The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine

[theprestige]

Yep. That's exactly what I'm doing. After all, what else is the "cover" on a YouTube video for?

(Of course when that idiom arose it was warning against judging a book's content by the quality of its binding, not by blurb printed on the dust jacket.)

With YouTube it's a bit more complicated, since their algorithm prejudges the thumbnail and grants or withholds wide distribution to potential viewers based on that prejudgement.

I've had more than one creator I respect, who makes good content, apologize for the clickbait thumbnail style they've adopted. Their videos are their livelihood, and when they see their numbers dip they do what have to do.

 

[theprestige]

Anyway, what strikes me about engineering projects like this is the lengths humans will go, if there's profit to be had. ASML is pushing the physical limits of photolithography, at huge expense. The maintenance requirements alone, on these machines, are daunting. The mind might boggle at the idea that even one of these devices exists. But no, there's a thriving business in these extreme machines.

This is also seen in "mega-infrastructure" projects.

 

[arthwollipot]

I guess the answer here is that if you find a creator whose work you respect, subscribe to their channel. That way you can bypass The Algorithm entirely and see only the content you want to see.