I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good

[@TomScottGo]

I should clarify that by "out of ideas", I mean that I've only got enough to last me until the end of March, or maybe the middle of April if lockdown eases. The way I work, that's close enough that I start to get worried.

[@hamfrog9893]

Pinned comment made hours before uploading, as usual

[@Sohamsta]

😂just upload your videos with longer intervals between each than usual to give yourself more time to gather ideas /film more maybeee

[@ByronHawk]

Hi

[@alexandraryverah6397]

Great ideas!

[@imabot4815]

Ok

[@ResonantRTS]

Please, i beg you. Find a cliff that refuses to be a cliff.... im sure he's out there somewhere

[@MarkLindsayCNC]

If it helps any, my middle name is Cliff, and I refuse to answer to it. It wouldn't be much of a video, but there ya go...

[@jabezcrisp7899]

It is, it's in Norfolk, and it's now the receding coastline...

[@nerdhomestead]

Landslide

[@fruffy3220]

I'm calling your bluff. There's no cliffless cliff out there

[@EuanBCFC]

*Holderness says hi*

[@pogglefishii6807]

“The British road that is also a boat” actually exists in at least one place in Britain since the Woolwich Ferry is considered to be part of the North Circular Road.

[@tforlee2955]

That sounds perfect

[@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan]

And there was a British moon program (spoilers, it didn't happen).

[@StraveTube]

This is getting scary.

[@HunterHunter150]

Wow this is actually a great video idea

[@yogesha4727]

This comment has to be in the top

[@Niccolonic]

"The British Road that is also a Boat" sounds exactly like a Tom Scott video about some sort of ferry that has a street name

[@haroerhaktak2613]

Or a road that lets people drive over water.

[@cactusguy4363]

Or a street called the S.S. something or other.

[@PatheticTV]

@@haroerhaktak2613 Where do you draw the line between a bridge and a very long boat? Hmm

[@Niccolonic]

@@PatheticTV one is attached and the other can pick up and move around. I do like the idea of an ambulatory bridge though

[@haroerhaktak2613]

@@PatheticTV A bridge has things in place to prevent you from just doing a 90 degree turn and deciding the ocean is your new home. Majority of roads don't care. So as long as it doesn't have any railings or protections in place, it's a road not a bridge. If you were to define a bridge as simply taking you over something else, then technically every road is a bridge.

[@lamialua26]

The "white cube at the end of the world" would actually be proof that this entire planet was modelled in Blender, and that its author forgot to delete the default cube before releasing it

[@goatyqt4553]

The UV Mesh is insane back here in Canada. I don’t know if it is for the rest of the world though, but I’m happy they rendered every detail even in the middle of nowhere.

[@populistscum]

the skybox is bugged out in the UK. it's always completely gray.

[@goatyqt4553]

@@populistscum Damn back here where I live they forgot to turn off their geometry nodes animation so the forests have been getting eaten by caterpillars for like 20 years.

[@confusedaxolotl7833]

I would like to direct your attention to, "Orbis et Globus," on the tiny island of Grimsey. This island is north of Iceland and functionally the end of the world in that direction.

[@kennethwardingley9209]

God must have one hell of pc set up in order to render this much detail

[@AlRoderick]

"Please drive carefully: Village is periodically invisible."

[@omri9325]

It becomes invisible every time you blink, prove me wrong.

[@aightbet164]

Ooh

[@travcollier]

Reminds me of the invisible cows of Maunakea

[@sewerside01142]

SCP

[@devilspride8694]

Anyone who visits the village will [REDACTED]

[@mikan1546]

Okay but "The Cliff that Refuses to be a Cliff" does sound exactly like a Tom Scott video title...

[@burntchickennugget191]

Wouldnt that be an aroading mountain side.

[@PianoKwanMan]

When is a cliff not a cliff?

[@macmann57]

very true

[@sageinit]

It's about quadratic-hyperbolic functions (hyphen, not en dash!), clearly.

[@TheMegaxPlus]

I imagine that the video would be of a infamous cliff that isn't considered a cliff due to legal shenanigans Ngl I would watch that

[@tobylittlejohn8827]

For reference, the "strange light in the sky over Oxfordshire" is called the moon.

[@tusharmaharana3373]

sun

[@clockworkpotato9892]

Waluigi Dominus.

[@jahredharrison4069]

If you think you've seen the "moon" or something similar to it, I'm afraid I've got bad news: You're in Oxfordshire and have been all along.

[@gubx42]

Considering the English weather, the unlikely appearance of the moon may indeed seem strange.

[@rachelknapp7271]

😂

[@one_smol_duck]

Hahahahahaha I love "The beach where you can hear the sea." If nothing else, this AI could produce top tier shitposting.

[@g6a0912]

The road that was made for transport The water bottle that holds water The home that holds people The train that moves The fan that spins

[@GameGod77]

The city with a million lights

[@daooffibonnacicats8247]

@@g6a0912 l

[@emocrab7545]

@@שחראטדגי-ד4ו that's called ~being deaf~

[@mattschumacher4581]

@@שחראטדגי-ד4ו a beach on a lake

[@theblackumbrella4257]

Tom: Im running out of ideas Tom: Oh, that gives me an idea

[@richardpike8748]

Boom, writer's block has now been solved

[@Joshlama]

Tom: I've done the idea! I'm out of ideas 😪

[@Norsilca]

Of course, Tom Scott's gonna be the exception to the rule that writers writing about writer's block isn't interesting.

[@schmid1.079]

"Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff, but the Cliff refuses to be a cliff."

[@aronrouzaut]

This is the second time I laugh so loud after reading something online.

[@adilmohammed6897]

"Badam stsss"

[@kezkai]

Ha!

[@NestorCustodio]

A+ callback!

[@LukeLockwood]

This comment right here 🙏

[@mulgerbill]

Time to revisit an old idea with a modern twist ""Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff that refuses to be a cliff""

[@kenet7877]

Banger comment, sir/madam/human

[@TheLoopyTiger]

@@kenet7877 Maybe they're an AI?

