Vatican City is more accurately described as a theocracy not a monarchy but absolute monarchy is “technically correct” but still a mistake as mentioned in this video.
@@acebalistic1358 My vote is on Butt Text. I got similar messages from my dad while he was doing yard work. Had to call because I was concerned. It was good for a right laugh.
We *kind* of got that here in Norway, and from what I've heard there might be *something* like that in Canada (correct me if I'm wrong). It's of course going to depend on the political climate in a country, the political tradition, the electoral system, the party in question and it's voters (the voters of some parties are way more accepting of mistakes and humility then others) and of course the individual politicians.
The fact that Grey was so upset about making a mistake that I personally would have forgiven easily shows how talented and committed he is to his content. Really it's very impressive. I would've been happy with a 90 second footnote.
I think this is a big part of why millions of people watch CGP Grey instead of the garbage clickbait that permeates most of the internet. Attention to detail and intellectual integrity are rare and valuable things. Also research is hard.
That's so true! In fact it even makes them more trustworthy! They show they care a lot! :) (And it's also really nice to see they are not, in fact, superhuman, and make errors as well! Errors are never bad if you learn from them! :))
In software development we have something called the "Vorführeffekt" (which roughly translates to english as "demonstration effect"). You can test your system a hundred times back to front with multiple coworkers giving it a go. But no matter what, in less than 5 minutes into showing the software to a customer the thing will hit a major bug that will result in embarassement.
Why will he not address the America Pox video where he follows guns, germs, and steel? Guns, germs, and steel was written by someone who isn't an expert in anthropology and academia completely disagrees with his conclusions.
@@nightbringar7558 Not to mention (although a lot less serious a topic) the "True Cost of the Monarchy" video. In it, some claims are objectively wrong and others use faulty logic. It is an older video, but it could still use fixing.
@@marnie4629 One of your favourite youtubers named his dog after a war criminal because he's a war criminal who does bad things in his job but is the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with. Edit: Replaced a "the" with an "a". Edit 2: Deleted superfluous word.
For a moment I thought your channel was "Mr.Beast" and was confused about why you didn't have more likes. I'm still confused about why you have only 367...
I wish everybody would be like this when they make a mistake. Not only did you publicly admit you were wrong, but you told us the truth, and explained why you were wrong. Imagine how much better the world would be if everyone did this. You're great, Grey.
100% agree! I’d love it if the robots could get names or designations. I figure the people may not want their real names revealed, so fun code-names would be funny 😆
Mistakes are a part of life, but having someone willing to humbly analyse the processes which resulted in the mistake and failed to catch it, is priceless in my opinion. Thank you!
It really is priceless, and something i feel most of the Science/education RUclipsrs. Tom Scott had a video a while back that was very similar. It says a lot about the person to be able to admit their mistakes
"If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter" 0:04 - Mark Twain 8:00 - Abe Lincoln 17:39 - Blaise Pascal Beware: A google search for this quote may quickly suck you into the "What is true?" dimension.
“My dear student twilight, Wether your letter be short or long, I, as your Teacher would’ve read it. Only if the attribution of this quote was correct” -Princess Celestia, My little Pony
@@oO_ox_O Cortex is literally the multi year live-accounting of a semi-sane (atleast functioning) apple fanboy being driven mad to the point he's as obsessive and unproductive as Grey
Grey's psyche is overall filled with a lot of weird and oftentimes debilitating quirks, to the point that I genuinely am concerned with his coping mechanisms and his insane work ethic... Not even joking it's pretty concerning.
Even that is better than one example I have from a creator I used to support on Patreon. They used the same stat twice in a video but with a different number, it was obvious they mis-spoke so I wanted to let them know. I jumped on Discord - "Hey great video, but did you notice.. yada yada...." I get a reply from the creator - "Well shit, I guess I'm just terrible at my job!" Que mass "no, you're wonderful" from the rest of the chat and me feeling like an asshole. I don't support this person anymore.
This is why you're the best, Grey. You genuinely care about telling us accurate information and if you ended up getting something wrong, you explain the why's, how's, and most importantly you tell us the corrections. You've earned your reputation as one of the best!
Also Grey could have made a video about the most covered topic of them all on YT and still get loads of views because his views, ways of presenting and end products is up there among the best in the YT-iverse. In another time he would surely have been abducted by the goods.
Correcting and admitting mistakes like this are what builds the most trust as far as I am concerned. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone adresses them.
A great example of how to both admit you're wrong and examine how you got there. It's good to admit when you're wrong, but even better to figure out how you got to the wrong conclusions and how you can do better, even when parts of the process are outside your control.
Luke Gerhard It’s funny that they put that little “easter egg” in there. Light-hearted self-directed jokes like that are funny. ... ... I like the animation style, animator! ;-)
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” -Mark Twain -Abe Lincoln (8:00) -Blaise Pascal (17:35) Lol, he ascribed that recurring quote to at least 3 different people. Loved the subtle joke, Mr Grey. Cheers.
I have it on my Wikipedia page as such: I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. - Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1656-1657), no. 16
@@Neberheim I'm surprised there wasn't a Sun Tzu- The Art of War in there somewhere. Everyone loves to post vague war tactic quotes and attribute them to him.
And me still feeling late on this channel while I've been here for years and years. Because yes you said it, once you know it, you really wonder how you can have survived THAT LONG without it. This question still needs an answer.
RUclips compression is a bitch tho. (I like to imagine Grey's inbuilt processor is powerful enough to render a fractal at full definition - i.e. infinite)
Internet rabbitholes are cool to read about. You read something, then something else, and boom, you're 30 webpages and 2 webarchives deep into the topic
@@BigMastah79 What's wrong with acknowledging that someone is a decent person? Everyone needs feedback. If you want to reinforce positive behaviors, you give a suitable reward. In this case, it's the compliment.
It’s still misleading. For example, I’ve seen a channel cover the story of Violet Jessop (Check out her story on Wikipedia). In one part of the video, they used the wrong picture of a shipwreck she survived (the sinking of the HMHS Britannic). This was misleading, people didn’t notice it so the channel let it slide. It was a blunder that became a gigantic error. If everybody does this, people will believe that the MV Britannic was the HMHS Britannic and it tarnishes the history of the ships and Violet herself.
@@AndyHappyGuy My questions are: One, were the ships a completely different class, as in, was one a large warship and the other a fishing boat? Two, were they built in a vastly different period, as in one was a XV century caravel, and the other a XX century ocean liner? Three, do you really think the people who did not pick up on this mistake were the kind of people who would be offended had it been revealed to them? And conversely, wouldn't the people who are really into maritime history not pick up on the mistake and just correct it in the comments section for the interested few anyway, which I'm sure already happened? And finally, following up from the previous question, what makes you say it was a "gigantic error"? If it was picked up and corrected in the comments by the people who are into maritime history for the benefit of other people who are or could potentially be interested in maritime history, while the rest of the viewers just didn't care, what makes you say it was a "gigantic mistake"? Because from what I can tell it was pretty inconsequential - the people who were interested got corrected pretty quickly and unobtrusively, and those who weren't, wouldn't care either way.
But what a marvelous quotation from his father “the cost of perfection is infinite.“ Being too much of that breed, I hope I can inculcate that concept into my life.
This is why I love Grey, I love seeing the behind the scenes because his whole process of researching and putting out something entertaining is what I want to do for a living. But also he's somehow managed to capture the whole journey of writing a dissertation. After getting my undergrad dissertation back from marking I had the whole "omg how did I not see this, I've been caught out" moment, my only regret being that I couldn't go back and change it. Now having handed in my masters dissertation and waiting for marking, I'm thinking about if it'll happen again and all the errors or glitches that may be in there. Moral of the story is, I love all of the TEKOI videos, including this, which I might like the most
As someone with a glimpse into the other side of the veil, I can tell you that a thesis defence is equally nerveracking for the professors, particularly if it's a fine arts interdiciplinary degree on the theory of beekeeping.
