Rise Of The Living Robots | Answers With Joe

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Our traditional view of robots as metal machines with computer brains is pretty hard-wired (pun intended) into the human psyche. But there are reasons to believe that living robots - robots made of soft or living tissue - might be the better option. Here's why.
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[@cannibalbananas]

"Life is just an endless series of putting food in one hole just to shoot it out the other hole". I need this on a coffee mug, Joe

[@NathaNeil27]

And also finding new ways to use your holes 😏

[@Smittel]

thats a hell of a mouthful isnt it

[@ccole1255]

Should be "... putting stuff in one hole just to shoot it out another hole".]

[@H.Liddell]

Legit! I laughed so hard 🤣😃

[@centauri9458]

Captain D's motto. Except sometimes you put it in one hole and it comes out the same one and the other. Also makes you beg God to make it stop

[@thephoenixempyre2300]

I will always remember the line: "You ever have to shit so bad it gave you an existential crisis?" That line was pure gold

[@ccole1255]

@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes WHAAAAA? where tf do you live dude, that public toilets have been replaced by "shit buckets"?!? 😆😆😆

[@yrebrac]

I mean, I'm already afflicted by existential nihilism on the crapper, but "just a worm that grew a human around it" really cut

[@robinholmes9179]

"We're basically a worm that grew a human around itself." - Spot on, and a really neat description! :)

[@danielchoritz1903]

like this, pretty neat summary on the egoistic gen

[@demonsty]

i love joe scott. i think he's subconciously my favorite you tuber.

[@hankblaster]

...to be food for worms.

[@kloassie]

0:55 "We're basically a worm that grew a human around itself" - Joe Scott This'll definitely go into my all-time top favourite quotes!!

[@Duke00x]

I'm pretty sure he stole that from zefrank1 .

[@kloassie]

@@Duke00x and zefrank1 stole it from Einstein who said "Wir sind einfach eine Wurm wer wuchs eine Mensch rund sich" to the nurse at his deathbed

[@Gladiamdammit]

They all stole the concept from Earthworm Jim.

[@alexbartle3084]

“Octopuses are a popular inspiration in soft robotics... and Japanese porn” I laughed so hard I inked myself

[@akuma7616]

lol, Man of culture I guess.

[@yopassthefuckinsalt922]

I took a screenshot of that moment and made it my pc wallpaper, lol. His facial expression makes it hilarious to me

[@Gladiamdammit]

Well played, sir. WELL played.

[@lamdelmundo8492]

I see that Joe is a man of culture as well 😏

[@yopassthefuckinsalt922]

I'd like to know the sauce, though

[@jemborg]

Slaughterhouses are "disassembly lines".

[@noahludford3667]

Johnny 5 does not approve.

[@VaxzaLimeIsCool]

This channel is underrated, thanks for putting in the hard work for us

[@dp6447]

“How did he avoid getting burned at the stake?” Asking the real questions Joe.

[@Kittsuera]

because it was purely mechanical. everyone knows witchcraft involves doctors, medicine, crazy cat ladies, bilingual speakers of obscure languages and people performing tricks without revealing their secrets. it also involves people doing their laundry in the same pot one cooks soup. U.U

[@suimeingwong2043]

He made himself useful and designed a bunch of weapons of war.

[@Soken50]

I see a few comments saying he worked for the church but most importantly he was close to the Medicis, a very influential family in Italy that would have given him a lot of connections to avoid trouble, the fact that Florence was the centre of the Christian Humanist school of thought (a more 'scientific' creed) likely played a role as well.

[@paddor]

Probably because he had a penis? 🤷‍♂️

[@k1sfd1974]

He was more likely to be burned at the stake for all the research he did on the human body via dissection. It’s one of the many reasons he did work for the Church.( to avoid a very painful and messy death). You can also see a LOT of hidden knowledge in the art he did, especially that which he did FOR the church. I’d have to guess it’s how he got his adrenaline rush knowing he was painting HUGE taboos in his works. He was one of those “once in several generations” geniuses that quite frankly leaves me just smh at his discoveries. Remember to think about WHEN these discoveries were made and then realize that he didn’t have the same shoulders to stand on that later scientists did.

