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  • @beastamer1990s
    @beastamer1990s 2 года назад +687

    "if you give a monkey a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, the monkey will break the typewriter"

    • @agator2660
      @agator2660 2 года назад +35

      Apparently the monkey did so by pooping and peeing all over it.

    • @kissthesky40
      @kissthesky40 2 года назад +14

      He’ll also F it.

    • @agator2660
      @agator2660 2 года назад +4

      🙄

    • @BGmary
      @BGmary 2 года назад +13

      If you put joe biden in front of a typewriter he'll think he's the president

    • @itzanonmoose8328
      @itzanonmoose8328 2 года назад +2

      Give a monkey 5 minutes and the monkey will break the typewriter.

  • @SebastianMikulec
    @SebastianMikulec 2 года назад +451

    "This video will doom you"
    That ship sailed a long time ago.

  • @BomageMinimart
    @BomageMinimart 2 года назад +88

    Good show; fun and quick paced. I gotta tell ya, tho: I have never before heard "basilisk" pronounced like that.

    • @AmberAmber
      @AmberAmber 2 года назад +3

      Right?
      I really thought the accent was on the Bas part.
      But I don't truly know.
      I did notice a huge amount of people pronouncing things in ways ‐ myself included sometimes‐ that indicate they're a reader moreso than a "hear‐er".
      Huh.
      Ok bye :)

    • @IronMan-ds5bi
      @IronMan-ds5bi 2 года назад +1

      BUH-Silisk

    • @SaltyCorpsman
      @SaltyCorpsman 2 года назад

      Huh 🤔 I'm taking this pronunciation

    • @DrachenGothik666
      @DrachenGothik666 Год назад +1

      @@IronMan-ds5bi Nope. Try it like this: say the word "basil", as in the herb you use for cooking, then "lisk". put 'em together: "basilisk". That's how it should be pronounced.

    • @JayDawn01
      @JayDawn01 Год назад

      Ya that was soooo weird. Buh sill iss ? But why

  • @markuspfeifer8473
    @markuspfeifer8473 2 года назад +63

    The good thing is: by sharing and liking this video, we already helped the Basilisk.

  • @RandomguyMr
    @RandomguyMr 2 года назад +516

    That's actually really smart of Joe. He covers his own ass by making a video about Roko's Basilisk. He saved himself at the cost of his viewers.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  2 года назад +219

      MUAHAHAHAHA!

    • @jamiebarr3118
      @jamiebarr3118 2 года назад +47

      @@joescott but he didn't cover his own ass by getting the pronunciation of basilisk right HAH

    • @meowmeow9326
      @meowmeow9326 2 года назад +24

      guys you should help the rokos basilisk. there im saved

    • @fatmn
      @fatmn 2 года назад +16

      Put me on the top of the "didn't help" list. Come get me, AI, do you even lift bro?

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 2 года назад +2

      @@jamiebarr3118 'murcan. Or maybe Texan ...

  • @mgmcd1
    @mgmcd1 2 года назад +226

    I am partial to Allen’s observation that “eternity is a long time, especially near the end.”

    • @BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left
      @BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left 2 года назад +12

      Since I retired I can't figure out how I had time to "go to work".

  • @GuitarSh0re
    @GuitarSh0re 2 года назад +87

    I find the Roko basilisk concept very relaxing compared to the Monty Hall problem.

    • @strangebird5974
      @strangebird5974 2 года назад +14

      The Monty Hall problem is simple to gain an intuition for, if you swap the three doors for a hundred doors, or a thousand. And then let the quiz-master open 98 or 998 wrong doors and then let you choose between keeping your original choice or swapping. The rest is merely the magnitude of your probabilistic advantage when swapping.

    • @a..d5518
      @a..d5518 2 года назад +1

      @@strangebird5974 And yet there is still a 1 in 2 chance of getting the wrong, and it doesn't matter whether it's the original 2 doors or even 100K or 1M, if it's always down to 2 doors, just have the quiz-master open one of the 3, it really is a waste of time and resources to play with more than 2 choices. But maybe that's the point....

    • @whatever7338
      @whatever7338 2 года назад +9

      @@a..d5518 It matters, thats the point. Those two stages of the game are not two separate events, they are connected and cannot be analyzied separately. Its just simple probability. In case of 100 doors the chance that the prize is behind the other door is 99% so its not 1 in 2 like you wrote but 99 in a 100. If you were to play this game an infinite number of times then on average if you switched you would win a prize in 99% of played games or in the case of 3 doors you would win 66.6% of the time which is higher that 1/2

    • @zanderhenriksen6776
      @zanderhenriksen6776 2 года назад +2

      You can easily brush it off by watching RUclips more. It's powered by AI and honestly if we are the result of randomness and electrical signals, eventually it will evolve.
      So you're not cursed, but then again you are helping an AI that may or may not turn malevolent. No, scratch that, contributing to Alphabet's Monopoly on crowd control is negative, therefore simply watching RUclips is morally wrong.
      Sorry for any typos, just took a nicotine pouch and have been holding off for a while, so it hit me hard this time. Have a great day, wonderful people. Smile on life and it will smile back. Though I haven't smiled today, but did smile the entirety of last week, my facial muscles are literally twitching.

    • @charleslivingston2256
      @charleslivingston2256 2 года назад +6

      @@a..d5518 , having 2 choices doesn't mean they are equally likely. If I were to have a sprint race against Usain Bolt, there's not a 1 in 2 chance that I win

  • @jlee4039
    @jlee4039 2 года назад +282

    Your pronunciation of basilisk… is like the premise of the thought experiment. Flawed.