@@jiminybb Yeah, but it's not about the money. If _you_ made something that you worked on, for weeks, months, something you put your heart into, if it then just got 50k views? When you have 4 million subs? And if you only care about money, then, less views, less new people, less people wanting to donate to you on Patreon, less _money._
Well it wasn't really a small mistake given that it was what the entire video was about. Since the video was about What is Tekoi and saying that it is one thing when it is another would be wrong. For the average audience like me it is not a big deal but if you are a content creator trying to be factual it is a huge deal, if you say something that is just out right wrong and a thing that you could have caught.
@@jamesleather7524 "For the average audience like me it is not a big deal but if you are a content creator trying to be factual it is a huge deal, if you say something that is just out right wrong and a thing that you could have caught."
Nice to see someone take an interest in the Cold War. As a 1980s US Navy officer, I'd like to believe the reason there was less information on SLBMs was because the Navy was better about security.
Well, they were also quite a bit later to the game then ICBMS, which were even later than basic bombs, so there's a lot left that's still classified, comparatively. ;)
I think this comment will get buried, but I'd like to say it anyway: Most of the information about Tekoi, including proposals from Hercules itself, are available via Utah's public records system. Utah uses a system named "GRAMA" on top of the Freedom of Information Act, and as such any of the state government can be issued a GRAMA request for any of their records. I was able to immediately find a PDF detailing the proposal for testing rockets (in which it actually explicitly names Tridents) at the Tekoi site. I know there's a point to stop researching, but a lot of information for these programs is retained at a state level, so it's something good to at least think about especially in the future for any "topic for another time" videos. :)
@@politereminder6284 Hahahahahahaha. Yeah, ethics m8, cheers to that. There is no actual regulation for big media companies, theres never has been. If there ever was one, it will be labeled as "obstruction of free media". There's a reason people have always disliked media, they often are guided by profit, ethics is treated as just another tool in getting that profit.
@Izzy I didn't either, until I decided to start making simple gaming videos. It turned out I'd spend at least 2-3 hours to make 10 minute video. I cannot imagine how much time it takes to make a CGP Grey video.
@@elleonagamingquest God, tell me about it... Unless you just record and upload with a minimum of cuts, it does take forever. I've done 5 minute videos that took 10 minutes to record and 4 hours to edit!
CGP Grey: Makes mistake, goes into depression, gets back up to investigate his mistake and learns from it Me: Makes mistake, goes into depression, *that’s it*
Me, a perpetual optimist: "I'll never make a mistake!" Tries something new, makes a mistake. "Oh, I'll fix it. I sure won't make that one again." Go back to step 1.
im sure that applies to his strong points as well Interviewer: what are your strengths? Grey: I'm a perfectionist Interviewer: and what are your weaknesses? Gray: I'm a perfectionist Interviewer:....
@@TheLPcollector it really is a double edged sword. You work to the best of your capacities and then some. But, you work to the best of your capacities and then some. Which usually means delays and excessive amounts of corrections and modifications, refactoring, making things more efficient and so on. Or at least that's how it is in CS.
That's something that the head of the college at engineering at the university I attended made clear. In engineering, there's rarely a "perfect" answer - and it's often very very expensive to get that answer. Sometimes what you have to do is create a "good enough" answer - then throw in a large safety factor, just in case.
‘’If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter’’ Grey, you attributed it to Mark Twain at 0:00, Abe Lincoln at 8:00 and Blaise Pascal at 17:35. You did that on purpose, didn’t you? Love ya, Grey!
First, great username! Second, this quote has become a bit of a meme at this point. All of the people he attributed it to (and more) said some sort of a similar quote at one point in time, though none in exactly those words. So people argue about who originally said it, but it’s pretty much just an aphorism on its own, and not a direct quote from anyone.
Ahhhhh yes. This is what it's like to be a perfectionist. I don't know anything about Tekoi or making videos, but I 100% relate to this long winded explanation of thoughts, processes, and the horror of being WRONG!
In my little Italian town we traditionally say "quando che và che quasi basta, lassalo stá sennò se guasta" (local dialect) that translates as "when it is almost enough, leave it as it is or you'll spoil it"😅
@@cleoking6312 Even if we arent real, that doesnt change anything. What is "real" its just a description of the things we call "real" so as long we ceep calling things real, they are, because we define them to be
@@sdrawkcab_emanresu i agree 100%. We are real, my feelings are real, my experiences are real, but to those who are afraid of this thought germ tend to let fear cloud their judgement. It isnt very surprising considering irational fears dictate most peoples lives, mine included with my fear of heights. To me that fear that nothing we know is real is just as irational as my complete hate for anything involving heights no matter how safe it is.
Ah, Prime Minister... It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes has not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials. And it isn't so it wasn't.
"The cost of perfection is infinite" I'm not sure if this is a blunder or a clever easter egg, but the graph showing that the cost of perfection is infinite at 17:18 has the axes swapped. If that graph were correct, the cost would be asymptotically approaching a fixed, finite cost, and the "amount of perfection" would be infinite. Fixing this would mean either swapping the axes or else swapping the shape of the curve so that on the right side it gets nearly but never quite flat--vertically never quite getting to (let alone exceeding) "perfect", but with cost increasing forever. Personally, I choose to believe that CGP Grey made a clever, clever commentary on the unachievability of perfection.
I come back to rewatch this video every time I'm stuck on some research problem. The way you break down "at this point in the discovery process, I could have done this and found that" over and over is unbelievably helpful. Thanks so much!
All of them said it at one point, but Pascal is the oldest copy. It's very possible that multiple people came up with the quote independently. We have no way to know which of those people read Pascal's private letters.
Hello, CGP Grey. I know you probably won't read this, since this video is a year old, but I might as well share it anyway. Your channel is one of my favorite channels because your way of explaining things in such a simple way is absolutely wonderful. Your videos are always interesting and I can basically understand everything about the videos, with few exceptions. You genuinely care about sharing accurate information, and I love that. You have an extraordinary ability to cover complex topics with simple explanations and simple visuals without oversimplifying. Please make more videos, I really enjoy them.
I think what Extra History does with it's "lies" episodes is a pretty interesting way to approach mistakes. They make an entire episode discussing the things they got wrong, or might've gotten wrong, and also discuss some of the things they didn't have time for.
They also discuss things they exaggerated or outright lied about for the sake of making the story more interesting, since historical records tend to have a lot less attention to detail than they give, and for it to be interesting assumptions and embellishment needs to be made.
No one said it. Blase Pascal wrote in French and his direct translation isn't exactly that, though it is a fair approximation. Many, many people have expressed similar sentiments since. "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" may, in fact, be a CGP Grey quotation.
I did appreciate the fact that he used the quote twice, once with the commonly used yet incorrect author and the other with the accepted originator. Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Oh, I didn't know you actually had a proper team now. Good for you! I remember a video you made ages ago about how you couldn't POSSIBLY employ someone to help you with these, but that kind of mentality puts such a major strain on a person. Glad you're getting some other hands involved, especially with the insane amount of work that these videos need.
Who can say that the crisis did not create a new form of existence? Self-doubt can be transformational in many ways, and cause ... thinking. [this comment was transformed between thinking and publishing time, and its prior content is no longer allowed to publicly exist.]
Honestly, it sounded to me like my PMS 😅 Like, when I have my monthly existential crisis, I know I probably need to make sure I stock up on painkillers etc because I'm gonna need it soon 😆
@@famuraii. This whole time he was talking about how he said something that wasn’t true and he contradicted himself, he than said he would never do it again. But through the video he said that quote 3 times and each time he said someone else said it. He said he would never make an informational mistake again and the he made one. That’s when I said that he ether made a good joke or he does have a problem
In the era of "alternative facts," THIS is the antidote. Grey is an excellent role model for the level of accountability and humility we need to demand of ALL public figures who talk seriously about facts.