[@Romandy13]

"Is life just continuously shoving food down one hole and out the other hole?" Gee, thanks. Now I am about to go on a week long existential crisis again.

[@ptonpc]

Also reproducing that tube to replace you when your own digests its last food.

[@brocky1970]

hahahaha

[@SteleCat]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who regularly undergoes existential crises.

[@liamr6761]

I personally think it's a wholely comprehensive outlook on life. ... Get it?

[@tonyduncan9852]

Life should always be an existential crisis. It's where the Meaning IS.

[@yahdood6015]

Me: sitting on the toilet evacuating my bowels Joe: “have you ever been sitting on the toilet evacuating your bowels”

[@aut0correkt545]

_same here..._

[@Wolfmaxy]

Your authentic way of talking like you're talking to a friend is the reason I love your videos! Keep it up!

[@jawbrace]

Spider uses hydraulics to move their legs. That's why when they die, their legs curl up. Great video Joe.

[@anewman]

The fact that it happens so instantaneously is pretty wild

[@jawbrace]

@@anewman I believe that's because they don't have a "skeleton" like we do. :)

[@maartendj2724]

@@jawbrace No I think that's just because their heart stops as they die, if we stretched our limbs with blood pressure they would also instantaneously contract at death (I think)

[@jawbrace]

@@maartendj2724 Spider have an exoskeleton as opposed to us that have an endoskeleton. animals.mom.com/spider-bones-10356.html

[@jawbrace]

@@maartendj2724 It's called hemolymph. You can see more here: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/7/3643/files/2013/09/How-Do-Spiders-Move-1bpzbvb.pdf

[@TheMightyZwom]

Joe: "But of course one of the best use cases for soft robots comes in the field of [...]" Me: "Japanese porn!" Joe: "[...] surgery" Me: "Oh... yeah... surgery... of course..."

[@JimStenman]

I so thoroughly enjoy this combination of information and laughs, thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos!

[@lucyfyrearchoftwilight9282]

ikr, a perfect blend

[@reichstein011]

In the movie "eXistenZ" they use genetically modified animals (including frogs) to make various tech. In one scene a character assembles a gun from the leftovers of "the special" at a rather strange restaurant. They also use a VR device which is essentially a living organism engineered for that purpose. Cool movie, check it out if you haven't seen it.

[@maxwyght1840]

In case ypu haven't watched the ending, the entire thing happens inside a VR game inside a VR game. The top level is a VR game using regular VR HMDs, so the entire "bio-engineered" thing is about as plausible as any other magic system in every classic MMO

[@lucyfyrearchoftwilight9282]

@@maxwyght1840 Or was it? lol

[@Fremily]

Joe: "Have you ever been sitting on the toilet" Me on the toilet: 😳

[@DragonAGravelTrain]

🤣🤣🤣

[@borntofeel1152]

He watches you, he watches over us

[@simonlambeth666]

Haha and me!

[@youtubeaccount8056]

put that phone down 😅

[@caioporto9234]

Me too 😂

[@multicoloredcheese7936]

Joe: have you ever been sitting on the toilet evacuating your bowels Me: Hey that’s me!

[@yankee1376]

That's half his audience.

[@autohmae]

Only when I have a huge hangover.

[@joescott]

I should probably go through all the comments and write down all the people who were on the toilet when watching this. I have a feeling it's a pretty high percentage.

[@PinataOblongata]

@@joescott I can't wait for 2021 when a mysteriously antibiotic-resistant strain of E. coli takes out all the filthy millennials who take their phone into the toilet with them.

[@dayalasingh5853]

@@joescott I was one of those people

[@waxfur5129]

You were already my favorite KZbinr. Then you mentioned Metropolis and stole my heart. My favorite movie

[@lucyfyrearchoftwilight9282]

Yes but it wasn't about robots rising up. It was a metaphor for how society has turned the working class into slaves and when you see the machine being fed workers, i think that represents how modern society feeds upon the lives of the working class.