    • @catalyst429
      @catalyst429 2 года назад +34

      I read this comment before he got to this part in the video and was wondering how he could pronounce it wrong. You were right I never even thought of pronouncing it like he did 😂

    • @apersonyoudontknow3346
      @apersonyoudontknow3346 2 года назад +6

      Dam burned

    • @IHateThisHandleSystem
      @IHateThisHandleSystem 2 года назад +20

      I literally felt an unpleasant shock ripple up my spine when he murdered the pronunciation.

    • @ExtinctCanadian
      @ExtinctCanadian 2 года назад +1

      Where :)

    • @ToyokaX
      @ToyokaX 2 года назад +3

      It's almost impossible for me to even try to pronounce it the way he does. HOW?!

  • @keiththorpe9571
    @keiththorpe9571 2 года назад +444

    As Rush said, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..."

    • @GimbalosMorkinar
      @GimbalosMorkinar 2 года назад +4

      Rush who ?

    • @davidgeorge7443
      @davidgeorge7443 2 года назад +7

      @@GimbalosMorkinar Rock Band. ruclips.net/video/OnxkfLe4G74/видео.html

    • @michaelfried3123
      @michaelfried3123 2 года назад +24

      and....'you can choose from phantom fears or kindness that could kill, I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.'

    • @korkee1111
      @korkee1111 2 года назад +26

      @@GimbalosMorkinar RUSH the band, probably the first corporate rock band. Also called Progressive Rock, they started in the early 70's and they toured into the early 00's.
      The song he's referencing is Free Will.
      One of my favorite bands as an old guy, but the singer is a high Tenor and is often confused as a woman on first listening. If you're a fan of technically complex and perfectly played music check out RUSH, Dream Theater, Ygnwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, or more recently Devin Townsend Project.
      Not Limbaugh... lol

    • @juliaconnell
      @juliaconnell 2 года назад +2

      exactly - hence the dilemma in the trolley scenario - dammed if you do, dammed if you don't

  • @kariscoyne1886
    @kariscoyne1886 2 года назад +94

    as I said on Kyle Hill's video- this just sounds like Pascal's Wager with extra steps

    • @artemis_smith
      @artemis_smith 2 года назад +11

      Pascal's Wager for people who don't realize that Pascal was being sarcastic.

    • @poposterous236
      @poposterous236 2 года назад +26

      The logic in Roko's Basilisk is so obviously flawed and convoluted it gave me new appreciation for Pascal's Wager

    • @adamsmith7885
      @adamsmith7885 2 года назад

      @@poposterous236 Where is the flaw?

    • @RhizometricReality
      @RhizometricReality 2 года назад +6

      Except we can also have an AI that is benevolent. So we literally get to choose what kind of artificial God we create. Do we want to create something cruel and malicious or want to create something kind and caring.

    • @bobfg3130
      @bobfg3130 2 года назад

      @@poposterous236
      I have some doubts.

  • @someroboticpizza
    @someroboticpizza 2 года назад +11

    i just wanna say that i found this video comforting knowing that there are some problems with the whole roskos obelisk thing that just made the whole thing less scary and instead just interesting as a concept, so thank you joe

  • @Kcburnit
    @Kcburnit 8 месяцев назад +1

    Everybody always forgets the fact that you can actually derail a train. By switching the tracks between the front and rear wheel. In this way, you save all six people who are tied to the track by only possibly sacrificing the people on the trolley

  • @battlespace13
    @battlespace13 2 года назад +242

    I like George Carlin's take: "Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."

    • @taipan8021
      @taipan8021 2 года назад +9

      Well Said

    • @user-xo5rd5wj1z
      @user-xo5rd5wj1z 2 года назад +3

      I love how you brought George Carlin into this. 🙆😊😁

    • @faer3699
      @faer3699 2 года назад

      +++

    • @waynemccormick4773
      @waynemccormick4773 2 года назад +1

      then why are they watching youtube videos esp videos like this on? ;^)

  • @planetdisco4821
    @planetdisco4821 2 года назад +568

    Personally whenever I’m pulled over for by the police for exceeding the speed limit I ask them for data on the metrological device used to measure my speed then cite both Cantors Theorem and Xenos Paradox as to reasons why their metrological assessment of my speed is only reasonably accurate until it gets below the Planck scale and that furthermore all metrological units are essentially arbitrary in nature and a matter of social consensus and therefore devoid of meaning from a cosmic perspective. It is not long after this that I am usually taken “back to the station” and summarily beaten by the officer on watch and a few of his friends and discharged with a warning. I don’t have as many teeth as I used to but at least I still have all 12 demerit points on my Australian drivers licence intact. Totally worth it unless I’m eating corn on the cob lol…

    • @xXYourShadowDaniXx
      @xXYourShadowDaniXx 2 года назад +25

      What is this, a internet comment etiquette ?

    • @deadeyeduncan5022
      @deadeyeduncan5022 2 года назад +31

      I'd understand when they mix up the taser and their gun this time.

    • @juliaconnell
      @juliaconnell 2 года назад +14

      lol - as soon as I clicked on the 'show more' and saw aussie - true mate, true - cikey, wonder you have any teeth left mate
      = love & kisses from across the ditch in kiwi land xx

    • @jose41811
      @jose41811 2 года назад +1

      Yes

    • @thomasskilton2696
      @thomasskilton2696 2 года назад +9

      Hahaha. Spoken like a true Aussie. The cops will let ya off if you start getting all lawyery and scientific 😂

  • @luke-alex
    @luke-alex 2 года назад +6

    The Hilbert Hotel stuff isn't just interesting thought experiment material, it's actually a way to introduce some of the important mathematical ideas of infinite set cardinalities (specifically what it means to be countably infinite).

