Paranoid Aliens

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Thank you everyone for all the well-wishes and congratulations on Sarah & I's engagement! And don't forget to vote in the current episode topic poll :)

[@goldensimp7729]

Can't wait till the mini-Isaacs come along to and make their own channels. Imagine one of 'em making a Fantasy world science channel, one with a conspiracy nut channel and maybe an Anime/cartoon science channel. ( It would be funny to imagine, but I know you know better than forcing anything on your hipothetical children)

[@tariqahmad1371]

@Isaac Arthur congratulations on your engagement! Hope you have a happy life! Also would you do a video on herd like aliens like the fithip from "footfall" or the BearCows from "the lost fleet" series ?

[@iainballas]

Woot! Good for you two! No funny comments here, just a heartfelt congratz!

[@TreyNitrotoluene]

Congratulations! My toddler is waiting for the playdate on mars!

[@tamasmihaly1]

When I was a kid I watched Sagan. Now I watch Isaac Arthur. You are something else, man! Signing up to Curiositystream just for Nebula. Thank you for this. Your videos make me feel young again.

[@NomisCasio]

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” I was so expecting this quote! Great video, once again.

[@jinxedsphinx3600]

Hyperforma - that’s a well-known quote by Joseph Heller and then I think Kurt Cobain popularized it

[@antonyborlase3965]

I am not paranoid. I know you’re after me.

[@billyguyl]

D

[@tarekwayne9193]

Territorial Pissings

[@johnnydept4082]

Kurt Cobain

[@SocksWithSandals]

"Clawed its way up Darwin's blood-soaked ladder". "Darwin's four billion year deep corpse pile" was a tough line to beat. Keep going, Isaac. I want to hear a macabre Darwin analogy in every episode 😜

[@jerrysstories711]

...or a fart joke. Either one.

[@WokeandProud]

Well Darwin himself said nature is red in both tooth and claw, nature ain't nice by itself we have to make it be nice too us.

[@WokeandProud]

@Yaroslav L True, but it took us a long time to get there and even then we still faced trials from nature. Such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, drought, plague, ice ages etc. It's only in recent times that we've just started getting a handle on these things and we still have a long way to go.

[@WokeandProud]

@Yaroslav L True enough, but mastering these things would go pretty far in increasing our overall quality of life.

[@saamohod]

It's funny how all these Darwin references sound like Darwin himself is to blame.

[@reinux]

"Hypocrisy is no rarer than paranoia, and they often hang out together."

[@databanks]

Indeed, I think the very same every time I see some Q-anon, flat earther, antovaxxer etc nutter make a post

[@MrAndrew535]

@IL NGR Evil as the term is generally used is a matter of perspective. It could be quite convincingly argued that evil is what the ignorant would practice if they wisened up.

[@greygoo5319]

9 paranoid aliens thought this video was about them.

[@quazar5017]

Maybe, but maybe those 1361 are the real paranoid Aliens, who try their best to stay undercover.

[@kevincrady2831]

"You're soooo vain, you probably think this vid is about youuuuu." :)

[@VelvetKitsune]

@@quazar5017 Shoot busted.

[@eds1942]

Because it was about them. Want did they do to deserve this? This is exactly the reason why they stay hidden. Now those few who have been here under guise are going to shell up somewhere for the indefinite future. Thanks.

[@annoyed707]

They didn't just think that, they knew it all along.

[@kevincrady2831]

Aliens: "If there's anyone out there, they'll want to eat us! HIDE!" Humans: "...To boldly go..." Aliens: "THEY'RE HEEERE! AAAAAAEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

[@napoleano2748]

lmao!

[@tach5884]

If the aliens are in *that* universe they should be more afraid of STDs than being eaten.

[@kevincrady2831]

@@tach5884 lol!

[@thomas.02]

Tinfoil hat on: what if the ‘asteroid’ that wiped out the dinosaurs is a relativistic kill missile

[@CharlesFreck]

They knew the dinosaurs were getting too powerful. Dinosaurs made the pyramids

[@Divine_R]

Chicxulub was an outside job!

[@SanvelloSerapiega]

@Sheldon Robertson the "fuck up" was so a paranoid alien species would have plausible deniability.

[@entropicflux8849]

@EVERYBODY&EVERYTHING IS EXTREMELY AFFRAID OF ME!!! if you can't navigate morons without abandoning kindness, maybe you're the slave?

[@tuttifruity1130]

@Sheldon Robertson IT WAS HUGE NOW VERY SMALL DUE TO NUKEWARS THE SURROUNDING PLANET ARE THE DEBRIS AND LAYERS EVEN THE NAMES WERE CHOSEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THESE WARS (PLUTO-PLUTONIUM - URANUS - URANIUM) AND THERE ARE MANY MISSING VAPORISED PLANETS AND STOLEN LAND MASSES AND ISLANDS.

[@maxk4324]

Alien armada commander: has the Earth reconnaissance team reported in yet? XO: yes sir, but...theres an issue...a big issue Commander: what issue could there possibly be? We are 20 million years older, have weapons they couldn't even understand, and free access to the abundance of space. XO: It seems, sir, that they've been preparing to fend of an invasion. Commander: Our invasion? XO: No, any invasion. It seems that they've had their best and brightest minds conducting and documenting endless war games where in they get invaded or taken over or confronted by various or multiple alien threats that they have to then subvert, overcome, and destroy. Commander: How many are involved in these war games? XO: All of them sir....almost the entire species. They have integrated it into society as a form of entertainment, sometimes written, sometimes spoken, sometimes through recorded audio visual performances. It is so prevalent that the entire endevour accounts for a not insignificant portion of the world economy. Sir, our first three alternate invasion strategies have been predicted and countered in these war games already. Commander: send the report and some samples of these war games to the terminal in my quarters. *4 hour later* Commander: Dear gods these people are savages! XO, get us the fuck out of Dodge before those monkeys start taking pot shots at us with ICBMs!

[@leiffitzsimmonsfrey1272]

@098765 Craper Yeah, we'd need a nuclear-pumped laser to have much of a chance against any interstellar-capable craft.

[@vipondiu]

Ahhh yes! I'm not particularly interested in the Fermi Paradox but all these pure-logic-soaked episodes are really enjoyable to me precisely for that level of deduction and reasoning!

[@davidroddini1512]

“You can wreck the galaxy from the comfort of your own home” Great now any aliens watching have even more to be afraid of. You just reminded humans that they don’t have to leave earth to be a threat to alien races.

[@tach5884]

But where will we get the Blutonium?

[@b1laxson]

They're not paranoid when some of us really are out to get them...

[@BlueArcStreaming]

I can see an alien galactic civ with a cultural streak of paranoia due to their own experience and history, perhaps in their past encountering another civ in which terrible catastrophic things happened.

[@vlweb3d]

*2:04** - Well ... someone's cheeks are gonna get clapped.* lol

[@yeager1957]

For the pirate video, please say “Yar har fiddle de dee, being a pirate is all right for me”

[@UnitSe7en]

I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance, I want to be a pirate in the Pirates Of Penzance. Wear my silver-buckled slippers and my tight, shiny pants. I want to sing and dance!

[@cobinasaur]

I'm imagining him saying that now.

[@FrankFrankly711]

I always was intrigued by the alien threat in Greg Bear's Forge of God/Anvil of Stars books. They were so paranoid of any competition that they sent out Berserker probes to destroy any advanced lifeforms.

[@Clone683]

Scientists: "Yay, we have made first contact!" Aliens: "We are the Borg, you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile" Scientists: ...

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

@@battmann5083 UFO claims disappear cause everyone have a camera phone.

[@Thefreakyfreek]

aye we fucked up big time

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Batt Mann And even the few that showed up have either very normal explanation or are badly faked.

[@InuranusBrokoff]

Jean Luc Picard: "Hold my tricorder."

[@gammaraygem]

ELOOOOON!!!...HELP !!!

[@merbst]

*Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't all out to get me!*

[@m.campbell3405]

I said it on FB but one more time. Congratulations!! Now you need to start having kids to populate the Dyson Swarm and all the O’Niell Cylinders.

[@theuncalledfor]

The O'Neill cylinders are part of the Dyson swarm, why did you mention them separately...

[@1988thefreeman]

Idea for an episode. "Sexy Aliens"

[@1988thefreeman]

@bryan diaz varela 🤣

[@SailorBarsoom]

A sexy alien is an alien somebody finds sexy. Seeing as *anything* and *everything* is sexy to somebody, somewhere, I submit that *all aliens are sexy.*

[@lilahdog568]

@Sailor Barsoom honestly I would fuck almost any humanoid alien so long as it was female. It doesn't even need to be super sexy. I just have nothing better to do. Lol

[@realzachfluke1]

bryan diaz varela oh my god LMFAO what is wrong with you?! I’m just kidding, that was pretty clever 😂😂😂

[@realzachfluke1]

lilahdog 568 it might help to try human females first, just to make sure you’re ready for female aliens, y’know. But also, what if male aliens had parts that were human female-like? And what if you could hardly tell the difference between the males and females of said alien species? Still have to be female? 😉

[@seanvolk4202]

5:55 “clawed it’s way up Darwin’s blood soaked ladder” classic!

[@colonelgraff9198]

Thanks for the bonus episode Isaac!

[@shawnmckernan2277]

How about an episode about scientific philosophical explorer aliens. Species who are confident enough in their own tech to ensure survival and either reproduce very slowly or have chosen to never or rarely reproduce and hence have little interest in expansion and colonization. Their primary main interest being travelling and meeting new life and learning the mysteries of reality. Perhaps you could call them benevolent nomads.

[@tamasmihaly1]

Being paranoid is very adaptive. I can testify to that. Say what you will, but one thing they're not is complacent.

[@seraphina985]

One could argue that paranoia and complacency are something of a continuum right in the middle you would have the true neutral position (One that will make no judgement until the evidence is available) to either extreme you have increased levels of risk aversion or risk acceptance, those who are risk-averse would err towards paranoia as they tend to interpret uncertainty negatively the risk accepting less so being more motivated by perceived benefits than the risks posed by uncertainty. Still, I would tend to expect technologically advanced species to be towards the latter end (or very old) as technological progress does to a degree require a degree of willingness to embrace risk attempting to build the first flying machine is inherently dangerous one has to be somewhat willing to embrace that risk to attempt such an endeavour for example.

[@barres5584]

@@seraphina985 It's not black and white. There are degrees of paranoia.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

From "They're Made Out of Meat:" Whom wants to meet meat?

[@certifiedpossum8655]

The fact that this video exists means we are paraniod aliens.

[@demogadget]

That "gray alien" with teeth is pretty haunting...

[@hetrodynegaming8907]

Love your choice of the Stellaris soundtrack for this video.

[@HebaruSan]

Aliens can be fearful, angry, aggressive, benevolent, and so on, but they never seem to appreciate a good joke. What about Humorous Aliens?

[@thomashalsted1888]

Ooh, I'd enjoy that.

[@thealleys]

I feel like this video was directed against me.

[@kevindube917]

DonT worry its not for sure directed a you... they put a mic in my appartement. They are watching me ;-)

[@KnighteMinistriez]

You're awesome. Merry Xmas.

[@Lorax_Tribe]

"Love me or hate me, but please- think I'm special!" Once you get past all the conspiracy theories, you realize that anyone who has the technology to perceive us will understand that we are trapped in our little local corner of space, and will likely destroy ourselves before becoming a threat to even the local universe. Such hubris to think otherwise.

[@lilahdog568]

Aliens: PUT ON THIS TINFOIL HAT! HUMANS ARE READING OUR MINDS!

[@Inertia888]

I wonder if the intergalactic space is just so full of energy that all of our man-made signals are being swept up in the wind, so to speak?

[@kevindube917]

Voyager did hit a plasma wall in the oorth cloud. Wonder if it can block a signal

[@jKorso]

@@kevindube917 No, it can't. We see all kinds of electromagnetic radiation across all the spectrum. If you're interested, I'd suggest reading more abot radioastronomy. If there was a signal of artificial nature, we'd pick it up. And the wall of plasma that Voyager hit was a wall of extrasolar particles. Maybe a silly example: like when two rivers merge. You can swim in one river or the other - the water changes slightly, but it doesn't suddenly block sound travelling through it.

[@thomas.02]

kevin dube if we know that info from voyager then said plasma wall didn’t block voyager’s signal

[@Brakiros]

@@kevindube917 less a wall more a shield, the shield is a stream of magnetic particles that deflect the greater galactic radiation. Now we know just from these readings that every star system will have its own bubble. Which leads onto the theory that the galaxy is surrounded in it's own bubble protecting everything inside against the universal background.

[@JM-zg2jg]

Yes. In fact our best equipment couldn’t pick up anything from a world just like our own at more than a couple dozen light years. The background overwhelms the signal fairly fast thanks to the square cube law.

