Deus Ex Human Revolution score is legendary 🔥

@@thebookofive wish it wouldn’t be treated like this, so much of a better cyberpunk game than Cyberpunk 2077 😢

Thank you!

My headcannon is that the smaller ones used to be regular drones, before the drone priest converted them.

sadly most wood is from cutting down old-growth forests, and then replacing them with tiny baby invasive saplings

Pyro's video came out while this was in production, so just a happy accident

Thank you for watching! I love SOMA so much, I don't think I have plans to cover it specifically in the foreseeable future, but it might come up here and there in other essays. Also Jacob Geller and RagnarRox have great videos on it ("Head Transplant and the Non Existence of the Soul" and "SOMA: The Philosophical Zombie" respectfully).

@@thebookofive Oh thanks for the recommendations, will check them out!!

I'm really glad I was able to help you get out of the creative rut. Thank you for watching!

What do you suggest should be revised exactly?

@@thebookofive **infrastructure**, stuff like hard number about human waste management, recycling cycle, production chain, all the stuff we take for granted but are abstracted by capitalism. All these solar punk dream start were those thing are taken cared off magically, especially at scale. The fact you ask despite me clearly pointing to the term: 'infrastructure', is the problem, you aren't able to see the elephant in the room, which enabled by another invisible elephant, industrialism. How else you would get those fancy high tech renewable contraception, with the local craftsmen? If so, how are you going to do it without taxing local resources if available, that's a big if, resources tend to be very localized, good luck finding the lithium to power these clean electric machine. Resources availability is an artifact of current capitalist structure, because the main power of this system is abstraction of sources and scaling efficiency. Solar punk is not a goal, it's an aesthetic, not a practice, that's the problem. Most experiment that look good are really just green washing the future, because those who works only do do because parasite the current system, for example there would be nothing to recycle if the current system didn't produce them, so basing a whole experiment on the fact you can go back to the closest city for basic services, like they often do. Ironically, the most practical solar punk system are being by rich tech bro who want to go to Mars, which is sterile in every way, as it mean building practice of completely self sustained system you must be able to create from scratch, without any industry. Which highlights another elephant in the room, labor. The reason that solar punk animation was made by a big company is that they could leverage the resources they have to coordinate a vision, then affect the resources to create that vision and ultimately use that vision to funnel more resources to them, IE an ads to sell products, the power is that's a 'virtuous' cycle of gaining resources as a practice, solar punk not being a practice doesn't have any virtuous cycle that's actionable, it focus more on the dream than the reality. We need an appetite for practice and evolving them, not an escapism full of rules of cool, because that's only serving capitalism.

I do agree that we need more practical answers, though I'd ask you to not assume what I can or cannot see. Here's the thing though, solarpunk is a genre of fiction, and as such it's main goal is to provide critique, explore ideas and the possibility space (which is the foundational premise of this entire video), same as any other fiction. I don't think anyone would've asked sci-fi writers of the 20th century for the actual working blueprint of an FTL drive. Do I agree that we need to have actionable ideas? Hell yes. And maybe there are answers for some of those questions already. The goal of fiction isn't to give you the answers straight up, the goal of fiction, any fiction is to make you care enough, that you will find the answers yourself. Also, solar punk as any genre isn't set in stone, so if some parts of it aren't covered in the current works of fiction, doesn't mean they won't be at all.

@@thebookofive fair, but the argument is that fiction is how capitalism self sustain itself. It's a distraction into escapism to make the capitalist reality easier to cope with. Because capitalism is a structure of resources access, trying to enact solar punk fiction is just furthering capitalism. Still the bottleneck is chipsmithing, if we get to bake sufficiently good micro chip in a kitchen, that future will happen organically in some way. We don't need solar panel, we can use solar heat with low tech such as steam or Stirling engine. Which mean energy need are covered at individual scale. Human waste are compostable. Which mean food can be a virtuous cycle with good hygiene practices. Especially with vertical farming type of ideas. It abstract local pressure on nature, because any farming mean displacing whatever human find nuisance. And it allows to occupy place that would be more sterile. 3d printing and alike bring industry into the home and or the community. So really the missing link is abstraction of knowledge and labor, that's AI. IE we need to be able to make chip at home, this will lead to abstraction of labor at the personal level. IE remove dependence on capitalism as access to good and services. Ai disrupting the job market is a good thing in the long term, as jobs are the main engine of capitalism. Without job, there is no money, without money there is no capitalism. Ai is a productive technology, that is, it replace the function of capitalism. Money is access to good and services, if ai can produce by operating farm and personal factory like a 3d printer, there is no need to have money to access good and services.

I'd disagree that AI is a good thing, and I'd argue that seeing it as such also plays in favour of the capitalist model. Silicon Valley tech bros and VCs generally don't care about the consequences of their actions and by the time the consequences become apparent they either reinvent the wheel or run to their mars colonies or underground bunkers. You can see it already in the recent Sam Altman's statement that "owning a piece of their "AI" will be more important than money" (whatever that means). Capitalism isn't an issue of technology, it's an issue of perspective. And I don't think it's worth it to wait for some technological silver bullet to kill it, especially when waiting means thousands if not millions of people losing their livelihoods. Not to mention the fact that capitalism is perfectly happy absorbing everything into itself. You mentioned 3D printing, and while I'm not part of that community I've seen people in it express frustration to how commercialised the space has become in recent years. On the topic of fiction, yes it can be a tool for escapism, but it's not its sole purpose. It can be a way to get people interested in alternative perspectives, find community or explore ideas in a safe environment.