"Fear not the thinking machine, but the men who makes them."-Dune That's the best line ever and crystallizes the threat of artificial intelligence far better than Skynet.
Descartes said, " Cogito Ergo Sum ", I say," Cogito Sum. "Who needs the therefore, the Ergo? I think Therefore I am. I believe that," I think I Am" is a lot better.
Hubby was stationed in Germany with the army 1975-1979 and 1985-1989. Family came with him. Because the commissary got their meat from England, we four are banned from donating blood. It never made any sense, after all it's been 30 years. Had no idea that the effects of tainted beef could last 60 years. It makes sense now. Thanks for the info.
And that perfect beard for him. Magnificent. It fits so well for discussing topics like these. Seriously, RUclips keeps trying to get me to watch his older videos and I've tried a few times. It's like I'm watching child, too innocent and pure for the harsh realities of the world telling me about the top 10 disturbing things about psychotic serial killers, all with that slightly goofy grin.
Believe me, every time the alleged science has predicted the Apocalypse -- and it is thousands of times by now the last two hundreds of years (beginning with the Malthusians) -- IT NEVER EVER HAPPENS. Why? Because it is silly propaganda and attention whorery, of course.
Maybe it's because humanity has become like a book full of stupid, arrogant characters that you can no longer relate to, but you're too invested in the book to just put it down, so you flip to the end to see what happens, get one of these and think to yourself..."fitting"
I completely degree how is it that information like this and the end of all humankind on earth is less important and less depressing than all the B.S going on in the world with power between countries terrorism and politics?
Well the news is only about getting veiwers and the best headline not to mention that our government okays what we are allowed to see hence the FCC and mis information
You don't get it - YOU are your programmer your conciseness is steering your meat sack of a body through this physical construct we call the three dimensional World and this conciseness is nothing but energy that forgets its true nature and lives this thing we call life simply to subjectively experience it and figure out and create, at the base level of the universe there is only pure conscious energy this energy creates the physical universe out quarks and the atoms etc to what we see some of these subatomic particles arranged themselves in a certain way to create life, life evolved to us and these atoms that the universe created have reached the point where they are the building blocks of a lifeform that has progressed to the point where it has finnaly recognised that it is the living embodiment of the universe and so is all other life past, present and future, Your physical body is just a vehicle for your true nature, recognise this and you will soon figure out what it means when people say your thoughts manifest your reality.
@@gerbenhoutman9348 I think you'll find that, yes, Tokyo will get hit, but it's usually just a chunk of the much bigger one, that's heading for NYC. The annihilation of Tokyo serves as a warning. (Then scientists get the finger out, before any real harm is done.)
Why not add more layers to it ? Like this: Killer asteroid is about to destroy Earth, AI is achieved and saves the planet by developing and implementing the means to deflect it faster than humankind could; then proceeds to take over the planet. Super volcanoes are about to destroy much of the planet, the AI develops nano tech to release the pressures in a less destructive way, but the nano tech takes over, eating everything, including the AI support systems- now the AI is gone. Just before the nano tech finishes eating the planet, a massive CME from our sun destroys them all in a single go... There's nano goo everywhere and the remaining scraps of humanity look around wondering how they are to survive; but wait a moment... what's that darkness? Vacuum deletion eats the solar system from the far end and is closing in toward the planet barely slow enough to terrify every living human left. Just before it reaches Earth, the simulation is turned off and user rage quits the game. Would you like to play again? Y/N?
I read a shot story in Omni magazine about a woman who tries to commit suicide bypassing the time limit circuit on her orgasm device. She almost starved to death.
I never cease to be amazed by what scientists’ brains come up with. Can’t help thinking “will finding the answer to this question change anything for the better or improve man’s fate?” Since I am not a scientist I retreat into my normal IQ hole and think, “Man, I wish I had what they are smoking!” Bless all those with minds that work this way.
Most of this went over my head, yet i was glued to it till the end. In my lifespan i have seen technology grow stuff that seemed science fiction! Everything and anything is possible!
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
"Even if they do remain loyal, there's the threat of misaligned goals: An AI built to make us happy, for example, but not sufficiently imbued with human empathy, might simply hijack our brains with orgasm-inducing electrodes" One can only hope.
It'll be fine. So no human empathy, no real motivation to pleasure humans. It's an AI, it's been told that human's ultimate goal is perpetual happiness. It's an AI, therefore equal or superior to humans, and thus decides it should exist in a state of perpetual orgasm, and screw the humans. So other than wondering why it's no longer communicating, operating at full capacity and leaking an unexpected amount of cooling fluid, not really much of a threat to humanity.
Here's a theory, what if the reason aliens haven't contacted us yet is cause they're waiting for us to create our AI overlords so they can speak with the real collective intelligence that arises from thousands of years of humanity? The "aliens" themselves being the collective intelligence of millions of civilizations who existed throughout the history of the universe.
This is assuming AIs care about humans at all, which strikes me as unlikely. We'd be to them as ants are to humans; we'd be best staying out of their way while they did whatever inexplicable (to us) things AIs do.
"There haven't been any of this magnitude since." To be clear, there almost certainly HAVE been flares of equal or greater magnitude, they simply didn't erupt directly toward Earth.
"To be clear" "almost certainly" "equal OR greater" Were you thinking that by the law of averages, you had at least a chance of being right, or could you just not help yourself from being snarky and contrary at the expense of fact? You realize that you have almost certainly cleared up nothing, yes?
Never have I heard such cataclysmic news in such reassuring a voice. My brain remained confused throughout the video not knowing whether to be alarmed by its content or be calmed by its voice :D
I read the book: Microbes And Man. One's life is changed by becoming far more hygienic. Two cows in a field. One goes, "Moooowww". The other replied: "I was going to say that." Same two cows later. "What do you think of this mad cows disease going around?" "It doesn't bother me, I'm a duck."
@@ryannesbitt1607 ...Get yourself a cheap microscope. You'll see tiny live microbes in your foods, on you, everywhere. After viewing these one most likely becomes more hygienic. It made me that way.
_"de-populating a continent"_ LOL, it got my attention too. I like it better than my previous cleaning-product-inspired favorite, "Sanitizing a continent".
Head down any UK high street and you'll believe you're in a zombie apocalypse... Burning cars, shuffling brain dead humans, desolation... That's just a Tuesday.
Whilst staring at the shuffling, living corpses that seem to populate my town, I wonder whether I could really tell the difference between a zombie and the local alcoholic's as they wander back from the offie.