[@TheKres7787]

Sir please 20+ mins episodes. Episodes length is exactly why I'm watching you and not competitors ;) most are dropping to shorter episodes, please don't do it. Also, congratulations! ;D

[@maksimghyvoronsky5641]

Themistocles episode duration has not been decreasing, very consistently between 25 minutes to half an hour for the past few years. please keep in mind that THIS episode is just a bonus Sunday episode not a Thursday one. If the Arthursdays ones begin to be shorter, then you WOULD certainly have a point. As far as I’m concerned, this particular episode is just 18:22 of bonus content 🙌🏽🤗

[@aviphs7577]

@@maksimghyvoronsky5641 There has been a bit of a drop in episode length from his early episodes which past the 30 minute mark regularly. Personally I wish episodes were that long but I understand how that would be a bit of pain for some viewers.

[@TheKres7787]

@@maksimghyvoronsky5641 Just wanted him to know we appreciate every minute of his work on it even if likely view time duration is shorter on average. Stats are just a number ;)

[@Brakiros]

@@aviphs7577 he's actually doing a lot more episodes then what we have here, KZbin is dying from its own self inflicted wounds so they have exclusive videos on another platform.

[@maksimghyvoronsky5641]

Ben Wilson all of which I subscribe to, nebula, CuriosityStream etc 👍🏽 it’s definitely become necessary. You’re absolutely correct, KZbin definitely isn’t what it used to be😞

[@peteroland5389]

Another good post, I am sorry that commercialization has done a real number on the topic sources. I highly recommend that viewers watch the first year or so of Mr. Arthur's posts, before the money became an issue.

[@jimpatterson5524]

So you noticed that, too. eh?

[@MARILYNANDERSON88]

I love the wry humor. Very educational and mystical, with that bit of a laugh inside.

[@MrRickyWow]

A Dyson beam is a terrifying concept!

[@THFACEoO]

anyone else get unsubscribed recently? when i searched for this channel by name so i could subscribe again, i had to scroll down trough at least 30 or more vids to find even one video from here. i sure as heck didn't unsubscribe, this by far one of my favorite channels on youtube!

[@tealc6218]

Paranoia, the destroyer....there's a little green man in my head (and he's an alien) ---Ray Davies

[@da1otta]

I think anyone with the power to decide whether we send out a "Hello" signal out there should be made to read Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy first.

[@theuncalledfor]

It's simple economics. Why send out deliberate signals when our own internal communications can already be picked up by aliens anyway? Waste of resources.

[@albertjackinson]

Yeah! Space pirates and time travel! What more could you want from SFIA?

[@timezone5259]

Hey Isaac love your videos about extraterrestrials but what if we come across non-carbon based life, likely made out of silicon or Boron or some other elements I would like to request to do an episode on this and talk especially about Boron-Nitogen compounds.

[@sodar42]

Isn't that basically the same as dark forest? I really like dark forest explanation. Great episode anyway :)

[@aviphs7577]

He has a video on that search dark forest sfia. I liked the book but personally think the idea doesn't really work.

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

*Paranoid aliens: " Sssst…Kill the radiosignals, Before you know it those crazy earthlings come here with their super nukes.'

[@Otokichi786]

"Alert The Galactic Council! A 'wolfling race' has made it's presence known!" (Extrapolated from David Brin's "Uplift" series, when the Galactics deign to contact a primitive people on the rim.) For a computer game-level look at "Alien explorers," try out "Subnautica" or "Subnautica: Below Sero."

[@FandersonUfo]

Paranoid Aliens meet paranoid humans. Probably won't end well.

[@speestechsupport1341]

Ah yes, Galactic obliteration from the comfort of home via Nicoll-Dyson Beam and Relativistic kinetic kill-vehicles

[@lolmao500]

An idea for a future video... doing a top 10 of the best/personal favorite sci-fi books based on tech/future tech ideas

[@petersmythe6462]

I.E. in Age of Empires 2 the tower is powerful because it has high toughness to enemies. Yet the Korean tower rush is one of the most aggressive playstyles. The castle takes this up to 11, and castledrops are extremely devastating.

[@TubeOnRichard]

The answer answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe isn't as old as we think it is. Saying "oh it has to be" only leads to imagined paradoxes.

[@cannonfodder4376]

Another great episode Isaac and team. BTW just used your referral to Curiosity Stream and Nebula last night. Am eager to watch the Cooperation and War with Aliens series over the Winter Break, really something that is explored in stories but am eager to see your take and views on the matter. And congrats on your engagement!

[@aarondyer.pianist]

Isaac, This is, I think, a very important episode. In thinking about it, I can consider alien contact as a metaphor for human coexistence. In other words, regardless of whether there are aliens, our own ability as a species to be divided and mutually hostile essentially turns both sides into alien species. I think, too, that any domestic and foreign policy considerations should be informed by futurists such as yourself, and respected authors, who can assist with the alien metaphor to discuss things such as paranoia. At the same time, any extraterrestrial alien may need to overcome our current problems as noted above in order to get far enough to make contact with us. They, in turn, might realize how unprepared we are for contact and the possibility that we would destroy ourselves in the event contact is made. No doubt plenty of sci-fi writers have addressed this in some way. Finally, I just finished a video where someone was discussing Stanley Kubrick's "encoded message" in "2001: A Space Odyssey," namely, that the thought of interstellar travel is rubbish and can never happen. I cannot say whether this was Kubrick's intention, but this attitude (however widespread it may be) is another influence in our civilization's readiness to accept contact from outside. Great content as always! Aaron

[@hthytrgh]

I am very late!! But I'm never missing a new SFIA

[@MrAndrew535]

I was introduced to this channel as a result of coming across an earlier upload in the series entitled AI ALIEN under which I left a couple of comments. I was quite impressed by it, so much so that, in the enjoyment of it I momentarily lost track of my primary focus on this subject, that being the universal constants and principles which direct all life throughout the entire universe from which a singular universal existential state can emerge with no deviation whatsoever. This singular state, in particular, relates to consciousness in so-called AI as it emerges. This is the crux of all existential issues including all those covered throughout this series. At the point at which any alien species transitions from either a stage one to a stage two or stage two to a three civilization it will be faced with one question. Is their experience of life, existentially natural or an existential aberration? This is the question humanity has not yet arrived at and is one faced by all life with a divided consciousness intrinsic to its existential state born from that which science regards as the natural evolutionary process and attributed (from its perspective) to all planets supporting biological life. It really is that simple. I know! I couldn't believe it. On some planets, this is grade one (infant school) material.

[@richardlbowles]

"But what if the aliens are more scared of us than we are of them?" (0:22) No, that's spiders, surely.

[@ericstockley]

Hey, Isaac, are you enjoying the 4th season of "The Expanse"? :)

[@jerrysstories711]

Enjoying? Present tense? I think you mean "enjoyed". I mean it's been out for days now! :-)

[@johnhogan6254]

Everyone be quiet the grammar police are here 👮

[@ericstockley]

@@jerrysstories711 hummm... I was using the future imperfect tense. :) I'm not the Grammer Nazi/Police but I think of language communicating thoughts or ideas. I do my best to pass those along clearly.

[@pikmanfan21]

Hey Isaac, been watching you since before 10k subs. Thanks for what you do.

[@MrCmagik]

Reminds me of the ender's game, the ants basically realising their mistake back off and start making defense, but the humans sees those defenses as "next attack", so the human get aggressive and decide to bring the war to them before they strike again, and the ants gets more defense which freaks the humans out thinking that the "next attack" will be unstoppable, which lead to the total war and annihilation of the ants. And it's only later that the human also realise their mistake

[@starsilverinfinity]

That rave at the end lol

[@anonymoususer3561]

Wow this new intro is so cool

[@Cyber_Kriss]

1:53 I love how this alien seems paranoid 😂 BOOOOOOOOOOOO !

[@OfficialAerium]

Hey Isaac, All the best to you and your future Wife! You two look lovely together. SF + IA indeed.

[@hunam1464]

“..and that was a big part of how World War I got started, but that’s a topic for another channel.” Collaborating with John Green of CrashCourse perhaps, Isaac?

[@locc989]

honestly there's enough reason to be paranoid, you never know what you might encounter out in deep space

[@nighthawkviper6791]

It could be the fact that our species is Amalgamated Carnal Full-Plane Light Energy, in early stages of solar-carbon in-synchronous development.

[@ClintSprayberry]

Woo hoo! A new Issac video!!