Absolutely true. This is how you show to the world you are a person of integrity. And it's part of the process. Nobody comes from a long line of expert RUclipsrs. It's easy to forget that RUclips is less than 20 years old. The fact that catastrophic mistakes so rarely pop up is a testament to the hard work of everyone involved in the process.
Man, you absolutely rock. As a researcher, I'm really impressed about how you manage to produce amazing quality content, yet even go the extra mile to admit errors when you make some. That's one of the basics of our job (would really love a vid about popper BTW), but we are all human and let's say that not all of us manage to do it even part of the time. If anything, it just confirms how your channel is top tier quality and how even though I'd really love to get more vids from you guys, your dedication to long, serious and due research is at the core of your consideration. Doesn't take must to tell people you're right, takes huge ones to admit you've been wrong. Kuddos from France.
CheesecakeLasagna Grey jokingly attributes the quote to Mark Twain incorrectly in the start and corrects himself at the end as a funny parallel to the mistake in the Teiko video that he corrects. There’s also the joke that if you don’t remember who said a quote, it was probably Mark Twain
"maybe a story for another time dON'T SAY THAT" Grey finally acknowledges all of the other "stories for another time" that have since been buried by time. ((still love his work tho))
Grey, I feel you deeply. As a research publisher, I get the gut wretching feeling of being wrong. Respect for the thorough revision. YT showed me your channel and I'm hooked.
Even CGPgrey's "I'm sorry, I made a mistake video" is better scripted, researched, produced, and more entertaining than 90% of whatever crap the history channel is showing this week.
"The cost of perfection is infinite" As a young, amateur novelist, I couldn't summarize the pain of creation any better. When I write a novel, I start off happy and ambitious, trying to pour in every emotion that I feel, every imagination that I have formed in my head. At this stage, fixing errors and making sure that everything works out as a masterpiece seems easy. I feel like I can write the next Lord of the Rings. After some time, however, the painful realization comes in. Past the ambitious opening that you've designed, I begin to see the obvious plot errors. The emotions begin to get clunky, and the characters begin to look like my automatons rather than living, breathing people. At first I try to supress these feelings and painstakingly work on it anyway. Yet as time goes on, I begin to hate it. Hate the abomination that I have created. Hate myself for investing so much time and effort (cost) into perfection, but all I have made is stupid junk. When that hate reaches the breaking point, I suddenly quit writing, and betray the readers with an unfinished story. I have not ruined one, but three incomplete novels this way. After watching this video, I am thinking about returning to my first ever ruined story, and develop it however bad it may be. Not because I am able to bear the infinite cost of perfection, but because creating something is enjoyable and rewarding, no matter the level of significance it carries. So I sincerely thank you, Grey, for helping me learn this lesson.
@@hyunsungjung4941 and remember, you can't succeed without first failing to learn from it. Accept the failure, dont shy from it. I do hope you eventually finish your story my guy
I know that feeling(not that i'm a pro writer, just a novice who has read some from a pro and wright some for youtube) but don't be to hard on yourself. I would recommend a book: The anatomy of story(from John Truby). Maby some help with the structure before you write your first draft is just what you need. Good luck and have fun writing your novel!!! :D
Mr. Grey, your self-flagellation over this error is simultaneously adorable and commands an abundance of respect. Most 'legitimate' news and/or edutainment sources just put a correction as a brief flash within the original video itself (or worse in small print at the end of an article or in the credits). You sir, stood on your soap box and screamed to the internet "I was wrong, here's why and here's the real info!!!". If someone still thinks this site was for minuteman missiles, that's on them. Short of hiring a private investigator to individually track down everyone who saw the original video, you have done everything in your power to make the correct info known. Well done.
Hmm... I think... Grey is going to hire a private investigator to individually track down everyone who saw the original video. An army of investigators.
Funny how he goes on and on about a fairly irrelevant error like this, it really affects no-one what missiles were tested in an abandoned facility, but is happy to leave up his pretty much entirely incorrect royalist propaganda video which claims the royal family makes the UK money. The video is massively incorrect having believed lots of royalist lies and is referenced constantly by royalists who want to push the same lies and helps keep the royal family mooching money from UK taxpayers.
@@OktoberSunset If so, may you please write a sufficiently to the point letter to CGP Grey explaining how he is mistaken. If you supply the facts and references I would hope he could listen. If he doesn't listen, then at least you can say you tried instead of just dissing him on some comment section.
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I appreciate that your animator drew himself eating crayons
Lmao true
@ASMR Tforter 4:24
Lol
@@aaronnapierv Also on 2:46 and 5:41
Fake
This is why I really like Mr. Grey.
Why do you comment on (almost) everything that I watch?
Ayy Cody likes grey
Again, it's super cool that all the awesome internet people are aware of eachother!
eating uranium when
:)
best apology video
Grandayy hey
Not enough mid-roll ad breaks tho
its grandayy
Eyyy it's grandayy!
Man the fact that grandayy actually watched this video means he is interested in historical which tbh I would not think he would be
Every educational RUclipsr knows and shares your pain.
nice your here
Ew your here
wow epic history is here nic
@@the-youtube-enjoyer u really gonna do that to him
@@doobert4 ouch
TLDR: Grey is lucky he didn't get attacked by an owl.
This is the only important point in the whole video^^
/s (where the 's' stands for seagull)
@@jordandeshan8020
but the seagull keep pokin' my head, not fun
but the seagulls, mmh, stop it now
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@1224ChrisNg my stick is better than baconnnnmmm
@@1224chrisng That log had a child.
Actually, hootis8 was that owl. So he did get attacked, technically.
This here is why we trust you. When you make a serious mistake, you don’t try to cover it up or make excuses, you embrace it and fix it.
eh, I recall discussing a major mistake he made, in the comments like a year ago, don't remember him addressing it.
Maybe just don't trust anyone blindly. Everyone you get information from is a flawed human.
I never made and mistakes
There was the whole UK monarchy thing.
Vatican City is more accurately described as a theocracy not a monarchy but absolute monarchy is “technically correct” but still a mistake as mentioned in this video.
Grey's dad saying "The cost of perfection is infinite" to Grey as a child explains everything about his current personality.
“ Grey is string theory in a persons body “ - cosmic forces
Bernardo Costa seizure?
Held onto that nugget like a starving coyote.
@@acebalistic1358 My vote is on Butt Text. I got similar messages from my dad while he was doing yard work. Had to call because I was concerned. It was good for a right laugh.
@@acebalistic1358 unlocked phone in my pocket... I never learn...
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” -Tom Scott
"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and misattributed quotes." -Spiro Agnew.
That does sound like something he would say
"If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter." -Albert Einstein
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln
"If I had more time, I would have a shorter letter." -mick wachowski
Imagine if our politicians showed this level of accountability and humility.
Such politicians would get voted out of office faster than you can say “potatoe”
Andrew Farrell sadly that’s what happens
Someone didn't watch "The rules for rulers"!
So what you are saying is: Gray for president?
We *kind* of got that here in Norway, and from what I've heard there might be *something* like that in Canada (correct me if I'm wrong).
It's of course going to depend on the political climate in a country, the political tradition, the electoral system, the party in question and it's voters (the voters of some parties are way more accepting of mistakes and humility then others) and of course the individual politicians.
The fact that Grey was so upset about making a mistake that I personally would have forgiven easily shows how talented and committed he is to his content. Really it's very impressive. I would've been happy with a 90 second footnote.
And still he doesn't correct the one about the monarchy.
