A few other issues that—as someone who stays away from podcasts and video at (not literally) all costs—drive me away from voice and video.
The intent of this is ‘possible other things to solve, or to determine that TLW is just weird’.
It is far more annoying to jump back and forth in a video or podcast than written text.
When actually thinking about something properly, I tend to jump around a lot[1].
My reading rate tends to be very ‘jumpy’. It’s not at all unheard of for me to spend an order of magnitude (or more!) more time on a single sentence (or even clause) than others.
This is trivial with written text. With voice or video there is no way to do so that doesn’t have excessive overhead, even with good UI. (I cannot adjust playback rate multiple times a second while focusing on the actual content.)
It is far more expensive to archive voice or video than written text.
And yes, data storage is relatively cheap now. That being said, the ratio is important here. I will “always” have more data I “might” want to store than I can feasibly store.
It is far more difficult to quote voice or video than it is to quote text.
And on top of this, current society tends to be more accepting of people quoting written text than taking a snippet from voice or video.
It is far harder to archive voice or video than it is to archive text.
(Especially when considering e.g. copyright ramifications.)
For me (it has come to my attention multiple times that I am an outlier in many of the following):
I am strongly distracted by human interaction, or approximations thereof.
With text, I can focus on the text.
With voice, a chunk of my attention is on the voice and components thereof (tone, etc).
With video, things are even worse. A large chunk of my attention is on body language and voice.
I am strongly distracted by movement in general.
I am (irrationally) annoyed by muffled background noise. (Such as you get through headphones.)
I strongly dislike information hiding, especially by metrics. I do not believe it is a good idea.
I tend to try to dig down to the actual source, not a filtered view. I will filter myself some of the time (I don’t have enough hours in the day to not do so), but I strongly prefer it to be me controlling said filtering.
If I had infinite time, I would literally read[2] everything. It has come to my attention that not all people subscribe to this view.
(The upvote threshold is what I am referring to, for context.)
I have concerns about the long-term health of my hearing.
Headphones are somewhat risky for hearing loss.
Playing sounds can be better, but distracts other people.
Headphones block my situational awareness to a far larger extent than a laptop does.
Playing sound is distracting to those around me.
Wearing headphones is a social anti-signal[3] to a far larger extent than a laptop is.
Of course, I am someone who is already reading LW via written text, so beware selection bias.
A few other issues that—as someone who stays away from podcasts and video at (not literally) all costs—drive me away from voice and video.
The intent of this is ‘possible other things to solve, or to determine that TLW is just weird’.
It is far more annoying to jump back and forth in a video or podcast than written text.
When actually thinking about something properly, I tend to jump around a lot[1].
My reading rate tends to be very ‘jumpy’. It’s not at all unheard of for me to spend an order of magnitude (or more!) more time on a single sentence (or even clause) than others.
This is trivial with written text. With voice or video there is no way to do so that doesn’t have excessive overhead, even with good UI. (I cannot adjust playback rate multiple times a second while focusing on the actual content.)
It is far more expensive to archive voice or video than written text.
And yes, data storage is relatively cheap now. That being said, the ratio is important here. I will “always” have more data I “might” want to store than I can feasibly store.
It is far more difficult to quote voice or video than it is to quote text.
And on top of this, current society tends to be more accepting of people quoting written text than taking a snippet from voice or video.
It is far harder to archive voice or video than it is to archive text.
(Especially when considering e.g. copyright ramifications.)
For me (it has come to my attention multiple times that I am an outlier in many of the following):
I am strongly distracted by human interaction, or approximations thereof.
With text, I can focus on the text.
With voice, a chunk of my attention is on the voice and components thereof (tone, etc).
With video, things are even worse. A large chunk of my attention is on body language and voice.
I am strongly distracted by movement in general.
I am (irrationally) annoyed by muffled background noise. (Such as you get through headphones.)
I strongly dislike information hiding, especially by metrics. I do not believe it is a good idea.
I tend to try to dig down to the actual source, not a filtered view. I will filter myself some of the time (I don’t have enough hours in the day to not do so), but I strongly prefer it to be me controlling said filtering.
If I had infinite time, I would literally read[2] everything. It has come to my attention that not all people subscribe to this view.
(The upvote threshold is what I am referring to, for context.)
I have concerns about the long-term health of my hearing.
Headphones are somewhat risky for hearing loss.
Playing sounds can be better, but distracts other people.
Headphones block my situational awareness to a far larger extent than a laptop does.
Playing sound is distracting to those around me.
Wearing headphones is a social anti-signal[3] to a far larger extent than a laptop is.
Of course, I am someone who is already reading LW via written text, so beware selection bias.
This is not nearly as much the case for ‘light’ reading, although it still happens.
“Absorb information from”, maybe.
As in “please don’t talk to me”.