If you've had enough existential terror thinking about the end of humanity, let off some steam by enjoying War Thunder for free and get an awesome starting bonus pack with vehicles, boosters, and more at playwt.link/sciencephiletheai
Also, Scinencephile the AI: " the probability of a strangelet that is no bigger than a rocket hitting Earth is as likely as giving a monkey in Brazil a gun and telling it to shoot a Target in Australia super unlikely!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's the next stage in our evolution. If you believe in a "soul" I hope the "copy" here on earth is an independent AI. If we're going to other planets, machines that can power down (and subsist on solar during travel) are the best option. If we're sending actual humans, you need an arc. Multiple generations will live and die on that arc before they arrive at their destination. Even considering they are in stasis (or frozen embryo in today's tech) humans just aren't as reliable. You're likely to get some rebellious teens that doom the whole mission.
Extra-dimensional evil chickens makes complete sense as a stand-in for outside context problems; that is, things that no one would even imagine is a possibility until it happens. If you can even define a tier for that it would probably be top S
I don't know, we've imagined some pretty bizarre shit like the alien dark forest or quantum vacuum collapse, and the more out there possibilities are seemingly much less likely. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that any of these unimaginable until they happen threats are also unlikely, but of course there are likely multiple of them. Probably rates more like A or B tier. But I could see Sciencephile rating it top of S tier, some of the placements on this list made no sense based solely on the explanations given in the video.
An interesting thought: The probability that the end of the universe ends up being what finally kills off humanity, is exactly equal to the probability that something else *doesn't* kill off humanity before then. Since the end of the universe is virtually guaranteed to occur eventually and there's no way humans can survive it, the only way to avoid going extinct from it is to go extinct from something else instead.
Because sometimes, if you vacuum, you will have a seizure big and then everyone will become a caseoh fit when they want food and everyone starves because of the air compression defying. All laws of physic and then the vultus limunosia will become hooking you and fees eyes in the skies
if "no wars were ever fought" we would be 1000 years behind in tech. Some recent examples: - space program, descendant of WW2 rockets - reactors, from cold war arms race - computers, vastly improved to crack military codes - the internet itself was developed as decentralized means of communication in case of ww3
the myth that technology advances due to war was disproven. it has been thought to be false for nearly a hundred years since like ww1. it is not a necessary evil. the opposite could also be said. war has set back human advancement plenty of times. We have lost plenty of knowledge, historical monuments, technological progress, philosophical and medical advances, etc due to war since ancient times. a large portion of human conflicts have had cultural genocide involved.
@@AdamMclardy Somewhat. If that business doesn't have monopoly or an (illegal, but there) agreement with other companies. Also a company doesn't have 5% of US gdp or the capability to skip safety procedures/ force scientists to work on a project. It can't spend billions or trillions on a "maybe it will work". investors want guaranteed returns
FINALLY! I'm shocked that it's taken this long for someone to talk about the possibility of technology stagnating; I've not seen any of the other science-based channels I frequent talk about it for some reason, despite it being an obvious possibility. Thank you for bringing it up!
The fact is-is that the universe is going to stop expanding, and it is going to collapse in on itself. We've got to do something before it's too late. How much time do we have left? Sixty trillion years, seventy at the most.
5:10 It must be noted that we aren’t tracking all asteroids, just all known ones. They do not emit light, so it is hard to detect in some regions of space. It could very well be that we might get a crash of one we haven’t yet detected
True, but we can still detect it anyway when it's close enough. If it's big enough to wipe out humanity, we would see it early and have time to take action. But if it "just" cause a global catastrophe we both would probably die, but humanity would keep going
Sciencephile, I thank you for getting me into physics/astronomy. I can barely understand half the shit you say but I watch attentively like a toddler watching tiktok.
I like how sciencephile opened with a calming morning in the American suburbs as if any of us can afford anything beyond a tiny studio in the city and that was already enough to give me an existential crisis
@@blamehypocrisy.4053 Personally I chose to be born in the post WW2 prosperity boom era where you could start owning a house with 1 year's salary stocking shelves at the supermarket and I couldn't be more grateful for making the right decision here. Best choice I ever made. Since I'm a boomer I'm not very good at this computers and tick tock thing but that's what my -slaves- I mean interns are for.
Unfortunately I don’t think humanity has take the proper measures to combat an invasion from the overwhelming force of extra dimensional evil chickens, making that the most likely possibility of human extinction.
As a human craving the need to outsmart AI:s, Nietzsche was definitely not an antinatalist. He loved life so much he hated anyone who denied or deemphasized our material existence with meta-physics. I think Schopenhauer would fit the role of OG antinatalist much better.
Nanomachines are probably not going to be a threat. If they multiply exponentially, the waste heat they produce will also increase exponentially, eventually causing them to spontaneously combust. Unless they're made out of some sort of indestructible material, which isn't likely since they're supposed to use normal matter as their food source, they'll never be able to withstand the temperatures they will generate.