@@lopez.jacinto.6726 curious, what was wrong on that?
Gabriel jacinto lópez Which mistake?
I think this is a big part of why millions of people watch CGP Grey instead of the garbage clickbait that permeates most of the internet. Attention to detail and intellectual integrity are rare and valuable things. Also research is hard.
@@sirduckoufthenorth Well, for starters he didn't include the travel and security expenses for the monarchy in the numbers he presents in that video.
"CGP Grey gets attacked by owl" would probably have gone viral
Grey: I'm going to explore this interesting site
Owl: O RLY?
johnnypopstar Owl really
@@joeyscerbo7776 how to tell you're getting old: when you're the only one in the room who remembers the "o rly owl" 😔
@@johnnypopstar lolwut
@@johnnypopstar I got your back. It's an old meme, but it checks out.
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” -Dumbledore, Lord of the Rings
Said calmly
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if i had more time, i would have written a shorter letter - Joseph Stalin, Macbeth
@@yeboi1887 wait till kids come and woooosh you.
@@yeboi1887 r/woooosh
Fixing a mistake that only a very niche group of people would ever realize is why this channel is so great. Facts matter here.
Certain media corporations should get some inspiration. Factual publications is incredibly important in today's day and age.
That's so true! In fact it even makes them more trustworthy! They show they care a lot! :) (And it's also really nice to see they are not, in fact, superhuman, and make errors as well! Errors are never bad if you learn from them! :))
*COUGH COUGH* Infographics scp videos *COUGH COUGH*
Facts *sometimes* matter here. Can't really say that as an absolute when he has so much disinformation in his voting videos.
@@SymmetricalDocking Would you mind to explain what you mean?
“Had time; wrote less.”
- Script writer for Mr. Bean
It's all about being concise. Maximum info in minimum words.
@@danielsjohnson Nuff sed
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
small good
> = +
CGP Grey: Says he's wrong.
RUclips: THIS GUY IS WRONG, LETS PUT HIM ON TRENDING.
RUclips really does like promoting wrong people, at least it gets to be CGP Grey this time!
D C what, you scared of spelling it?
@@boopsboops7692 You're much too kind to YT. I would've started my expletive with a capital C.
RUclips loves Cancel videos. I just wanted to know what CGG was
Ninja Ethan
Ah yes my greatest fear, spelling the dreaded ass word
In software development we have something called the "Vorführeffekt" (which roughly translates to english as "demonstration effect"). You can test your system a hundred times back to front with multiple coworkers giving it a go. But no matter what, in less than 5 minutes into showing the software to a customer the thing will hit a major bug that will result in embarassement.
QA helps but isn't the be all, end all
Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
I think you just proved their point lol
@@jacobmetalcrafter6259 I think you just missed their joke lol
@stockart whiteman I see what you did there.
👆well actuallly....
Jacob you have been bamboozled
This is what integrity looks like, with a heavy side of bonus history.
This.
The world need more of this.
Something made by a person with these qualities is a rare and beautiful thing.
Why will he not address the America Pox video where he follows guns, germs, and steel? Guns, germs, and steel was written by someone who isn't an expert in anthropology and academia completely disagrees with his conclusions.
@@nightbringar7558 Not to mention (although a lot less serious a topic) the "True Cost of the Monarchy" video. In it, some claims are objectively wrong and others use faulty logic. It is an older video, but it could still use fixing.
Videos like this is why we appreciate you so much.
It's always so weird to see my favourite RUclipsrs respecting and appreciating each other.
@@marnie4629 One of your favourite youtubers named his dog after a war criminal because he's a war criminal who does bad things in his job but is the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with.
Edit: Replaced a "the" with an "a".
Edit 2: Deleted superfluous word.
For a moment I thought your channel was "Mr.Beast" and was confused about why you didn't have more likes. I'm still confused about why you have only 367...
@@camelopardalis84, Who?
@@k4four615 Mr. Beat named his dog after George W. Bush.
I wish everybody would be like this when they make a mistake. Not only did you publicly admit you were wrong, but you told us the truth, and explained why you were wrong. Imagine how much better the world would be if everyone did this. You're great, Grey.
I guess you could say he's grey-t
@@callmeishmael5742 Grey would be proud of you
But, mostly/only for MAJOR mistakes...minor errors certainly don't need an elaborate mea culpa.
@@kenc2257 oh no, i ate an extra pretzel, let me make a 2 hour video on it to apologize
I wish CGP Grey was like this about the pro-monarchy video he made that was just stuffed with monarchist propaganda and misinformation.
The bots are getting more sophisticated with their colourful eyes. They're upgrading.
I like to think he made a bunch of AI’s like Jarvis
Lol
Yea we need to stop them
I'd love to know more about his team, tbh XD the behind-the-scenes work is always really impressive, and always way more than I ever expect.
They reminded me of the kursgezat birds
100% agree! I’d love it if the robots could get names or designations. I figure the people may not want their real names revealed, so fun code-names would be funny 😆
Mistakes are a part of life, but having someone willing to humbly analyse the processes which resulted in the mistake and failed to catch it, is priceless in my opinion. Thank you!
Hear hear ❣
It really is priceless, and something i feel most of the Science/education RUclipsrs. Tom Scott had a video a while back that was very similar. It says a lot about the person to be able to admit their mistakes
@@rickyarmstrong5945 It is always the small people that tend to ignore or deny their own mistakes.
"If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter"
0:04 - Mark Twain
8:00 - Abe Lincoln
17:39 - Blaise Pascal
Beware: A google search for this quote may quickly suck you into the "What is true?" dimension.
I was wondering why he kept repeating the quote! I thought it was just for emphasis but completely missed the different authors...
That's a great piece of comedy Grey has woven into this "apology" "explanation of failure" either way I had a good laugh.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
-- Twilight Sparkle
aong us
OH.
“My dear student twilight, Wether your letter be short or long, I, as your Teacher would’ve read it. Only if the attribution of this quote was correct” -Princess Celestia, My little Pony
@@jf17thunder63 FINALLY
This three-video series about an abandoned missile testing site has taught me a lot about your psyche.
Check out his podcasts.
@@oO_ox_O Cortex is literally the multi year live-accounting of a semi-sane (atleast functioning) apple fanboy being driven mad to the point he's as obsessive and unproductive as Grey
Grey's psyche is overall filled with a lot of weird and oftentimes debilitating quirks, to the point that I genuinely am concerned with his coping mechanisms and his insane work ethic... Not even joking it's pretty concerning.
@@redcoat4348 The fact that he puts so much work into being productive that it eats into his productivity isn't really ok
@@redcoat4348 I had to stop listening to the podcast after a while because it started feeling like I was hearing someone slowly go deep crazy.
Other creators: "Oops, I said that fact wrong. Well, I'll edit the video description or leave a fixed comment clarifying it".
Grey: *18 minute video*
Even that is better than one example I have from a creator I used to support on Patreon. They used the same stat twice in a video but with a different number, it was obvious they mis-spoke so I wanted to let them know. I jumped on Discord - "Hey great video, but did you notice.. yada yada...." I get a reply from the creator - "Well shit, I guess I'm just terrible at my job!" Que mass "no, you're wonderful" from the rest of the chat and me feeling like an asshole.
I don't support this person anymore.
He's an educator
18 minute video + a reuploaded/edited video of the original one that had a mistake
It reminds me a lot of a couple of videos Tom Scott did - definitely a sign of a creator who cares about their craft.
editing the description would have been a better use of his time.
Remember back when RUclips actually allowed creators to add annotations on their vids for corrections?
Sad...
They said they removed it due to "being used less." 😢
youtube is getting worst every year
@Egan314 Not only that, youtube is a social media site. If no one is on your social media, then going there is worthless.
