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Benito comments on [Link] Animated Video - The Useful Idea of Truth (Part 1/3) - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Joshua_Blaine 04 October 2014 11:05PM

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Comment author: Benito 05 October 2014 10:48:25AM *  2 points [-]

That's really great, and well done. I'm looking forward to the others, so I can send the complete set off to some of my friends - if I just send off this one, a few I know will say 'Yes Ben, the postmodernists are right."

Comment author: Joshua_Blaine 05 October 2014 08:36:31PM 2 points [-]

That's one of my larger concerns about this format, actually. Only watching one video, out of the context of the others, could be more harmful than good. Even videos that are more independently consumable than this one run into the problem that knowing about biases can hurt people.

However, I think (eventually) having a large bank of videos for viewers to binge on, and including links directly to related LW posts I haven't yet covered is a good enough band-aid to assuage that worry.