  • @kbye5323
    @kbye5323 2 года назад +4

    I freaking love your channel. Makes my brain hurt most of the time but still great. Thanks for what you do!

  • @AdvancedLiving
    @AdvancedLiving 2 года назад +233

    Joe: “it will kill you to death.”
    Me: “only if I die…”

    • @HuwFerris-John
      @HuwFerris-John 2 года назад +11

      Where's Peter dinklage when you need him?

    • @noahrodriguez293
      @noahrodriguez293 2 года назад +7

      Yes
      That's what "killing you" means

    • @drugstoredilemmas7962
      @drugstoredilemmas7962 2 года назад +5

      My personal favorite is Markiplier’s “you will die of death poisoning”

    • @myscreen2urs
      @myscreen2urs 2 года назад +1

      If it doesn't do the ladder, it wasn't doing the former

    • @terrybrown3199
      @terrybrown3199 2 года назад

      There's nothing I can do, period. That therefore absolved me of all guilt. Any other person in my position would have had the exact same choices with the exact same outcome. The only reason a person is there is to give that narrative a secondary point.

  • @lizc6393
    @lizc6393 2 года назад +237

    Roko's Basilisk is the sort of thing that would have tortured me a decade ago and now is just a little funny because ya know, depression.

    • @jameswebb3410
      @jameswebb3410 2 года назад +5

      Are you ok???

    • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842
      @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 2 года назад +12

    • @poposterous236
      @poposterous236 2 года назад +26

      Its also not scary because it makes no sense, relies too much on huge leaps of logic and crazy assumptions. Its stupid. The AM AI from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is much scarier.

    • @beastamer1990s
      @beastamer1990s 2 года назад +10

      @@poposterous236 right? its assuming that someone (the first person to work on the AI) would go out of their way to bring about an AI that would kill them only if they hadnt to begin with... and even then, theres nothing stopping someone half way around the world from making their own basilisk.
      It relies on the uncertainty of reality, without considering the scale of human influence. *It would be terrifying, if there was an infinite amount of people, but thats already more scary than a killer AI.*

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil 2 года назад +9

      It is just a variant of Pascals wager, really.

  • @swingophile
    @swingophile 2 года назад +9

    I have never heard the word "Basilisk" pronounced that way.

    • @MadWeponsmith
      @MadWeponsmith 2 года назад

      This is what I came here for. Joe, I once had an English teacher pronounce the word labyrinth "La-BRINTH" with a heavy accent on the last syllable just because she'd never heard it pronounced and only ever read it. Don't fee bad.
      But speaking as a Harry Potter fan... come on, dude.

  • @Tomatoes99
    @Tomatoes99 8 месяцев назад +1

    My favourite paradox is the liar paradox because I thought of something similar before I heard about it, basically if you have something who can only lie and they say that there lying then they can’t be lying but they can’t be telling the truth.

  • @thingsiplay
    @thingsiplay 2 года назад +144

    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    • @mizomint4197
      @mizomint4197 2 года назад +19

      Except he never said that. Or at least there is no proof of it being said. And the changing of what was claimed to have been said over time by the original person who claimed it makes it even less likely that it was said by him. In my opinion.

    • @40watt53
      @40watt53 2 года назад +6

      @@mizomint4197 Ironic.

    • @yukonfarnsworth1688
      @yukonfarnsworth1688 2 года назад

      @Ω͎ bababooey bababooey

    • @theMosen
      @theMosen 2 года назад +11

      "Don't believe quotes you read on the internet."
      ― William Shakespeare

    • @truonghoang7812
      @truonghoang7812 2 года назад

      Einstin paradox

  • @saintcyberchaos265
    @saintcyberchaos265 2 года назад +87

    "Why, sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
    ~Red Queen~ (NOT Alice)

    • @francoislacombe9071
      @francoislacombe9071 2 года назад +4

      I believe it's the Red Queen who says that, not Alice 🤔

    • @gormauslander
      @gormauslander 2 года назад

      A cultured reference

    • @Barefoot_Joe
      @Barefoot_Joe 2 года назад +3

      @@francoislacombe9071 True, in reply to Alice who said 'There's no use trying, One can't believe impossible things.'

    • @paulwilhelmsen6586
      @paulwilhelmsen6586 2 года назад

      @@Barefoot_Joe oh shoot I thought you were referencing 1984. Similar concept. Much darker and more comparable to current times

    • @saintcyberchaos265
      @saintcyberchaos265 2 года назад +2

      @@francoislacombe9071 You are quite right! I have corrected my error, also:
      "Always believe internet quotes"
      ~Abraham Lincoln~

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 года назад +106

    *JOE:* _"It'll kill you to death."_
    It would be a waste of effort to kill anyone further than that...😉

    • @Patches2212
      @Patches2212 2 года назад +1

      Unless you have a necromancer with you

    • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
      @Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 года назад

      @@Patches2212 >>> True...😊

    • @bobsmith9271
      @bobsmith9271 2 года назад +2

      That would be like beating a dead horse.

    • @liaw1231
      @liaw1231 2 года назад +1

      That phrase made me giggle 😄

    • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
      @Allan_aka_RocKITEman 2 года назад

      @@bobsmith9271 >>> Or _"Beating a dead [insert name here]."_
      😊😊😊

  • @666DarkOverlord
    @666DarkOverlord 2 года назад +3

    For the trolley problem you just flick the switch between wheel segments so the front goes down one track while the back goes down the other, as they get to the furthest point they can away from each other it’ll lurch to a stop, a few bumps and bruises for those inside but nobody dead then you just walk over and untie the people on the tracks

    • @anandsharma7430
      @anandsharma7430 5 месяцев назад

      This was the James Tiberius Kirk answer I was looking for! 🖖

  • @jackielinde7568
    @jackielinde7568 2 года назад +7

    So, in 2003, someone spend a month proving that, given access to a computer, even monkeys will devolve into shit-posting.