@@lukethekuya Tbh I'm pretty sure that was RUclips's most used feature.
yeah, but in this case it seems like the whole video was wrong
This commitment to (obsession with) being correct is how we ended up with the Tiffany rabbit hole.
I see you, Grey. And thanks.
This is why you're the best, Grey. You genuinely care about telling us accurate information and if you ended up getting something wrong, you explain the why's, how's, and most importantly you tell us the corrections.
You've earned your reputation as one of the best!
Comments are good for the RUclips algorithm!
Which fossil did you take?
Also Grey could have made a video about the most covered topic of them all on YT and still get loads of views because his views, ways of presenting and end products is up there among the best in the YT-iverse. In another time he would surely have been abducted by the goods.
Which fossil did you choose?
*insert some spiel about the RUclips algorithm*
"The internet will tell you really fast if you're wrong." even if you're right.
That’s not true! You’re wrong
Made my day!
@@AFrogInTheStars no you are
My 27 PhDs gave me the right to say you are totally wrong
whatever ye say, buckaroo
“The best thing about the Internet is everyone can express their opinion, the worst thing about the Internet is everyone does” - Socrates
Didnt know he revived himself to live in the internet age. Interesting
LMFAO
@@zed95 He used to go to chariot races with Twain and Pascal. Fun fact.
I always seem to miss his live streams.
"Most citations on the internet are completely mande up. Not this one though, I promise" - a talking dog
"The cost of perfection is infinite."
That's true on so many different levels. Your dad must be a philosopher.
Many dads are.
@@viviblue7277 facts man.
Think his dad is a mathematition
His dad is (or was) a lawyer.
^Lawyer.
Correcting and admitting mistakes like this are what builds the most trust as far as I am concerned. Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone adresses them.
Don't read my username.
Plus a good error addendum makes for interesting content
And yet others say they didnt make a mistake at all.
A great example of how to both admit you're wrong and examine how you got there. It's good to admit when you're wrong, but even better to figure out how you got to the wrong conclusions and how you can do better, even when parts of the process are outside your control.
I deeply respect the intellectual honesty in this video!
God bless whatever teammate of Greys editing team has been immortalized as a crayon munching drone at 2:45
as a person who's really into making animations , i see that as an amazing way to be immortalised .
Ok, but if you watch the next 30 seconds, you realize that it's the animator. They chose their own fate 😆
Luke Gerhard It’s funny that they put that little “easter egg” in there. Light-hearted self-directed jokes like that are funny. ...
... I like the animation style, animator! ;-)
And 5:42
This one must’ve hurt a lot. Grey deserves a hug, but I’m sure he’d actually feel better if we didn’t.
Idk.. it garnered him another 57k upvote video :D
I mean we should social distance. Maybe a virtual hug. As a we accept the apology.
altrag like* not upvote
There's owning up to your mistakes, and then there's making an 18 minute video explaining how it happened and why it shouldn't have.
Mad respect!
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
-Mark Twain
-Abe Lincoln (8:00)
-Blaise Pascal (17:35)
Lol, he ascribed that recurring quote to at least 3 different people.
Loved the subtle joke, Mr Grey.
Cheers.
And none of them used those exact words but as Einstein said most quotes are misattributed.
I took it as meta humor, since those two are among the most frequently misattributed authors. And confirmed at the end with Blaise Pascal.
I have it on my Wikipedia page as such:
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
- Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1656-1657), no. 16
@@Neberheim
I'm surprised there wasn't a Sun Tzu- The Art of War in there somewhere. Everyone loves to post vague war tactic quotes and attribute them to him.
...I just cant XD
Abes quote is different...
"If I had more time, I would have written YOU a shorter letter"
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"
- CGP Grey
Cancel culture striking again!
Unlike the Abe Lincoln one this one is actually true!
+Time; -Letter.
You mean video
Mark Twain... Abe Lincoln... pascal...
Grey has now confirmed the existence of a Greyverse and I honestly couldn’t be happier
Somehow I read it as GeyVerse
I want in.
what?
You mean like a spiderverse for grey? (And also when was this revealed?)
@@neumo5005 9:13
You did not already know?
I've been on a CGP Grey binge. Seriously, how did I not know about this channel years ago? These are some of the best videos on the internet.
For some more broad stories I recommend Oversimplified
Welcome to the community!
Hear, hear!
And me still feeling late on this channel while I've been here for years and years. Because yes you said it, once you know it, you really wonder how you can have survived THAT LONG without it. This question still needs an answer.
Welcome to the Grey Viewership Society! We swear it’s not a cult!
1:06 Using a fractal to symbolize the project is brilliant
Because if you look close enough it’s never ending
RUclips compression is a bitch tho.
(I like to imagine Grey's inbuilt processor is powerful enough to render a fractal at full definition - i.e. infinite)
@@lucasriddle3431 uh you click the three dots on the side and go to "edit"
@@usernamethenamed Wow I am dumb. Thank you for your help.
Internet rabbitholes are cool to read about. You read something, then something else, and boom, you're 30 webpages and 2 webarchives deep into the topic
Well. I think we found thodd1souts personal account.
I love how Grey is not only willing to admit when he's wrong but is even willing to fix what he did wrong
I mean, that’s what we should expect from everyone and it shouldn’t be seen as “omg you’re so amazing”, it’s what any decent person does.
He didn't fix Scotland.
Hating without a motive seems nice
UwU k
@@BigMastah79 What's wrong with acknowledging that someone is a decent person? Everyone needs feedback. If you want to reinforce positive behaviors, you give a suitable reward. In this case, it's the compliment.
ah yes, the differencies between Trident and Minuteman rocket engines. They gave me existential dread too
😂😂😂😂😂😂. I swear man i resepct greys hustle to respect the information. But this seems a bit too much. For a switch of names
It’s still misleading. For example, I’ve seen a channel cover the story of Violet Jessop (Check out her story on Wikipedia). In one part of the video, they used the wrong picture of a shipwreck she survived (the sinking of the HMHS Britannic). This was misleading, people didn’t notice it so the channel let it slide. It was a blunder that became a gigantic error. If everybody does this, people will believe that the MV Britannic was the HMHS Britannic and it tarnishes the history of the ships and Violet herself.
For real. Don't get me wrong, facts matter, especially in regards to history. But C'mon, man!
@@AndyHappyGuy My questions are: One, were the ships a completely different class, as in, was one a large warship and the other a fishing boat? Two, were they built in a vastly different period, as in one was a XV century caravel, and the other a XX century ocean liner? Three, do you really think the people who did not pick up on this mistake were the kind of people who would be offended had it been revealed to them? And conversely, wouldn't the people who are really into maritime history not pick up on the mistake and just correct it in the comments section for the interested few anyway, which I'm sure already happened? And finally, following up from the previous question, what makes you say it was a "gigantic error"? If it was picked up and corrected in the comments by the people who are into maritime history for the benefit of other people who are or could potentially be interested in maritime history, while the rest of the viewers just didn't care, what makes you say it was a "gigantic mistake"? Because from what I can tell it was pretty inconsequential - the people who were interested got corrected pretty quickly and unobtrusively, and those who weren't, wouldn't care either way.
@@B3RyL Yeah! What you said!
thanks for all the learning, your channel is truly wonderful
“The cost of perfection is a story for another time”
-CGP Grey
Nazsiwa Gemelas I want that story told! 😅
But what a marvelous quotation from his father “the cost of perfection is infinite.“ Being too much of that breed, I hope I can inculcate that concept into my life.