[@charleslivingston2256]

"There are actually robotic war machines that are designed to destroy our tubes."

[@frmcf]

10:07 - “they can be squozen” I sincerely hope that the word “squozen” is here to stay.

[@joescott]

Squizzed?

[@frmcf]

@@joescott Dude, you nailed it with 'squozen'. Ain't no improving on perfection!

[@James-MV]

@@joescott Freeze : frozen, squeeze : squozen. It's been in the informal lexicon for many decades.

[@deanmcmanis4862]

@@frmcf Squozen brand, squid-flavored popsicles coming soon!

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Says "squozen" and didn't even flinch. Like a boss. 😂

[@slavkopejic3140]

You cracked that meaning of life in under 30 seconds, impressive.

[@MrAll7200]

This channel is very underrated, you should have 5M subscribers by now

[@gbail9566]

Absolutely fascinating, one of your best Joe!

[@nickbenton3545]

Humanity: let’s make more organic robots! Also humanity: *immediately begins inventing Lovecraft monsters*

[@allhumansarejusthuman.5776]

Well. Shows over folks, you solved the Fermi Paradox.

[@Gladiamdammit]

You know too much...

[@spellbinder3113]

Reminds me of that movie with Robin Williams - Bicentennial Man.

[@Foreign501st]

R.I.P to the best actor in history.

[@gabrielv1856]

I liked that movie!

[@Bacon_Pancakes]

One of the best movies ever made.

[@haydenmiller3197]

I would like to finish that film

[@pakde8002]

Wow, that's been a minute.

[@somethingelse4878]

A new video from Joe always helps the day along Thanks from a cold and wet uk

[@mugwump7049]

A particularly hilarious episode of Existential Dread With Joe today. Extra crispy!

[@Sciencerely]

As a biomedical researcher, I think it's great to see how different branches of science come together to develop new technologies. Some scientists are currently trying to develop hearing implants which involve gene therapy and micro-LEDs + an AI. In principle, DNA is introduced into neurons of ears which make them active when they are stimulated with light and tiny LEDs which produce light in response to sound are transplanted (I made a video about this a long time ago). Compared to conventional hearing implants (where you can often only distinguish between roughly 22 sounds), these new implants might enable patients to hear even better than healthy individuals!

[@rosemarym5334]

Joe: Shares his toilet seat fantasies. Me: Am literally in the toilet when watching this. #PROTECTTHETUBE.

[@TheSilverGate]

Same

[@rpbajb]

Yep, me too.

[@jasond.healerlynch5255]

Fill up the tube, evacuate the tube

[@jasond.healerlynch5255]

@John Barber apparently many small peeps are literally stuck in their toilets, thankfully they have little bitty phones to pass the time

[@astroninja136]

Same

[@charliewhitelock2861]

I would love to see a video of you exploring the idea of faster than light communication.

[@DreainCZE]

2:15 - WOW A+ for the pronunciation. Very well done.

[@FabioLeprechaun]

"How did he avoid getting burned at the stake?" The Medici. That was how.

[@springbloom5940]

Which just goes to show, what an intolerable asshat Galileo was.

[@atoth62]

Leonardo wasn't exactly doing anything supernatural here. Everyone could see it was a just series of gears, pulleys and levers, it wasn't creating life.

[@myscreen2urs]

I think the Borgias needed him to make war machines. AND Ezio Auditore had his back.

[@alchemygarlet1542]

The most important factor is that he lived shortly before the Protestant Reformation. Before Luther the Roman church wasn't nearly as aggressive in controlling beliefs. For instance, Leonardo was a Christian but he also adopted a popular beliefs among intellectuals, namely the concept of analogies between microcosmos and macrocosmos: the belies that the structure and working of the human body had profound analogies with that of the earth. The beliefs was preached by humanist Marsilio Ficino, founder of the Platonian Academy and leader of the Neoplatonist school of thinking; Neoplatonism wasn't at all in contraddiction with Catholicism, because it developed in Late Antiquity in connection with the early Christian doctrine, and was influenced and influenced the Fathers of the Church (Padri della Chiesa, the intellectuals that essentially set the standard interpretation of the Bible).