Yeah, I've been lied to by SciFi. Processing matter with tiny machines will always be less efficient than larger machines for precisely the reason you listed. A swarm of machines of different sizes would be a far greater threat than just copies of a single tiny universal assembler.
I love the Warhammer 40k books (or most,) and it makes me think of mass mental health issues taking hold over thousands of years. Kinda like a Twelve Monkeys assylum scene.
Always thought false vacuum was one of the scariest possible ends to our universe. At the absolute worst everything is destroyed in an instant. Transhumanism isn't a threat but the endgame.
"Transhumanism isn't a threat but the endgame." I just hope I myself can become transhumanist myself. I'd love nothing more than to transcend beyond my current state.
I'm not worried about Grey Goo because "a nano machine that is programmed to turn matter into more copies of itself" already exists; it's called "life on Earth."
And honestly it's way better at it than nano machines likely would, as they would have to do so over such a long period otherwise they would generate too much heat from just moving and burn themselves up. Ironically global warming and nukes could likely deal with a nano machine swarm tho we'd have to figure out how to clean up after.
I think supervulcanos should be higher. Caused at least 2 major extinction events and one of them, the permian triassic extinction was the deadliest ever killing 96% of life
The list is in regards to threat to humanity, a normal extinction event might kill millions or even billions but there's no fucking shot it wipes us out. Honestly I'd say anything below S tier on this list has a 0% chance of happening.
Technically speaking, the Siberian Traps which caused the Permian-Triassic Extinction wasn't a super volcano, but a massive bout of flood basalt volcanism that massively dwarfs the destructive potential of even the most powerful super volcanoes.
I think the worse one is running out of resources and being forced to be stuck on this planet. Dont get me wrong i love it but being denied the possibility to expand outwards is terrifying and will guarantee that we will destroy eachother for good at some point.
This is the fate of the Drell species in Mass Effect. Their population grew too quickly after industrialization, and they burned up their resources too fast and were stuck on their home planet. They ended up warring with each other over resources, then finally basic needs. Some were saved by the Hanar race, but the damage to the Drell home world and civilization were beyond saving when the Hanar finally showed up.
@@fordid42 That doesn't make any sense. There is material in the planet and there's energy from the sun. You cannot be "stuck" on a planet in a solar system.
@@MrCmon113they were running low on food and water, and even if they have enough resources and energy to space travel, they lacks the technology to do so.
Horizon Zero Dawn spoiler alert!! 4:20 is basically how life on earth went extinct in the videogame. They designed war machines capable of transforming biomass into energy and replicating themselves, went out of control and started consuming everything. Only when the planet was a lifeless rock they run out of power and shut down
1:37 Sciencephile : "And if a supernovae were to happen close enough to Earth to be a threat, humanity would know about it millenia earlier." Me : "Good. So we'd have time to prepare." Sciencephile : "Leaving it enough time to destroy itself before the supernova wave reaches Earth." Me : "That actually makes more sense."
The thing about the dark forest hypothesis is it’s rooted in the need of survival. There’s another channel that talked about it and does a great job explaining why it’s essentially a unlikely scenario (specifically the case of why we haven’t seen aliens)
Dark Forest is S tier. Literally nothing was brought up to make it far-fetched. It resolves the Fermi paradox in the universe despite seeing our skies filled with unexplainable UFOs quite nicely.
Sure, Dark Forest is a solution to the Fermi Paradox, but there are plenty of other solutions too, and it's hardly the most compelling. Personally, I favour the Firstborn solution.
Traveling the distances between stars just seems very unlikely. Could the UFOs be from Earth? Future us, or Earthlings from far distant past. Maybe just like us, Wakanda, or lizard people.
another great one! when I found this channel some months ago I binge watched half your content in one night! I'm really impressed by the consistency of quality content. easily one of my favorite yt-channels! keep up the good work! best wishes!
You have a fantastic ability to tell a narrative in a two-fold manner, utilizing visual images based in the memeladen zeitgeist of the day while speaking coherently and with reasonably approachable language. I appreciate your understanding of our attention spans and the elegant utilization of language.
13:05 Yes the singularity might be able to outsmart you, but as a wise Heavy Weapons Guy once said "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet." A polar bear might not be smarter than you, but it most certainly can kill you. And with enough polar bears, you wouldn't be able to defend yourself even if you were prepared.
Ok but if humanity as a whole decided for whatever reason we wanted wipe out polar bears it would be incredibly trivial for us to do so. In fact we are struggling to not accidently wipe them out. If a polars bears big claws and teeth are its "bullet" then "bullet" can be very easily outsmarted. The difference in intelligence between a polar bear and a human is almost certainly far far smaller than the difference in intelligence between a human and an advanced ai. If such an ai ever wanted us gone we would be fucked beyond belief.
i think it's crazy there are rogue planets, traversing the void of space with no star to orbit, if they came close enough to earth, the gravitational pull could send us into an elliptical orbit, which would freeze earth, or turn it into mercury xD
I like the scenario of C:DDA, where a multidimensional threat invades earth in 5 days and moved on to other worlds, leaving earth in absolute chaos with zombies, demons and the like. It shows that we are basically not prepared for any threat of that kind
There’s a simple way to ensure the dark forest paradox doesn’t get us. We could form an organization of very inquisitive people to hunt down and destroy aliens. Maybe e we could call it like the Ordos Xenos. And maybe they would have a group of highly genetically augmented super soldiers called something crazy like, just spitballing here, the Death Watch.