This is why I love Grey, I love seeing the behind the scenes because his whole process of researching and putting out something entertaining is what I want to do for a living. But also he's somehow managed to capture the whole journey of writing a dissertation. After getting my undergrad dissertation back from marking I had the whole "omg how did I not see this, I've been caught out" moment, my only regret being that I couldn't go back and change it. Now having handed in my masters dissertation and waiting for marking, I'm thinking about if it'll happen again and all the errors or glitches that may be in there. Moral of the story is, I love all of the TEKOI videos, including this, which I might like the most
Rosie Ann Boxall Good luck with the grading of your dissertation! :)
As someone with a glimpse into the other side of the veil, I can tell you that a thesis defence is equally nerveracking for the professors, particularly if it's a fine arts interdiciplinary degree on the theory of beekeeping.
This man holds himself to such a high standard. Everyone, please go watch the newly revised video so grey doesn't get screwed by the algorithm.
Also, something like half of it is different. It's an interesting watch, even if you've already seen the first video.
Yeah, I dont think you have to worry about a channel with over 4 million subscribers getting screwed by the algorithm.
@@ripred42 That doesn't mean that a video can't get a _really_ low amount of views, sometimes that happens.
@@TAOEXPRESS He makes 45k a month on Patreon alone, I don't think view count is such a big factor for him.
@@jiminybb Yeah, but it's not about the money. If _you_ made something that you worked on, for weeks, months, something you put your heart into, if it then just got 50k views? When you have 4 million subs? And if you only care about money, then, less views, less new people, less people wanting to donate to you on Patreon, less _money._
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." -CGP Grey
"The cost of perfection is infinite" is my new favorite quote.
😩
Amazing quote, my dearest favourite youtuber, timtom
Putting this here for when this becomes top comment!
Are horses chairs?
Hi TimTom! :D
Poor Grey, he's just out there doing his best.
Grey: Makes a small and mostly negligible mistake
Also Grey: *_Failure has exceeded accepted levels_*
Well it wasn't really a small mistake given that it was what the entire video was about. Since the video was about What is Tekoi and saying that it is one thing when it is another would be wrong. For the average audience like me it is not a big deal but if you are a content creator trying to be factual it is a huge deal, if you say something that is just out right wrong and a thing that you could have caught.
@@Mahons some humans see a big error, some don't at all!
@@Mahons i really don't care if the content he's making its true, i just want a relaxing voice talking about stuff like Grey's
@@jamesleather7524 "For the average audience like me it is not a big deal but if you are a content creator trying to be factual it is a huge deal, if you say something that is just out right wrong and a thing that you could have caught."
@@Ozukai okay
Nice to see someone take an interest in the Cold War. As a 1980s US Navy officer, I'd like to believe the reason there was less information on SLBMs was because the Navy was better about security.
Well, they were also quite a bit later to the game then ICBMS, which were even later than basic bombs, so there's a lot left that's still classified, comparatively. ;)
As an SLBM, I'm just glad to finally be getting some attention.
@@neildutoit5177 You're a missile?
I think this comment will get buried, but I'd like to say it anyway: Most of the information about Tekoi, including proposals from Hercules itself, are available via Utah's public records system. Utah uses a system named "GRAMA" on top of the Freedom of Information Act, and as such any of the state government can be issued a GRAMA request for any of their records. I was able to immediately find a PDF detailing the proposal for testing rockets (in which it actually explicitly names Tridents) at the Tekoi site. I know there's a point to stop researching, but a lot of information for these programs is retained at a state level, so it's something good to at least think about especially in the future for any "topic for another time" videos. :)
I hope grey sees this
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Respect for doing this. Our journalists and politicians could learn from this level of humility and honor.
Journalists are bound by ethics to correct errors of fact.
It's a shame though that people are so against the media these days.
CGP Grey for President? I acknowledge this is going to be hard, considering there's always been systemic discrimination against Stickmen.
This is great video! Faults can and will happen, but it needs courage to correct and dissect them as thoroughly as you did! You have earned my respect
@@politereminder6284 Hahahahahahaha. Yeah, ethics m8, cheers to that. There is no actual regulation for big media companies, theres never has been. If there ever was one, it will be labeled as "obstruction of free media". There's a reason people have always disliked media, they often are guided by profit, ethics is treated as just another tool in getting that profit.
@@politereminder6284 Susanne, ethics bind people to alot of things, that doesnt mean people follow them.
Holy moly I didn’t realise how much work went into a single video.
Meanwhile at 5 minute crafts...
@@Endeva09 "20 life hacks: #1. Hot-glue the trigger on your gun, save time on triggering"
@Izzy I didn't either, until I decided to start making simple gaming videos. It turned out I'd spend at least 2-3 hours to make 10 minute video.
I cannot imagine how much time it takes to make a CGP Grey video.
@@elleonagamingquest God, tell me about it... Unless you just record and upload with a minimum of cuts, it does take forever. I've done 5 minute videos that took 10 minutes to record and 4 hours to edit!
@@DoctorX17 right?!
"The cost of perfection is infinite." Is a freaking GREAT quote. Gosh dang!
CGP Grey: Makes mistake, goes into depression, gets back up to investigate his mistake and learns from it
Me: Makes mistake, goes into depression, *that’s it*
This is the difference between us, mere mortals, and, oh so great, Mr. Grey!
Me: worries about potentially making a mistake, skips straight to the depression without getting a chance to actually make the mistake.
@@badlydrawnturtle8484 This is your mistake.
Me, a perpetual optimist: "I'll never make a mistake!" Tries something new, makes a mistake. "Oh, I'll fix it. I sure won't make that one again." Go back to step 1.
Me: *makes mistake*
"Oops haha"
Grey is the one person who could say “I’m a perfectionist” un-ironically when asked for a weakness in an interview.
im sure that applies to his strong points as well
Interviewer: what are your strengths?
Grey: I'm a perfectionist
Interviewer: and what are your weaknesses?
Gray: I'm a perfectionist
Interviewer:....
@@TheLPcollector it really is a double edged sword.
You work to the best of your capacities and then some.
But, you work to the best of your capacities and then some.
Which usually means delays and excessive amounts of corrections and modifications, refactoring, making things more efficient and so on.
Or at least that's how it is in CS.
Well yes, but actually no. He has made bigger errors in past videos that have gone uncorrected, like the "True Cost of the Royals" video
@@TROPtastic We all err.
““If I had more time, I’d have written a shorter letter” -CPG Grey” - Michael Scott
"““If I had more time, I’d have written a shorter letter” -CPG Grey” - Michael Scott" - Jorge Goias
- Wayne Gretzky
“”””If I had more time, I’d have written a shorter letter” -CGO Grey” - Michael Scott” - Jorge Goias” - Azariah
"""""If I had more time, I'd have written a shorter letter."-CGP Grey"-Michael Scott"-George Goias"-Azariah"-Alex Cereuceta
""""""""".........""""""""" - some educated fool on the interwebs
CGP Grey: I am not the Messiah
Everyone: HE IS THE MESSIAH
I read this in a CGP Grey voice.
@@Beretsquid I read it in Brian of Nazareth voice
He's not the Messiah, he's a very nerdy boy!
That’s so religiously accurate
@@RUclips_username. true. Don't know how I missed it. ^^
“The cost of perfection is infinite” holy shit that’s a good quote
unless you have really low standards...
Also “ if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter
@@ICEknightnine Well no. "Having low standards" means you're more willing to compromise on things. Not that perfection is somehow a finite... Thing.
That's something that the head of the college at engineering at the university I attended made clear. In engineering, there's rarely a "perfect" answer - and it's often very very expensive to get that answer. Sometimes what you have to do is create a "good enough" answer - then throw in a large safety factor, just in case.
It's good, but it's not perfect
This might be the most "CGP Grey" video that CGP Grey has produced yet. And I love it.
‘’If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter’’
Grey, you attributed it to Mark Twain at 0:00, Abe Lincoln at 8:00 and Blaise Pascal at 17:35.
You did that on purpose, didn’t you? Love ya, Grey!