[@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179]

@@myscreen2urs obviously

[@ThatReplyGuy]

The robots in Horizon: Zero Dawn self-sustain on biofuel, and look how things turned out.

[@Rayowag]

Glad I'm not the only one thinking about that 😂

[@TheMightyZwom]

Well... We self-sustain on biofuel, and look how things are turning out :D

[@adamwest8711]

Helluva game.

[@samrijijkot]

@@TheMightyZwom At least we do not replicate at an unsustainable pace....OH WAIT

[@TheMightyZwom]

@@samrijijkot :D

[@TimSmith-cz9ds]

Great start to this episode Joe. Really classy.

[@lukeb6394]

I love how you use the sounds of silence its always so fitting where you use it :) big fan bro!!

[@jodearwester705]

Me: looks out window and sees a robot poop on my lawn *shakes head in disappointment*

[@foxpup]

Perhaps Leonardo Davinci avoided being burned at the stake because he also built interesting weapons of war. Like today, It's amazing what people will put up with to get the latest and greatest tools for killing each other.

[@anthonyhutchins2300]

As they should... Keeps you safe...

[@supermaster2012]

@@anthonyhutchins2300 based.

[@steverebman7918]

Joe: "Is life just a series of putting food in one hole and shooting it the other hole?" Me: Ah yeah, isn't that what home isolation was all about during the quarantine?

[@donjosephus]

I admit that I haven't watched a Joe video for a little bit, but the way this one started brought me right back to why I love this channel - thanks to Joe and all his supporters.

[@bryku]

Joe: "TUBES" Me: "Please continue..."

[@evanfrew1834]

0:36 EVERY MORNING EVERY FREAKING MORNING, MY FRIEND

[@stovex0r]

"Rick Beato goes on massive rants about this." Rick Beato goes on massive rants about a LOT of things...

[@jay2aussie]

Great video Joe, one of your best I think!

[@HungryGuyStories]

"Is life just continuously shoving food down one hole and out the other hole?" Yes. That and sticking a tube into a hole in another human to make a third human. That about sums it up :-)

[@sashas3362]

@John Barber No. It's also about making yourself useful and important to others.

[@pakde8002]

With the third human coming out of that very same hole. Human in human out. It's all algorithms.

[@FryingPan76]

@@sashas3362 To fill the void between eating, shitting and shagging?

[@pakde8002]

@@sashas3362 hahaha that's a good one. Have you been to America lately?

[@vogonp4287]

Sometimes this makes two new humans.

[@jdexplores1497]

Entertaining as always. Thank you sir.

[@maddiesanabria5047]

i appreciate the amount of times you showed that mall security robot in the fountain...there was one of those that wandered around my subway station I used to get to work and i HATED it

[@paulvale2985]

Joe: "...and Japanese porn." Me: Spits on the screen.

[@selfretired3025]

"Leaning on that button." LOL Nice.

[@m.pixelated]

Please do a podcast, I have been binging sooo much of your vid for the last week. PLEASE DO A PODCAST I LOVE YOUR CONTENT

[@thisguyhere85]

Dude... I literally sat down on the toilet and started this video.

[@JesseJames83]

Nothing like some high anxiety KZbin to go with my high anxiety coffee in the morning

[@SemGabelko]

You forgot to mention The Zucc. The most advanced AI android ever created.

[@DanteS-119]

Hahahahaha

[@fabrisse7469]

The emotion circuits seem to burn out frequently, especially the empathy system.

[@SemGabelko]

@@fabrisse7469 It's because all the GPU resources are redirected to user data extraction and profit maximization

[@ColdHawk]

The alien-human robot hybrid program is accelerating. Despite the “Z” designator, the Zuck is not the final iteration. If you think Facebook is frightening you will quail before what is to come. Poe’s Law Disclaimer: this is a joke, I am not an alien conspiracy theorist.

