Morendil comments on BHTV: Eliezer Yudkowsky & Razib Khan - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 08 February 2010 08:30:39AM 5 points [-]

One other thing to mention is that for some people, video has very limited value, unless the delivery is particularly inspirational. Reading is a lot more efficient, portable, linkable, etc.

There are reasons to want to hear someone on video: to see how the behave in real-time provides different information about their personality and their mode of thinking. In some cases it may be the next best thing to meeting them in person.

Comment author: sketerpot 08 February 2010 09:18:37PM 1 point [-]

I must say, speeding it up by 40% makes most of these Bloggingheads discussions a lot better -- more interesting and no harder to understand. (Does anybody know why they chose sqrt(2) as the speed-up factor?)