It was for testing the fandom, but he did not realize that his fandom will discover that it was for testing her
"the problem with quotes on the internet is that they are very hard to verify" - George Washington.
Lol
First, great username! Second, this quote has become a bit of a meme at this point. All of the people he attributed it to (and more) said some sort of a similar quote at one point in time, though none in exactly those words. So people argue about who originally said it, but it’s pretty much just an aphorism on its own, and not a direct quote from anyone.
Grey's audience pays too much attention to miss an Easter egg like that
Ahhhhh yes. This is what it's like to be a perfectionist. I don't know anything about Tekoi or making videos, but I 100% relate to this long winded explanation of thoughts, processes, and the horror of being WRONG!
"The cost of perfection is infinite."
-CGP Grey's Dad
My wife often says, "Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough."
Wise words.
Don't let better be the enemy of best. ;)
I've heard the saying "the best is the enemy of the good".
Is that true for sex too?
In my little Italian town we traditionally say "quando che và che quasi basta, lassalo stá sennò se guasta" (local dialect) that translates as "when it is almost enough, leave it as it is or you'll spoil it"😅
Casey Neistat says that too. That's a huge motivation for someone like me.
"How do we know ANYTHING is true?"
Hits too hard.
Or you watch too many Matrix
Which is why we forget about it and move on, it is a very dangerous mind germ
@@cleoking6312 Even if we arent real, that doesnt change anything. What is "real" its just a description of the things we call "real" so as long we ceep calling things real, they are, because we define them to be
@@sdrawkcab_emanresu i agree 100%. We are real, my feelings are real, my experiences are real, but to those who are afraid of this thought germ tend to let fear cloud their judgement. It isnt very surprising considering irational fears dictate most peoples lives, mine included with my fear of heights. To me that fear that nothing we know is real is just as irational as my complete hate for anything involving heights no matter how safe it is.
The better question that you actually want to ask is “what should it take for me to believe something?” Then try to be consistent.
"Violently disagree" Didn't hear that since Yes, Prime Minister.
“Yes Prime Minister”. Didn’t hear that since “yes Chef”
Sapere, have you heard of current events in Belarus?
I hear that daily, especially now.
Ah, Prime Minister... It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes has not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials. And it isn't so it wasn't.
@@vxi441 Ah shit, it's "differs violently". It's even better than I thought.
Also "from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability"
"The cost of perfection is infinite"
I'm not sure if this is a blunder or a clever easter egg, but the graph showing that the cost of perfection is infinite at 17:18 has the axes swapped.
If that graph were correct, the cost would be asymptotically approaching a fixed, finite cost, and the "amount of perfection" would be infinite.
Fixing this would mean either swapping the axes or else swapping the shape of the curve so that on the right side it gets nearly but never quite flat--vertically never quite getting to (let alone exceeding) "perfect", but with cost increasing forever.
Personally, I choose to believe that CGP Grey made a clever, clever commentary on the unachievability of perfection.
Nice catch! I was too mesmerized by the quote itself.
Congratulations, you ve found a glitch
Why we love CGP Grey: He makes a 20 minute video instead of simply pinning a comment with the heading "MISTAKES:"
"That would require a lot of time" -Edison
A 20 minute video... with new custom animation.
Honest to god his hyperactive OCD be worse than mine 😂
I don't think there's anything wrong with that either
@@ethanomcbride I think we've instantly become friends. Should I bring out the Ceremonial Measuring Equipment?
People: Hey that's wrong.
Others: comment "yeah, sorry. Should've caught that."
CGP Grey: **breathes in**
*What is true? dimension portal opens*
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1.2 million views later, the $$ makes it worth his time
Vuntedum Vsauce music plays
@@Ricoxemani or does it? after all, what _is_ the Vsauce music?
Lol, “Wendover Airfield”
So that’s why he’s always talking about planes
As soon as Grey said it I was like, "wait, what?"
That channel is soooooo good. I now know so much random crap thanks to it.
I had to pause the video and check the comments to see if anyone else had noticed!
Two nouns when put together is about half an interesting as being apart.
Wendover Productions for the unaware.
I come back to rewatch this video every time I'm stuck on some research problem. The way you break down "at this point in the discovery process, I could have done this and found that" over and over is unbelievably helpful. Thanks so much!
The best part is Grey chiding himself for saying "story for another time" because he knows some pedant is keeping track of how many stories are due.
Please post this list, pedant
I don't have it!
Some pedant: Write that down! Write that down!
Some of us (pedants) understand and respect boundaries.
I'm still waiting on the free will video after all these years
I had to google who actually said the quote. If you’re wondering, it was Pascal.
All of them said it at one point, but Pascal is the oldest copy. It's very possible that multiple people came up with the quote independently. We have no way to know which of those people read Pascal's private letters.
@@NOVAKza not exactly pascal translated to the exact qoute while everything didn't
he talked about pascal at the end so I kinda saw that coming
haha same
@@NOVAKza That would actually make it fit much better with the video, representing how similar things could happen in much more subtle ways
"if I had more time i would write a shorter letter" - CGP Grey
We can add him to the list of personalities that said this quote.
None of which were Mark Twain.
what about "If I had more time I would write a shorter script"?
@@GrokLau
In a video that mentions things ballooning out of control?
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv yeah
My favourite quote...
Quoting a famous smart person on the Internet will make you seem intelligent. - Socrates.
Hello, CGP Grey. I know you probably won't read this, since this video is a year old, but I might as well share it anyway. Your channel is one of my favorite channels because your way of explaining things in such a simple way is absolutely wonderful. Your videos are always interesting and I can basically understand everything about the videos, with few exceptions. You genuinely care about sharing accurate information, and I love that. You have an extraordinary ability to cover complex topics with simple explanations and simple visuals without oversimplifying.
Please make more videos, I really enjoy them.
I think what Extra History does with it's "lies" episodes is a pretty interesting way to approach mistakes. They make an entire episode discussing the things they got wrong, or might've gotten wrong, and also discuss some of the things they didn't have time for.
They also discuss things they exaggerated or outright lied about for the sake of making the story more interesting, since historical records tend to have a lot less attention to detail than they give, and for it to be interesting assumptions and embellishment needs to be made.
Spicy notion! Grey should find a way to use it
Wouldn't that require Grey to publish more than two videos a year?
Extra credits*
@@dcoulter2685 Extra History is a series from Extra Credits.
Wait a minute... so, are members of Grey's team real humans or artificial intelligence programmes?
Yes.
Correct.
A.I controlled human
Clearly they are all prototype eve robits from wall-e.... duh...
The were real humans...not anymore.
Grey being a former teacher has a higher standard for his lessons and presentations. I feel like we're all his students
We are.
And yet this video was made because one of us had something to teach him. He really sees education both ways and I think that's a wonderful thing.
@@cedarsapling absolutely, I agree
"Top Sneaky" 🤣 I'm going to use this from now on instead of top secret because it's so good.
when the live chat is member only but the comment's are open:
poor gang unite
True
Woah, are those the elite people that pay for RUclips premium? I thought it was just a legend.
same
@@gus7814 no, it's people who support Grey on RUclips kind of like Patreon.
Amen brother
My grandfather used to tell me “Everyone else’s job is easy”.
Goddamn this elder knowledge hittin hard today
KingSlimjeezy it really do be hittin hard
Damn right!. Mine also used to say, "they need to pay you because the job sucks"
supporting you!!
"Grey is so legendary he put a correction in his correction video" - Benjamin Franklin
I was mere moments away from making a major life decision based on the assumption that Tekoi produced land-based missiles.
Thank god I saw this first!
And as CGP Grey once wittily quipped: "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
I knew someone would notice this.
Wait, I thought Mark Twain said that first. Kappa
No one said it.
