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[-] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

???? His recent videos have been nothing but great. His knot, IQ, Oppenheimer, entropy, and maze solving videos (and more) are all recent and amazing videos. What's your criticism against him?

[-] Hans5958@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the problem here is that Veritasium these days now covers popular (possibly overrated) science-y topics rather than actually interesting (but not so popular) science content to stay on the radar. It's about the covered topic, not the quality.

[-] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Knot theory, entropy and maze solving are things most people don't know about though. If this critique is pointed at the Oppenheimer video because there was a popular movie then I would say that it's ok to talk about something trending if most of his videos are relatively niche.

[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think you hit the nail on the head. I’m fairly knowledgeable in the natural sciences, but I still used to learn a lot from watching his videos. These days, more often than not my reaction is just “well thats obvious”. It reminds me of the MythBusters episode when they shot a ball out of the back of a moving truck, and when they confirmed the ball dropped without moving, Carrie just sarcastically said “Yay we did vector addition…”

to be fair the last video, the nuclear near misses one, did seem like a bunch of things stuffed together to make... something? I guess the people who didn't know about it will find it interesting but it's easy to see the difference from the old videos, the ones about niche topics with very in depth explanations

still, most of the other videos are great

[-] sznio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That video is a thinly veiled listicle.

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