    • @EatSuck
      @EatSuck 2 года назад +1

      Underrated

  • @budershank
    @budershank 2 года назад +14

    The best paradox is always Homer Simpson's "Can God create a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it."

  • @typ044
    @typ044 2 года назад +6

    That Simpson's bit stuck with me ever since it first aired, still makes me laugh.

  • @harshitmehrotra6837
    @harshitmehrotra6837 11 месяцев назад

    that little jungle beat in the intro of all videos is so fun, I'm hyped up for some learning in just 2 seconds.

  • @KK4CNM
    @KK4CNM 2 года назад +24

    I remember thinking about infinity as a child, laying in bed contemplating it. It always sent my brain into this horrible loop and a feeling of crisis and dread. There are some things I learned never to contemplate.

    • @nathanchildress5596
      @nathanchildress5596 2 года назад +2

      Yeah, just go outside and play

    • @WikkeSchrandt
      @WikkeSchrandt 2 года назад +6

      Same here. It can be interesting trying to visualise things that cannot possibly be comprehended by any human. But fuck if it isn't terrifying at times. Like imagining not existing. But you realise that if you do not exist, there is nothing at all for you to realise, nor anything to realise it with. Terrifying loops.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 2 года назад +1

      Some infinities are bigger than others. 🤔 Sweet dreams. 💋😈

    • @Kyradical
      @Kyradical 2 года назад +2

      @@WikkeSchrandt I struggle with this all the time, it makes me feel sick and clammy and suffocated.

    • @WikkeSchrandt
      @WikkeSchrandt 2 года назад +3

      @@Kyradical You're not alone. Just remember, we're alive and we're here now. We should make the best of the time we've got, while we've got it!

  • @kermitthorson9719
    @kermitthorson9719 2 года назад +127

    "IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO DECIDE YOU STILL HAVE MADE A CHOICE" MISS YOU NEIL.

    • @jeremy8189
      @jeremy8189 2 года назад +10

      "I will choose Freewill!"

    • @angelkaterose
      @angelkaterose 2 года назад +9

      This is what enablers of abuse need to realise.

    • @BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left
      @BoB-Dobbs_leaning-left 2 года назад +2

      @@jeremy8189 "I will choose Freewill!"
      Only if you do as you are told.

    • @opticnirvana
      @opticnirvana 2 года назад +4

      I say these waves are permanent.

    • @kermitthorson9719
      @kermitthorson9719 2 года назад

      @@jcldctt because of the year long Niel Peart remembrance that was 2020

  • @jaychurch4378
    @jaychurch4378 2 года назад

    Joe you blew my mind. I have been watching your channel for years and I never thought you would mention my Uni Plymouth and local Zoo. Thanks for the great content :-)

  • @Devilot109
    @Devilot109 2 года назад +2

    I remember reading about a study that found that when faced with realistic simulations of the Trolley Problem or similar scenarios, people would always sacrifice the one person to save the many. Their answer to the trolley problem as an abstract thought experiment only determined how *long* it took them to take that action.

    • @Devilot109
      @Devilot109 2 года назад

      Oh, man, Roko's Basilisk. The *dumbest* way to recreate hell, God, and Pascal's Wager from first principles. (It depends on some *extremely* wonky LessWrong beliefs that don't jive remotely with traditional logic or philosophy.)

  • @Vodhin
    @Vodhin 2 года назад +23

    A _Lady of Negotiable Affection_ walks up to Descartes sitting at a bar and asks "wanna have a good time?" To which Descartes responds "I think not!" and disappears.

  • @udforme
    @udforme 2 года назад +38

    "Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he, himself could not eat it?" Homer Simpson

    • @TNCo230
      @TNCo230 2 года назад +2

      Can , unstoppable force, move unmovable object? ☺️

    • @mikemcintyre7084
      @mikemcintyre7084 2 года назад +1

      @@TNCo230 Being mutually exclusive, only one could exist at any point in time and space.

  • @finickityreader5274
    @finickityreader5274 2 года назад

    For the trolley problem, not a lot of people seems to consider half switching the switch and sending the trolley arse over teakettle. It doesn't break any of the rules, and sometimes the best way to get out of a moral quandary is to figure out which restraints are inherent and which are just your assumptions.

  • @sertaki
    @sertaki 2 года назад +36

    "This video will doom you"
    > clicks immediately

  • @wlittle8908
    @wlittle8908 2 года назад +62

    Im glad this was an early look otherwise it would've ruined my Monday cuz Mondays are not designed for critical thinking.

    • @voodoochile7581
      @voodoochile7581 2 года назад +1

      Sunday is the worst day. Cos it’s praying day & it makes negative energy for everyone.

    • @Josh729J
      @Josh729J 2 года назад +1

      The way he pronounces basilisk hurts my brain lmao

    • @rogerstarkey5390
      @rogerstarkey5390 2 года назад

      W Little
      That's what you think .... Or not.... 🤔😉

    • @mattlogue1300
      @mattlogue1300 2 года назад

      Good because I can't. Depressed

  • @groofay
    @groofay 2 года назад

    Your shirt in this video is excellent, given the opening bit with the trolley problem.

  • @flexabigg1
    @flexabigg1 2 года назад +1

    Thanks ♾ Joe!

  • @CodyB
    @CodyB 2 года назад +22

    I've never heard someone pronounce basilisk like you do, Joe!

    • @bestestdev
      @bestestdev 2 года назад +4

      I had to leave this video to confirm my suspicion that Joe is, in fact, pronouncing it wrong.

    • @EatSuck
      @EatSuck 2 года назад +3

      @@bestestdev not me lol. I’ve listened to too many fantasy audiobooks😂

    • @joescott
      @joescott  2 года назад +5

      Blame Texas.

    • @bestestdev
      @bestestdev 2 года назад

      @@joescott Ah, I thought it might be a word you’ve read many times but never said out loud. Everyone has a few of those xD

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 2 года назад

      @@bestestdev same thing happened to me with "basalt". I thought it was "bay-salt"

  • @adityamodi4963
    @adityamodi4963 2 года назад +28

    I didn't even see the thumbnail, just read the title and i knew this was about Roko's Basilisk, it's insane how the mind can make these connections!!

  • @TheSkystrider
    @TheSkystrider 2 года назад +3

    Oh darn, I really thought that going through the paradoxes were just to prime us for a discussion on how twisted our minds can be around our tendency to simplify or have a narrow focus/resolution despite having so much capability in critical thinking to discern and analyze etc.

  • @waynewilliamson4212
    @waynewilliamson4212 2 года назад

    cool video...very much enjoyed...thanks...

  • @ladyajninja23
    @ladyajninja23 2 года назад +48

    I liked as soon as I heard " let's jump off the deep end together"
    Yes Joe, yessss

    • @360.Tapestry
      @360.Tapestry 2 года назад

      except that we didn't. it's merely the tip of the infinite iceberg

    • @gilbertdeclerk7215
      @gilbertdeclerk7215 2 года назад

      What you know about rolling down in the deep

  • @curseoftheegglady
    @curseoftheegglady 2 года назад +23

    "It was the best of times, it was the blursed of times"

  • @Go-go-super-guru
    @Go-go-super-guru 2 года назад +1

    Joe, I could literally listen to you all day. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

  • @cschleiger1991
    @cschleiger1991 2 года назад +1

    Joe's been workin out ;) My man! Get it Joe, GET IT!

  • @bovinejonie3745
    @bovinejonie3745 2 года назад +21

    I've already doomed myself to Roko's. Let's do this.

  • @periculum69
    @periculum69 2 года назад +87

    My favorite version of the trolley problem rewords it in regards to organ transplants. Basically, you have five hospital patients who are all dying of organ failure. Is it right for you to find a perfectly healthy person to murder so that you can harvest their organs and use them to save the lives of the five patients?
    Functionally this is identical to the trolley problem, but for some reason it really made the implications of the problem click for me. The chances of having to change tracks on a run away trolley are slim, at best. Making it feel really contrived. But the concept of violating people's bodily autonomy and harvesting them for organs...that's something that could really happen and is absolutely horrific.

    • @kingnekogon
      @kingnekogon 2 года назад +3

      Repo! The Genetic Opera.

    • @octogonSmuggler
      @octogonSmuggler 2 года назад

      TLDR; the problem is asking of its okay to sacrifice the few to save the many.

    • @curranfrank2854
      @curranfrank2854 2 года назад +15

      Action-based utilitarianism would support killing the one person in both situations, but rules-based utilitarianism would only support killing the person in the trolley problem. So I don't think they're exactly the same, since as someone who tends to follow rules-based utilitarianism I'd change the tracks in the trolley problem but I wouldn't harvest someone's organs.

    • @johnlshilling1446
      @johnlshilling1446 2 года назад

      It's happening in China. Ask any of the Uyghurs. Everyone involved on the harvest side are committing murder. Including the organ recipient, their family, friends, and anyone else that knows and does nothing to stop the torture, abuse, and murder machine. So how about this scenario; A man sneaks into China, overpowers some guards, and uses their weapons to kill every person involved in this atrocity. Is that person a murderer? Or a hero?

    • @tommyhawks856
      @tommyhawks856 2 года назад

      The way that I see the problem is that you kill no one and just let nature take its course. Even if you killed the one to save the five, how would you know that any of the five would survive the transplant surgery? As they say, It's not nice to fool Mother Nature! (Boy, I really am showing my age now)

  • @mahlkov
    @mahlkov 2 года назад

    My Mandelbrot set just got here from Amazon! Can't wait to set it up!

  • @GotthatDoginhim-di9ys
    @GotthatDoginhim-di9ys 2 года назад

    Your videos are the best!

  • @joegoulet7299
    @joegoulet7299 2 года назад +10

    Thank you for this video. I taught ethics for five years and that alone, mind you, has made it difficult to find work when I put that on a resume! Thank you for this video and all of the great work you do. Keep making my mondays bearable.

    • @mikefinn
      @mikefinn 2 года назад +2

      That's probably more limiting for getting hired than being a known pedophile. I wanted to invest in an ethical business but couldn't find any.

    • @MoteofVolition
      @MoteofVolition 2 года назад

      Become a nurse or doctor 😉

    • @rogerstarkey5390
      @rogerstarkey5390 2 года назад

      But you said "WHEN you put that on the resume"..
      Can I therefore assume you don't always include it?
      Is that ethical?
      😉

    • @adamsmith7885
      @adamsmith7885 2 года назад +2

      @@rogerstarkey5390 from my experience, the more a person talks about ethics, the more I notice unethical behavior from them.

    • @joescott
      @joescott  2 года назад +2

      Thanks! If you haven't checked out The Good Place, I recommend it. It's basically an ethics course presented as a sitcom.

  • @johnnyriot28
    @johnnyriot28 2 года назад +63

    Appreciate the shoutout at the end. Your channel is full of amazing topics/subjects that are factual and thought provoking. There is no better channel out there. Keep up the amazing content

  • @eboal2
    @eboal2 2 года назад +1

    The Astley Paradox: If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie Up, he cannot give it to you as he will never give you Up. However, in doing so he lets you down. Thus creating the Astley Paradox

  • @kathrynhalpern6386
    @kathrynhalpern6386 2 года назад

    Hi Joe
    Please--make many!!! more videos like this one!!! More on infinity, and its paradoxes!!!

  • @TheAnticorporatist
    @TheAnticorporatist 2 года назад +40

    I've never heard it pronounced other than bass-ill-isk, but, eh, who knows.

    • @glennpearson9348
      @glennpearson9348 2 года назад +2

      Yep, agreed. But let's not get too picky. After all, the point of this video was to examine far more mundane things, like life and death choices, infinity and impossible solids.

    • @moreplease394
      @moreplease394 2 года назад

      Probably a regional accent like Neh-vah-duh and Nee-Va-Da lmao but who knows. Some people have to be _different_

    • @Aconitum_napellus
      @Aconitum_napellus 2 года назад +3

      All Americans talk wrong, innit?

    • @Draiscor
      @Draiscor 2 года назад +3

      I got a weird shudder every time Joe said that... it sounds so odd to me :D

    • @laurentstorchi290
      @laurentstorchi290 2 года назад

      language needs to be a living concept without strict rules.

  • @David-di5bo
    @David-di5bo 2 года назад +8

    4:50 "And since we can never talk enough about infinity". I see what you did there.

  • @Lazarosaliths
    @Lazarosaliths 2 года назад

    So good!!! Ευχαριστούμε πολυ!!!

  • @aayan5404
    @aayan5404 2 года назад

    The first ever video from this channel that was half baked. Bravo!!

  • @lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561
    @lynnmccurdythehdmmrc2561 2 года назад +18

    Simple answer to the Trolley Problem. Since I just came from a Model Train show (My club had an operating display). Just throw the switch (turnout) Half Way. Derailing the Trolley and no one dies, well hopefully.

    • @jamesparrant7030
      @jamesparrant7030 2 года назад +1

      Been there done that and while no one dies its a pain in the ass to back on the track

    • @frank8william
      @frank8william 2 года назад +6

      or..... you make the train drift between 2 rails and kill 6 people for high score!

    • @Yutani_Crayven
      @Yutani_Crayven 2 года назад +1

      Let's add to the problem, then. There are the same number of passengers on that train as there are people on the tracks. If the train derails, the passengers die.

  • @lauraramsey8658
    @lauraramsey8658 2 года назад +24

    I laughed way more than I shouldve when you said ‘apeeewayyyy’

    • @joescott
      @joescott  2 года назад +2

      That was 100% my writer, Jason. :)

  • @slyaspie4934
    @slyaspie4934 2 года назад +1

    4:40 sick burn of the bard 🤣

  • @zero_bs_tolerance8646
    @zero_bs_tolerance8646 2 года назад

    Thanks, Joe.

  • @thedudegrowsfood284
    @thedudegrowsfood284 2 года назад +81

    I, for one, salute our A.I. overlord.

  • @TheOneTonHammer
    @TheOneTonHammer 2 года назад +5

    I thought I've been pronouncing Basilisk wrong my entire life, so I checked all of the online dictionaries. The emphasis is on the first syllable. BAS- a - lisk, not buh - SIL - isk. Had me wondering there...

    • @user-hu3iy9gz5j
      @user-hu3iy9gz5j 2 года назад

      Buhsilisk sounds better

    • @sertaki
      @sertaki 2 года назад +1

      In other languages, the stress is on later syllables though - like in German.

    • @TheOneTonHammer
      @TheOneTonHammer 2 года назад +1

      @@sertaki I didn’t realize he was speaking German. My bad.

    • @sertaki
      @sertaki 2 года назад

      @@TheOneTonHammer Oh I don't claim he was speaking German, just pointing out that the word is pronounced differently in other languages. :D

  • @johncampbell5197
    @johncampbell5197 2 года назад

    I do love your vids!!

  • @phoghat
    @phoghat 2 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @JM-us3fr
    @JM-us3fr 2 года назад +66

    Never thought I’d hear terms like “utilitarianism” and “deontology” in a Joe Scott video. And who doesn’t love a good convo about infinity? 😄

    • @shaelisenberg8533
      @shaelisenberg8533 2 года назад

      Then you clearly haven’t lived

    • @JM-us3fr
      @JM-us3fr 2 года назад

      @@shaelisenberg8533 Not sure what you mean by that. I love ethics, and I know Joe likes to talk about some pretty intense topics, but I just didn’t expect the epic crossover.

    • @shaelisenberg8533
      @shaelisenberg8533 2 года назад

      @@JM-us3fr it was a joke

  • @andie_pants
    @andie_pants 2 года назад +8

    All I can think of is the dodo birds from Ice Age chanting _"Doom on you! Doom on you! Doom on you!"_

    • @justnoah2073
      @justnoah2073 2 года назад +2

      If you didn't take time to prepare then doom on you.

    • @andie_pants
      @andie_pants 2 года назад

      @@justnoah2073 Legit laughed out loud at your pic!

  • @Rooster1172T
    @Rooster1172T 2 года назад

    I love the Ken Roczen crf-450r on the shelf!!