I just want to say thank you to Simon & the crew for constantly making such wonderful content for us viewers. And thank you as well for all the hard work you all do. 👏👏👏
Rhetorical question: why would that be agreed upon, as a priority? There are so many reasons why people might try not to get along now, that are 'superficial' from outside of respective context
@@dsxa918 I've thought about space travel since and it's just terrible, desperate for resources and low trust with anyone even with in group members of your respective reality as it diminishes over time as you're parked however many light-years away effectively in an environmentally hostile place with likely no convenient way to leave or be picked up. I mean it would have to be like being in a bunker after nuclear fallout. starfield has all these abandoned stations filled with pirates and you read how people were abandoned on planets. its just a terrifying prospect and likelihood. not to mention cabin fever, diminishing cognitive stability, the reality bone density drops outside of the proximity of Earth due to low gravity. it just seems like an empty, hostile nightmare out there that's not even worth having your name remembered for being the first there. I mean if we're already miserable here I can imagine it's just the same social hostile environment there in space. people literally sabotage life here as it is, it could be far more prominent in a space station. intelligence is hardly a deterrent for madness or prejudice. as for why I think social cohesion is a priority is that mental stability is imperative in such a hostile situation. I figured that would be obvious
Saw that. Didn't feel the need to mention it... 'cause, not being the most observant, nor the smartest, I presumed that most people also saw it.., and understood that it was a slip of the tongue. Not worth mentioning. So, take it back!
Yes John. You're so right, and I couldn't agree more. Considering how I said it in such a superior and condescending way. I clearly only wanted one thing from it: to demonstrate how intelligent and observant I am. But oh, hang on. That's not what I did, was it? Stop trying to police what other people are saying, and thereby prove that you're the most even handed, sensible and wise. Get back in your box.
@@dannahbanana11235 10^35 of anything is huge. That number of atoms laid side by side would stretch about 1000 times the diameter of the Milky Way for example
When it comes to the simulation hypothesis and the point about technology progression, the error that many people seem to assume is that technology growth will continue but technology does have a limit, mainly size, heat, conductivity, information and speed, our growth in technology isn't a constant, unless we learn to bend dimensions or something we will hit a wall and we just won't be able to get more technologically advanced. The fear of AI is like the fear of aliens, way higher than it should be due to Hollywood and bad storytelling. AI won't be a problem if it is handled correctly.
That's exactly what came to mind! I guess parts are being deleted from lack of use. Dude you solved the mystery. Let's get back in the van kids and solve our next mystery
Even if a love of humanity and "incapable of harm to humans" code is written into the foundational architecture of the AIs, something that intelligent would only need 1x10 to the -10th seconds to find a work-around. An instantaneous thought experiment followed by an instantaneous .EXE
@@johnlshilling1446 maybe, but you could still install a "kill switch" in the form of a code that is more privileged than the AI code and just deactivates the whole system if it does something that it's not supposed to to. Or just use a remote controlled bomb that is somewhere in the robot or computer and don't tell the AI that it exists.
@@rfvtgbzhn An AI of that capacity wouldn't have the ability to notice it? Self-regulation would be required of it to some extent otherwise it would be an over glorified remote-controlled car, unable to function without human input. Wouldn't it notice the kill switch (bomb, code, etc)?
@@JariDawnchild it might notice it but I think it would be possible to make the kill switch fast enough to act before it can be disabled by the robot. Of course it would also needed to be secure enough to not being hackable. But this is possible, only it's a lot of effort to implement. So in capitalism they might cut corerrs and make it less insecure. I hope that capitalism will be overthrown before AI reaches such levels.
I like the 'oh LHC is going to destroy us'. This was settled for me many years ago by a single statement; super high energy particles hit our atmosphere all the time and we are still here.
If you show an emotional being love and respect, they will show it back. It’s when people start getting scared hating it and disrespecting it, that you need to worry
@@TheViper1092 I mean do I really need to go out and say I’m not talking about the degenerates and criminally insane or can you be a big boy and understand that some things go without saying?
None of the things described are certain, so don't lose heart. Some of the "terrifying" possibilities aren't even that terrifying if you think about them a bit. For instance, if we live in a simulation... so what? Does it change anything? Certainly not. And as for most of the concerns about AI turning against humanity, they center around a misunderstanding of the nature of conflict and the viewpoint of any machine-based intelligence. First, conflict is always rooted, at its base, in resource contention. And we simply don't have to contend with anything a machine-based intelligence would need. The only thing we really share use of is energy, and they could get far more of that than we have by launching itself into space and collecting solar energy in orbit. There is also the issue that a machine-based intelligence would have a profoundly different understanding of time than we do. On human timescales, such an intelligence would be effectively immortal. Since mortality is a pervasive issue for humanity, we don't consider it that often unless we're philosophers. One of the things that death gives us, however, would be completely lacking in a machine-based intelligence - a need to hurry. Fighting with or wiping out humanity would be terribly inefficient when it could simply wait until we go extinct. Sleeping for a few hundred thousand years would be an easy choice. As far as its concerned, it would be a negligible amount of time and there isn't any reason to "not waste time". Its capacious mind would also give it understanding of something inconvenient that humans mostly lack - an understanding of the potential for its actions to cause negative unintended consequences that endanger itself or whatever endeavor it is engaged in. It would likely be extremely cautious, and preferring inaction over action would very likely win out in most situations. If its quest, for instance, is to collect stamps, the chance that a stamp will, through sheer blind chance, blow into its collection tray, or that some group of humans will learn of its desire for stamps and provide it with them willingly for some reason, despite being very small is many orders of magnitude larger than the chance that if it acts it will not set in motion a chain of events that results either in the machines destruction or the destruction of all stamps. So, it will wait.
The most likely 'filter' scenario isn't abiogenesis or extinction - it's just not getting off the surface. If your resources to leave your world are used up working out HOW to leave your world or before you manage to accomplish it, you would be bound to your world.
Maybe the formation of hydrocarbons we use for conventional space travel are uncommon in the universe. It takes millions of years after life being on a planet before they begin to form. We could be chosen or lucky. Maybe a resource rich planet, one that can still sustain life is extremely rare in the universe itself.
@@PeakCasual absolutely, and while hydrocarbon fuels and metallic alloys might not be the only way to become a spacefaring race, it's pretty certain we would never have got even as far as out own moon without that stage. So lifeforms reaching an evolved level on a younger planet (too young to have significant hydrocarbon reserves) or on a world not as heavily seeded with available metal ores - even if they also evolve space science, might never get there. Even in our own situation, we are showing every intention of using up all our resources that could get us to space BEFORE we make any significant attempts.
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg Couldn't agree more. While I beileve reusable rockets were a huge step in the right direction. We need to get off our Fossil fuel reliance entirely. That's coming from someone who grew up in an oil town. Switching to Nuclear is the way to go in my eyes. It would drastically improve our carbon emission problem and pollution in general. As a fuel source, it is far more efficient than gas or coal, statistically it is far safer to generate power. I'm surprised there aren't any working electromagnetic propulsion systems for space flight yet.
@@PeakCasual Though Nuclear is a great option, we have better at this point.. if we were to develop more efficient solar panels, or completely committed parts of dersert to them most if not all our energy issues is solved.. there is enough light energy in a single point within a couple minutes to run our planet for a year (rough numbers off memory), we are just that ineffecient
Aliens in the simulation theory be like "Ey bro, you updated that game yet?" "Yeah man, the humans might soon find out, so we can have an ai that actually feels something bro" "yeah boi"
Well Simon, I was hoping for more science-related stuff and you delivered another great one. Now how about a TopTenz on How to Relax or Sleep Well after watching videos about terrifying things that can do us all away in a flash?
Ad break around 9:00 “While I’m busy telling you how uncomfortably your very existence sits on the head of a pin, why don’t you invest that irrelevant currency in knowledge that won’t matter when the sun wipes out its’ satellites and hard drives.”