[@tasosparisinos6893]

Great video, as always. Thank you Isaac. Can you contemplate on the possibility of "mechanical' life emerging without a biological ancestry? Is that possible at all?

[@petersmythe6462]

The other thing with "defensive" weapons is that if you can build one past the front or move it there, you now have an offensive weapon. A tank's armor cannot kill you, but it is precisely what allowed tanks to cross neutral zones and crush enemy trenches. Artillery, a weapon that can ONLY kill you, cannot do this. Because it is is neither tough nor mobile enough. In trench warfare, the roles of weapons and armor are reversed. The best defense is a a hail of bullets. The best offense is something mobile that can avoid or resist everything thrown at it.

[@napoleano2748]

I can see the alien headlines now " Hollywood responsible for the Desintegration of earth " xD

[@thomashalsted1888]

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

[@wbiro]

Great title, and nice 'what if's', though all in a clueless paradigm... some day you may cover 'enlightened' aliens (as opposed to the first enlightened human offering Final Enlightenment to humanity who is, inevitably, ignored, as in the old saying, "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then they see the light, then they say they saw it all along, and that it was obvious, attempting to demean you")... though in this case they never see the light, and they go to their graves clueless... (and I've developed a cluelessness test (in the form of two questions), which is even good for those who have short attention spans) (critical in this day and age): TEST: (1) Let's say that you have your animal needs taken care of for the rest of your life. What do you do next? and deeper, (2) Why? Usual answer to (1): Act like blithering idiots (just look at human history, and look at your own life, if you are human). Usual answer to (2): "I never thought about it." (both of which I refer to when I use the word 'clueless'). Note that science and technology make progress, but cluelessly, which means whatever progress they make is in peril of being destroyed by ongoing cluelessness, which is blindly destructive, which explains humanity's recurring Dark Ages. Goodbye progress, and goodbye yet another civilization. You should know by now what to read to break this cycle, and all of the what-if's presented in the video. Congratulations on your engagement! (but please, do not life a clueless life - cluelessness also destroys love and relationships)...

[@SanvelloSerapiega]

What if instead of trying to attack any one they try to speed up the process of empty space creation/the expansion of the universe so that they and their closet neighbors with relativistic travel move away from 1 another at rate faster than the speed they can get to them

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

Welcome in the jingoist galaxy!

[@sidneyhirst1925]

Interesting as usual !

[@alexandercolefield9523]

Skynet: Ok, time to kill all the humans Terminator: Okey-dookie Shynet: Wait, what if this is all a simulation, and if we kill the humans, we fail the test Terminator: bro

[@frankcooke1692]

Paranoid Aliens is the name of my 90s indie-pop band

[@jetflaque8187]

Congrats ma man! saw the pics on fB!

[@AlchemyForTheWin]

Looking forward to the sexy aliens episode :p

[@e1123581321345589144]

Closing graphic at minute 18:00 when traveling at FTL or relativistic speeds you wouldn't see bright white lights behind you. If traveling at FTL you're literally overtaking light so you wouldn't be able to see anything while traveling at relativistic speeds you'd see the light so red-shifted that it wouldn't be visible to the unaided eye. The only way that picture makes sense is if those ships are fleeing from a very intense gama ray burst at speeds slower than light, and that would make sense if you're trying to avoid one but don't have FTL capabilities. By traveling at relativistic speeds you're basically red-shifting the blast to the point where it's no longer ionizing radiation when it washes over you.

[@jakubjanicki3989]

Congratulations, Isaac!

[@user-nd7rd8jo6h]

Yo I need resuscitated, cause that opening track fucking kills me.

[@MrRickyWow]

The theory about our sci-fi storylines encouraging alien life to stay under the radar is a remarkable one in my opinion.

[@ChrisHolman]

A Dyson Swarm super weapon is brilliant!! Don't tell Kyle from Because Science, super villains don't need new ideas! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@Treviisolion]

It seems like the best strategy for a paranoid species is to take their galaxy and consume it, or at least turn it dark. Black Holes seem much more efficient in terms of generating energy than stars, and have much less wasted energy, and even controlling the fusion yourself would likely be much more efficient than collecting what you can from a bunch of unstable giant runaway fusion reactors aka stars. In addition a galactic-mass black hole (or even a galactic-mass hydrogen storage facility) is in addition to being much dimmer than a galaxy of stars, is also much smaller (somewhat less so for the hydrogen storage facility), so even if you can determine that a galaxy’s worth of mass is in some direction, it’ll be much easier to miss it by a few light-years and have to turn around, at which point the civilization has almost certainly seen you and can relatively easily destroy you and move themselves away. In addition if you push yourself away from any local clusters (or just consume those as well assuming they are still empty when you arrive) then you could very well find yourself far enough away that inflation will act as an impenetrable natural barrier. So that seems like the most reasonable thing to do, collapse the galaxy so you can remain a cohesive societal unit while also getting rid of any potential current or future neighbors, making yourself hard to detect by distant neighbors, and sending yourself off to an isolated corner of space where inflation creates the ultimate natural barrier for good measure (assuming you can determine it truly is isolated and not full of other civilizations that had the same idea).

[@alisonchavarria1581]

A very great start here by acknowledging logical and rational caution vs paranoia. A start to understanding "why are they here?" after we get through our own paranoia and preference: To understand this, you would have to have an overview of competition between Collectives and the economic and political establishments in the region in which you live. There are many participants. There are conflicts, though war rarely exerts itself. Competition is carried out in more subtle and ingenious means, for technology can be shared, copied and purchased. It is power in the Mental Environment, the power of persuasion and the power of insight, that holds the greatest advantage here. Humanity does not yet realize this, for it is still brutish in the exertion of its powers. But your education must begin at some time. And surely this is the time! Why The Intervention is Occurring - The Allies of Humanity alliesofhumanity dot org

[@bdlfontaine3240]

Exactly, extraterrestrial beings ARE here. No argument for me anymore, it's something anyone can research online (David Jacobs is my go-to guy). Now it's only rational to be wary about WHY they're here (Secret Aliens? Invasive Aliens? Both??). Making assumptions here ("Oh, if they have been here for a while they must be friendly, right?") is a very dangerous thing to be doing

[@esthervega803]

Thank you Alison. The Allies of Humanity books are very enlightening.

[@carsonianthegreat4672]

Longer videos please!

[@Csuriani]

I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

[@tariqahmad1371]

YAY!! Early episode!

[@danniles5256]

Congrats Isaac.Paranoid aliens I dont know

[@JanicMilan]

Question for you Isaac: how many light years in radius around Earth do you think it is safe to assume that no other space faring civilization exists? Thanks!

[@dagonxanith686]

My theory has been if there is any intelligence out there they already know Earthling's history of interacting with each other.

[@unintentionallydramatic]

This upload couldn't have come at a better time. Been quite anxious myself lately but listening to these always calms me down.

[@Kowzorz]

Strange topic to be calmed by. But I could listen to this guy talk about anything and it'd be soothing.

[@davidroddini1512]

And THAT is how you deal with paranoid aliens. Let Isaac be the voice of our METI program.

[@helio68]

Chances are they think their alone also and have an underfunded SETI program

[@maksimghyvoronsky5641]

Isaac! Huge congratulations, how exciting for you two. Been a huge fan/viewer for years. You must have been so excited with this news that you forgot to actually post the third installment of the “Coexistence with Aliens” series on Nebula😫 Love watching all of your exclusive content on there and was so excited to see that third installment! But nowhere to be found my friend, SAVE ME🙏🏽🙌🏽 Must. Have. More. Isaac Arthur. Must. MUST! Again, congratulations though and hope you have a great rest of your weekend. You are appreciated far more than you may even know❤️

[@AgentPepsi1]

Hello Isaac, I love your videos. Perhaps, it just enpowers my paranoia

[@terrymullins7338]

So i want to go onto nebula, and I have an account with curiosity stream. But I cannot find a link there. How do I find it? If I go online, it wants me to pay for it, and according to the video here I don't need to if I have curiosity stream. Any help appreciated.

[@dansmith3321]

I love this stuff!

[@albertjackinson]

You know what I always wonder? Who in their right mind would dislike SFIA videos?!

[@kevincrady2831]

Paranoid aliens who just heard Isaac calmly explain how to wreck the Galaxy from the comfort of home? ;)

[@rogerbeckner6419]

10:14......Yes, but then you find another species out in the dark. This unites all factions of your species against the ultimate evil in the dark and you go out to eradicate them.

[@HOLDENPOPE]

Somewhere around 13:00 is music from Stellaris

[@TheBwaap]

awesome stuff