[@yt.lilsantee]

@@TheLoopyTiger Maybe YOU are an AI :0

[@Big-Chungus21]

Bad dum ts- the fabric of reality falls apart as reality refuses to be real.

[@mulgerbill]

@@TheLoopyTiger it seems odd to bestow intellect on a bundle of vague sensory perceptions

[@FromJustJ]

Regarding "The British Road That Is Also A Boat", I direct your attention to the SS Badger, a ferry in the US between Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI that is officially a part of highway US 10.

[@zeroyuki92]

Soo what's the history of it, I genuinely want to know

[@Brave_Sir_Robin]

Ah but it isn’t British 😩

[@jimslim4227]

A pontoon bridge is boats that are also a bridge if that counts.

[@moochoopr9551]

Why did I imagined "a highway road built on a ferry which acts as a bridge of a highway"...

[@Eliasstatis2341]

This is amazing

[@tparadox88]

"Welcome to Lofthouse. Please drive carefully, some buildings are invisible."

[@brandon3883]

Given that there's already a sign that says "Please drive carefully", if someone decides to go off-roading here I think they deserve what they get(/hit).

[@LordOceanus]

"The green Death and the Industrial Revolution" Actually that sounds like it may work referring to Scheele's Green which killed many thousands of people though arsenic exposure when it became the most popular pigment in Britain.

[@chrispictures]

Or the old pea soupers.

[@2ms2]

Like the AI, we also look for patterns.

[@gunnerkobra]

This should 100% be a vídeo.

[@LordOceanus]

@@2ms2 Its what the Human mind does best

[@mothratemporalradio517]

@@gunnerkobra i would totally be here for it

[@kevinhodge7450]

"It's all farmland" Sounds like a Russian utopia to me, comrade.

[@JJAB91]

Not accurate to reality. Needs move government workers taking the food by force and leaving the farmers to go hungry.

[@noytelinu]

You may be right Ranma. Perhaps Ryoga can visit it there one day by accident.

[@oliverrawnsley2655]

sounds like the whole of East Yorkshire...

[@Telamon8]

(Rostov Oblast liked this comment)

[@fireaza]

Da! We will be growing many of the potato!

[@That2J]

I would love Tom to make one of these “alternate reality” videos for April Fools every year

[@vincentweaver6038]

"April fools is a curse and we should abandon it." - Tom Scott

[@Fsast9707]

Like geography now does

[@22oreos]

Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

[@tornadotaylor8956]

You mean similar to how the future prediction ones are?

[@Kuino]

honeslty same

[@Erstus]

"The Green Death And The Industrial Revolution." Actually makes a lot of sense. There was a specific green pigment used in the wallpapers during The Industrial Revolution that contained arsenic. Search "arsenic in wallpaper". Also I think it's also not too weird to have a road that is also a boat, just look for bridging boats.

[@thegreatoutagesign9204]

so, a ferry?

[@lincolntrains2639]

@@thegreatoutagesign9204 Not necessarily, the British army has a vehicle called the 'M3 Amphibious rig' Which is essentially a big truck that also floats which can be joined to another truck just like it to form a bridge across a river during a wartime scenario. Note that the British army is not the only country to use these vehicles.

[@nitehawk86]

How about a pontoon bridge? There are a pair of floating bridges in Seattle that carry I-90.

[@CharlesAmericanus]

And Aircraft carriers, wow good points!

[@dorabrooks76]

Iirc, arsenic green was also used to dye clothing, poisoning a bunch of people around the same time as the wallpaper...

[@catsayswut7097]

"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" is a title that I would totally expect Tom to make, so well the bot really is on something

[@h-Films]

I agree

[@petterjy5047]

Tru

[@abbofun9022]

A sanddune on the Dutch coast possibly?

[@zetahurley294]

I can imagine a cliff that TECHNICALLY wasn't a cliff legally, like how there was that period where NASAs definition for a moon technically didn't include the moon. And then the definition of a cliff changed but there was a Rockslide of something that shifted the cliff and made it still technically not a cliff

[@HomeTownAdventurers]

I volunteer to play myself!

[@isaacmcmanus3666]

The word you are looking for is Hiraeth, it is a Welsh loan word and is nostalgia for something you have never experienced.

[@bfcraft87]

the meaning of hiraeth isn’t: homesickness from a place you can’t return, or that never was?

[@Col_Mustard]

@@bfcraft87 well, etymologically, nostalgia does mean homesickness. So both concepts are quite similar.

[@manskken]

i was about to comment this!

[@ycylchgames]

@@bfcraft87 It doesnt translate properly but it means longing for something, usually it's been used to mean a longer to return to Wales but technically it could mean a longing for anything.

[@DatBisa]

The welsh have their own word for Vaporwave? Wild.

[@RoseAbrams]

Today, I asked ChatGPT to make a script for the "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death" episode of Top Gear. It went perfect, and consisted of him surviving races in six cars with various life-threatening faults.

[@caav56]

Can you release it anywhere, please?

[@RoseAbrams]

@@caav56 I didn't save it. But you can just make one yourself, ChatGPT is free and a prompt could be like "write a script for an episode of Top Gear titled..."

[@CinemaDemocratica]

I did "The Cliff That Refuses to be a Cliff" and it's friggin perfect. I also stretched out a little and did, "The Day That Richard Nixon Crashed a Cow."

[@manfail7469]

this would actually be a sick idea for an episode, the guys draw straws to drive different cars in a race, one with the steering broken, one with failing brakes, and one with a sticking throttle before racing them

[@Klick404]

One of the cars is just driven by Hammond

[@kalvaxus]

"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" sounds like such a British video.

[@Bruno-cb5gk]

Or it could just be a really boring video about a guy named Cliff who changed his name

[@be9concepts]

"Cliffs are shaped through erosion and weathering . ... As the notch increases in size, the cliff becomes unstable and collapses, leading to the retreat of the cliff face. The backwash carries away the eroded material, leaving a wave-cut platform."