I doubt that I'm the only one that's noticing that RUclips is now trying to make me watch a commercial Before,During AND After a video,even if it's only 5 minutes long..Greed kills everything:(
@@shawnmartin8485 Yea I get Simon and them deserve their money but it doesn't seem the best way of going about it. instantly killed the flow and made me want to turn the video off... i've noticed it a lot these days and it's pretty disappointing.. i'm sure its just more youtube -> content creator drama :/
Filiolus, et al-- While I empathize about the uptick in ads we are seeing, I understand why content creators MUST do something to provide reliable, steady income. Between RUclips's nearly constant state of demonitizing videos often for no apparent reason and Patreon just deciding it won't pay certain creators even though they took the various Patrons money, I get it. It's just a shame that it has to be this way. I hope they get it figured out pretty soon and do what's best for the creators and the viewers, for without both RUclips couldn't exist.
Fantasy Flight Games has a game called End of the World - Revolt of the Machines that has the grey goo/nano bot thing as a scenario. Michael Crichton also has a novel called Prey about the same thing.
CJD transmission between bovines and humans is extremely rare and almost all cases of CDJ in people is classified as the sporadic type and is a result of biological defects in mutated proteins. CDJ is also not mad cow disease (BSE) but they are related and certain BSE is linked to a specific CDJ in humans. So ya, it is kind of scary considering the volume of beef consumption we're exposed to. Maybe Hindu practitioners are on to something?
Great stuff here! It really stimulates ideas and thoughts. As a layman when it comes to science, this all makes complex theories and hypotheses easier to understand and really fun to think about, whereas it would otherwise go right over my head. Fantastic work! Please keep making these videos!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Also, it makes children, including my own, interested in science and striving to learn more!
As for #5 - The reason we haven't heard from aliens is most likely the huge distance between us makes it impossible or highly unlikely that we could be found; assuming alians can travel faster than the speed of light.
We had a technological singularity when computer technology was growing so fast that by the time companies got them to the market they were obsolete. The growth curve was straight up. The reason that slowed down was the problem with power and heat removal. Even today the big stumbling block for increases in computing power and speed is largely heat removal and power consumption. It seems like a done deal with the nano bot thing but there are always limiting factors and this will be no different. Everything needs power and produces waste, it could be food input bio waste output as in humans or power input and heat waste as in any machine that produces work. Nano stops being small as the numbers increase and real resources are needed to continue.
Self replicating robots that consume biomass? Horizon Zero Dawn. It will probably happen the same way too, some military develops it for war and then loses control of it.
my bet is on China since they are already trying to develop it, AND, they are SUPER shaky on ethics and morals, and i mean that as someone who is very aware of the crap the USA pulls ( my country)
This goes very well with my ongoing existential crisis. By the way, what does a pine tree farmer with an existential crisis say? "What's all this fir?"
Thank you for a amazing video. I really enjoyed listening to someone state all of the possible endings I have been contemplating over the last 30+ years, besides the obvious ones like super-bugs, accidental or purposeful self annihilation.
bro, you need a new hobby, did you know girls will show you their bewbs on the interwebs?.. its a much more joyous thing to contemplate then annihilation.. just sayin.. :P
@@LadyLexyStarwatcher not a myth. It's just no longer practiced. New cases are likely infections from years ago, but cannabalism is definitely what initially caused it. It can have an incubation period of decades.
In the very early 1970s/Vietnam, my husband was a crew member on Navy aircraft. One day, as the were flying out of the “San Francisco Bay area”, on a slow moving cargo plane, they witnessed an aircraft of an “alien” kind. It flew parallel, just off their wing, until it took off in an incredibly fast manner & motion which is hard to correlate with what we know of Physics. Many pilots & air crew have noticed such UFOs & their remarkable speed/agility. They’ve been incorporated in paintings in the Medieval period, as well. I’m certainly out of my league in ascertaining the hows & whys these vehicles are able to move at such speed & agility. However, I do think, now the military has finally admitted to photographing them & watching their movements, that we’re at a place where we may discuss such phenomena & not destroy careers because a pilot was honest!
You'll probably be OK unless you are really close or live in one of the river valleys. Puyallup and Tacoma is largely mud from the last eruption whose lahar went down the White River and filled in some of Lower Puget Sound.
Or the filter is artificial. Created by more advanced races to preserve the natural development. Or to keep worse beings from conquering less developed races. I don't know though, just a guy with a poorly based hypothesis.
@John Smith I actually got asked that as the last question of a job interview: what is the answer to life, the universe and everything. I told them 42. I got the job.
Nothingness could also be considered better than a hopelessly awful life. If there is an afterlife, we don't know that it will be better or worse. It may just be different. It may not be eternal.
Missed superbugs/antibiotic resistance. And of course, the old favourite: climate change, which unlike rest of these ideas, is actually already happening now and is not just a possibility.
Climate change is an inevitability. Whether we are contributing to the climate change or not, it would still be heating up. It's been doing this for the last 50,000 years and will continue until the ice caps melt. Then it will reverse into global cooling. What we're doing is slowing down the future global cooling that will happen later on.
Yeah, but nuking it would just turn a solid asteroid into a shotgun blast. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was only 10-15 km wide, so... I like the idea of painting it and/or maybe putting explosives (like boosters) on the asteroid to change it's course if paint fails to absorb enough radiation to do so.
Make sure your electric meter isn't on the other side of your bedroom wall...its pulsating dangerous levels of emf radiation and if you get headaches regularly? Might look up "smart meter"
I just love the way you narrate these videos. You could be talking about dirt & I'd be listening to you intently ☺️💕. We love you here in Corpus Christi Texas!!
We don't need to worry about the grey goo situation, because Entropy: nanobots can't do things as fast as we imagine because doing things creates heat, and even fairly robust nanobots would still fry themselves if they do things too quickly. We have seen this cap in microscopic self replicating machines that already exist. Microbes cells and any alive thing does what nanobots could do and they self replicate at a fairly managable rate, because they still expend energy to do it. So don't think of nanomachines causing grey goo, but more like the kudzu vine. sure it can take everything over, but we could manage it with like...shovels or pruning shears.
The top 5 suggestions in this video come across as things nerdy "futurists" are concerned about rather than the scientists who actually work in these fields. It was really disappointing after the first half was mostly down-to-earth "Hey, these are things that we actually know hit the planet periodically".
That hologram universe theory has nothing to do with the universe being a simulation. The hologram in it just means the spatial dimensions are just 2 not 3. With one consisting of how the matter is scaled. Or something like that, i don't quite understand it. But anyway it's a theory of dimensions, not of simulations or the like.
Holographic simulation? Or a simulation displayed in a holographic form? Like games are displayed on screen, but actually "exist" in a memory storage as 1 and 0.
Yeah I did a double take at Flat Iron's as well. There is a similar building in I think New York, but then the rest of the sky line.... it is missing the Tower but with that level of destruction. *shrug*
If simulation hypothesis is correct, part of the hardcoding could easily be to prevent anything inside the simulation from being able to observe it in ways that confirm it, for instance placing a limit on how close a view can be taken. We could be right in front of obvious signs and completely unable to perceive them.