[@nirui.o]

@@ColdHawk But the real question is, are you a human conspiracy theorist?

[@dropnoelfield295]

Recent convert. Becoming a big fan. Love your presentations, your humor is good, and the information is interesting and well presented. Thanks mate 👍

[@rumhound5903]

Joe had me laughing so much I forgot the topics are serious. Thanks for coming out, Joe!

[@brothernobody1775]

circle of life Joe, I mean the trees are just farming us at the end of the day, man

[@sergei_gruntovsky]

I was a bit shocked when I first read about Talos - one of the "automatons" in Greek mythology, "an artificial man of bronze".

[@arjungoli6434]

they actually had automatons

[@Jackraiden500]

Talos? As in elder scrolls?

[@antlures845]

Truth is stranger than fiction.

[@jsl151850b]

Talos, as seen in 'Jason and the Argonauts'?

[@arjungoli6434]

@@jsl151850b yeah

[@garethbaus5471]

I have had that exact thought on the crapper.

[@AlanUnpronounceable]

Its nice to come back to this channel after OLF and see Joe perform a smooth segue between segments, and without saying speaking of.

[@emmettshort]

Cheers Joe! My inner worm thanks you.

[@emerraldx]

and the outer worm is looking for that serious soft sexbot? 🤫

[@zippyit]

Joe: "have you ever been sitting on the toilet" me: "no"

[@rainyrainold]

I had just sat down on the toilet to poop and turned this video on. Kinda spooked.

[@emilyreed28]

How does this channel not have 1m subs? This is one of KZbins best.

[@LegionOfWeirdos]

That first thirty seconds. Wow. 10:08 - Did you really say "squozen?" 🤣

[@cannibalbananas]

I had to rewind it to make sure that's the word I heard too 😂

[@littlegravitas9898]

That opening felt laser targeted at me. Dam, the vibe is real.

[@SuchNewt]

"If you haven't seen Metropolis, you defiantly need to find a way to see it" Pirate it. Got it.

[@AndrewMukon]

It will be in the public domain (out of copyright) in 2022

[@pakde8002]

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[@joescott]

I love it when people say "defiantly" instead of "definitely". Sounds so aggressive.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

@@AndrewMukon That's in the US; in the EU, it's copyrighted until the end of 2046. Trump's USMCA would essentially make pretty much everything copyrighted for the rest of everyone's lives. 😒 I guess you could use a VPN to pretend you're in a country with less draconian copyright laws and legally download a copy. Speaking of which, this comment was brought to you by…

[@counterr6750]

- I’m no lawyer, but that doesn’t sound like a “legal download”

[@spshowcase2040]

From discussing robots to the VPN ad: one of your best segues (LOL!)

[@peteyboy74]

Dude…I love you, and your videos. Period, keep shining, my man, much love and gratitude.-Peter

[@JM-us3fr]

10:08 Squozen? Well I just learned a new word

[@lechatlola]

„we‘re basically a worm that grew a human around itself“ seems legit. :D

[@johnnymaynard299]

Love your Videos Joe keep it up !

[@MikeyD8716]

Nice! You included Marty! My son loves him at Stop and Shop.

[@yes874]

7:05 I was waiting for that joke. Btw robot testicles? Japan’s gonna have a hell of a time.

[@minimoose4574]

imagind robot testical cock and ball torture

[@pakde8002]

The sex toy industry is the leading driver in soft robotics development. Well, soft is a bit of a misnomer actually.

[@yes874]

MiniMoose 122 I just pictured that in my head. Why did you tell me this.

[@91722854]

then comes sex robots with Octopus inspired tentacles, looks like industrial application can make it to commercial products thanks to Japanese' imagination on human pleasure

[@alexv3357]

Funny thing is that image looks like it was made by Derpixon, who as far as I know is not Japanese

[@Reth_Hard]

Life: Endless series of putting food in one hole, and shooting out the other hole. That's pretty accurate actually... lol #protect_the_tube

[@rlaframboise1981]

Thanks for keeping up the good content!