[@genericname8727]

@@Bruno-cb5gk I want that video tbh

[@Ermude10]

I'm disappointed that the AI didn't give the suggestion: "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good"

[@mermaidismyname]

I once asked an ai to write an article about AIs writing articles

[@outspade]

@@mermaidismyname wr

[@Kellexyz]

@ExDeeXD Music wr

[@harrietjameson]

@@Kellexyz wr

[@JoBot__]

@@harrietjameson wr

[@SwitchAndLever]

"There was no Russian utopia!" That sounds EXACTLY what a Russian utopia would like you to believe!

[@maxsmith8196]

Russian utopias usually refer to themselves as that, but it’s actually just millions of dead Ukrainians

[@falconJB]

"There was no Russian utopia!" is the counter to every Russian philosopher.

[@jimbob3332]

It's in the Polyhedron outside of the village, but only kids are allowed inside.

[@sageinit]

Soviet Unterzögersdorf is real, don't believe the lies

[@pvtpain66k]

INVISIBLE VILLAGE!

[@vs5210]

5:24 I asked ChatGPT for an English word for "nostalgia for a thing that could never have existed" and it gave me "anemoia", a word coined by John Koenig in 2012 for his "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". It's been two years since this video came out.

[@batabids]

isn’t that a disease or something

[@beyondobscure]

Nope it's true@@batabids

[@ThatOnionispog]

thats anaemia@@batabids

[@batabids]

@@ThatOnionispogmy bad

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

I want "The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff" video. It would obviously be about a cliff that is carved out by the sea but keeps collapsing back into a sloped bank.

[@ajaxrosso1]

Funnily enough also in East yorkshire

[@Rebar77_real]

That reminds me of the way the Niagara horseshoe falls are carving themselves up river.

[@justrecentlyi5444]

It could also be a video about Cliff Richard

[@Chewierulz]

"The Strange Light that Floats over Oxfordshire" I know it's very cloudy in the UK but surely Brits know what the moon is.

[@elylozada9576]

Underrated. Thanks for the chuckle.

[@higurro]

Of course we do; we landed there

[@end3rzl33t]

Maybe the AI is simulating a drunk Brit that's giving suggestions? 😜

[@ninjadudeofficial]

But the moon isn't a light? Or are we saying 'close enough'?

[@xhafts]

@@higurro britain never landed china did 🇨🇳 we are saving world and do most for space exploration out of all country

[@TehJimlad]

You should have saved 'the beach where you can hear the sea' for april fool's day

[@thebiglightbulb1457]

Exactly

[@user-mq3um5iu2q]

let's hope he's saving an even better one then!

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

[@ivanzoric2405]

Look up Zadar Sea Organ , it is from Zadar, a city on the coast of Croatia. :)

[@Felixr2]

@@DrWhoFanJ Replying to a bot means their channel name and link will stay here even if the comment has eventually gotten enough reports to get deleted. Also, it makes the comment appear higher up in the comment section for the period before it gets removed. Just report and don't interact with them, that's the best countermeasure.

[@peterfalconer]

As an artist who creates parafictional histories, I'm delighted to see that AI might be coming for my job, too. It's nice to feel included.

[@disnagburnazog9552]

rofl

[@elhopper3735]

Lmao

[@alejjtheninja5803]

Ah yes, the thought of being redundant also fills me with glee.

[@mattchamp1541]

Don't worry, for my honors I built a robot that draws actual art, so we're also coming for that

[@cecildesist]

Parafictional histories? I’d love to see some of your work! :Dc

[@smoche]

“The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.” Looks like _someones_ having an identity crisis

[@yriafehtivan]

Cliff Richards?

[@alexhando8541]

If you think about it, all cliffs do that

[@Hans-gb4mv]

The AI that refuses to be an AI

[@8draco8]

What if it's about cliff made out of sand that is quite fast turning into beach. That would be definitely cliff that refuses to be a cliff especially if people would try to somehow prevent it turning into beach but failed. Like "Fastest collapsing cliffs in Skipsea, Yorkshire" - google it, it's actually a thing.

[@OrangeC7]

@@Jack_The_Ladd If there were a language where pronouns changed based on last name then this sentence could actually make sense Edit: The comment I was responding to has been mysteriously deleted

[@割]

isn’t the “Cliff that refuses to be a cliff” kind of a throwback to “Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff” since that wasn’t actually a cliff you threw them off?

[@jaredkennedy6576]

That would be interesting with current version Tom Scott.

[@123457474869]

That was most certainly a cliff

[@割]

@@123457474869 it was not a cliff, if you watch the park bench video you tom states that it is not a cliff

[@kathybramley5609]

If someone mentions a post joke badum tss or drum and cymbals explicitly... Well, it might eventually become like my (or rather young Mr Scott's) version of rickrolling. But it's not there yet.

[@therealbeanbot]

@@123457474869 specific name

[@floydhebert3684]

I need to see “The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff” and “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” immediately

[@travdump209]

Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death is the Venn diagram of Top Gear and Top Gun.

[@billul1]

Bottom Gear live action

[@Hans-gb4mv]

That second one might be coming to Amazon Prime Video soon 😆

[@ridingtothegrave]

I need the white cube

[@8draco8]

I think Jeremy Clarkson Lottery of Death is a thing but only Hammond is playing

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

I wish you had hit the “write script” button on Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death

[@andrewbrown464]

I can hear the theme song now...

[@calblack4156]

Sometimes my genius its almost frightening

[@ringoferrer2343]

This is the deadliest lottery *_in the world_*

[@Elmojomo]

MOAR POWER... pardon me, I meant to say.... MOAR DEATH! - Jeremy

[@grantflippin7808]

Spoilers

[@mr.nerd3.142]

“Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” broke me. Because it legitimately sounds like something that could happen.

[@Never_Or_More]

I'd watch it.

[@PlebNC]

Clarkson: This is the deadliest game show.... IN THE WORLD.

[@hhhharis622]

I would watch that

[@KuK137]

AKA "who that imbecile will drunkedly punch next for no reason"...