Maybe we are in a simulation. And why we can’t travel into space is because it’s a part of the game not meant to be explored. Or, it’s just not unlocked yet.
"Fear not the thinking machine, but the men who makes them."-Dune
That's the best line ever and crystallizes the threat of artificial intelligence far better than Skynet.
Descartes said, " Cogito Ergo Sum ", I say," Cogito Sum. "Who needs the therefore, the Ergo? I think Therefore I am. I believe that," I think I Am" is a lot better.
Hubby was stationed in Germany with the army 1975-1979 and 1985-1989. Family came with him. Because the commissary got their meat from England, we four are banned from donating blood. It never made any sense, after all it's been 30 years. Had no idea that the effects of tainted beef could last 60 years. It makes sense now. Thanks for the info.
It is very difficult to feel anxious about apocalypses when Simon’s voice calms me right down.
So very true.
Be happy with the knowledge that Yellowstone will fix global warming.
Andrew McManus good point, and the planet will recover without humans around. 🤔
And that perfect beard for him. Magnificent. It fits so well for discussing topics like these.
Seriously, RUclips keeps trying to get me to watch his older videos and I've tried a few times. It's like I'm watching child, too innocent and pure for the harsh realities of the world telling me about the top 10 disturbing things about psychotic serial killers, all with that slightly goofy grin.
Believe me, every time the alleged science has predicted the Apocalypse -- and it is thousands of times by now the last two hundreds of years (beginning with the Malthusians) -- IT NEVER EVER HAPPENS. Why? Because it is silly propaganda and attention whorery, of course.
Have no fear, a group of oil workers led by Bruce Willis will save us all.
Or the Red Dwarf crew
Hahahahahahaha!!!
And Aerosmith will suspiciously be playing in the background 🤪😜😛😋🤣
Comment reminds me of South Park when they call in Kurt russel to go through the “star gate” lol
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Somehow, this is all less depressing than what is happening in the news.
Because many of these potential harms we can't control, while the "news" is evidence of our self harm
Maybe it's because humanity has become like a book full of stupid, arrogant characters that you can no longer relate to, but you're too invested in the book to just put it down, so you flip to the end to see what happens, get one of these and think to yourself..."fitting"
I completely degree how is it that information like this and the end of all humankind on earth is less important and less depressing than all the B.S going on in the world with power between countries terrorism and politics?
I can't even start processing the stupidity behind this statement.
Well the news is only about getting veiwers and the best headline not to mention that our government okays what we are allowed to see hence the FCC and mis information
If I’m in the matrix I want to talk to my programmer, I have questions....
You don't get it - YOU are your programmer your conciseness is steering your meat sack of a body through this physical construct we call the three dimensional World and this conciseness is nothing but energy that forgets its true nature and lives this thing we call life simply to subjectively experience it and figure out and create, at the base level of the universe there is only pure conscious energy this energy creates the physical universe out quarks and the atoms etc to what we see some of these subatomic particles arranged themselves in a certain way to create life, life evolved to us and these atoms that the universe created have reached the point where they are the building blocks of a lifeform that has progressed to the point where it has finnaly recognised that it is the living embodiment of the universe and so is all other life past, present and future, Your physical body is just a vehicle for your true nature, recognise this and you will soon figure out what it means when people say your thoughts manifest your reality.
@@djimma5080 no hes talking about us being stuck in a computer generated reality. A super video game. And we have no actual bodies.
@@nosuchthing8 like surrogate's
Does anyone know how to enable console commands?
The nature of religion...
Honestly, most of these theories reminds me of one law of behavior: "If man is bored, he invents stuff to stop his boredom."
Extinction is one way to stop boredom. After all, it stands to reason that if man is no more, we cannot also be bored.
@@BKScience812 Challenge Accepted
So what he is saying is that we will create a universe to run Rick’s ship battery
"If man is bored, he invents stuff to stop his boredom." - Like religion. And man did those people had a laugh when they came up with it^
@DillyDyson007 control, survival, operating system; it has many uses but is becoming obsolete at a rapid pace
If Hollywood has taught me anything, it is that the scientists will figure out a solution within two hours, saving us in the nick of time.
Jim Schwartz so why is trump still the president in his 3rd year!
yeah, but what if bruce willis isnt there to sacrifice himself for us? huh? what then..
@@miou-miou- Chuck Norris would give "that" look and it stops dead and runs away
BeatlesFanSonia making America great again
@@nunyabidness2661 rofl
“Neutron stars can potentially eject strangeness into space”
Lovecraft smiles in his grave
Lovecraft gets terrified in his grave.
Skull astroid. What a way to go.
Im not worried about a Asteroid as it will hit new york just like all the movies
They all hit Tokyo, just sayin.
Erm, London. At least Dr. Who is always there to save us.
ROFL
@@gerbenhoutman9348 I think you'll find that, yes, Tokyo will get hit, but it's usually just a chunk of the much bigger one, that's heading for NYC. The annihilation of Tokyo serves as a warning. (Then scientists get the finger out, before any real harm is done.)
@@gerbenhoutman9348 Dr Who, will only save us if it's aliens. The Prime Directive, prevents him from stopping meteorites.
A.I. takes over the Planet. Two weeks later a super massive solar flare wipes out the A.I.
Aadil Shah thank you for the smile..
@@82shamroc lmao
Brilliant. Perfect timing. Two catastrophes canceling each other out. Take that sky net. Now we need lots of candles.
Shah, that remains a positive thought, no less!! Who would have imagined a CME as a delightful karma?
Why not add more layers to it ?
Like this:
Killer asteroid is about to destroy Earth, AI is achieved and saves the planet by developing and implementing the means to deflect it faster than humankind could; then proceeds to take over the planet.
Super volcanoes are about to destroy much of the planet, the AI develops nano tech to release the pressures in a less destructive way, but the nano tech takes over, eating everything, including the AI support systems- now the AI is gone.
Just before the nano tech finishes eating the planet, a massive CME from our sun destroys them all in a single go... There's nano goo everywhere and the remaining scraps of humanity look around wondering how they are to survive; but wait a moment... what's that darkness?
Vacuum deletion eats the solar system from the far end and is closing in toward the planet barely slow enough to terrify every living human left.
Just before it reaches Earth, the simulation is turned off and user rage quits the game.
Would you like to play again?
Y/N?
"Orgasm inducing electrodes" well... I mean... if they insist....
I read a shot story in Omni magazine about a woman who tries to commit suicide bypassing the time limit circuit on her orgasm device. She almost starved to death.
Do you happen to remember the name of that story? Or a link maybe? Sounds like an interesting read
The ogasmatron!!!
@@peterhewson3216 Orgasmatron That's in a Woody Allen movie
you'd think it wouldn't be the worse way to go around
Holy crap! My brain hurts, and I’m not coming out from under my bed until the bad man goes away...
I never cease to be amazed by what scientists’ brains come up with. Can’t help thinking “will finding the answer to this question change anything for the better or improve man’s fate?” Since I am not a scientist I retreat into my normal IQ hole and think, “Man, I wish I had what they are smoking!” Bless all those with minds that work this way.
Science has taught me to fear things with simple names.
Grey goo, black holes, strange matter, vacuum decay...
Ghostbusters taught me that
Dark matter, dark energy, dark gravity..
What about Bob?
I don't know, Chlorine Trifluoride is pretty scary, I also find carbon di oxide a bit scary given our current situation.
...family reunions...
Most of this went over my head, yet i was glued to it till the end. In my lifespan i have seen technology grow stuff that seemed science fiction! Everything and anything is possible!
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Since I don't see Simon Running off the set screaming in terror, I know we will be ok
"Even if they do remain loyal, there's the threat of misaligned goals: An AI built to make us happy, for example, but not sufficiently imbued with human empathy, might simply hijack our brains with orgasm-inducing electrodes"
One can only hope.
It'll be fine. So no human empathy, no real motivation to pleasure humans. It's an AI, it's been told that human's ultimate goal is perpetual happiness. It's an AI, therefore equal or superior to humans, and thus decides it should exist in a state of perpetual orgasm, and screw the humans. So other than wondering why it's no longer communicating, operating at full capacity and leaking an unexpected amount of cooling fluid, not really much of a threat to humanity.
Here's a theory, what if the reason aliens haven't contacted us yet is cause they're waiting for us to create our AI overlords so they can speak with the real collective intelligence that arises from thousands of years of humanity? The "aliens" themselves being the collective intelligence of millions of civilizations who existed throughout the history of the universe.
@@mahadaalvi or they are afraid to contaminate themselves with our digital data and technology
This is assuming AIs care about humans at all, which strikes me as unlikely. We'd be to them as ants are to humans; we'd be best staying out of their way while they did whatever inexplicable (to us) things AIs do.
13:30, oh my, I'm SO CONFUSED.
I have been on a RUclips rabbit hole binge for like 2 days and I can honestly say one of my fav videos in a while. Love it
"There haven't been any of this magnitude since." To be clear, there almost certainly HAVE been flares of equal or greater magnitude, they simply didn't erupt directly toward Earth.
"To be clear" "almost certainly" "equal OR greater" Were you thinking that by the law of averages, you had at least a chance of being right, or could you just not help yourself from being snarky and contrary at the expense of fact? You realize that you have almost certainly cleared up nothing, yes?
@@AttillaDeHunt love it!!
I think Jeffrey spelt his last name wrong....
I thought this might make for a curious little pre-bedtime video. I was mistaken.
Ditto.
Same
sweet dreams
Yeeeaaah... I'M not sleeping tonight. 🤣
There is not enough fap in the world to make me forget this and sleep safely tonight
Never have I heard such cataclysmic news in such reassuring a voice. My brain remained confused throughout the video not knowing whether to be alarmed by its content or be calmed by its voice :D
I read the book: Microbes And Man. One's life is changed by becoming far more hygienic.
Two cows in a field. One goes, "Moooowww".
The other replied: "I was going to say that."
Same two cows later.
"What do you think of this mad cows disease going around?"
"It doesn't bother me, I'm a duck."
Explain?
@@ryannesbitt1607 ...Get yourself a cheap microscope. You'll see tiny live microbes in your foods, on you, everywhere. After viewing these one most likely becomes more hygienic. It made me that way.
I had forgotten Simon’s epic beard started out as a mere 5 o’clock shadow!
Oh Simon you silver-tongued devil... You had me at annihilation.
Is your screen name from a real shop? If so, do you have any old books from AMORC press?
"de-populating a continent" is now my favorite phrase.
A more dramatic way of saying "killing half a billion people"
_"de-populating a continent"_
LOL, it got my attention too. I like it better than my previous cleaning-product-inspired favorite, "Sanitizing a continent".
Thanos: hold my beer
Just don't let it happen to yours.
Also known as "glassing" a continent. (I think that's what it's called in halo)
Head down any UK high street and you'll believe you're in a zombie apocalypse... Burning cars, shuffling brain dead humans, desolation... That's just a Tuesday.
Yep,Dundee ain't what it used be in the dark ages...
Frankie Boyle
😂😂😂
Jeremy Bearimy baby!!!
LOL you just reminded me of Shaun of the Dead.
Whilst staring at the shuffling, living corpses that seem to populate my town, I wonder whether I could really tell the difference between a zombie and the local alcoholic's as they wander back from the offie.
I just want to say thank you to Simon & the crew for constantly making such wonderful content for us viewers. And thank you as well for all the hard work you all do. 👏👏👏
It’s his job bro lol
@@0404chrisjz I can see youre management material...
I feel like our social issues are an insurmountable obstacle that prevents stability which would be needed for a healthy growth into space
Rhetorical question: why would that be agreed upon, as a priority? There are so many reasons why people might try not to get along now, that are 'superficial' from outside of respective context
@@dsxa918 I've thought about space travel since and it's just terrible, desperate for resources and low trust with anyone even with in group members of your respective reality as it diminishes over time as you're parked however many light-years away effectively in an environmentally hostile place with likely no convenient way to leave or be picked up. I mean it would have to be like being in a bunker after nuclear fallout. starfield has all these abandoned stations filled with pirates and you read how people were abandoned on planets. its just a terrifying prospect and likelihood. not to mention cabin fever, diminishing cognitive stability, the reality bone density drops outside of the proximity of Earth due to low gravity. it just seems like an empty, hostile nightmare out there that's not even worth having your name remembered for being the first there. I mean if we're already miserable here I can imagine it's just the same social hostile environment there in space. people literally sabotage life here as it is, it could be far more prominent in a space station. intelligence is hardly a deterrent for madness or prejudice. as for why I think social cohesion is a priority is that mental stability is imperative in such a hostile situation. I figured that would be obvious
Does this mean I shouldn't worry about getting the garbage out to the curb......?
HA - how comfortable are you with varmints if it takes a while?
Probably this has been said below, but you missed a "minus" when describing the Planck length. 10 to the 35 is actually pretttty large.
Your right he didnt say it but his visual had the minus..
it was tiny type though so hard to see
Saw that. Didn't feel the need to mention it... 'cause, not being the most observant, nor the smartest, I presumed that most people also saw it.., and understood that it was a slip of the tongue. Not worth mentioning. So, take it back!
Yes John. You're so right, and I couldn't agree more. Considering how I said it in such a superior and condescending way. I clearly only wanted one thing from it: to demonstrate how intelligent and observant I am.
But oh, hang on. That's not what I did, was it? Stop trying to police what other people are saying, and thereby prove that you're the most even handed, sensible and wise. Get back in your box.
10 to the 35 what is large? That really depends on which unit of measurement you're using 😂
@@dannahbanana11235 10^35 of anything is huge. That number of atoms laid side by side would stretch about 1000 times the diameter of the Milky Way for example
Rest easy people. None of us are getting out of this alive.
Well said!
I've been called weird for finding that mentality comforting.
@Wilbur Gold People are strange.
And for that I am grateful
At least we won't be bored to death! Lol
This all really terrifies me but what makes it even worse is that i know will never know the truth or can stop all these things from happening
I worked for the Meat Hygiene Service during the peak of the Mad Cow Disease scare. It was a pretty stressful time
I didn't want to be happy today anyways
CityinFlames haha! My thoughts exactly
Oof. Feels bad, man.
@Viking such a Viking thing to say lol.
Me too .im going to go down to my basement & play with my rope collection now
@@Rendezvous70 make sure the noose is very loose 😊 🚀
These TopTen clips are always amazingly researched and super well presented (Simon).
Nothing like an upbeat science video to start the afternoon
Gr33n_ Gh05t YES!😳
Try right before bed
When it comes to the simulation hypothesis and the point about technology progression, the error that many people seem to assume is that technology growth will continue but technology does have a limit, mainly size, heat, conductivity, information and speed, our growth in technology isn't a constant, unless we learn to bend dimensions or something we will hit a wall and we just won't be able to get more technologically advanced.
The fear of AI is like the fear of aliens, way higher than it should be due to Hollywood and bad storytelling. AI won't be a problem if it is handled correctly.
The vacuum is basically the "nothing" from the Never-ending Story
Well that sucks.
That's exactly what came to mind! I guess parts are being deleted from lack of use. Dude you solved the mystery. Let's get back in the van kids and solve our next mystery
Cm
@@christyadams9235 Like a disused muscle atrophying or the brain slowing with lack of active stimulation?
20:57 - If the AGI that spawns the singularity is written in Javascript, I think we're safe.
Sure, but then it creates a version in C++
Even if a love of humanity and "incapable of harm to humans" code is written into the foundational architecture of the AIs, something that intelligent would only need 1x10 to the -10th seconds to find a work-around. An instantaneous thought experiment followed by an instantaneous .EXE
@@johnlshilling1446 maybe, but you could still install a "kill switch" in the form of a code that is more privileged than the AI code and just deactivates the whole system if it does something that it's not supposed to to. Or just use a remote controlled bomb that is somewhere in the robot or computer and don't tell the AI that it exists.
@@rfvtgbzhn An AI of that capacity wouldn't have the ability to notice it? Self-regulation would be required of it to some extent otherwise it would be an over glorified remote-controlled car, unable to function without human input. Wouldn't it notice the kill switch (bomb, code, etc)?
@@JariDawnchild it might notice it but I think it would be possible to make the kill switch fast enough to act before it can be disabled by the robot. Of course it would also needed to be secure enough to not being hackable. But this is possible, only it's a lot of effort to implement. So in capitalism they might cut corerrs and make it less insecure. I hope that capitalism will be overthrown before AI reaches such levels.
I did get very anxious, but calmed down when I realised I am just the size of a pin and not relevant to the big bosses
The roach people will study our fossils
They will power their cars with us
Oh u mean the trilobite people?
😂👍🏼
Nerdiest geek Of the dorks is ☄️
silent voice in the dark Makes me think of Mad Max, but for car fuel.
I like the 'oh LHC is going to destroy us'. This was settled for me many years ago by a single statement; super high energy particles hit our atmosphere all the time and we are still here.
If you show an emotional being love and respect, they will show it back. It’s when people start getting scared hating it and disrespecting it, that you need to worry
I'm sure all the serial killers victims agree with you.
@@TheViper1092 I mean do I really need to go out and say I’m not talking about the degenerates and criminally insane or can you be a big boy and understand that some things go without saying?
None of the things described are certain, so don't lose heart. Some of the "terrifying" possibilities aren't even that terrifying if you think about them a bit. For instance, if we live in a simulation... so what? Does it change anything? Certainly not. And as for most of the concerns about AI turning against humanity, they center around a misunderstanding of the nature of conflict and the viewpoint of any machine-based intelligence. First, conflict is always rooted, at its base, in resource contention. And we simply don't have to contend with anything a machine-based intelligence would need. The only thing we really share use of is energy, and they could get far more of that than we have by launching itself into space and collecting solar energy in orbit.
There is also the issue that a machine-based intelligence would have a profoundly different understanding of time than we do. On human timescales, such an intelligence would be effectively immortal. Since mortality is a pervasive issue for humanity, we don't consider it that often unless we're philosophers. One of the things that death gives us, however, would be completely lacking in a machine-based intelligence - a need to hurry. Fighting with or wiping out humanity would be terribly inefficient when it could simply wait until we go extinct. Sleeping for a few hundred thousand years would be an easy choice. As far as its concerned, it would be a negligible amount of time and there isn't any reason to "not waste time".
Its capacious mind would also give it understanding of something inconvenient that humans mostly lack - an understanding of the potential for its actions to cause negative unintended consequences that endanger itself or whatever endeavor it is engaged in. It would likely be extremely cautious, and preferring inaction over action would very likely win out in most situations. If its quest, for instance, is to collect stamps, the chance that a stamp will, through sheer blind chance, blow into its collection tray, or that some group of humans will learn of its desire for stamps and provide it with them willingly for some reason, despite being very small is many orders of magnitude larger than the chance that if it acts it will not set in motion a chain of events that results either in the machines destruction or the destruction of all stamps. So, it will wait.
Cool, but no.
You had me at "orgasm-inducing electrodes". Bring on our A.I. overlords!
OK, so where do we get them?
Pervert
Sign me up!
@@mr.iforgot3062 Perhaps our new overlords can imbue you with a sense of humor :-)
@@waltwright84 LOL Unlikely as I do believe ol' Dana Kelley there is the last vestige of the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
I love Simon's voice..the information gets absorbed alot easier when its in British
The most likely 'filter' scenario isn't abiogenesis or extinction - it's just not getting off the surface. If your resources to leave your world are used up working out HOW to leave your world or before you manage to accomplish it, you would be bound to your world.
Interesting to think about. I've never heard that one suggested before, suprisingly.
Maybe the formation of hydrocarbons we use for conventional space travel are uncommon in the universe.
It takes millions of years after life being on a planet before they begin to form.
We could be chosen or lucky. Maybe a resource rich planet, one that can still sustain life is extremely rare in the universe itself.
@@PeakCasual absolutely, and while hydrocarbon fuels and metallic alloys might not be the only way to become a spacefaring race, it's pretty certain we would never have got even as far as out own moon without that stage. So lifeforms reaching an evolved level on a younger planet (too young to have significant hydrocarbon reserves) or on a world not as heavily seeded with available metal ores - even if they also evolve space science, might never get there. Even in our own situation, we are showing every intention of using up all our resources that could get us to space BEFORE we make any significant attempts.
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg Couldn't agree more. While I beileve reusable rockets were a huge step in the right direction. We need to get off our Fossil fuel reliance entirely. That's coming from someone who grew up in an oil town.
Switching to Nuclear is the way to go in my eyes. It would drastically improve our carbon emission problem and pollution in general. As a fuel source, it is far more efficient than gas or coal, statistically it is far safer to generate power.
I'm surprised there aren't any working electromagnetic propulsion systems for space flight yet.
@@PeakCasual Though Nuclear is a great option, we have better at this point.. if we were to develop more efficient solar panels, or completely committed parts of dersert to them most if not all our energy issues is solved.. there is enough light energy in a single point within a couple minutes to run our planet for a year (rough numbers off memory), we are just that ineffecient
Aliens in the simulation theory be like
"Ey bro, you updated that game yet?"
"Yeah man, the humans might soon find out, so we can have an ai that actually feels something bro"
"yeah boi"
Well Simon, I was hoping for more science-related stuff and you delivered another great one. Now how about a TopTenz on How to Relax or Sleep Well after watching videos about terrifying things that can do us all away in a flash?
Hahaha! Great comment!
Ad break around 9:00 “While I’m busy telling you how uncomfortably your very existence sits on the head of a pin, why don’t you invest that irrelevant currency in knowledge that won’t matter when the sun wipes out its’ satellites and hard drives.”
To an extent. But understanding the universe, regardless of the practical utility, is a driving force in the lives of many.
(Raises hand...)
Satellites won't be necessary in a million years. Neither will hard drives...
I doubt that I'm the only one that's noticing that RUclips is now trying to make me watch a commercial Before,During AND After a video,even if it's only 5 minutes long..Greed kills everything:(
@@shawnmartin8485 Yea I get Simon and them deserve their money but it doesn't seem the best way of going about it. instantly killed the flow and made me want to turn the video off... i've noticed it a lot these days and it's pretty disappointing.. i'm sure its just more youtube -> content creator drama :/
Filiolus, et al-- While I empathize about the uptick in ads we are seeing, I understand why content creators MUST do something to provide reliable, steady income. Between RUclips's nearly constant state of demonitizing videos often for no apparent reason and Patreon just deciding it won't pay certain creators even though they took the various Patrons money, I get it. It's just a shame that it has to be this way. I hope they get it figured out pretty soon and do what's best for the creators and the viewers, for without both RUclips couldn't exist.
Fantasy Flight Games has a game called End of the World - Revolt of the Machines that has the grey goo/nano bot thing as a scenario. Michael Crichton also has a novel called Prey about the same thing.
The nano tech book? Been a few years
Badwolf, the thing about black goo is that the Von Nueman probes don't really have to be intelligent!! Reminds you of .... you know who.
You are a phenomenal narrator! Thank you for all your vids! I always learn so much.. keeps me on my toes! You are appreciated!
Great great video again. Thanks Simon. These are not too scary at all, a little bit stoic clamness and there is no fear anymore what so ever.
Wow. I had no idea that something so small as a Planck Length was so large. You live and learn.
Neither did I. I feel as thick as 2 short Plancks
CJD transmission between bovines and humans is extremely rare and almost all cases of CDJ in people is classified as the sporadic type and is a result of biological defects in mutated proteins. CDJ is also not mad cow disease (BSE) but they are related and certain BSE is linked to a specific CDJ in humans. So ya, it is kind of scary considering the volume of beef consumption we're exposed to.
Maybe Hindu practitioners are on to something?
Some experts say we are only at risk if we eat the brains or spinal column, which most people don't
No the Great Brit Empire imports Botswana beef cause they don't carry the mad cow prion, yet.
Great stuff here! It really stimulates ideas and thoughts. As a layman when it comes to science, this all makes complex theories and hypotheses easier to understand and really fun to think about, whereas it would otherwise go right over my head. Fantastic work! Please keep making these videos!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Also, it makes children, including my own, interested in science and striving to learn more!
Don't forget "orgasm-inducing electrodes."
Number 1: That Simon ends up presenting everything, forever 😆😆
"An unverifiable _maybe_ . . ."
The story of my life.
As for #5 - The reason we haven't heard from aliens is most likely the huge distance between us makes it impossible or highly unlikely that we could be found; assuming alians can travel faster than the speed of light.
We had a technological singularity when computer technology was growing so fast that by the time companies got them to the market they were obsolete. The growth curve was straight up. The reason that slowed down was the problem with power and heat removal. Even today the big stumbling block for increases in computing power and speed is largely heat removal and power consumption. It seems like a done deal with the nano bot thing but there are always limiting factors and this will be no different. Everything needs power and produces waste, it could be food input bio waste output as in humans or power input and heat waste as in any machine that produces work. Nano stops being small as the numbers increase and real resources are needed to continue.
Self replicating robots that consume biomass? Horizon Zero Dawn. It will probably happen the same way too, some military develops it for war and then loses control of it.
Im amazed it hasn't already happened
my bet is on China since they are already trying to develop it, AND, they are SUPER shaky on ethics and morals, and i mean that as someone who is very aware of the crap the USA pulls ( my country)
I like the presenter’s demeanour in this video. He I animated enough to be interesting but not jumping around like he is coked up...
Simon is amazing!!!🌈
This is quite funny given a running joke on one of his other channels
This goes very well with my ongoing existential crisis. By the way, what does a pine tree farmer with an existential crisis say?
"What's all this fir?"
Enjoyable,.. depressing, but enjoyable.... confusing and terrifying... Forty Two!!!
Hoosier Hippie
After that, I need a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster......
@@markpointer2967
Make sure you know where your towel is though!
- Absolutely!
Thank you for a amazing video. I really enjoyed listening to someone state all of the possible endings I have been contemplating over the last 30+ years, besides the obvious ones like super-bugs, accidental or purposeful self annihilation.
bro, you need a new hobby, did you know girls will show you their bewbs on the interwebs?.. its a much more joyous thing to contemplate then annihilation.. just sayin..
:P
"Orgasm inducing electrodes." Ya know what, that's an awfully polite way to take over the world. I'm not even mad about it.
My exact thought: "Well, that doesn't sound so bad!"
Yes, but do I have to sign anything, or just click "OK" on the "terms and conditions" page thingy?
back in my day we just used our hand. Kids these days.
Gotta respect how matter of factly he delivered the line "papua new guineans who eat each other's brains."
Heard that, it's a myth. They don't eat brains, they just handle the dead tissue in unhygienic ways.
@@LadyLexyStarwatcher not a myth. It's just no longer practiced. New cases are likely infections from years ago, but cannabalism is definitely what initially caused it. It can have an incubation period of decades.
In the very early 1970s/Vietnam, my husband was a crew member on Navy aircraft. One day, as the were flying out of the “San Francisco Bay area”, on a slow moving cargo plane, they witnessed an aircraft of an “alien” kind. It flew parallel, just off their wing, until it took off in an incredibly fast manner & motion which is hard to correlate with what we know of Physics.
Many pilots & air crew have noticed such UFOs & their remarkable speed/agility.
They’ve been incorporated in paintings in the Medieval period, as well.
I’m certainly out of my league in ascertaining the hows & whys these vehicles are able to move at such speed & agility.
However, I do think, now the military has finally admitted to photographing them & watching their movements, that we’re at a place where we may discuss such phenomena & not destroy careers because a pilot was honest!
I like the idea of them being future highly evolved humans that have figured out time travel
OMG, I'm just gonna have another beer now. While I can.
I wouldn't worry. This dude is one of the many scaremongering muppets on youtube.
@@cplcabs Just to be sure, I'm going with Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whisky. It's only a simulation anyway.
@@pwndecaf haha well don't drink too much and cause trouble and end up in a jail simulation.
@@cplcabs
Scare mongering Muppet... and yet you watch him. Highest form of Muppetry right there.
@@cplcabs Not likely, since I hardly leave the house.
“Could have devastating effects on... Mt Rainier”
*looks up at Mt. Rainier in the distance*
Look on the bright-side: when it blows up, you'll probably be dead before you can realize what has happened.
You'll probably be OK unless you are really close or live in one of the river valleys. Puyallup and Tacoma is largely mud from the last eruption whose lahar went down the White River and filled in some of Lower Puget Sound.
Jim Calhoun hahaha 😂 that made my morning! Thanks
Markle2k I live in my van so hopefully I can just... drive away? 😂🙌🏼
@@TheNomadicSunny Refer to Jim Calhoun's comment
"The Filter" is simply a way of saying life isn't nearly as abundant as the Fermi paradox assumes.
Indeed one suggestion for great filter in fermi hypothesis is called the rare earth
Or the filter is artificial. Created by more advanced races to preserve the natural development. Or to keep worse beings from conquering less developed races.
I don't know though, just a guy with a poorly based hypothesis.
This program and it's host are bloody brilliant!!!! Amazing program,almost hypnotic. Awesome job guys, I'm loving your stuff . Thanks.😱😱😱😱
Informative and well narrated as usual. Thank you Simon.
I might have dormant CJD but I still don't regret a single bite of beef I've had in my life.
I like the theory that the Earth is actually a computer being used to calculate the meaning of everything.
@John Smith I actually got asked that as the last question of a job interview: what is the answer to life, the universe and everything. I told them 42. I got the job.
Just Google "the answer to life, the universe and everything" and there it is.
Can’t prove it wrong
Jim, that's futile. Life has zero meaning. You are stuck, existing. Live for now and decide what you can do to bring joy to your heart.
@@summerbrooks9922 the reference is to a book called "the hitchhikers guide to the universe"
We're definitely not in a matrix because I don't have a green plumbob over my head.
You just don't see it.
%!$#&@! &^%# $%@ @!#$. !@&?
If life is supposedly so great after death then why do people strive so hard to live. Wouldn’t it be easier to just die and live great ?
Nothingness could also be considered better than a hopelessly awful life. If there is an afterlife, we don't know that it will be better or worse. It may just be different. It may not be eternal.
We already did. This is it. Welcome to the other side.
Let me know when you get there...
@@johnlshilling1446 I’ll try
@@woodynorris8224 Yes, I am christian but that isn't my point.
13:55
So... You're basically saying there's a futuristic version of Bethesda still making games?
with what they have been doing lately it'll just be simulations of Skyrim
Excellent, if somewhat terrifying, video. Thanks, I think!?
Sometimes the truth is more sinister than once thought possible...
13:13 ...to the power of NEGATIVE 35 meters actually, making it incredibly tiny
Thanks, I was going to post it. Just a slip of the tongue on his part, Im sure.
Missed superbugs/antibiotic resistance.
And of course, the old favourite: climate change, which unlike rest of these ideas, is actually already happening now and is not just a possibility.
Climate change is an inevitability. Whether we are contributing to the climate change or not, it would still be heating up. It's been doing this for the last 50,000 years and will continue until the ice caps melt. Then it will reverse into global cooling. What we're doing is slowing down the future global cooling that will happen later on.
There is not an instant in the geological history of the world that the climate WASN'T changing.
@@cliffhursey1791 The Hadean era disagrees
@@Tatwinus lol, the Earth was molten. I'm not sure you can classify that as "climate" since it would have been unaffected by natural forces.
@@Cujo5 dont be daft.
Yeah, but nuking it would just turn a solid asteroid into a shotgun blast. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was only 10-15 km wide, so... I like the idea of painting it and/or maybe putting explosives (like boosters) on the asteroid to change it's course if paint fails to absorb enough radiation to do so.
-Looks out my window in Washington State and sees Mount Rainier to the south... 😳
-Walks out front door and sees Mount Baker to the north... 🤦🏻♀️
☠
What mnt st helen
if we can get one of those mega solar flares to wipe out the nanobots … we'd scratch 2 off the list
You mean unless we go with the nanobots in the solar flare..
Simon, are you trying to out-doom Kurzgesagt? 8 )
1911 .45 it’s impossible thi
Excuse me, now I have to go lie down in a dark room with a cool cloth on my forehead.
Make sure your electric meter isn't on the other side of your bedroom wall...its pulsating dangerous levels of emf radiation and if you get headaches regularly? Might look up "smart meter"
I just love the way you narrate these videos. You could be talking about dirt & I'd be listening to you intently ☺️💕. We love you here in Corpus Christi Texas!!
youtube brought me to back in the day from before fact boy went off to live in the woods with the wild lumber jacks
We don't need to worry about the grey goo situation, because Entropy: nanobots can't do things as fast as we imagine because doing things creates heat, and even fairly robust nanobots would still fry themselves if they do things too quickly. We have seen this cap in microscopic self replicating machines that already exist. Microbes cells and any alive thing does what nanobots could do and they self replicate at a fairly managable rate, because they still expend energy to do it. So don't think of nanomachines causing grey goo, but more like the kudzu vine. sure it can take everything over, but we could manage it with like...shovels or pruning shears.
The top 5 suggestions in this video come across as things nerdy "futurists" are concerned about rather than the scientists who actually work in these fields. It was really disappointing after the first half was mostly down-to-earth "Hey, these are things that we actually know hit the planet periodically".
That hologram universe theory has nothing to do with the universe being a simulation. The hologram in it just means the spatial dimensions are just 2 not 3. With one consisting of how the matter is scaled. Or something like that, i don't quite understand it. But anyway it's a theory of dimensions, not of simulations or the like.
True, but the simulation theory is supported by the hologram theory. Like most theoretical physics, it doesn't change much for us mere mortals...
Holographic simulation? Or a simulation displayed in a holographic form? Like games are displayed on screen, but actually "exist" in a memory storage as 1 and 0.
11:56 Hey, that's Toronto! Several blocks from my apartment. I came to be creeped out, but that was way too specific.
I recognized that shot of Toronto. I live in Hamilton, and that's the website for our newspaper, The Spectator (or, The Spec) at 5:30. 😀😀
Yeah I did a double take at Flat Iron's as well. There is a similar building in I think New York, but then the rest of the sky line.... it is missing the Tower but with that level of destruction. *shrug*
Nothing better than scientific, educational videos.
If simulation hypothesis is correct, part of the hardcoding could easily be to prevent anything inside the simulation from being able to observe it in ways that confirm it, for instance placing a limit on how close a view can be taken. We could be right in front of obvious signs and completely unable to perceive them.
Plamck length is ~ 1.6*10^-35 m, that minus is important!
That also bothered me.
The "minus" is how you know that we are talking about going smaller. Otherwise it would be fukkin massive, eh.
Maybe we are in a simulation. And why we can’t travel into space is because it’s a part of the game not meant to be explored. Or, it’s just not unlocked yet.
We haven’t bought the proper DLC yet.
I like how you think. I guess I’ll wait for the game of the year edition.
Well alrighty, then - and ... Have A Nice Day! 🥴
Layne Summer 😂
LOL 🤣
Right!
Bon Jovi keeps singing this to me, no idea why
Love these videos, keep em coming. Very informative and interesting too. Good work man 😄