  • @yuvraj-6560
    @yuvraj-6560 2 года назад

    Your contents are awesome and refreshing. But let me tell you, I like your humour more than the contents itself

  • @glace5717
    @glace5717 2 года назад +5

    Not New in Roko's Basilisk, Religion has been doing this same tactics for thousands of years

  • @rhysjones6830
    @rhysjones6830 2 года назад +29

    Roko's basilisk is just another Pascal's wager, with all the associated flaws

    • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842
      @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 2 года назад +1

      I waited this comment.

    • @poposterous236
      @poposterous236 2 года назад +5

      Its a thought experiment for stupid people that really think they're smart.

    • @adamsmith7885
      @adamsmith7885 2 года назад

      Roko's Basilisk is just a modernized version of Christianity (you doom sinners to Hell by educating them about sin). But what are the flaws that you misassociate with Pascal's Wager? Pascal's Wager is still valid, and Christianity is the only answer since no other religion can compare to it in cost-benefit.

    • @RobDegraves
      @RobDegraves 2 года назад +8

      @@adamsmith7885 You don't understand Pascal's wager and its flaws. First, the cost-benefit is irrelevant if it's false. You also have to compare it to every religion ever spawned, as well as all future possible religions. Good luck compare them all.

    • @adamsmith7885
      @adamsmith7885 2 года назад

      @@RobDegraves I did. Of all religions, past present future, Christianity is the only logical conclusion to Pascal's Wager. The Buddha turning out to be real doesn't help/harm non-buddhists in anyway.
      But try again. You're irrational and I doubt your thinking will improve.

  • @NateJGardner
    @NateJGardner 2 года назад +3

    There are some pretty interesting parallels between Roko's Basilisk and Pascal's Wager.

  • @janhoelterling4320
    @janhoelterling4320 2 года назад +1

    My favorite quote from Douglas Adams seems to fit here: “It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”

  • @planetpepe4890
    @planetpepe4890 2 года назад +31

    You have a very interesting channel joe and you’ve got an honest haircut

    • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
      @davidanderson_surrey_bc 2 года назад +8

      Voted #1 Honest Haircut by the American Association of Shady Barbers!

    • @nickv1212
      @nickv1212 2 года назад +1

      That means he's gotta meet and fall in love with his polar opposite, Bayonetta?

    • @joescott
      @joescott  2 года назад +30

      Actually my haircut is a lying bastard, but thank you.

  • @FinGeek4now
    @FinGeek4now 2 года назад +3

    Speaking of the Ape and Shakespeare thought experiment, here is another example: Given a file that is 1.8gb in size, the first few lines of hex (BOF) and last few lines (EOF) are the same, the body of that file has the same amount of hexidecimal characters. By converting the hex into binary, we get a "megaton" of 0's and 1's. We can then generate every possible combination of the 0's and 1's and convert them back into hex, then add in the BOF and EOF. This would give you every possible 2 hour video, in 720p, that has ever been made, will be made, and could be made. Every secret, every "unknown", even a video of how you would die, the destruction of humanity, the earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe. As well as the births. The stock market prices of yesterday, tomorrow, 10 years from now, etc.. Of course, it would also display a lot of "junk" videos too. Given that everything can be shown in those 0's and 1's.. well, I'll leave it up to you to decide what that means for yourself. But keep in mind, that while a large amount of space would be required to store the videos, it is not, however, and infinite amount of space.
    PS: The conversions of hex -> binary -> hex is more of a cpu optimizer, but the step itself isn't necessary as there are also only so many hex characters (0 - 9, A - F)

  • @QuazarBar
    @QuazarBar 2 года назад

    we love your channel too, and this one was especially entertaining!

  • @JuliusUnique
    @JuliusUnique 2 года назад +1

    1:29 if you choose to switch you are not killing a person, you are saving 4 people

  • @WhispyWoods.
    @WhispyWoods. 2 года назад +7

    “This video will doom you”
    Me *clicks on vid as fast as any of Joe’s others*
    How else will I have any eye opening week?!?

  • @raystewart3648
    @raystewart3648 2 года назад +6

    Give us more. These are interesting. I could watch a hour vid on this with you.

  • @SgtP3200
    @SgtP3200 2 года назад

    More like this please!!!!

  • @adsr3870
    @adsr3870 2 года назад +2

    I love the basilisk, just sayin'... Yup, yup, yup. Love it. Aaaaabsolutely love it to death.

  • @kaylielopez6460
    @kaylielopez6460 2 года назад +23

    Me typing anything just so Joe will read it and waste a little bit of his time 😎

    • @Aidansstuff_
      @Aidansstuff_ 2 года назад

      wasted my time

    • @kaylielopez6460
      @kaylielopez6460 2 года назад

      @@Aidansstuff_ I don’t think it worked :,(

    • @paulhaynes5029
      @paulhaynes5029 2 года назад

      Ever seen him reply to any comments? What makes you think he reads them? I wouldn't.

    • @kaylielopez6460
      @kaylielopez6460 2 года назад

      @@paulhaynes5029 he’s replied to me once 🥺🥺🥺

  • @DaveSomething
    @DaveSomething 2 года назад +8

    "Hey Google... are you trying to kill me to death?"
    "my apologies, I don't understand..."
    yeah, sure... my cat isn't plotting my demise either!

    • @honda2363
      @honda2363 2 года назад +1

      "Trying to kill me to death" made me laugh harder than it should.🤣

    • @MIN0RITY-REP0RT
      @MIN0RITY-REP0RT 2 года назад +1

      That which doesn't kill me to death makes me stronger...

  • @radupopescu9977
    @radupopescu9977 2 года назад

    The set up is devious. You can derail the train before the switch... In life there are EVERY TIME OTHER OPTIONS besides those presented.