[@lewisbaitup6352]

@@KuK137 i mean it would be very rare to get punched by jermery clarkson

[@snipars]

Will you tell us when we're watching the video that the AI predicted?

[@maxwellpriore3579]

maybe the AI predicted this....

[@majorfallacy5926]

Which, for many people, will be an AI-written video, suggested to them by an AI

[@rorynator7567]

snipers

[@elevown]

yup please do.

[@ST3PF0RD]

You are the reason I learnt how to edit videos.

[@GadgetAddict]

3 years from now we'll find out all these videos were created by AI and poor Scott has been locked in a goop filled pod.

[@user936]

Before we too find out we're in goop filled pods, 4 towers over.

[@AlbertScoot]

@@user936 My goop filled pod is crap. There's a pandemic worldwide, I caught the virus and recovered with minimal issues but the world's still f-ed.

[@user936]

@@AlbertScoot just keep playing the game til everyone else wakes up - shouldn't be too long now ⏳

[@avnishshrivastava2272]

Claim just in case this happens I was here before ticket here

[@Michael_Pereira]

Sounds like something an AI would say

[@thescaredshadow]

Couldn't "The green death and the Industrial Revolution" be about how the Thames River was so horribly polluted before indoor plumbing or how Paris Green was used in common stuff like clothing and paint was extremely deadly.

[@zappababe8577]

Ooo, that's a really accurate observation!

[@MrToradragon]

Or maybe about green wallpapers that used arsenic fot that vibrant green ant it really had killed several people?

[@theKobus]

"green death and the industrial revolution" is a very Caitlyn Doughty topic

[@watchm4ker]

​@@MrToradragon That's "Paris Green". It was marketed under a dozen different names, but the pigment compound is copper(II) acetoarsenite

[@jamiewindsor]

There's no word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed as far as I know, but the word _Anemoia_ has been coined to describe nostalgia for a time you personally have never experienced.

[@Liggliluff]

Welsh has _hiraeth_ at least, _"a deep feeling of yearning for a home that cannot be returned to, no longer exists, or never was"_ English has a close connection to Welsh, so nothing wrong with borrowing the word. Maybe respelling it to "hirythe"/"hirighth"

[@brauno3539]

German author Walter Moers invented a word in a book, I am currently reading (Princess Insomnia). Its called "Niemalsweh (combination of never and wanderlust): It is like wanderlust for a place you will never get to, because it does not exist or exists only in your imagination" (Otherwise there is no german word for it)

[@TheFaro2011]

Wow , that's me for the 70s

[@gerontion1011]

Hauntology and Nostalgia for Lost Futures according to Mark Fisher

[@iamlooktoyou]

what about deja vu?

[@swookang2575]

I really wish to read the generated script for "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"

[@박소영-b4h3q]

Who doesn't?

[@BD-yl5mh]

POOOWEEEERRR!!!

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

Yes

[@Phonixrmf]

Jeremy: I just bought the Lottery of Death. Still... could be worse

[@MiguelLuna1]

I would watch it

[@Qubrof]

"The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution" sounds like a fascinating look at the use of the arsenic-laden Paris Green pigment in wallpaper in Victorian times, and how it started to fall out of use around the turn of the century.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

oh YES

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

Combine this with the famous pea-soup fog caused by “sea-coal” burning & you’ve got gold (or arsenic).

[@sarahkay4765]

thats rlly interesting. I was just thinking the title referred to the pollution/damage the industrial revolution caused to its surroundings.

[@mirjanbouma]

It wasn't just Scheele's green though. Arsenic compounds were used in a lot of things and not just as pigments either.

[@ThePixel1983]

I wonder why it fell out of use...

[@HeidiBird]

Omg, it's adorable that you asked the AI using "please" at the start of your request. You are definitely one of the few people who are going to survive the techno-apocalypse because you showed the machines respect from the start. EDIT: and then this took a scary and sinister turn when you mentioned the possibility of AI generating customer reviews etc...

[@Caparo479]

Tom standing on a beach and astonishingly saying "I can... hear the sea." That truly broke me

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I could watch that whole video.

[@megatheinternet]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2:10 do it, I dare you

[@DevilboyScooby]

"And *that* is something that you might not have known."

[@chancesmith116]

“The Strange Light over Oxfordshire” that’s just the moon, Tom.

[@Shanoyu19271]

lmao

[@zane_sadauskis]

are you sure about that?

[@wendimunson844]

Heck, it could possibly even be the sun. Yes, I know, not very likely

[@PolarBear-rc4ks]

Ooh not heard of that one? Whats that about

[@benford1726]

Based on the posts on my towns Facebook group, it's probably a helicopter

[@palestine2795]

"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" that killed me for some reason. Sounds like a video you'd actually do

[@WeaselKing1000]

It's certainly 'The Other Tree That Owns Itself'-adjacent.

[@prezadent1]

I like the animator that refuses to animate.

[@tobyparker6239]

"GPT-3 is the worlds most powerful Bigotry generator." Oh great, now I'm going to have AI calling me newly invented racial slurs like i've just entered the worlds most creative COD lobby.

[@JooJPC]

"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" seems like a story that could be in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[@erufailon4723]

A planet of sentient geographic features has to exist somewhere in H2G2's universe, this is my headcanon now

[@blindleader42]

Or Discworld

[@annap697]

Yesss!

[@SD1fruitbat]

I was thinking something more along the lines of "Worlds Most Horizontal Cliff!"

[@eefneleman9564]

@@SD1fruitbat You mean like... a beach? Where you can hear the sea?

[@mattpinkerton6562]

Petition to create a new channel called Tom Bott which is just full of these fictional stories

[@carlnesterud5638]

Tom Sbott

[@ceruchi2084]

It can be an even more sci-fi dystopian version of his tales from a future series.

[@citywitt3202]

Imagine the parallel universe where he’s making these videos already, where this video is about finding ideas that are real and ditching AI...

