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Why are these things such a big deal?

It's just a bunch of people with vague ideas about the future talking to naive yuppies?

Sure, occasionally you might get an actual expert talking about something they did in their field, but even then the format of the talks means the presentation is pretty shallow. They aren't educational, or groundbreaking, or challenging, it's just some guy on a stage telling a bunch of silicon valley middlebrows what they want to hear.

>> No.3174951

Same phenomenon as Reddit youtube Dawkins Tyson atheism durburubrlrburbrlb

/sci/ types like it, it's like a little condensed whippet of enlightenment teleology you can fire up your asshole on the weekend before you go back to working at Wendy's or studying Remote Control Construction Engineering on Monday

>> No.3174962

Yeah, I agree.

>> No.3174963

Because it gives the upper middle class the illusion of learning something on the cutting edge without actually challenging them.

Notice how nothing that's actually talked about at TED actually affects aanything in real life.

They're mostly irrelevent except as a sign of privlige for the people who blow thousands on a ticket.

>> No.3174969

>>3174951
>Tyson atheism
DYER? Tyson hates atheists. Go spew your teenage angst somewhere else, kid.

>> No.3174972

>>3174969
I think he means Neil deGrasse Tyson.

>> No.3174975

pop culture phenomenon
[x] promise
[x] hype
[x] event character
[ ] delivery

the same with bond movies or pop books. dumb people return if the first three conditions are fulfilled

>> No.3174981

>>3174969
>>3174972
hahaha oh wow

>> No.3174982

>>3174972
>I think he means Neil deGrasse Tyson.
So do I. He hates 'atheists.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzSMC5rWvos

>> No.3174984

I hate TED.

>> No.3174989

>>3174982
look at this pleb /sci/ shit

jesus christ he takes forty five minutes to say one thing and it's incorrect, pointless and retarded

>> No.3174991

I like TED. I like what they do, I like the way they function. I like ideas, I like hearing other people talk about what they're passionate about.

Why would you hate something positive when you're on 4chan of all places?

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3174992

Because business-types like pat little lessons wrapped up in a superficial nuggets of wisdom.

Browse the business section of any book store and you'll see the same sort of thing. It's all about self-flattery and confirmation bias.

>> No.3174995

>>3174989
waaah. I don't like being corrected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sokvu4wTKiw

>> No.3174993

>>3174991
Because it's insipid and self-congratulatory.

>> No.3174997

Every TED Talk ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s

>> No.3174999

>>3174993
In which way?

They ask people to speak ( they don't pay them) they accept if they want to and decline if they don't. Nothing big or wild over there.

And you might want to know that moot has spoken for TED too.

>> No.3175001

>>3174951
>>3174946
>>3174992

Jesus you guys are so edgy i cut myself reading these posts

>> No.3175003

>>3174999
>And you might want to know that moot has spoken for TED too.

I was considering joining this thread and defending TED, but after that comment I am unable too.

>> No.3175005

>>3174946
>Why are these things such a big deal?
>vague ideas about the future talking to naive yuppies

Do you have any idea how much influence naive yuppies have on culture or how high their demand for vague feel-good progressivism is? I agree with you assertion that TedTalks are shit but it should be no surprise that they're so popular.

>> No.3175008

inb4 moot closes /lit/ because it doesnt meet his quality criteria

>> No.3175011

>>3174999
Because it's a bunch of people with too much money acting like some ponce in a buton-down shirt has discovered the Holy Grail by droning on about irrelevent tripe.

>>And you might want to know that moot has spoken for TED too.

And it was hilarious how he tried to make himself sound profound.

>> No.3175012

DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH LITERATURE?

HINT: NO

>> No.3175019

SIGOURNEY WEAVER PRESENTS: SHITTY NERDS TALKING ABOUT VIDEO GAMES, SCIENTOLOGY, AND YOU

>> No.3175026

>>3175012
TedTalks are for people who don't read, so maybe, in a sense, sort of.

>> No.3175027

>>3175011
You really don't make any sense. I'll tell you why.
The speakers are not paid for one. About the irrelevant (and you might want to at least watch your grammar on lit/) tripe you mentioned, every speaker speaks on a specific topic. So, to the listeners and to the speaker this is an important or relevant topic.

It's just people listening. I can't really tell what sets you off so much. Is it that they applaud the speaker? Is that upsetting you?

>> No.3175032

>>3175027
Not that dude but TedTalks are pretty directly aimed at people who can't be arsed to read a pop-sicence book every now and then or even a shitty magazine. I have seem one or two good TedTalks but most of them are shit.

>> No.3175033

I'M A FAT LESBIAN AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT HOW SOLAR POWERED ATHEIST GOGGLES ARE THE ROAD TO A BETTER DEMOCRATIC FUTURE

>> No.3175037

>>3175032
Furthermore it's a product of a fairly homogenous upper-class pretending to be open-minded my listen to each other babble about inane shit.

>> No.3175042

There's nothing wrong with TED talks.

Seems like everyone in this thread is just is mad and edgy.

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3175048

>>3174997

This was funny.

>> No.3175050

>>3175032
>>3175037

I personally don't know any people that have attended a TED event. Maybe you do and you know these people on a personal level so you can make that claim. Even so it's still a big generalization.

And I think everyone is forgetting that, they're fun. I can imagine that it's fun to be in the middle of a big group of people with whom you share the interest to listen to one person. That in itself is fulfilling. It's fun to listen to someone's ideas and research on something that you yourself research or are at least interested in.

>> No.3175051

>>3175042
>Seems like everyone in this thread is just is mad and edgy.
I see you're new here, meet the majority of /lit/

>> No.3175056
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3175056

I've never really bothered to watch a TED talk,
I heard that they don't do a Q & A at the end of every lecture. Is that true? Surely "ideas worth sharing" are ideas worth debating?

>> No.3175103

>>3175056
Then watch a TED talk and make your own conclusion.

>> No.3175122

>>3174997
I love the Onion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwxl_-DHqKo

>> No.3175127

>>3174946
You obviously haven't seen this talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYemnKEKx0c

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3175142

I learned about Elif Shafak from her TedTalk, and now I totally lover her and her books.

>> No.3175205

>>3175127
Holy shit, /fa/ would have a field day with that guy.

>> No.3175259

>>3175127
The bastard, I would kill to meet the guy!

>> No.3175311

Many TED Talks are nonsensical tripe from people of no importance. However, some are by experts in a scientific field about recent developments in said field. These are good provided said expert is a good speaker, in which case they can make it rather entertaining. If they're not, you would be better served reading an article about it instead.