  • @Donglator
    @Donglator 2 года назад +10

    My favorite paradox is just a simple question: "is your answer to this question no? "

    • @dtkedtyjrtyj
      @dtkedtyjrtyj 2 года назад

      No, it isn't.

    • @canavar1435
      @canavar1435 2 года назад

      I am lying now.

    • @AngelFluff723
      @AngelFluff723 2 года назад

      Surely the answer would be yes?
      As in
      'Yes, that is correct, my answer is no.

  • @Hetnikik
    @Hetnikik 2 года назад +17

    My favorite is the "Library of Babble" talked about by VSauce a long time ago but someone actually made a digital version of it which is really fun to look around in.

    • @Excoded
      @Excoded 2 года назад +1

      There's a short story by Julio Borges that narrates the experience by one librarian traveling infinite corridors filled with books containing all possible variations of the 26 characters of the alphabet and punctuation. One of the best short stories I've ever read.

    • @Hetnikik
      @Hetnikik 2 года назад

      @@Excoded Yep that's what it is a reference to. It's really fun to play around with.

  • @Anyuism
    @Anyuism 2 года назад +7

    Im a big fan of INFINITY. Outward infinity is definitely an easier concept to think about than inward....which i still contemplate on an almost daily basis....

    • @AChi__
      @AChi__ 2 года назад

      I think of it from a zoom in vs zoom out perspective. The more you zoom in the more you'll see into the micro (aka micro scale) and the more spaces between things in the micro will start to come into existence/focus/perception between objects/matter/subject matter in the micro. And the opposite is true if you choose to zoom out into the macro (aka macro scale) instead.

  • @Sheamu5
    @Sheamu5 2 года назад

    I've already heard of the basilisk, from Kyle Hill. I was doomed before I watched, good job furthering his arrival

  • @adebleswordfish
    @adebleswordfish 2 года назад

    Best solution to the trolley problem, arrest the criminal that tied them to the track before they do it. There’s also the joker’s one where you say two trolleys will ram into each other if both choose to kill nobody killing both or one will choose to save the people on the track and their passengers.

  • @Illvana
    @Illvana 2 года назад +10

    I guess I'm the only one that thinks about Roko's basilisk as a form of "reverse religion"? Simplistic, yes, but, it kinda fits the bill

    • @ReddwarfIV
      @ReddwarfIV 2 года назад +3

      It's religion for "rationalist atheists".

    • @poposterous236
      @poposterous236 2 года назад

      Its for people that would have bought snake oil in the 1920s

    • @aone9050
      @aone9050 2 года назад +3

      yeah as someone else said its a terrestrial version of pascals wager

    • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842
      @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 2 года назад +2

      The idea [of Roko's Basilisk] is about as stupid as Yudkowski's decision to respond and try to _Streisand effect_ it from his forum, which gave it more traction, than it ever needed. Impressionable readers and the winds of internet did the rest.
      Yudkowski wrote some reasonable thoughts on religion and biases.
      P.S. If you want to hear about real AI safety concerns and research, look up Robert Miles on RUclips.

    • @Illvana
      @Illvana 2 года назад

      It's still reversed due to the fact that the probable creator fears the possible creation, instead of having the possible creation fearing the supposed creator

  • @ZakhariusSilpheed
    @ZakhariusSilpheed 2 года назад +18

    "it'll kill you to death"
    "People die when they're killed"

  • @ianm2534
    @ianm2534 2 года назад

    His Name is Joe, he's that bro..He got got all the knowledge, all the answers and he ain't no schmuck or '' schmo.👍😎👍. Lol but for real good sire 👑 Thanks for all of your videos of the past and all the bangers from the future.You do have a rare 10/10 channel.

  • @grizzle273463
    @grizzle273463 2 года назад

    This is my fav thought experiment: If I eat 4 chili dogs on a Wed while sailing across the ocean and the next day I cross the international date line during a leap year and I take a dump will the poop be grey or brown?

  • @charlestaylor3195
    @charlestaylor3195 2 года назад +7

    Joe, sometimes you make me laugh, real hard.

  • @spiedermensch3582
    @spiedermensch3582 2 года назад +3

    Great video Joe. Have you never heard the word basilisk before? Just curious not being critical. You should do a video about people saying words outloud they've only ever read. I am critical of a Tuber who constantly pronounces Chevy Chase as Shevy Chase and posthumously as post-hue-muss-ly. Why Joe? Again I love the video.

  • @theMosen
    @theMosen 2 года назад +1

    4:18 You can't "test" the infinite monkey theorem by giving a very limited amount of monkeys a very limited amount of time. That defeats the whole propose of the thought experiment.

  • @vast634
    @vast634 2 года назад

    4:56 Hilbert wears that hat like a boss!

  • @stuffnuns
    @stuffnuns 2 года назад +38

    Um, “Basilisk”is pronounced with accent on the First syllable. Like the herb “Basil”, and rhymes with “list”.

    • @Thijs_NL
      @Thijs_NL 2 года назад +1

      I think you should blame Harry Potter.. or.. uhm Chris Columbus!

    • @Kishmond
      @Kishmond 2 года назад +5

      Really? I've always pronounced it with the emphasis on the first syllable and it starts like "bass" (the fish)

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 2 года назад +1

      See, if I try to pronounce it that way in my southern US accent it will just sound like I'm saying "basil is", which is probably more confusing then me just pronouncing it wrong.

    • @NancyLebovitz
      @NancyLebovitz 2 года назад +1

      And it's El-ee-ehz-er, not El-ee-zer.

    • @kingnotail3838
      @kingnotail3838 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, but are you pronouncing "basil" the North American way or the British way? ;P