[@olasdorosdiliusimilius2174]

@@carlnesterud5638 Tom Sbeve

[@nicky2575]

Oh YES

[@stevenbridges]

I like how you put the text over the video to say it’s fictional, just incase someone clipped it and used it to start a weird conspiracy theory 😂

[@benholroyd5221]

Well there's already a Wikipedia page.

[@hygo64]

@@benholroyd5221 I need a link!

[@csweezey18]

@@benholroyd5221 Link needed!

[@benholroyd5221]

@@csweezey18 You have trust issues As Helena Von Hahn said "There is no religion higher than truth" But then you are the Antichrist. and i'm an atheist.

[@dragonrykr]

Linkkk

[@wyvernlad13]

5:21 There is a word, it’s Anemoia. It’s defined as a feeling of nostalgia for a time you didn’t experience, whether it be vicarious through someone else, for a time in the past, or a time that didn’t happen at all. Another similar word to describe the feeling is Ringlorn, defined as the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the ones depicted in old stories and folktales.

[@LeifNelandDk]

Some ABBA songs give me that feeling. E.g "Our last summer" I never walked hand in hand along the river Seine, but it feels like I have when I hear it.

[@colinmanning9080]

Hire an artist to animate these “parallel universe” stories that are narrated by you with the script created bythe AI. Call it “Tales of the Multiverse”

[@vesperin5172]

Good idea, but it wouldn't actually teach you anything, so I don't think he'd do it.

[@jayturner5242]

Would make a good second channel. Tom should wear Green in them

[@juliusnepos6013]

This sounds rad

[@radekchrabota]

@@jayturner5242 woah, that's a bit extreme, I mean can you even imagine Tom wearing green?

[@kaelanirevyruun1676]

Sounds too generic. A better name would be “Chronicles from the Alterverse” xD

[@saumitrachakravarty]

"The Beach Where You Can Hear the Sea" sounds like the title of an indie movie.

[@tempest_dawn]

Just tweak it ever so slightly to "The Beach Where You Cannot Hear the Sea" and it's even more so.

[@harryganz1]

@@tempest_dawn so that could be a Tom Scott video. There are lots of those in areas which were covered by glaciers in the last ice age. As the glaciers melted it caused the continental crust to rebound, lowering sea levels and pushing things that used to be by the ocean up hill. There is a cool cobblestone beach with sea cliffs on Day Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine (U.S.).

[@revimfadli4666]

Or a botched translation of an anime title or more likely, Chinese film

[@rexfury485]

Or indie game!

[@xtodoubt9919]

Some sort of dystopian book about the last real beach

[@AlbertGenower]

“Jeremy Clarkson’s lottery of death” sounds like a mortal twist to the next series of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

Doctor Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

[@MattTester]

@@PanAndScanBuddy Certainly fits in with the laser death Weakest Link they did in 2005.

[@mariegreedy6176]

Steaming site make this.. Shutup and take my money.

[@ZakB96]

ahahah

[@kokofan50]

Sounds like a care show where a participant has to do some deadly car stunt randomly selected by lottery.

[@meiguess6765]

I like how the sound of the car going by at 7:09 corresponded with the sigmoid curve in volume and emphasized the dramatic change that can occur in technology

[@AlexPushkinChannel]

parabola not sigmoid

[@PremiumCheeses]

I was hoping somebody else noticed this, it felt dramatic in a way nobody could've ever expected or predicted

[@Baconator1368]

the sound of the car roughly follows the derivative of the sigmoid curve, not the sigmoid curve

[@jaytheman5386]

@@AlexPushkinChannelthanks for spreading misinformation

[@proloycodes]

​@@Baconator1368since when did cars have their own cars?!

[@josipcuric8767]

"The british road that is also a boat" isn't that a ferry??

[@luzcro7345]

Or a bridge that floats freely on some river

[@B-M.B]

@@luzcro7345 and there is actually a bridge wide enough for cars build on floating Pontons..

[@NotADoctor558]

Yep, the SR 520 floating bridge in Seattle. I'm sure that's not the only one though.

[@blunderingfool]

There’s a modern rope-ferry in use in (I think) the south of England. The water flows too fast for a regular ferry to operate.

[@kkmac7247]

@@NotADoctor558 Seattle, my favourite place in Britain

[@aydenkron2254]

“The British road that’s also a boat” and “the cliff that refuses to be a cliff” are both titles I would expect to see on this channel honestly

[@altaccout]

"The British road that’s also a boat" sounds like a permanent pontoon bridge. Maybe this pontoon bridge moves up and down a river depending on where the bridge is needed.

[@unitrader403]

@@altaccout Or alternatively some River which has huge changes to the Water Flow/Depth, and also the Ground wont support a proper solid bridge (and/or the traffic is so low that it would be too expensive)

[@rushi5638]

Or just, you know, a ferry that's listed on some map as being part of a roadway.

[@nekomatafuyu]

"The British road that's also a boat" to me conjures up the idea of a ferry crossing that has been issued a road designation. That actually sounds like a plausible idea come to think about it.

[@arinkhandelwal]

'the British road thats also a boat' sounds like the description of an aircraft carrier

[@OuroborosChoked]

Tom Scott: I'm out of ideas. Also Tom Scott: ...that gives me an idea!

[@davidwickline9710]

AI, I know what we’re gonna do today!

[@davidwickline9710]

@@שחראטדגי-ד4ו That would be IA, common mistake

[@Twentydragon]

Only Tom Scott could turn "I'm out of ideas" into an intriguing video.

[@AllanLimosin]

Tom Scott: “Do you have ideas for videos?” AI: “Talk about you asking me ideas of videos” 📈

[@StoriesByDighe]

STONKS

[@kennarajora6532]

I know were all joking around, but could you imagine if that actually was the case? I'd have a much different opinion of where neural networks are at the current moment.

[@devinweston8983]

Takashi brothers: feel the power of the rotary

[@StormTheSquid]

@@Spibidydkdushusbwns Please tell me where I can access this. I need reference images for things that can't possibly exist for my art projects. Also is there a way to convert thoughts into words? I need that as well so I can stop being mute half the time.

