I mean sure, publicly “who knows”, but the relevant indicators are pointing to “imminently”.

That’s exactly the attitude the author was warning against. “Trust me, I know better, this is nothing”

Sigh… That timeline adjustment didn’t go in the direction I was hoping.

I guess it was inevitable, the science showed that these quantum effects are real, so it was just a matter of time before these machines really work.

Time to rethink and replace everything.

Mobile is the only place where it matters. On a desktop, in a browser, you can use plugins to kill shorts, but there’s no workaround like that on mobile.

tbh, the concept of tiktok-style videos is really good for science and small useful info bits.

What? That’s… absurd.

I mean in the context of science, how is a tiktok style short video in any way superior to a longer form video? I mean there’s some really great science content on YouTube, vertasium, smarter every day, 3 blue 1 brown, minute physics, etc. But if you only watch a short snippet of video, what you’re cutting out is the entire scientific method, the part where they ask the questions, investigate, form a hypothesis, explain some experiments. Invariably, the short skips right to a conclusion, without any of the context. It’s like providing the right answer on math homework without showing your work, it’s functionally useless. It’s like science candy, it tastes great, but has zero nutritional value.

I can’t see any way to avoid concluding that YouTube shorts are terrible for science.