Video explainers win on style: "easy to explain well when accuracy is not a constraint"
StefanFSchubert · x · 2026-10-06
Stefan Schubert quotes a jab — "this guy explains X better in 90 seconds than a book could" from someone who never read a book on X — and agrees: he once heard a famously lucid professor simplify a philosophical problem beyond recognition, and students couldn't tell. When accuracy isn't a constraint, explaining "well" becomes easy. The thread adds that video amplifies style over substance and is harder to fact-check in real time, potentially making society more "oral" again.
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