[@kennarajora6532]

@@Spibidydkdushusbwns I Haven't seen it. But thanks for telling me about it, it's really interesting.

[@dreadangel3752]

"The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire." Isn't that just...the Moon?

[@e1123581321345589144]

it's a beacon left by the secret British moon landings.

[@citywitt3202]

Or the ego of some overenthusiastic professor who worked to build the Russian utopia in Yorkshire.

[@rationalagent6927]

That's no moon

[@FallenFlak]

Or the sun

[@Venentine]

Yes but don't tell anyone in Oxfordshire, it's very funny watching them get excited about it

[@GamesFromSpace]

"Parastalgia." I checked google, and this is apparently a new word, but it has been used as a moniker.

[@PuppetSquid]

I quite like " La nostalgie du possible" too

[@z-beeblebrox]

I like it, because it's both a logically accurate prefix (para- meaning outside of/abnormal, both of which work) and it also evokes the word "parallel" as in "parallel worlds". Additionally it removes the root for 'memory' (the "nos" part), which makes sense because it's describing things which by definition we'd have no memory of.

[@EcoCurious]

I like this, I'm going to start using it if I ever get the chance!

[@tiko4621]

Anemoia is another way I’ve heard this feeling described.

[@z-beeblebrox]

@@tiko4621 Except "anemoia" is nostalgia for REAL events that you never took part in. It's a small difference, but I think it's an important one.

[@popkittycat]

5:16 Anemoia, is a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

[@thedewberry_6399]

The cliff that refuses to be a cliff: A story of Europe's fastest eroding coast line, the Holderness coast

[@infernalsquid]

you my friend are a psychic

[@redmoon6796]

that's genuinely good wow.

[@TheRatLiker]

Lucifer in a nutshell

[@xidarian]

It really nailed the titles that seem to be oxymorons on the surface.

[@RealHypeFox]

“The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution” is either a Panic! At The Disco song or an Irish documentary.

[@jeffbrownstain]

Why not both?

[@biscuitty]

The Green Death, the Doctor Who story, is about pollution and coal mining, so it is intimately connected to the Industrial Revolution (the birth of which featured in another Doctor Who story).

[@nominis4523]

"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" actually sounds like a Tom Scott video

[@steve1]

I think it might be a channel 5 documentary about a guy called Cliff who looks and sounds like Cliff Richard but refuses to be a look a like and instead pursues his dream of breeding tropical fish.

[@countertony]

At 7:12 and onward, well done (whether by accident or design) for having the 'whoosh' of the passing car sync up with the steepest point on the sigmoid curve.

[@2-Way_Intersection]

"the strange light over oxfordshire" would be an amazing april fools video. like it's just you talking about the sun like its some wierd historical light and not, yknow, _the sun_

[@unflexian]

It's giving dihydrogen monoxide and I love it

[@kjn3350]

To be fair, it would be strange if the sun were out over Oxfordshire.

[@nicholassullivan6105]

"The white cube at the end of the world" This could work for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole.

[@pattheplanter]

Or the sugar cubes in a tea shop at Land's End.

[@chloeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

.... oh my god yes

[@drumkommandr9779]

Or Svalbard, for that matter

[@anch95]

"Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death" The loser rides with Richard Hammond.

[@alxwlsh]

No, the loser has their knees smashed in with Clarkson's arsenal of Hammers.

[@UltraMaXAtAXX]

Oh no! Anyway.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

[@snoozieboi]

But is it the most deadly lottery .... in the world?

[@SettyAngle]

@I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! bot

[@mineral66]

2 years later Chat Gpt 4 has come out and is talk about everywhere. When I saw the video 2 years ago I didn't expect it to become so big. Even I use it at least 2 times per week.

[@Overflow066]

GPT-3,5 being free is a godsend

[@jellyrolls2765]

When I heard "The Dream of a russian utopia in east yorkshire" that legitimately started ringing vague memory bells in my head. The power of suggesting something plausible is so strong

[@aarons8711]

To be fair, England and America were breeding grounds for experimental utopian societies during the great awakenings- you might have heard about them if you studied US history in America (it’s part of AP US History) Hell I wouldn’t even be surprised if a few of them were Russian 🤷‍♂️

[@coinsilver3]

Disney actually tried to do that in florida.

[@nikitaavdeev9681]

Arise proletarians of Yorkshire against the bourgeoisie

[@Allan003]

I don't recall what it was called, so take this with the understanding it could be wrong. However, I know in western Canada there was a Russian (CCCP, respectively) sponsored township. It was an experimental idea with it's own self governing leadership. I believe it was in the 1950's, in Alberta or British Columbia. Though, in the America's it is not uncommon for settlements of people from one nation to still exist with little to no influence from the country they are in.

[@Cruxador]

Well, the AI references the internet for its sources so there's probably something which is true that's more or less similar to that story - though clearly not where the AI said it was.

[@MrMessiah2013]

Humble suggestion for nostalgia about things that never existed: '"not"stalgia'

[@aliciacordero7436]

I like it

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

Dave Gorman did something like that.

[@rufushb3872]

The dictionary of obscure sorrows has a word for this. Anemoia - 'nostalgia for a time you've never known'

[@Lc-vv8dw]

how about Yesstalgia

[@LilliD3]

@@rufushb3872 that is not the same thing

[@rincallinen7312]

5:05 I just want to appreciate this specific art. It’s my favorite out of the ones here.

[@real.bingus]

“Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is genuinely the most unexpected and funniest thing I’ve heard in a while

[@AnimeSunglasses]

And disturbingly (read: uproariously) easy to imagine now that it's been suggested!

[@IPooopdogl]

The show will only consist of cyclists and tv producers

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

Tonight, I try rehearsing a new game. James inconspicuously dies, and Hammond lives to see another hat.

[@tylerburney8576]

I’m so upset that it doesn’t exist, if someone mentioned it in passing I would be 100% convinced it was a thing.

