Are there interesting youtubers lesswrong is subscribed to ? I never really used youtube and after watching history of japan I get the feeling I’m missing out on some stuff.
Someone on Brain Debugging Discussion (the former LW Facebook group) runs a channel called Story Brain. He decomposes movies and such, and tries to figure out what makes them work and why we like certain things.
Are there interesting youtubers lesswrong is subscribed to ? I never really used youtube and after watching history of japan I get the feeling I’m missing out on some stuff.
I enjoy Every Frame a Painting on cinematography.
It’s really going to depend on your interests. I guess I’ll just dump my favorite channels here.
I enjoy some math channels like Numberphile, computerphile, standupmaths, 3blue1brown, Vi Hart, Mathologer, singingbanana, and some of Vsauce.
For “general interesting random facts” there’s Tom Scott, Wendover Productions, CGP Grey, Lindybeige, Shadiversity. and Today I Found Out.
Science/Tech/etc: engineerguy, Kurzgesagt, and C0nc0rdance.
Miscellaneous: kaptainkristian, CaptainDisillusion, and the more recent videos of suckerpinch.
Politics: I unsubscribed from most political content a long time ago. But Last Week Tonight and Vox are pretty good.
Humor: That’s pretty subjective, but I think everyone should know about The Onion. Also Fitzthislewitz.
I have one YouTube channel on game theory, and another on microeconomics.
The “Web of Stories” channel has interviews with notable scientists (Freeman Dyson, Marvin Minsky, John Maynard Smith, etc.).
YouTube has tons of good stuff, it’s a question of which addiction you want :-) I’m a longtime fan of Accursed Farms.
Computerphile has a lot of interesting material. But my favorite is interviews with famous scientists and Elon Musk.
Someone on Brain Debugging Discussion (the former LW Facebook group) runs a channel called Story Brain. He decomposes movies and such, and tries to figure out what makes them work and why we like certain things.