Blase Pascal wrote in French and his direct translation isn't exactly that, though it is a fair approximation. Many, many people have expressed similar sentiments since. "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" may, in fact, be a CGP Grey quotation.
If I wrote a shorter letter, I would have less time
I did appreciate the fact that he used the quote twice, once with the commonly used yet incorrect author and the other with the accepted originator. Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Oh, I didn't know you actually had a proper team now. Good for you! I remember a video you made ages ago about how you couldn't POSSIBLY employ someone to help you with these, but that kind of mentality puts such a major strain on a person. Glad you're getting some other hands involved, especially with the insane amount of work that these videos need.
I love how he casually mentions he has an existential crisis at least once a month, then moves on like nothing ever happened.
Who can say that the crisis did not create a new form of existence? Self-doubt can be transformational in many ways, and cause ... thinking. [this comment was transformed between thinking and publishing time, and its prior content is no longer allowed to publicly exist.]
Honestly, it sounded to me like my PMS 😅 Like, when I have my monthly existential crisis, I know I probably need to make sure I stock up on painkillers etc because I'm gonna need it soon 😆
We all do, don't we?
Is that not how you deal with an existential crisis? Pfft, amateur.
Having a monthly existential crisis is just a part of the human condition, in all fairness.
0:00-Mark Twain
8:00 - Abe Lincoln
17:35- Blaise Pascal
This is ether an amazing joke or Grey has finally lost it.
I dont get it, can you explain?
@@famuraii. This whole time he was talking about how he said something that wasn’t true and he contradicted himself, he than said he would never do it again. But through the video he said that quote 3 times and each time he said someone else said it. He said he would never make an informational mistake again and the he made one.
That’s when I said that he ether made a good joke or he does have a problem
@@randomknowledgeperson2872thanks for explaining it so kindly
@JC4crs no thanks to you
@@famuraii your welcome. I know the internet is mostly toxic so I might as well fight it.
In the era of "alternative facts," THIS is the antidote. Grey is an excellent role model for the level of accountability and humility we need to demand of ALL public figures who talk seriously about facts.
Absolutely true. This is how you show to the world you are a person of integrity. And it's part of the process. Nobody comes from a long line of expert RUclipsrs. It's easy to forget that RUclips is less than 20 years old. The fact that catastrophic mistakes so rarely pop up is a testament to the hard work of everyone involved in the process.
Ryan Maze - Wholeheartedly agree!
disagree, actually. if everyone was as rigorous as grey so much less would get done. perfectionism is admirable but it isn't efficient
Man, you absolutely rock.
As a researcher, I'm really impressed about how you manage to produce amazing quality content, yet even go the extra mile to admit errors when you make some.
That's one of the basics of our job (would really love a vid about popper BTW), but we are all human and let's say that not all of us manage to do it even part of the time.
If anything, it just confirms how your channel is top tier quality and how even though I'd really love to get more vids from you guys, your dedication to long, serious and due research is at the core of your consideration.
Doesn't take must to tell people you're right, takes huge ones to admit you've been wrong. Kuddos from France.
I liked how he started with “as Mark Twain once said” and ended with “as Pascal once said”. Nice little touch
Lincoln In the middle
@@ChocolateMilkCultLeader Is that a spin-off of Malcolm in the Middle?
I don't like it
As someone who didn't grew up reading those people, can anybody please enlighten me?
CheesecakeLasagna Grey jokingly attributes the quote to Mark Twain incorrectly in the start and corrects himself at the end as a funny parallel to the mistake in the Teiko video that he corrects. There’s also the joke that if you don’t remember who said a quote, it was probably Mark Twain
"The cost of perfection is infinite."
..... I'm stealing that.
too late I already have it
Yes, incredibly wise words.
...the perfect crime.
@@RKroese But you can't afford the jail time if you get caught...
M2
"maybe a story for another time dON'T SAY THAT"
Grey finally acknowledges all of the other "stories for another time" that have since been buried by time.
((still love his work tho))
Don't read my username.
Suggestion: A RUclips channel with all the CGP stories for another time
Oooh good point!! Maybe we can vote on these
@@hydrogenatom4624 The sad pointless attempts at getting attention..
@@gatedrat6382 I don't think that 27,000 channel views and 450 subscribers is exactly pointless.
Grey, I feel you deeply. As a research publisher, I get the gut wretching feeling of being wrong. Respect for the thorough revision. YT showed me your channel and I'm hooked.
Even CGPgrey's "I'm sorry, I made a mistake video" is better scripted, researched, produced, and more entertaining than 90% of whatever crap the history channel is showing this week.
Welcome to newscorpse media
*100%
Absolutely!!
And the CGP extended universe grows!
Now we’ve got the mistake creatures, the What is True Dimension, the grey helper bots, etc...
Good lores
"The cost of perfection is infinite"
As a young, amateur novelist, I couldn't summarize the pain of creation any better. When I write a novel, I start off happy and ambitious, trying to pour in every emotion that I feel, every imagination that I have formed in my head. At this stage, fixing errors and making sure that everything works out as a masterpiece seems easy. I feel like I can write the next Lord of the Rings.
After some time, however, the painful realization comes in. Past the ambitious opening that you've designed, I begin to see the obvious plot errors. The emotions begin to get clunky, and the characters begin to look like my automatons rather than living, breathing people. At first I try to supress these feelings and painstakingly work on it anyway. Yet as time goes on, I begin to hate it. Hate the abomination that I have created. Hate myself for investing so much time and effort (cost) into perfection, but all I have made is stupid junk. When that hate reaches the breaking point, I suddenly quit writing, and betray the readers with an unfinished story. I have not ruined one, but three incomplete novels this way.
After watching this video, I am thinking about returning to my first ever ruined story, and develop it however bad it may be. Not because I am able to bear the infinite cost of perfection, but because creating something is enjoyable and rewarding, no matter the level of significance it carries.
So I sincerely thank you, Grey, for helping me learn this lesson.
I wish you luck!
Thanks! Currently working on it right now :)
@@hyunsungjung4941 and remember, you can't succeed without first failing to learn from it. Accept the failure, dont shy from it. I do hope you eventually finish your story my guy
I know that feeling(not that i'm a pro writer, just a novice who has read some from a pro and wright some for youtube) but don't be to hard on yourself. I would recommend a book: The anatomy of story(from John Truby).
Maby some help with the structure before you write your first draft is just what you need.
Good luck and have fun writing your novel!!! :D
Thanks for everyone's kind words! Will definitely read that book :)
“i find it harder to finish a project once it’s out in the open”
the reservations video:
Mr. Grey, your self-flagellation over this error is simultaneously adorable and commands an abundance of respect. Most 'legitimate' news and/or edutainment sources just put a correction as a brief flash within the original video itself (or worse in small print at the end of an article or in the credits). You sir, stood on your soap box and screamed to the internet "I was wrong, here's why and here's the real info!!!". If someone still thinks this site was for minuteman missiles, that's on them. Short of hiring a private investigator to individually track down everyone who saw the original video, you have done everything in your power to make the correct info known. Well done.
Hmm... I think... Grey is going to hire a private investigator to individually track down everyone who saw the original video. An army of investigators.
this comment is written so delightfully :D
"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about Trident missiles?"
Funny how he goes on and on about a fairly irrelevant error like this, it really affects no-one what missiles were tested in an abandoned facility, but is happy to leave up his pretty much entirely incorrect royalist propaganda video which claims the royal family makes the UK money. The video is massively incorrect having believed lots of royalist lies and is referenced constantly by royalists who want to push the same lies and helps keep the royal family mooching money from UK taxpayers.
@@OktoberSunset If so, may you please write a sufficiently to the point letter to CGP Grey explaining how he is mistaken. If you supply the facts and references I would hope he could listen. If he doesn't listen, then at least you can say you tried instead of just dissing him on some comment section.