[@parisbtw5779]

@@jeremynewcombe3422 t'n'b'g

[@real.bingus]

Okay, now I want to know the script to “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death”.

[@_badger_9902]

One would think it be called ,,Richard Hammond's Lottery of Death".

[@kubaantonin5694]

@@_badger_9902 Under rated :D

[@danielperales3958]

Available on Amazon Prime Video XD

[@generalkenobianimations]

Who wants to be a millionaire, with a DEADLY twist... Coming soon, "Who wants to live?"

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

just wait until GPT-4 comes out and give it that title lmao

[@jpobi9880]

This video should be titled: "Tom Scott discovers the 'Fiction' genre and wants to switch jobs".

[@elsanicceleste4753]

Actually, Tom videos based on fictional themes would be great

[@jpobi9880]

@@elsanicceleste4753 I agree.

[@potatoeyboi]

@@elsanicceleste4753 I agree.

[@confused_cactus7697]

@@elsanicceleste4753 I agree

[@rebeccama7672]

@@elsanicceleste4753 I agree.

[@nosville22]

There is a word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed. "Anemoia". The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a great resource for broadening ones vocabulary.

[@dafoex]

The DofOS makes up words (or takes new meanings for new loan words), so you can only really call it broadening your vocabulary if the words they invent enter broader use. I'm not saying its a bad resource, I'm just saying its also not an entirely credible one.

[@nosville22]

@@dafoex I know this however this particular word entered my vocabulary and I have indeed been spreading it. I do hope it enters the broader consciousness

[@jackreid2664]

More nostalgia for something that you never witnessed but I see what you're getting at. Hireath is another similar thing that can imply the non existence of the something you are longing for.

[@steffahn]

I need a generated script for “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.” right now!

[@Zack_Wester]

Im writing it of as a classification issue and pure old stubbornest.

[@CircuitrinosOfficial]

Here you go. I gave GPT-3 this prompt. Please create a monologue script for a short, factual KZbin video titled "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff": Title: "The cliff that refused to be a cliff" Script: And it generated this: "This is a story about a cliff that refused to be a cliff. The cliff in question is the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland. It's a very popular tourist destination. But there is a bit of a problem. The Cliffs of Moher are actually a series of 20 foot high limestone stacks, not a true cliff. But for hundreds of years, the story of the Cliffs of Moher has been that it's a cliff."

[@dave220]

@@CircuitrinosOfficial this could easily be a tom scott video

[@codemovie]

@@CircuitrinosOfficial not all heroes wear capes

[@banana_man_101]

@@CircuitrinosOfficial The Cliffs of Moher are real! County Clare is real and *THE CLIFFS ARE IN COUNTY CLARE*

[@vickymc9695]

"Hiraeth" in Welsh means nostalgia for something that no longer exists or never did. :)

[@unneccry2222]

i wanna be irish now

[@vickymc9695]

@@unneccry2222 why, do they have a similar word?

[@bitjules]

That's wonderful

[@pattheplanter]

I knew I had heard it somewhere. Could I propose an English word? Mythalgia.

[@LocketShoru]

The history of the word 'hiraeth' refers specifically to the time before Wales was colonized by England, not knowing what it was like (because the English colonization meant that little remained in the way of records) but yearning for it regardless of the likely hardship that was faced. So it doesn't apply here, but that's about as close a word as we're going to get! :O

[@judebedessem4101]

7:14 That car in the background had excellent timing. Right on cue

[@yaboi7239]

damn you right

[@matthew9677]

So good you don't notice

[@HI-hx6jr]

All of the cars passing had good timing for whatever reason

[@bombyman84]

Around 1:17 there's a good timed car too

[@Bobsmith-xq2pr]

I think he timed it, quality video making by tom

[@Dracinard]

"Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death" The new series of Millionaire sounds like a bit of a change from established formula, but I'm here for it.

[@seraaron]

There's a word in Welsh - hireath - which has no direct translation, but which can be described as 'nostalgia for a place that you cannot return to, or for a thing which never existed, or which you have only ever dreamed of'. I think this is more or less the word your looking for, and it's a lot more poetic than some cruddy portmanteau.

[@Rukathesoldier]

How is that pronounced?

[@Monochrome_math]

@@Rukathesoldier Somewhat like Hi-re-a-ff. (Yes th has a ff sound)

[@EmsionProductions]

@@Monochrome_math I don’t think the TH is a FF sound in Welsh. I think it’s just as you see it, TH.

[@Monochrome_math]

@@EmsionProductions No. Thats incorrect. Some letters like th, ng, ll (yes its one consonant letter even if it is written like 2) have completely different sounds than one might expect in welsh. Any welsh person can confirm this.

[@theinternetlemon2856]

@@Monochrome_math Again, th is not pronounced f anywhere in Welsh. I am a Welsh person and I can confirm what @EmsionProductions said is true

[@davisdesigns1153]

The Onion: *Write that down!*

[@oktemsk7174]

Whos that

[@cringe511]

@@oktemsk7174 It’s a satirical news channel, if you watch some of their videos you’ll get the idea

[@dubiousmoonpie6155]

@@oktemsk7174 you gotta watch their stuff from 6+ years ago tho. That’s where the gold is at

[@panhandlesomen]

@@dubiousmoonpie6155 *anonymous hero donates 300 kidneys to a hospital*

[@matthewhrenchir2977]

Remember to check out the next season of *Sex House*!

[@LittleDergon]

The gravity defying mountain sounds like a type of cliff that confused geologists because through the calculations, the rock should have slipped or broken off and their not sure why it hasn't

[@tightiefenbach3429]

You mean it’s a cliff that refuses to be a cliff?

[@LittleDergon]

@@tightiefenbach3429 more like a cliff that refuses to NOT be a cliff 😁

[@samsowden]

@@LittleDergon it could be an overhang that would become a sheer cliff if it ever got round to collapsing.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

The algorithm is really keen for us to look into something.

[@robertmartin2867]

“Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is the title for the upcoming British remake of Squid Game.

