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Yes. Video is unacceptable in my mind because it is lazy. It takes less time to produce but more time to watch, saving the creator a few hours but costing the audience in aggregate thousands of hours. I don't consume content that doesn't respect it's audience.
Strongly agree. Also in a counterpoint to @ymeskhout's recent cross-examination post, I think video or spoken content makes it much harder to catch errors. A lot of obfuscation can hide in tone, pitch, volume, rapidity of speech, etc.
This problem is even worse in longform video!
I agree with this criticism, which also means I disagree that it's a counterpoint to my post! I never tried to claim that video > text in all or even most instances. I demonstrably vastly prefer reading and writing than any other medium. My point was very narrow, extolling the virtues of real-time conversations that exist with the ability to tease out someone's position with higher precision, and a better opportunity to root out dishonesty. Beyond those two specific aspects, it's hard for me to think of other advantages.
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