These slides seem pretty meaningless on their own. Usually if slides have meaningful information the presentation wasn't very good.

It is helpful for those of us who live in countries where Youtube is blocked.

Not in this case. Those slides don't provide anything on their own.

It gave me the sentiment of the talk, at least, to figure out if I should watch the video at work (where we have our own line to the unlocked internet). I don't feel like I wasted my time going through 30 of them.

I wish most presentations came with transcripts. I can read a hour video transcript in a few minutes. Probably too much to ask for.

Agreed, which is why I posted them. Even though I can access YouTube, video is not a good way for me to consume information at work, and I found I was having trouble getting a general feel for the talk from checking out snippets.

Ya, I really wish more good talks were converted into web essays, like what Bret Victor did between the Inventing on Principle talk and Learnable Programming essay. It is just easier for me to read things, skimming at first, more deeply later, than to sit through a video in one shot. But I'm getting old, I heard younger kids prefer videos exclusively.

That makes sense. I really dislike being linked to slides and not being able to find the presentation. That wasn't the case this time though, since there was a video.