[@EmsionProductions]

“Hiraeth” is a Welsh word for that exact feeling. “Nostalgic longing for something that never was”.

[@Asha2820]

Anemoia

[@ovni2295]

@@Asha2820 I hope this is related to the Anemoi of Greek mythology!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@Asha2820 Yep! Well found.

[@theinternetlemon2856]

As a Welsh speaker, I'd say 'hiraeth' describes a feeling more like longing for something you've lost; something that isn't there now rather than what was never there

[@Sidnoea]

I've heard the term "not-stalgia" suggested before.

[@AngryKittens]

The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire. "Is a moon"

[@TomOConnor-BlobOpera]

Nah, it's a space station.

[@RogerEverett]

@@TomOConnor-BlobOpera I have a bad feeling about this.

[@SD1fruitbat]

"a moon", not 'the moon'? What is it you're not telling us?!?

[@rdablock]

it's His Throne

[@thescuffedchannel6052]

@@TomOConnor-BlobOpera oh no

[@photovoltage]

Tom, you've been entered into Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death for saying Wigan Pier is in the Midlands

[@IslandlifeIoW]

I felt a shiver through Orwell’s spine!

[@isaaclee-mort]

I came here to find a comment like this as a Wiganer myself

[@SophsNotes]

It's Wigan North Western not Wigan West Midlands

[@RicardoSanchez-es5wl]

Wigan doesn’t exist

[@haggler]

@@RicardoSanchez-es5wl I’ve never seen a pie, have you?

[@AeciusthePhilosopher]

"The strange light over Oxfordshire." You mean that thing that's visible during cloudless days?

[@RainaRamsay]

XD

[@therealbeanbot]

I heard some people are calling it “Son”. I think they’re getting too attached to it.

[@Business_Skeleton]

Cloudless days? Don't be ridiculous

[@KuchiKaeschtliTV]

cloudless? you're telling me the sky isn't normally white? what kind of mystical color does the sky have then?

[@palapafox1268]

Ah yes, British humor

[@xtreemgamer129]

7:20 the sound of that car passing by lined up so perfectly with the graph animation it feels like it had to have been planned

[@muhammadriedhoramadhansyaf5086]

Underrated comment

[@Fireplasm21]

It felt like a sound effect for the hand wave. Such perfect timing.

[@Patterrz]

Secret British Moon landings? The Empire rises again

[@BulbasaurRepresent]

GLORY TO THE EMPIRE

[@carstorm85]

Sounds like the premise for a video game!

[@IlluminatiBG]

If we knew about those, they won't be secret, wouldn't they?

[@somestupiddudewithayoutube4676]

The colonial invasions part 2: electric boogaloo

[@maciek_k.cichon]

oh, H.G. Wells wrote the novel about it in 1901, and they filmed it 1964. Good show!

[@MoeAndTekila]

tom really is the kind of person to read the full terms of service

[@dypteseu]

"Lost village of lofthouse that is now invisible" Well, guess we know where the writers of Wandavision got their story

[@Gstrangeman96]

Now that I think about it, given how formulaic, yet disjointed and confusing, a lot of movies are these days, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them were straight-up written by AI, and the "writer" credit is just some guy that knew someone looking to score an easy cheque.

[@EE-sw3uh]

@@Gstrangeman96 Im not saying there aren’t shows with more original premises, im just suggesting that you may have set the bar too high if you think that wandavision doesn’t even reach it. It’s not the best show ever made, but it’s certainly not the worst

[@npc6817]

Please someone edit "the beach where you can hear the sea" into a stand-alone episode

[@Monosekist]

“The British Road that is Also A Boat” Ok so an aircraft carrier.

[@eXcalibre_]

Moving bridge?

[@SerenaBluee]

BOAT is also Byway Open to All Traffic, a type of UK road classification.

[@misham6547]

A ferry? Wow, I actually kind of guessed it somehow

[@m1co294]

@@misham6547 a RO/RO ferry to be exact

[@olibob203]

technically a runway

[@donofdeaths]

Anemoia: a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

[@mayeejun]

The ones that can't be made because they're not true are begging to be April Fools content for the next x years.

[@matthewparker9276]

It's really only a month from now. I hope the ai is already writing a good script.

[@BaldMancTwat]

I think AI will put The Onion out of a job.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

[@kala_asi]

@@matthewparker9276 even if the ai doesn't do a good job, we can all enjoy the Parker square of a script it would produce!

[@musicbyella3769]

The one about the mysterious light above Oxfordshire, esp. bc the art looked like it was literally just the moon

[@chocolateorange]

Glad to know that Lofthouse was in fact not invisible.

[@indextron2388]

It’s crazy to think that the whole argument of, “if you don’t want your job replaced by machine you should be a writer or an artist” is now about to become invalid

[@yanDeriction]

AI absolutely will produce entertainment better than human artists. For example combining all the best writing techniques to produce a perfect story tailored for a specific person Art-art is the only AI-proof "job" because many forms of it require authentic experience. An AI could produce the exact same thing as a human artist and it wouldn't be as valuable because it didn't come from a person

[@wheedler]

It's crazy that that was ever an argument. The value of art is in the interpretation, not the creation.

[@beangorl7005]

@@wheedler I agree completely. Like having ai generation as a tool to aid in art creation would be amazing. Imaging the convience a digital artist would get from an ai that could cross reference your own art and shade/render a piece after you sketch the base

[@rogeriosousa3558]

Now only the people that code the AI and the philosophers will have jobs , if AI of a car HAS to decided beetween the lives of the driver and the lives of 2 people on the road who shoud it kill ?

[@closerer2712]

@@rogeriosousa3558 how about AI that codes AI

[@hackman-hackman]

Watching this in 2023 and it is crazy how far this has come.

[@zhuofanzhang9974]

Props to the driver at 7:17 that made the sound at the same time as "the world is changing". That's some serious serendipity.

[@PinkishPlant]

Wait it wasn’t edited in?

[@AhimtarHoN]

TIL a new word "serendipity", thanks