Comment by makeitdouble
Comment by makeitdouble 17 hours ago
> Truth and complexity go hand in hand
Yes. It's pretty incredible when someone comes up with a way to convey that complexity in a gradual and easily graspable form.
Looking at how other subjects, we have movies explaining extremely intricate heist plans and people stick with it for 3 hours. I wish we had more incentives to spend that kind of talent and money on knowledge stuff.
Watching the "Doctor Stone" anime I was baffled at how rough it presents engineering and scientific processes. As it is the popularity of the show is crazy, and I wonder how much of a hit it would be if it took much more time to explain trial and error and how much it takes to design and build anything from scratch.
I think we're making progress in that direction. I mean you have people like Veritasium and 3Blue1Brown being excellent science and math communicators. They are fairly high level, but have you ever checked out the Summer of Math Exposition (#some) submissions? There's some amazing videos in there that are as informative, if not more, than lectures I've had while at Uni. Not just an average lecture either, like rivaling or surpassing some of the best lectures.
It's hard, but I think there's hope. Currently academia isn't aligned for this right now though so it is often coming from outside. But writing my thoughts on that is going to me another, but smaller, rant lol