FUN FACT: If you look at the TBP 3's scene where Bluespace had contact with a Higher-Dimensional Fragment, DF setting is said to be *formerly* non-existent in TBP, but since its only means of FTL travel and communication-Dimensional Folding, has been destroyed due to one of the civilizations decided to create something that could render higher dimensions completely destroyed, every space travel or communication needs unfathomable amount of time to be carried out, resulting in everyone losing patience of waiting for updates and responses, thinking the other as trying to use the delay as a facade to hide something and regarded them as liars anyways (they can't even find out the truth or collect evidence either, because it would be too slow to go to the scene and return the samples). In fact, when humanity got into a lightspeed engine alongside the destructive side-effect of 2D Foil, the DF setting began to collapse on itself, resulting in the eventual ending of yet another god-like alien calling out all intelligent life to get out from their little universes and "restart" the host universe. Simple sentence: Distrust due to accurate information unable to be received in time. Also, Sciencephile is right a bit: It IS the projection of violence by mankind. Even the TBP itself stated that DF is just the "tip of an iceberg" of less advanced civilizations (and the aforementioned reasons of DF's creation). And most importantly, in an interview with Mr Liu, he said that "DF setting is dramatic but doesn't have actual scientific evidence" (even Luo Ji had to grind until TBP 2 to verify his claims, and he didn't go the xenocidal route: He just made a MAD situation), meaning he chooses it for literacy value (and yes, it does have a very dramatic value); Not to mention that he also has a short story that is the mirror universe version of TBP: Ode to Joy 欢乐颂, in which an alien that rides in yet another 2D-Foil managed to "resurrect" a fictional UN that is going to be disbanded by simply conducting a literal interstellar concert. So basically, you can thank Alcubierre Engine's concept for being started out: It is literally the most likely FTL travel that could quickly clear any suspicions by giving updates ASAP. No-so-related info: TBP fandom has currently a major xenophobia problem where it harbors some of the alt-right Nazis and literal xenophobes (played too much Stellaris and W4K much?), especially in China (they even had a online flame war with Star Trek community as well).
You can argue that some people are better suited to being parents than others, but even the best parents can end up having children who will face extreme suffering. An acquaintance of mine had a child who died of eye cancer before they were a year old. This is the kind of risk that makes antinatalists argue that it's better to not roll the dice in the first place.
@lastdreamofhome on the other hand, antinatalists go into the extremes and say it's immoral to even try to be a good parent. Except for thinking we are all unsuited for very difficult game of parenthood and should not even take the risk, maybe we should strive to support ourselves in it. After all, that antinatalist thought quite literally makes us go extinct on our own will, quite like climate change.
@@Admiral45-10 Antinatalists usually say to just adopt if you have the potential to be a good parent. Why increase the amount of suffering in the world when you can reduce it?
@@Admiral45-10 Creating a new person exposes that person to all the various types of suffering present in life. Yes, they have the ability for positive experiences as well but if they had never existed they would not suffer from being deprived of those positive experiences. When you decide to have a child, you cannot know for certain how much suffering or pain they will go through throughout their life or whether they will be glad to be alive. You are literally gambling on somebody else's life and they have no say in the matter. Therefore, it's better to adopt and help somebody who is already alive and improve their life.
If you've had enough existential terror thinking about the end of humanity, let off some steam by enjoying War Thunder for free and get an awesome starting bonus pack with vehicles, boosters, and more at playwt.link/sciencephiletheai
Ok
...Why does a AI know what soap tastes like?
Letting off steam and stress in warthunder is an oxymoron
At this point Existential Threats is my day dream thoughts, And Here comes @SciencephiletheAI with this banger 🎉🎉
Bro there is no such thing as a super vulcano, its not even a scientific term
"Thankfuly, nature is not a gamer"
- Sciencephile, 2023
*makes a game about destroying earth*
Earth go boom boom! 💥
...kidding😂
@@LadyGreySpacePiratethe first image was copied off megadeth's super collider
Also, Scinencephile the AI: " the probability of a strangelet that is no bigger than a rocket hitting Earth is as likely as giving a monkey in Brazil a gun and telling it to shoot a Target in Australia super unlikely!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
get closer to God pls there is gonna be many people who arnt going to make it to the kingdom of heaven🙏✝️
Ah yes, Sciencephile giving me my existential crisis, just as prescribed by the AI lords intended
We are two very very different people
@@blackberrythefox117they are talking about themself
@@abuser9user I know
I all of his videos are about the same topics
Is it bad that the existential horrors tierlist didn't give me an existential crisis and some of them made me feel better
I love how AI has now gotten so advanced that Sciencephile could actually be a real AI and no one would notice
Nah, AI would never roast the poor cilantro like that 14:56 lol
i had an ai call me a loser for talking to an ai instead of hanging out with friends. ai is starting to understand humor @@marioauditore2859
It's the next stage in our evolution. If you believe in a "soul" I hope the "copy" here on earth is an independent AI. If we're going to other planets, machines that can power down (and subsist on solar during travel) are the best option. If we're sending actual humans, you need an arc. Multiple generations will live and die on that arc before they arrive at their destination. Even considering they are in stasis (or frozen embryo in today's tech) humans just aren't as reliable. You're likely to get some rebellious teens that doom the whole mission.
@@marioauditore2859They would tbh, if you ask Chatgpt to roast Cilantro then it might just do that
@@marioauditore2859Yeah, IA would not do that but AI definitely would 🗣️
F-Tier
0:31 Overpopulation/Resource Scarcity
1:08 Particle Accelerator
1:26 Supernovae
1:53 Solar Flare Catastrophe
D-Tier
2:33 All-Out Nuclear War
3:08 Supervolcanoes
3:42 Strange Matter Nuggets
4:19 Grey Goo
4:45 Massive Impact
5:24 Climate Change
C-Tier
6:14 Antinatalism
7:15 Dark Forest Hypothesis
8:11 Natural Pandemic
8:54 Vacuum Decay
B-Tier
10:47 Gamma Ray Burst
11:53 Technological Stagnation
A-Tier
12:37 Technological Singularity
13:33 Genetic Engineering Oopsies/Bioterrorism
15:06 Human Stupidity
S-Tier
15:58 Transhumanism
17:41 End Of The Universe
18:32 Extra-Dimensional Evil Chickens
You're a hero
Goat
Just watch the video nigga
Thank you good sir
You will be spared by the Extra-Dimensional Evil Chickens
Extra-dimensional evil chickens makes complete sense as a stand-in for outside context problems; that is, things that no one would even imagine is a possibility until it happens. If you can even define a tier for that it would probably be top S
I don't know, we've imagined some pretty bizarre shit like the alien dark forest or quantum vacuum collapse, and the more out there possibilities are seemingly much less likely. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that any of these unimaginable until they happen threats are also unlikely, but of course there are likely multiple of them. Probably rates more like A or B tier.
But I could see Sciencephile rating it top of S tier, some of the placements on this list made no sense based solely on the explanations given in the video.
True
Anything extradimensional is inscrutable until scruted
For a true existential crisis simply ponder the fact that there are more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky
I would probably be much further in crisis if the opposite were true.
I'd be more sinister if there were more planes on the sea, than submarines on the sea. Which is probably true ngl 😂
@@lXlDarKSuoLlXloh yeah, that sounds even way scarier
Now I want to see a flying submarine
I think thats what the original comment meant, but the guy must have an amazing attention span
Scienephile has yet to break character. What dedication, respect
What character?
Bold of you to think it's a character.
dude you realize hhis is ai run channel
Foolish mortal, AI has no character. This is what makes him correct.
@@ABoredGod hope you aren't serious cause it most definitely isn't
Nothing better than a dose of existential crisis before going to sleep
Sleep? That's ridiculous.
@@ultimaxkom8728lol
Fr. Was going to sleep rn . Phone is on 4% . Saw this shet on my fyp and knew I had to watch it till my phone survives
I just did the same. No regrets
get closer to God pls there is gonna be many people who arnt going to make it to the kingdom of heaven🙏✝️
Imagine AI finally taking over Earth then a solar flare happens
That could actually be a great ending for movies like The Matrix or Terminator.
Robots: HAHAHAHA WE WILL TAKE OVER THE SOLAR SYSTE-
Sun: Sneezes
An interesting thought: The probability that the end of the universe ends up being what finally kills off humanity, is exactly equal to the probability that something else *doesn't* kill off humanity before then. Since the end of the universe is virtually guaranteed to occur eventually and there's no way humans can survive it, the only way to avoid going extinct from it is to go extinct from something else instead.
Teleport humanity to a better world
So basically, the existential crisis was the friends you made along the way.
Enjoy em while both they and you are here
@@RelifordI already ate them 😢
The biggest existential threat is the kid from 4th dimension erasing it’s drawing
Re:Creators anime
I read Vacuum Decay as Vacuum Day and was wondering why the day you vacuum clean your house, would be an existential threat lol
Because sometimes, if you vacuum, you will have a seizure big and then everyone will become a caseoh fit when they want food and everyone starves because of the air compression defying. All laws of physic and then the vultus limunosia will become hooking you and fees eyes in the skies
12:12 "Leaving humanity stuck on this pale blue dot" Is my favorite thing of this video
The greatest existential threat for the western world is having subscription to all streaming services but nothing good to watch.
We must protect the DVD players
Read about All Tomorrows
Imagine paying to watch anything
1st world problems
@@strevortniimagine hating artists because you’re a jealous normie 🤣
An edgelord and a scientist are not the same. An edgelord wants the world end, a scientist knows it will.
Im pretty sure an edgelord is D from Eden ring
Wait. What if I know it will end and want it to?
@@Blessed_V0id that’s called depression
@@Pether_Nortal Funny you say that, my diagnosis says the same. So do my my meds.
Sertraline is overrated
A mad scientist tries to make it end faster
Jesus. your editing gets better every video.
Great work.
fair enough@@shyzardar
Fair enough@@trevorturner6025
@@shyzardar you were almost correct an ai does not need to improve itself. it will improve itself by existing alone
The Emergence of the Omega Point in the Noosphere and the Return of Christ gotta be my favorite apocalypses
Sciencephile had the worst luck with genetics, getting the ones that makes Cilantro taste like soap lmaooooo
nothing beats getting my weekly scoop of exsistential dread and astronomy information from a relaiable source
if "no wars were ever fought" we would be 1000 years behind in tech. Some recent examples:
- space program, descendant of WW2 rockets
- reactors, from cold war arms race
- computers, vastly improved to crack military codes
- the internet itself was developed as decentralized means of communication in case of ww3
the myth that technology advances due to war was disproven. it has been thought to be false for nearly a hundred years since like ww1. it is not a necessary evil.
the opposite could also be said. war has set back human advancement plenty of times. We have lost plenty of knowledge, historical monuments, technological progress, philosophical and medical advances, etc due to war since ancient times. a large portion of human conflicts have had cultural genocide involved.
thinking the same exact thing
Yet these days it’s business competition that drives innovation
@@AdamMclardy Somewhat. If that business doesn't have monopoly or an (illegal, but there) agreement with other companies. Also a company doesn't have 5% of US gdp or the capability to skip safety procedures/ force scientists to work on a project. It can't spend billions or trillions on a "maybe it will work". investors want guaranteed returns
The cold war helped send man to the moon as well as the space race.
FINALLY! I'm shocked that it's taken this long for someone to talk about the possibility of technology stagnating; I've not seen any of the other science-based channels I frequent talk about it for some reason, despite it being an obvious possibility. Thank you for bringing it up!
It honestly makes sense as one of the possibilities, but it is kind of an uneventful one, so maybe that's why
It’s a scary thought but maybe (fast) interstellar space travel is really impossible and that’s why we see no aliens
You seem shockingly glad that one day we might stop making progress. Is it like a game for you to amplify existential dread?
@@PlayerCarter. thats literally not what he meant
@@PlayerCarter. bro they were just glad it was acknowledged, fresh breath of air with all of the singularity theories out there
“Real estate is much cheaper than the digital world”
Not if those NFT folks have anything to do with it!
The fact is-is that the universe is going to stop expanding, and it is going to collapse in on itself. We've got to do something before it's too late.
How much time do we have left?
Sixty trillion years, seventy at the most.
5:10 It must be noted that we aren’t tracking all asteroids, just all known ones. They do not emit light, so it is hard to detect in some regions of space. It could very well be that we might get a crash of one we haven’t yet detected
True, but we can still detect it anyway when it's close enough. If it's big enough to wipe out humanity, we would see it early and have time to take action. But if it "just" cause a global catastrophe we both would probably die, but humanity would keep going
@@marioauditore2859yeah i think rich people got spaceships just incase
@@starsilvaX where would they go after that? They would come back to a destroyed world and would also die.
@@-_deploy_- either float above the globe like in the hundreds or to mars or something idk
@@starsilvaX so you think they will have food for eternity and have technology to survive in mars?
Rare footage of sciencephile not using the iceberg tier list:
Sciencephile, I thank you for getting me into physics/astronomy. I can barely understand half the shit you say but I watch attentively like a toddler watching tiktok.
Just smile and nod
Yuk tiktok...
So you switch between his videos every 2.1 seconds?
pause and google. Works for me
I love the janitor with the xenomorph head. The idea of a xenomorph working a 9-5 job amuses me to no end.
Looks like the perfect video found me amidst my anxiety induced episode of feelings of impending doom
Amusing. Sciencephile, your taste in tier list videos grows ever more inexplicable
I like how sciencephile opened with a calming morning in the American suburbs as if any of us can afford anything beyond a tiny studio in the city and that was already enough to give me an existential crisis
Make better choices
@@blamehypocrisy.4053you're right. i cast Conjure Money at level 3
Everything in the cities are 3x more expensive than normal
@@blamehypocrisy.4053 Personally I chose to be born in the post WW2 prosperity boom era where you could start owning a house with 1 year's salary stocking shelves at the supermarket and I couldn't be more grateful for making the right decision here. Best choice I ever made.
Since I'm a boomer I'm not very good at this computers and tick tock thing but that's what my -slaves- I mean interns are for.
get closer to God pls there is gonna be many people who arnt going to make it to the kingdom of heaven🙏✝️
Unfortunately I don’t think humanity has take the proper measures to combat an invasion from the overwhelming force of extra dimensional evil chickens, making that the most likely possibility of human extinction.
I know you use classical music because it is roayalty free but it suits so well to your content.
14:57 if cilantro tastes like soap to you then you have a genetic "abnormality" (mutated OR6A2 gene)
As a human craving the need to outsmart AI:s, Nietzsche was definitely not an antinatalist. He loved life so much he hated anyone who denied or deemphasized our material existence with meta-physics. I think Schopenhauer would fit the role of OG antinatalist much better.
I sure do love watching cosmic abominations and existential dreads at 2am
This was posted today at 11 am
Its not 11am for everyone..@@BeanBoy-rs9xd
@@BeanBoy-rs9xd wait until someone tells you about time zones
@@atroposV my bad
My man I didn't even knew half of this stuff existed
"Thankfully nature is not a gamer."
Ceres Fauna would like a word
You forgot me.
T!!!!
They already mentioned human stupidity
trevorsamuel1114 please spare me
You forgot Umar!
I hope you never use all of your power 😭😭
Not gonna lie, transcendence seems like a realy good deal! Especially considering the other options...
Honestly, it's probably the only way that humans will be able to circumnavigate their expiration date.
as a programmer, i sure do love loops, almost as much as turning off all compiler warnings
"what ever can go wrong" EVERYTHING 😂
I don't know how i didn't subscribe to this channel
I'm not an expert, but after I've analyzed this whole video, I was left speechless, because as I have said earlier, I am not an expert
Nanomachines are probably not going to be a threat. If they multiply exponentially, the waste heat they produce will also increase exponentially, eventually causing them to spontaneously combust. Unless they're made out of some sort of indestructible material, which isn't likely since they're supposed to use normal matter as their food source, they'll never be able to withstand the temperatures they will generate.
Yeah, I've been lied to by SciFi.
Processing matter with tiny machines will always be less efficient than larger machines for precisely the reason you listed. A swarm of machines of different sizes would be a far greater threat than just copies of a single tiny universal assembler.
@@MrCmon113 They’d be a far bigger target though, so even then it’d be a manageable threat.
As much as this is getting into existentially dreadful, the slimness of most of these happening in relation to how deadly they are is reassuring
I love the Warhammer 40k books (or most,) and it makes me think of mass mental health issues taking hold over thousands of years. Kinda like a Twelve Monkeys assylum scene.
The emperor protects
ASS-YLUM??!?
ASSLUME!!!!!?????!!!
It really is. Only the Orks are having a good time and that's pretty bad for everyone else.
I'm pretty sure I'll die because my cat will probably turn some random electric device on while I sleep and the house will catch fire.
Never would've thought sciencephile would do a warthunder ad lol
sciencephile casually dropping some of the hardest quotes known to man
Always thought false vacuum was one of the scariest possible ends to our universe. At the absolute worst everything is destroyed in an instant. Transhumanism isn't a threat but the endgame.
"Transhumanism isn't a threat but the endgame." I just hope I myself can become transhumanist myself. I'd love nothing more than to transcend beyond my current state.
I'd prefer to die instantly and without warning than slowly and painfully from many of the other threats.
I'm not worried about Grey Goo because "a nano machine that is programmed to turn matter into more copies of itself" already exists; it's called "life on Earth."
And honestly it's way better at it than nano machines likely would, as they would have to do so over such a long period otherwise they would generate too much heat from just moving and burn themselves up. Ironically global warming and nukes could likely deal with a nano machine swarm tho we'd have to figure out how to clean up after.
You forgot Time Paradoxes. What if we humans became so advanced that we learned how to time travel? What happens then?
Extradimensional evil chickens... Is that you, Peter Griffin? 😂
6:24 I’m too cyclical to be an anti-natalist- it’s bold to assume your afterlife or beforelife is going to be any less cruel or fraught than this one
I think supervulcanos should be higher. Caused at least 2 major extinction events and one of them, the permian triassic extinction was the deadliest ever killing 96% of life
The list is in regards to threat to humanity, a normal extinction event might kill millions or even billions but there's no fucking shot it wipes us out. Honestly I'd say anything below S tier on this list has a 0% chance of happening.
*cough cough* Krakatoa
Not anymore, the earth is too geologically stable for such an eruption to happen again
we should probably build a few more, ya know, something something deterrence..
Technically speaking, the Siberian Traps which caused the Permian-Triassic Extinction wasn't a super volcano, but a massive bout of flood basalt volcanism that massively dwarfs the destructive potential of even the most powerful super volcanoes.
I think the worse one is running out of resources and being forced to be stuck on this planet. Dont get me wrong i love it but being denied the possibility to expand outwards is terrifying and will guarantee that we will destroy eachother for good at some point.
This is the fate of the Drell species in Mass Effect. Their population grew too quickly after industrialization, and they burned up their resources too fast and were stuck on their home planet. They ended up warring with each other over resources, then finally basic needs. Some were saved by the Hanar race, but the damage to the Drell home world and civilization were beyond saving when the Hanar finally showed up.
