channel has settled into a rhythm of doing 1 really good, gorgeous video on math or physics, then a horrible slop video that's often just a commercial for some company. If you can pick up on the vibe of which one you're watching at any time, you need only waste 30 or so seconds before you skip the ones that aren't worthwhile.
Theorem: Any lay explanation of Gödel's incompleteness theorems is either incomplete or inconsistent.
Proof: :made-it-the-fuck-up:
I'm only sour about these because it's one of those things like string theory or "0.999...=1" that attracts almost exclusively cranks who want to use whatever details they internalized from the NATOpedia page and use it to explain why orgones are real or whatever.
I'd heard he was good but my first taste was that video and it's like 💀 not even subtle shilling.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: