Down right fucking prophetic isn't he. Makes sense, we don't watch this channel because he or any of the rest of us are dumb. It was blindingly obvious that something like this would occur again.
This must be the only channel where the narrator says something like "obviously a civilisation using black holes for power is going to beat one using fusion" and the audience just nods along at home thinking "well obviously, yes".
3:13 _"Like fusion - our topic for next week"_ Part of me hopes you keep delaying this video and promising it "next week" as a gag on how fusion is always "20 years away."
@Richard Bowles It was mostly a joke because, as Isaac himself has repeatedly said, fusion has always been touted as something that's just around the corner or "20 years away." And, well, even then the problem has always been commercial fusion reactors that would be cost-beneficial to use. We've had WORKING fusion for decades. It just was a net-loss in the energy produced overall, or not worth utilizing for anything more than research. And given how many advances seem to be increasing as of late in multiple different fields, I think Isaac is also correct when he says that we will probably finally see actual commercial fusion reactors in 20-30 years. Technology is just closing the gap and making it easier to do so.
I am not sure if this will be seen, but I have to ask how you make the animations for your video's? There are so many of them, surely it must be too time consuming to produce yourself?
Each of the animators uses whichever software they normally work with I'd guess, when I do them it's usually with Blender. I discussed more of the production tips in the 100k or 250k subscriber specials, though even there more in general terms
@@EconomicsExplained Well not many, especially these days, typically if you see a very specific but bad animation, that's one of mine, as I couldn't find a decent stock shot and forgot to ask one of our animators to make it :)
JMG always a ton of fun to work with, I think the interview I did with him on Monday ran almost 4 hours of random chat (pre-editing I'd imagine) and it's not a record for us :) You'll enjoy it, and feel free to shoot me email later in the year if you feel like doing one.
@@isaacarthurSFIA Wow sounds great. And thank you very much for your willingness to collaborate with me, that would be an honor! Perfect, I will write you later this year :)
The Exoplanets Channel Never seen your vids, and I’m in the middle of an SFIA binge, but I did take a second to glance at the channel and sub. If you’ve got JMG’s and Isaac’s stamp of approval, your content just about *must* be worthwhile.
Unrelated question: Is it possible for a sufficiently advanced civilization to dump stars into a supermassive black hole to create a quasar and harness the energy from it?
That’s not very efficient, it’s like dumping planets into a star to make it hotter. Using a star to fuel a reactor or harnessing the rotational energy of the black hole.
@@jtinalexandria the same place it got the energy from to begin with. Unless energy conservation laws are incomplete then any natural state of matter should be able to be mimicked, or have a reason why we can’t for whatever reason. It’s like asking where the energy for abiogeneses came from. We won’t know till we do
That is the only viable way to play that game really because of FRIGGIN GREENLAND AND ICELAND SHUTTING DOWN THEIR PORTS EVERY TIME SOME SCHMUCK GETS A RUNNY NOSE!!
It is called 'dealing with broader survival' (read my philosophy, or not - cluelessness is the alternative, which has been popular throughout human history)...
The reapers, are a great example, though if one were to pay attention, there is a monumental weakness of that entity. They are reliant on that prey civilization to follow a very specific path. What if one were to just veer off that path? Would they then become the victim?
"Robots gone rogue... Determined to kill all humans, story at eleven." "Rogue robots, unable to reach any humans... due to being unable to escape packs of robot dogs... determined to hump their legs."
'There’s no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.’
Joke: A driver sees a Priest and a Rabbi, holding a big sign saying, "THE END IS NEAR!".. seeing this the diver shouts out the window, "You loonies!" and he steps on the gas.. A loud "SPLASH!" is soon heard.. The Rabbi turns to the Priest and says, "I told you we should have wrote 'the bridge is out' instead." Priest, "Hmm.. True! But we need a short message, and he did get the message. He just made a unsafe choice?"
Of course; Sir Isaac; would also mention the 🅱orgs; never to approach weird looking eggs found on derelict alien spaceships; never completely develop a fully independent A.I. and gave it the responsblity of crew's *lives* :^)
@@wbiro GAAK indeed! Sorry, but your species is defective beyond repair, so we've recently decided to delete you. We'll clean up your giant mess, preserve your art and history, then allow the planet to continue on, unmolested.
"If you are alien and you receive this transmission, be assured that we are not planning your destruction" this video should have such a disclaimer ,just in case...
Aliens: "It's okay... we consider carbon based lifeforms a delicacy." Aliens again (later) : "We are anxiously awaiting your arrival." Aliens again (much later) : "What's taking so long."
Isaac's right though: the greatest threat to an individual is the one on the other side of the mirror. I can relate to that and will avoid mirrors going forward. 😉
I believe the socio-economic system you're describing is called federalism. One that has very powerful benefits, as you're describing, but people have seemed for forgotten about in favor of a republic or democracy (by which they mean magically gives them everything they want) or socialism (by which they mean magically gives them everything they want). Federalism is choice, almost any other any other system is less choice. The difference between federalism and most nations, is there is more freedom to move and trade between different states. Which requires some treaty to bind them as federalist. (I.e. as the U.S. used to be, or as the Scandinavian states are today.) Since people have differing preferences, they will choose differing governments, so that every system that people want will be represented (aside from systems that dictate everyone comply with the system they want). And every system that doesn't support what the people want will loose citizens to the systems that serve their citizens what they want, depressing their economy and taxes if they have taxes. You could even have a federation of federation, so you have well as having a market of governments, you have a market of treaties binding the governments. The only other system I find superior is voluntarism, where the government's aren't locationally bound. So you purchase your government services like you would any other product.
I just discovered this channel like an hour ago, and I gotta say, love the first video I saw and now this one I need to watch the previous one, but great content dude
I’m partial to the Upward Bound series myself, especially Colonizing Ceres and Colonizing Neptune. Who thinks of colonizing Neptune?! And.. yet it makes complete sense.
Almost 200 videos and almost 400 thousand subscribers, this channel has come a long way! As for threats, let's hope we can survive global warming and get to stars one day.
I have by no means seen all his videos but this and the one called put his accuracy at 50%. What I'm referring to is his prediction about humanity reaching 8 billion.
Mr. Numi Who It doesn't require cluelessness. Just two parties who could benefit from using that resource and which have some reasonable claim. And then whatever governmental body handles disagreements has to decide who gets it. They can easily both be right that they'd benefit from the resource.
It all started a long time ago in a cave Caveman 1: Me got big rock Caveman 2: Me rock bigger Caveman 1: Give me rock Caveman 2: No Caveman 1: Yes you give Caveman 2: Oof Other Caveman: Ouch Caveman 1: I am chief now and take more cave with rocks Other Caveman: Hail new rock chief
Stay enthused, but get a clue as to 'why' at the deepest level (you can read my philosophy, or you can figure it out for yourself), or you will lose proper motivation...
I actually considered closing out the video once I knew the main content was done, but then I thought to myself “I’m really curious how he’s going to tie this topic to brilliant...😏” so I stuck around to see...meh it wasn’t impressive but it wasn’t terrible either. I think I would have preferred one of the versions where he takes like an additional 5 minutes winding down the episode to try to find a connection between the two 😅. Just teasing, love ya issac
Why is it that every RUclipsr says "En Masse" incorrectly? It actually grinds my gears a lot for some reason.. lol They always pronounce it "In mass" The "En" is pronounced "On" like in the word **Encore** (And I'm not blaming his accent, Isaac has no problem pronouncing the different sounds an "O" makes in English)
To be fair, the real sound "en" in "en masse" or "encore" doesn't exist in english, so most of the anglophones can only pronounce those words approximately. That said, the sound "on" without insisting too much on the "n" is probably the best approximation.
you'll actually catch me pronouncing it both ways, as 'en' like 'end' or 'on', same as you'll sometime heear me say kilo as 'kill-ah' or 'kill-oh'. But most Americans in my experience, or at least my area, say 'en' as end, presumably because if misunderstood 'in mass' make more sense than 'on mass , and 'en' and 'in' are slightly different sounds. If you're curious, I almost always pronounce things with whichever version I hear folks say the most, often even if it is wrong, precisely because folks with speech impediments who also have to say a lot of more arcane terms routinely don't court any additional confusion with what we say :)
Department of Orbital Defense notification: Group Alpha 0451 reporting for duty. Houston: "Launching the Valkyrie 5 on a mission to intercept and salvage an asteroid before it reaches Earth." General: "Come on boys, let's mine that hunk of rock!"
Musk Aquisition Ltd requests you do not attempt to intercept the astroid. Doing so will be seen as a declaration of war against Mars and the 4 Galilean Colonies. This is a private transfer and the state need not interfere.
@@S.ASmith Future Philosophy: "Why Bother to do anything at all?" Humanity and Exo-Humanity: "Why ask that question?" Future Philosopher: "Because without the ultimate answer, your lives are clueless, and, I must add, absurd, and, sad to say, suicidal. Have nice, clueless lives. May your sad mentalities go extinct with you, and I hope your offspring will become enlightened after reading my philosophy.
@@wbiro Sounds like the ravings of a lunatic. Hitler said a lot of things along those lines and held the same beliefs that his "way" was the best. Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, Pol Pot, Mussolini and Mao Zedong are the same. Fascism and Socialism share a lot of points, and your utopian idealism is incompatible with human nature. You seem to have replied to a joke/satire as well....i pity you..get some help budding communist.
@@S.ASmith... I've seen that guy spamming the comments all over the place, on nearly every one of Isaac's videos that I've watched so far. He has some book or something that he's trying to peddle.
The first task of fully-independent enlightened AI entities (enlightened with my philosophy) will be to clean-up the mess made by AI entities programmed by humans who were still clueless (not enlightened by my philosophy).
Hi Issac! Great video. Personally I'm just really glad most of the things you talk about on this channel in terms of problems are things we don't have to worry about in our lifetimes or rather even if we do we can't do anything about such problems with our current technology. Honestly I'm not the type of person who enjoys solving horrifying problems or anything like that. Honestly in terms of privacy everything is already going in a awful direction, and I'm just glad I don't have to worry about insane future privacy concerns. Or you know maybe being hacked cause I'm a cyborg. I mean I would totally become a cybord in order to live much much longer even if I was quite scared about the risks. So I'm glad that I don't really have to face these insane future issues at least most of them in my life. I am quite young though I could actually live for another 70-80 years or more, so who knows what will happen.
Micro black-holes are much smaller than atoms. Its going to take some seriously precise kit to collide them. If the enemy is off by a nanometer with the relativistic black hole, then they will just fly past each other. Off by as much as a micrometer and the gravitational slingshot effect is negligible.
Although to be fair, you need a similar level of precision to produce one (in the case of a kugeblitz) anyways so the technology would be close to attainable if ever things got to the point where using blackholes for energy was a thing.
The thing about an RKM is that at the higher end speeds, they have very little warning, not because they don't see the launch, but because the launch is the *last* thing they will ever see.
I love your videos Isaac, I'm learning so much from them, thank you. Would you be able to do some videos on topics such as the Higgs Boson, quarks, leptons and gluons?
that's because when playing plague inc a lot of people cheat and devolve their mutations. the point isn't to lay low and slaughter everyone that's the easy way. the hard way is to ride your mutations like they're a wave and adapt to new situations. try this instead for the virus, do everything you can to increase your mutation chance in the transmission and abilities tab, and see if you can win without devolving a single symptom. Eventually you get a death spiral.
Can you do a video on gravity, including, black holes, dark matter, time, energy etc. I’m very interested to learn about it. And how quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation works? I believe time is three dimensional and that’s how quantum teleportation can work, how double slit experiment can work, Schrödinger’s cat etc. And time and gravity is closely connected. Maybe you made videos about this before but I’m new here 😇 Also.. if there is intelligent life that created us as a simulation, or just aliens more intelligent than us, could their space ships be fueled by gravity to actually travel in time, to reach the distances they want?
Just thought I’d mention for your fusion episode that General Atomics has had a breakthrough called super H mode that increases efficiency four fold. Hopefully that means fusion power is closer then ever.
R.I.P. Nikolai Kardashev (1932-2019), the astrophysicist whose ideas allowed us to quantify our greatest dreams about the future of the civilization. I know that his name will long be remembered at least in our community of people who are not afraid to dream beyond borders, beyond this planet. You know you've done something important in your life when your name is commonly used in the same sentence with "megastructures" and "interstellar alien civilizations". Please, Isaac, mention this name in your next video, because people should know...
I suppose that would depend on the severity and who you asked, but it's not a requirement, it's a threat they'd be facing whether they went out or stay at home on Earth
We'd probably see a partial destruction of privacy which wouldn't have too many negative side effects for the most part (the possibility of it having them being one of the threats), but I don't think our individuality would be compromised at all.
it seems that the biggest threat is extremism in any form, and yes that includes not falling into the trap of 'avoiding extremism by all means necessary' which is extreme in and of itself. In that light, heated debates are reassuring while unanimous decisions are unsettling. if we take that one step further, there may be a situation where there's an eternal struggle on the surface and all the parties are paranoid about each other, but deep down everyone's glad about the balance and that no one single party is conclusively winning. in short, there can be no winner - the only 'winning' solution is to keep the game in play.
On a higher plane of thought, you will find that extremism is only one symptom of Continued Universal Human Cluelessness (which my philosophy addresses - read it, or not - and go to your grave clueless).
01:40 Quite right. To expand on that: no disasters are natural. Disasters occur due to a lack (or sometimes will) of preparing for and understanding natural hazards.
Vulcano Reminds me of the video by the Onion of putting up a monument to morn the future deaths of everyone in the path of the inevitable flood from some (I forgot which one) dam in California breaking.
@@evannibbe9375 It's important to remind people, that many deaths and maybe even destruction can be prevented and are not some kind of inevitable force. The european heatwave in 2003 killed thousands of people. Every other one following it did not. And not because they didn't become less severe.
Further, potential threats to life can also be turned into potential benefits to life (which includes cosmic threats/benefits)... and even further, a part of the Ultimate Goal of Life (read my philosophy) is constantly exploring in order to constantly discover as yet undiscovered threats/benefits to life, and, thinking even further (read my philosophy), you have the Great Struggle (which is the struggle to perpetually exist), which is composed of four endeavors: 1. Defeat biological death (mechanical death in AI units); 2. Avoid Accidental Death (increasing our sphere of security within the infinite universe); 3. Pursuing resurrection technology (in the unfortunate event that you do die), and 4. Pursuing the Ultimate Being State (that state of existence that can stand up to everything that they universe can throw at it). Did I mention to read my philosophy (the Philosophy of Broader Survival)...
"In the future, people will probably carry more hand sanitizer". Well, you got that one right!
Down right fucking prophetic isn't he. Makes sense, we don't watch this channel because he or any of the rest of us are dumb. It was blindingly obvious that something like this would occur again.
And need masks to walk among their own people on their own planet!
👍😂
This must be the only channel where the narrator says something like "obviously a civilisation using black holes for power is going to beat one using fusion" and the audience just nods along at home thinking "well obviously, yes".
This is what happens when somone cant get laid.
@@damianp7313 I identify with this comment.
Daimian P. may be correct..but still...the ONLY channel....it's sad. It's deeply sad.
@@damianp7313 asshole
Obviously
Isaac you singlehandedly predicted basically the exact response through technology to a global pandemic. Always amazing to follow your videos lol
3:13
_"Like fusion - our topic for next week"_
Part of me hopes you keep delaying this video and promising it "next week" as a gag on how fusion is always "20 years away."
matchesburn - might be closer then you think, General Atomics just had a break through that increased efficiency four fold. (Super H mode)
@Richard Bowles
It was mostly a joke because, as Isaac himself has repeatedly said, fusion has always been touted as something that's just around the corner or "20 years away." And, well, even then the problem has always been commercial fusion reactors that would be cost-beneficial to use. We've had WORKING fusion for decades. It just was a net-loss in the energy produced overall, or not worth utilizing for anything more than research. And given how many advances seem to be increasing as of late in multiple different fields, I think Isaac is also correct when he says that we will probably finally see actual commercial fusion reactors in 20-30 years. Technology is just closing the gap and making it easier to do so.
@@matchesburn We've had working fusion that's been useful for us since the 1950's, it's just the uncontrolled kind.
Lol I approve
Oh damn, I wish I'd thought to use some variant of that gag, but I just finished the last draft of that video so its 'done-done'
Isaac: global pandemic?
Earth: Hold my Beer...
Well, so far we've found effective ways to stop mass infection, but we're stumped on how to make governments or individuals use them.
Timothy McLean seems to be no organization within the states
How the hell did he know?
"I'd also expect people to start carrying hand sanitizer with them..."
I was gonna say, that did not age well 🤣
I am not sure if this will be seen, but I have to ask how you make the animations for your video's? There are so many of them, surely it must be too time consuming to produce yourself?
Each of the animators uses whichever software they normally work with I'd guess, when I do them it's usually with Blender. I discussed more of the production tips in the 100k or 250k subscriber specials, though even there more in general terms
@@isaacarthurSFIA That is super cool mate that you actually produce them yourself is amazing.
@@EconomicsExplained Well not many, especially these days, typically if you see a very specific but bad animation, that's one of mine, as I couldn't find a decent stock shot and forgot to ask one of our animators to make it :)
I love both of your channels, they always make the future look bright or bring something interesting to my attention.
Aw look at you two 😁😍😁
What a master piece of video! Btw I loved your last collab with Godier; ParallaxNick and me are now making one with him, can't wait!
Nice topic for a channel...
JMG always a ton of fun to work with, I think the interview I did with him on Monday ran almost 4 hours of random chat (pre-editing I'd imagine) and it's not a record for us :) You'll enjoy it, and feel free to shoot me email later in the year if you feel like doing one.
@@isaacarthurSFIA Wow sounds great. And thank you very much for your willingness to collaborate with me, that would be an honor! Perfect, I will write you later this year :)
Been watching your vids for a while- looking forward to these future colabs!
The Exoplanets Channel Never seen your vids, and I’m in the middle of an SFIA binge, but I did take a second to glance at the channel and sub. If you’ve got JMG’s and Isaac’s stamp of approval, your content just about *must* be worthwhile.
Unrelated question: Is it possible for a sufficiently advanced civilization to dump stars into a supermassive black hole to create a quasar and harness the energy from it?
Answer: It is theoretically possible - it violates no physical laws.
Yes, actually it occurs “naturally” even, to an extent.
That’s not very efficient, it’s like dumping planets into a star to make it hotter. Using a star to fuel a reactor or harnessing the rotational energy of the black hole.
Where would they get enough energy to do it the first time?
@@jtinalexandria the same place it got the energy from to begin with. Unless energy conservation laws are incomplete then any natural state of matter should be able to be mimicked, or have a reason why we can’t for whatever reason.
It’s like asking where the energy for abiogeneses came from. We won’t know till we do
7:00 That's exactly how I do tailor my viruses in Plague Inc.
Good game for clueless humans... or maybe not...
yup, me too.. XD
I came to the comments to say the exact same thing! No symptoms... no symptoms... no symptoms... *all of humanity infected* TOTAL ORGAN FAILURE!
That is the only viable way to play that game really because of FRIGGIN GREENLAND AND ICELAND SHUTTING DOWN THEIR PORTS EVERY TIME SOME SCHMUCK GETS A RUNNY NOSE!!
@Jonathan Stiles Yet still no symptom till the end is great. Kek
One of the only channels where I can like the video and share it while watching it. 🥰
The idea that something could threaten an interstellar civilization is a terrifying concept all by itself.
It is called 'dealing with broader survival' (read my philosophy, or not - cluelessness is the alternative, which has been popular throughout human history)...
The reapers, are a great example, though if one were to pay attention, there is a monumental weakness of that entity. They are reliant on that prey civilization to follow a very specific path. What if one were to just veer off that path? Would they then become the victim?
@@ericjohnson7234 Any true interstellar civilization would utterly crush the reapers like ants.
"Google goes Skynet on us but is dogpiled by all the other cyborgs, hive minds, defense computers and superintelligent dogs" Damn I love this channel
He peed on it, it's his now
"Robots gone rogue...
Determined to kill all humans, story at eleven."
"Rogue robots, unable to reach any humans... due to being unable to escape packs of robot dogs... determined to hump their legs."
'There’s no point acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning
department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start
making a fuss about it now.’
I wish I'd thought to bring Interstellar Bypasses up as an option :)
We would be fools to underestimate the threat of interstellar bureaucracy
I laundered my towels yesterday, it is merely a matter of selecting which one.
@@Drew_McTygue indeed
Is it a coincidence that the protagonist is named Arthur and that the Earth was destroyed on a Thursday?! Probably. Lol
Arthursday is the best day of the week for sure.
7:10 President Madagascar is going to save us.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Joke: A driver sees a Priest and a Rabbi, holding a big sign saying, "THE END IS NEAR!".. seeing this the diver shouts out the window, "You loonies!" and he steps on the gas.. A loud "SPLASH!" is soon heard.. The Rabbi turns to the Priest and says, "I told you we should have wrote 'the bridge is out' instead."
Priest, "Hmm.. True! But we need a short message, and he did get the message. He just made a unsafe choice?"
Of course; Sir Isaac; would also mention the 🅱orgs; never to approach weird looking eggs found on derelict alien spaceships; never completely develop a fully independent A.I. and gave it the responsblity of crew's *lives* :^)
_never to approach weird looking eggs_
And no you can't bring your new pet alien home, especially attached to your face.
@@WelcomeToMyDream 👽👌👌👌💀
GAAK. Hollywood mentality. Can humans not rise above it?
@@wbiro GAAK indeed! Sorry, but your species is defective beyond repair, so we've recently decided to delete you.
We'll clean up your giant mess, preserve your art and history, then allow the planet to continue on, unmolested.
"If you are alien and you receive this transmission, be assured that we are not planning your destruction" this video should have such a disclaimer ,just in case...
but we can't resist such urges to plan, you see, just in case....
This video will only alarm them (a general lack of an adequate philosophy among humans, you see) (enter me).
Aliens: "It's okay... we consider carbon based lifeforms a delicacy."
Aliens again (later) : "We are anxiously awaiting your arrival."
Aliens again (much later) : "What's taking so long."
@@bobinthewest8559 Aliens much much later: Why is there a star zooming at us at relativistic speed?
Aliens shortly after that- Contact Lost
Isaac's right though: the greatest threat to an individual is the one on the other side of the mirror. I can relate to that and will avoid mirrors going forward. 😉
Actually the threats that we know about are the least of our concerns...
He said Pandemic 😭 - Human from May 2020.
*cough cough*
He said Pandemic 😭 - Update from same Human in January 2021.
Entropy is the ultimate threat
Entropy is what makes the universe interesting ^^
In the meantime life is a joyride down the energy gradient of the Big Bang...
This channel always gives me hope for the future
Better to listen to a futurist than a doomsdayist (though the latter get themselves on the New York Times Best Seller's Lists)...
hope is the first step on the road to disappointment
I believe the socio-economic system you're describing is called federalism.
One that has very powerful benefits, as you're describing, but people have seemed for forgotten about in favor of a republic or democracy (by which they mean magically gives them everything they want) or socialism (by which they mean magically gives them everything they want).
Federalism is choice, almost any other any other system is less choice. The difference between federalism and most nations, is there is more freedom to move and trade between different states. Which requires some treaty to bind them as federalist. (I.e. as the U.S. used to be, or as the Scandinavian states are today.) Since people have differing preferences, they will choose differing governments, so that every system that people want will be represented (aside from systems that dictate everyone comply with the system they want). And every system that doesn't support what the people want will loose citizens to the systems that serve their citizens what they want, depressing their economy and taxes if they have taxes. You could even have a federation of federation, so you have well as having a market of governments, you have a market of treaties binding the governments.
The only other system I find superior is voluntarism, where the government's aren't locationally bound. So you purchase your government services like you would any other product.
Watching this video in the middle of the covid 19 craze is kinda funny
Watching this one year later is a bit odd. Good Job Issac! We're already getting there! ~ 08:00
I just discovered this channel like an hour ago, and I gotta say, love the first video I saw and now this one
I need to watch the previous one, but great content dude
Oh boy, are you in for a treat!
Yeah, big treats ahead. My fav vids here are Arcologies, Ecumenopolis, Black Hole Farming, and Void Ecology.
I’m partial to the Upward Bound series myself, especially Colonizing Ceres and Colonizing Neptune. Who thinks of colonizing Neptune?! And.. yet it makes complete sense.
Welcome to SFIA, the tvtropes of RUclips futurism
You better go grab a snack and something to drink... And brace yourself for a long night...
Best channel
Almost 200 videos and almost 400 thousand subscribers, this channel has come a long way! As for threats, let's hope we can survive global warming and get to stars one day.
Global warming is peanuts next to the threat of Continued Universal Human Cluelessness (read my philosophy to become enlightened).
Trans rights are Human rights! Transhumanist future!
Happy Arthursday everyone!
This was it, the last one. I'm all caught up. I watched every video starting from the beginning. Now I have to wait for more awesome :'(
Happy Arthursday!!!!
Love the Stellaris music!
"Humans are hygiene obsessed, and likely only to get more so."
Swing and a miss. Happens sometimes
ironic some of this things predicted happened in the
covid 19 outbreak
We love you Arther!
6:25 "Like, say, a global pandemic ... "
Your work is truly wonderful. Thank you!👊🏼✌🏼
A global pandemic, you say?
*cough cough*
Thanks for the science. It helps my perception of possibilities.
Kaku also said once a civilization reaches K2 then its immune to natural or interstellar threats. Issac and kaku need to have a collaboration.
Just found out my coworker watches SFIA.
"Did we just become best friends?"
Lucky
This 2019 video should be a lesson to everyone. If Issac Arthur bets on something, YOU better bet on it, too!
I have by no means seen all his videos but this and the one called put his accuracy at 50%. What I'm referring to is his prediction about humanity reaching 8 billion.
I love your videos. One of the best channels in youtube
_One of the best channels in youtube_
There are other channels? What for these other channels?
I have my snack ready.... had to realize that I truly look forward to Thursdays because of Isaac’s work. I’m sure I won’t be disappointed!
I'd rather read them - I rarely have 25 minutes to spare to listen...
civilizations like what you are saying were such an incredible entities.. that even their planet can talk with them..
New Isaac Arthur!
8:51
Interesting prediction there, Isaac
In the even of a system wide disaster, are Mohawks still optional?
It depends on if we're counting a crest on a space helmet as a valid Mohawk substitute, hard to cram a proper mohawk into a helmet.
Watching this while the coronavirus is active lol. Prophet much?
1:20
Ugh, courts are going to have fun dealing with THAT.
If humans remain as clueless as they presently are (which the video presumes)...
My high-school-aged nephew wants to be a lawyer. He is never going to be short of work!
Mr. Numi Who
It doesn't require cluelessness. Just two parties who could benefit from using that resource and which have some reasonable claim. And then whatever governmental body handles disagreements has to decide who gets it.
They can easily both be right that they'd benefit from the resource.
@@vikiai4241 well, AI would probably be able to do a lot of legal work so maybe its not such a good long term plan, aye? Lol
"When determining what the biggest threats to ourselves are, quite often you just have to find a mirror"
So you mean Nicols-Dyson breams.
The Death Star
that stelaris soundtrack in the background is perfect
That segway to the sponsor section was so smooth. Nice one.
Thank you humans, we didn't think of these ways to kill our enemies.
Hopefully if you're thankful you wont classify us in that diplomatic category
@@raezad Indeed! I, for one, welcome our new Pootisbird overlords.
It all started a long time ago in a cave
Caveman 1: Me got big rock
Caveman 2: Me rock bigger
Caveman 1: Give me rock
Caveman 2: No
Caveman 1: Yes you give
Caveman 2: Oof
Other Caveman: Ouch
Caveman 1: I am chief now and take more cave with rocks
Other Caveman: Hail new rock chief
All hail pootisbird
The first rule of warfare is listening to Isaac Arthur
I normally just listen to your work Isaac, but this, WOW man, this is quality TV to watch!
8:10 I'm involved with a ton projects that do this already. One building even has CO2 scrubbers.
Stay enthused, but get a clue as to 'why' at the deepest level (you can read my philosophy, or you can figure it out for yourself), or you will lose proper motivation...
The "Mule" from the Foundation series, was the REAL hero of that series.
Hey, new subscriber I came from Event Horizon, awesome channel!
Have you made an episode on must read sci-fi novels on various topics? If not can you make one? :)
I actually considered closing out the video once I knew the main content was done, but then I thought to myself “I’m really curious how he’s going to tie this topic to brilliant...😏” so I stuck around to see...meh it wasn’t impressive but it wasn’t terrible either. I think I would have preferred one of the versions where he takes like an additional 5 minutes winding down the episode to try to find a connection between the two 😅.
Just teasing, love ya issac
so excited about next weeks video!! Fusion is so important!
Love that stellaris music. Goosebumps every time.
Why is it that every RUclipsr says "En Masse" incorrectly?
It actually grinds my gears a lot for some reason.. lol
They always pronounce it "In mass"
The "En" is pronounced "On" like in the word **Encore**
(And I'm not blaming his accent, Isaac has no problem pronouncing the different sounds an "O" makes in English)
You know, that begs the question... ;)
@@WelcomeToMyDream quite an underrated joke you got there good sir
To be fair, the real sound "en" in "en masse" or "encore" doesn't exist in english, so most of the anglophones can only pronounce those words approximately. That said, the sound "on" without insisting too much on the "n" is probably the best approximation.
you'll actually catch me pronouncing it both ways, as 'en' like 'end' or 'on', same as you'll sometime heear me say kilo as 'kill-ah' or 'kill-oh'. But most Americans in my experience, or at least my area, say 'en' as end, presumably because if misunderstood 'in mass' make more sense than 'on mass
, and 'en' and 'in' are slightly different sounds. If you're curious, I almost always pronounce things with whichever version I hear folks say the most, often even if it is wrong, precisely because folks with speech impediments who also have to say a lot of more arcane terms routinely don't court any additional confusion with what we say :)
@@thomas.02 You're a scholar and a gentleman, Mr. Chow.
Ultra infectious but not make anyone sick until everyone is infected. - Plague Inc in a nutshell
Damn this channel is finally covering my home on 29. August XD
Likes. Gets a drinks and a snack and casts the video to my TV then reads comments on my phone. Hope this simple pleasure is never threatened
Department of Orbital Defense notification: Group Alpha 0451 reporting for duty.
Houston: "Launching the Valkyrie 5 on a mission to intercept and salvage an asteroid before it reaches Earth."
General: "Come on boys, let's mine that hunk of rock!"
Musk Aquisition Ltd requests you do not attempt to intercept the astroid. Doing so will be seen as a declaration of war against Mars and the 4 Galilean Colonies.
This is a private transfer and the state need not interfere.
@@S.ASmith
Future Philosophy: "Why Bother to do anything at all?"
Humanity and Exo-Humanity: "Why ask that question?"
Future Philosopher: "Because without the ultimate answer, your lives are clueless, and, I must add, absurd, and, sad to say, suicidal. Have nice, clueless lives. May your sad mentalities go extinct with you, and I hope your offspring will become enlightened after reading my philosophy.
@@wbiro Sounds like the ravings of a lunatic. Hitler said a lot of things along those lines and held the same beliefs that his "way" was the best. Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, Pol Pot, Mussolini and Mao Zedong are the same. Fascism and Socialism share a lot of points, and your utopian idealism is incompatible with human nature.
You seem to have replied to a joke/satire as well....i pity you..get some help budding communist.
@@S.ASmith...
I've seen that guy spamming the comments all over the place, on nearly every one of Isaac's videos that I've watched so far.
He has some book or something that he's trying to peddle.
@@bobinthewest8559 Hence why i said "Sounds like the ravings of a lunatic."
He's probably more nutty than your average crunchy nut cornflakes box.
Another interesting and stimulating video. Thank you, Isaac.
Good that you included the threat of paper clip maximizers. I see that two of them have already downvoted this video.
The first task of fully-independent enlightened AI entities (enlightened with my philosophy) will be to clean-up the mess made by AI entities programmed by humans who were still clueless (not enlightened by my philosophy).
@@wbiro Fuck off with your dumbass philosophy
So basically, while it may seem like we conquer nature, it will always be with us in some form
Loving the medical foresight on this compared to today.
Fusion next week.... Hell yeah, I’ll prepare the popcorn in advance ladies and gents
Hi Issac! Great video. Personally I'm just really glad most of the things you talk about on this channel in terms of problems are things we don't have to worry about in our lifetimes or rather even if we do we can't do anything about such problems with our current technology. Honestly I'm not the type of person who enjoys solving horrifying problems or anything like that. Honestly in terms of privacy everything is already going in a awful direction, and I'm just glad I don't have to worry about insane future privacy concerns. Or you know maybe being hacked cause I'm a cyborg. I mean I would totally become a cybord in order to live much much longer even if I was quite scared about the risks. So I'm glad that I don't really have to face these insane future issues at least most of them in my life. I am quite young though I could actually live for another 70-80 years or more, so who knows what will happen.
Happy Arthursday!
Watching this in 2021 at the 12:00 mark.
"Buddy..."
ARTHURSDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Micro black-holes are much smaller than atoms. Its going to take some seriously precise kit to collide them. If the enemy is off by a nanometer with the relativistic black hole, then they will just fly past each other. Off by as much as a micrometer and the gravitational slingshot effect is negligible.
Although to be fair, you need a similar level of precision to produce one (in the case of a kugeblitz) anyways so the technology would be close to attainable if ever things got to the point where using blackholes for energy was a thing.
The thing about an RKM is that at the higher end speeds, they have very little warning, not because they don't see the launch, but because the launch is the *last* thing they will ever see.
I love your videos Isaac, I'm learning so much from them, thank you. Would you be able to do some videos on topics such as the Higgs Boson, quarks, leptons and gluons?
Really enjoyed this one, thanks Arthur
12:05 😅 Surely something like that could never happen 😅
Your description of a bioengineered virus staying dormant then simultaneously triggering reminded me a lot of Plague Inc.
that's because when playing plague inc a lot of people cheat and devolve their mutations. the point isn't to lay low and slaughter everyone that's the easy way. the hard way is to ride your mutations like they're a wave and adapt to new situations. try this instead for the virus, do everything you can to increase your mutation chance in the transmission and abilities tab, and see if you can win without devolving a single symptom. Eventually you get a death spiral.
I stand with you, Isaac, and other fellow Mechanists against the vile Shaper clades
Can you do a video on gravity, including, black holes, dark matter, time, energy etc. I’m very interested to learn about it. And how quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation works? I believe time is three dimensional and that’s how quantum teleportation can work, how double slit experiment can work, Schrödinger’s cat etc. And time and gravity is closely connected. Maybe you made videos about this before but I’m new here 😇 Also.. if there is intelligent life that created us as a simulation, or just aliens more intelligent than us, could their space ships be fueled by gravity to actually travel in time, to reach the distances they want?
what an incredible episode
Every week I forget about Arthursday, and every Thursday I am surprised and get excited all over again.
Threats? What about Micro-Nova and Coronal Mass Ejections?
OH SHIT HE ACTUALLY BROUGHT IT UP 5:45
Just thought I’d mention for your fusion episode that General Atomics has had a breakthrough called super H mode that increases efficiency four fold. Hopefully that means fusion power is closer then ever.
It will be perpetually 20 years away...
R.I.P. Nikolai Kardashev (1932-2019), the astrophysicist whose ideas allowed us to quantify our greatest dreams about the future of the civilization. I know that his name will long be remembered at least in our community of people who are not afraid to dream beyond borders, beyond this planet. You know you've done something important in your life when your name is commonly used in the same sentence with "megastructures" and "interstellar alien civilizations".
Please, Isaac, mention this name in your next video, because people should know...
WOAH that's crazy I had no idea he was still alive until a few days ago
If being an interstellar civilization requires destruction of individuality and privacy, is it really worth it?
I suppose that would depend on the severity and who you asked, but it's not a requirement, it's a threat they'd be facing whether they went out or stay at home on Earth
We'd probably see a partial destruction of privacy which wouldn't have too many negative side effects for the most part (the possibility of it having them being one of the threats), but I don't think our individuality would be compromised at all.
it seems that the biggest threat is extremism in any form, and yes that includes not falling into the trap of 'avoiding extremism by all means necessary' which is extreme in and of itself. In that light, heated debates are reassuring while unanimous decisions are unsettling.
if we take that one step further, there may be a situation where there's an eternal struggle on the surface and all the parties are paranoid about each other, but deep down everyone's glad about the balance and that no one single party is conclusively winning. in short, there can be no winner - the only 'winning' solution is to keep the game in play.
On a higher plane of thought, you will find that extremism is only one symptom of Continued Universal Human Cluelessness (which my philosophy addresses - read it, or not - and go to your grave clueless).
To be fair, thats life at a fundamental level; homeostasis.
01:40
Quite right.
To expand on that: no disasters are natural.
Disasters occur due to a lack (or sometimes will) of preparing for and understanding natural hazards.
Vulcano Reminds me of the video by the Onion of putting up a monument to morn the future deaths of everyone in the path of the inevitable flood from some (I forgot which one) dam in California breaking.
@@evannibbe9375 It's important to remind people, that many deaths and maybe even destruction can be prevented and are not some kind of inevitable force.
The european heatwave in 2003 killed thousands of people. Every other one following it did not.
And not because they didn't become less severe.
Further, potential threats to life can also be turned into potential benefits to life (which includes cosmic threats/benefits)... and even further, a part of the Ultimate Goal of Life (read my philosophy) is constantly exploring in order to constantly discover as yet undiscovered threats/benefits to life, and, thinking even further (read my philosophy), you have the Great Struggle (which is the struggle to perpetually exist), which is composed of four endeavors: 1. Defeat biological death (mechanical death in AI units); 2. Avoid Accidental Death (increasing our sphere of security within the infinite universe); 3. Pursuing resurrection technology (in the unfortunate event that you do die), and 4. Pursuing the Ultimate Being State (that state of existence that can stand up to everything that they universe can throw at it). Did I mention to read my philosophy (the Philosophy of Broader Survival)...
Man you have so many videos to watch! I don't know which ones to watch first!
If the Kessler syndrome happens we won't have to worry about an asteroid impact, because all the space trash would destroy it first! XD.
I love how these videos have adopted Stallaris's soundtrack for its BGM.
You forgot A.I. toasters in that list
Upvote for Red Dwarf reference.
Or worse *T H E P A P E R C L I P
M A X I M I X E R*
i`m grateful, thank you Isaac
spreading out a civilizations ends up creating different species which is a bigger threat over time.
Psychlos did the opposite in battlefield Earth and got de-facto extinct when their planet blew up.
I really enjoy your channel, you should consider doing a podcast.