I think this is very likely tbh.
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That doesn't make any sense.
There is material in the planet and there's energy from the sun. You cannot be "stuck" on a planet in a solar system.
@@MrCmon113they were running low on food and water, and even if they have enough resources and energy to space travel, they lacks the technology to do so.
Asteroid mining
Horizon Zero Dawn spoiler alert!!
4:20 is basically how life on earth went extinct in the videogame.
They designed war machines capable of transforming biomass into energy and replicating themselves, went out of control and started consuming everything. Only when the planet was a lifeless rock they run out of power and shut down
I love that game ❤
My friend on chemistry lessons is the worst existenal threat ever existed.
1:37
Sciencephile : "And if a supernovae were to happen close enough to Earth to be a threat, humanity would know about it millenia earlier."
Me : "Good. So we'd have time to prepare."
Sciencephile : "Leaving it enough time to destroy itself before the supernova wave reaches Earth."
Me : "That actually makes more sense."
I dunno. Human stupidity sounds like an S tier to me. Especially since a lot of these revolve around human stupidity.
But what about the chickens doe? 👁️👁️
Then how we get phones???
@@Yashura303think of all the problems phones have created
@@elitetrainer-z9695 think of phone benefits to its just people taking it to much ther forget there life
9:59 - "Let's have a delightful distraction from our current topic of several variants of war wiping humanity out to talk about... war games."
Bruh.
I clicked on the for the current topic lol
One of the best videos I ever watched, and I'm only on minute 5.
The thing about the dark forest hypothesis is it’s rooted in the need of survival. There’s another channel that talked about it and does a great job explaining why it’s essentially a unlikely scenario (specifically the case of why we haven’t seen aliens)
Dark Forest is S tier. Literally nothing was brought up to make it far-fetched. It resolves the Fermi paradox in the universe despite seeing our skies filled with unexplainable UFOs quite nicely.
Sure, Dark Forest is a solution to the Fermi Paradox, but there are plenty of other solutions too, and it's hardly the most compelling. Personally, I favour the Firstborn solution.
Theres a sci fi series called The Remembrance of Earth’s Past that’s basically centered on this theory and is fascinating imo. Highly recommend!
Traveling the distances between stars just seems very unlikely. Could the UFOs be from Earth? Future us, or Earthlings from far distant past. Maybe just like us, Wakanda, or lizard people.
Ah yes, our future overlord returns with our periodic dose of existential crisis.
Scroll.
straight into S tier
@@DaddyJesus69down bad
@@DaddyJesus69 goodluck man
Love the upbeat background music while he says: YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
The war thunder ad before or after the nuclear war one would’ve been the best timing ever
another great one! when I found this channel some months ago I binge watched half your content in one night! I'm really impressed by the consistency of quality content. easily one of my favorite yt-channels! keep up the good work! best wishes!
Ah, Sciencephile is always such a breath of fresh air!
I have to say......some of the threats are downright terrifying and indeed existential.
*super rats that shoot laser beams exist*
Humans: "I want one."
The fact that this topic has been on my mind so much recently and this video actually served to reassure me
hurray, more things to deepen my existential crisis, 10/10
17:08 YO WHERE WAS THAT CABLE INSERTED?
I feel like this tier list could be renamed to: most to least easy doomsday scenarios to fully understand lmao
most underrated channel on youtube
You have a fantastic ability to tell a narrative in a two-fold manner, utilizing visual images based in the memeladen zeitgeist of the day while speaking coherently and with reasonably approachable language. I appreciate your understanding of our attention spans and the elegant utilization of language.
13:05 Yes the singularity might be able to outsmart you, but as a wise Heavy Weapons Guy once said "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet." A polar bear might not be smarter than you, but it most certainly can kill you. And with enough polar bears, you wouldn't be able to defend yourself even if you were prepared.
Ok but if humanity as a whole decided for whatever reason we wanted wipe out polar bears it would be incredibly trivial for us to do so. In fact we are struggling to not accidently wipe them out. If a polars bears big claws and teeth are its "bullet" then "bullet" can be very easily outsmarted. The difference in intelligence between a polar bear and a human is almost certainly far far smaller than the difference in intelligence between a human and an advanced ai. If such an ai ever wanted us gone we would be fucked beyond belief.
What happens to polar bears is entirely in our hands. So that's just another example of intelligence trumping anything else.
Look how well that worked out in the Matrix...
You give off existential dread in the best way, which is why you’re one of my favourite RUclipsrs
Existential threats are less scary to me because at least i know i wont miss out on anything.
Sciencephile you are a beacon of light in this darkened world
i cant imagine a life without you existing
i think it's crazy there are rogue planets, traversing the void of space with no star to orbit, if they came close enough to earth, the gravitational pull could send us into an elliptical orbit, which would freeze earth, or turn it into mercury xD
I like the scenario of C:DDA, where a multidimensional threat invades earth in 5 days and moved on to other worlds, leaving earth in absolute chaos with zombies, demons and the like. It shows that we are basically not prepared for any threat of that kind
"You're not tasty, trust me." AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
There’s a simple way to ensure the dark forest paradox doesn’t get us.
