The judgment would be whether it is considered useful to the users and sufficiently related to the allied goals of rationalists. If a strict ground is needed, it should suffice that these videos address topics in physics which are often the target of (generally unrealized) mystical thinking or mysteriousness. Insofar as they help people discard either, they advance rationality in the viewer at least as much as the various posts on why we should all be atheists.
We study rationality in order to, you know, do something with it. If we talk only about rationality we miss out on a chance to practice our skills with each other.
And why is this useful for a rationality site, as opposed to a physics site?
It improves the map.
The judgment would be whether it is considered useful to the users and sufficiently related to the allied goals of rationalists. If a strict ground is needed, it should suffice that these videos address topics in physics which are often the target of (generally unrealized) mystical thinking or mysteriousness. Insofar as they help people discard either, they advance rationality in the viewer at least as much as the various posts on why we should all be atheists.
We study rationality in order to, you know, do something with it. If we talk only about rationality we miss out on a chance to practice our skills with each other.
Speak for yourself. ;)
(OK, ok, at least 10% of my rationality study is to do something with it.)
Why do you make the time and the effort to study rationality, then?
PS I didn’t downvote