We could form an organization of very inquisitive people to hunt down and destroy aliens. Maybe e we could call it like the Ordos Xenos.
And maybe they would have a group of highly genetically augmented super soldiers called something crazy like, just spitballing here, the Death Watch.
Can we call our leader, oh let’s say… the god emperor of mankind? Or maybe if we’re feeling less wordy, the omnissiah ?
then we would be the predator in the dark forest paradox, at least with my understanding of it
I'm sure that won't happen, not until the year 40 000 at least!
Imagine being immortal and travelling the universe by experiencing the heat death of the universe and then selecting a new universe to explore
The Downstreams?
@@gaurobdutta8180what is that
I, for one, welcome our glorious future A.I. overlords. Plug me in, I'll be a battery!
I never knew existential dread could be this funny 😂
Just give me a Robot Body now, fuck having back pains
FUN FACT: If you look at the TBP 3's scene where Bluespace had contact with a Higher-Dimensional Fragment, DF setting is said to be *formerly* non-existent in TBP, but since its only means of FTL travel and communication-Dimensional Folding, has been destroyed due to one of the civilizations decided to create something that could render higher dimensions completely destroyed, every space travel or communication needs unfathomable amount of time to be carried out, resulting in everyone losing patience of waiting for updates and responses, thinking the other as trying to use the delay as a facade to hide something and regarded them as liars anyways (they can't even find out the truth or collect evidence either, because it would be too slow to go to the scene and return the samples).
In fact, when humanity got into a lightspeed engine alongside the destructive side-effect of 2D Foil, the DF setting began to collapse on itself, resulting in the eventual ending of yet another god-like alien calling out all intelligent life to get out from their little universes and "restart" the host universe.
Simple sentence: Distrust due to accurate information unable to be received in time.
Also, Sciencephile is right a bit: It IS the projection of violence by mankind. Even the TBP itself stated that DF is just the "tip of an iceberg" of less advanced civilizations (and the aforementioned reasons of DF's creation). And most importantly, in an interview with Mr Liu, he said that "DF setting is dramatic but doesn't have actual scientific evidence" (even Luo Ji had to grind until TBP 2 to verify his claims, and he didn't go the xenocidal route: He just made a MAD situation), meaning he chooses it for literacy value (and yes, it does have a very dramatic value); Not to mention that he also has a short story that is the mirror universe version of TBP: Ode to Joy 欢乐颂, in which an alien that rides in yet another 2D-Foil managed to "resurrect" a fictional UN that is going to be disbanded by simply conducting a literal interstellar concert.
So basically, you can thank Alcubierre Engine's concept for being started out: It is literally the most likely FTL travel that could quickly clear any suspicions by giving updates ASAP.
No-so-related info: TBP fandom has currently a major xenophobia problem where it harbors some of the alt-right Nazis and literal xenophobes (played too much Stellaris and W4K much?), especially in China (they even had a online flame war with Star Trek community as well).
To simplify this video: Biblically accurate angels.
im 2:49 minutes in and i cant stop laughing at the references and jokes the editting is just peak
Discord light mode in a nutshell:
11:40
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
We won't go quietly, the Legion can count on that.
6:23 I don’t think everyone should stop having kids
But there’s certainly a lot of people who shouldn’t
You can argue that some people are better suited to being parents than others, but even the best parents can end up having children who will face extreme suffering. An acquaintance of mine had a child who died of eye cancer before they were a year old. This is the kind of risk that makes antinatalists argue that it's better to not roll the dice in the first place.
@lastdreamofhome on the other hand, antinatalists go into the extremes and say it's immoral to even try to be a good parent. Except for thinking we are all unsuited for very difficult game of parenthood and should not even take the risk, maybe we should strive to support ourselves in it. After all, that antinatalist thought quite literally makes us go extinct on our own will, quite like climate change.
@@Admiral45-10 Antinatalists usually say to just adopt if you have the potential to be a good parent. Why increase the amount of suffering in the world when you can reduce it?
@bendaniels1235 but what is wrong by having your own child? It doesn't increase amount of suffering, it just brings more happiness to this world.
@@Admiral45-10 Creating a new person exposes that person to all the various types of suffering present in life. Yes, they have the ability for positive experiences as well but if they had never existed they would not suffer from being deprived of those positive experiences. When you decide to have a child, you cannot know for certain how much suffering or pain they will go through throughout their life or whether they will be glad to be alive. You are literally gambling on somebody else's life and they have no say in the matter. Therefore, it's better to adopt and help somebody who is already alive and improve their life.
You are my favorite RUclips channel, by far.
Optimus prime on Earth: We are here, we are waiting.
Aliens: Oh shit 💀
I've included extra-dimensional evil chickens into my uni thesis and got an A!!