[@leedamato1597]

Here from the knee of the curve - subscribed, thanks guys !

[@Duo2]

"i gave you an existential crisis?" Nop. My life is an existential crisis.

[@squamish4244]

Get ahold of some brain tech, robot tech isn't much good at easing existential dilemmas.

[@metamorphicorder]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-3hmeagNWieJo

[@vizionthing]

"IS THIS ALL THERE IS?" nope theres always a little bit more.

[@myscreen2urs]

I sometimes ask myself this very question when I'm a little constipated.

[@ferrallezz5246]

Clinton Boucheix lmao

[@dannymccune1888]

Be patient. Relax. Think about Tinker Toys.

[@user-hu3iy9gz5j]

We do drink and p*ss too though

[@leehillaby1706]

You're killing it bro!

[@chrisar6068]

Great opening!

[@idontcare663]

"hey are you ever sitting on the toilet..." Well you got me there Joe, the bathroom is where I start all my KZbin binges

[@theluftwaffle1]

“Have you ever been on the toilet? Going to the bathroom” well well well.. how do you think I’m watching the video?

[@vishumagar6848]

Holy, I was literally sitting in the toilet and you open with"have you been sitting i the toilet... evacuating your bowel..." Goosebumps on my ass

[@balintkmetty2036]

thanks for the philosophy!

[@MichalKottman]

"Robota" actually also means just "work". As in "I go to work every morning" (well, I don't... you know... 2020).

[@HungryHungryShoggoth]

EATR is basically the start of the plot from Horizon: Zero Dawn. Do you want human-eating robot overlords? Because that's how you get human-eating robot overlords

[@MatTheGameGuy]

ikr

[@futavadumnezo]

Yeah but no. The plot was more complex than that.

[@Hallo1248574]

Yes but that ability was essentially the last piece missing to condem humanity.

[@SeanParries]

YOU are so brilliant and funny!!!

[@Xanderfied]

This opening, is why I return for follow up videos.

[@jaakkopontinen]

12:35 "... Living drills into people's bloodstreams" Skynet: next sponsor of Joe

[@jaakkopontinen]

One and the same 😵🤔

[@springbloom5940]

More like CIA induced stroke.

[@NinePointSix]

10:08 ...did he say squozen?

[@35axeman]

As usual, great work Joe. Come on 1 Million Subs!

[@DusanPavlicek78]

Thumbs up for the essentially flawless pronunciation of Karel Čapek. The stress should be on the first syllable in both cases but other than that, it was pretty spot on! :D

[@Apophlegmatis]

"Ever had to poop so bad you had an existential crisis?" 3...4 times?

[@YusufGinnah]

And that was just today... 😂🤣🤣

[@Rayowag]

"Robot that feeds off of biomass." *Remembers the plot of Horizon: Zero Dawn* Nope, I'm outta here 👀

[@Daniel-yy3ty]

as long as they can't self replicate...

[@luisIBZ]

I was going to write exactly this

[@btk1213]

This episode is pure Shakespeare! No, it's pure Joe Scott!

[@shanealexander9952]

what an opener

[@SD-tj5dh]

I really wish atlas and spot were sent to Mars. Like one man and his dog.

[@mtg-loadofjank-uniquedecks7333]

Hmmm Where's the line between robot and engineered lifeform?

[@irri3191]

Where's the point between conscious and unconscious? Sanctioned & unsanctioned. Tool or slave ? 🤔😒🤔

[@irri3191]

One answer is,,, revolution.

[@irri3191]

But for your question... Evolution.

[@gavinknight8560]

When it can feed itself from the environment and reproduce itself, it’s alive. Rudy rucker wrote a great book about this called ‘software’

[@mtg-loadofjank-uniquedecks7333]

I guess I'd rather be ruled over by Khan Noonien Singh, than Skynet!?!

[@dgaubin]

"Life...um... ... finds a way." Nailed it!

[@denysalbesko6840]

Why I can't stop watching this channel

[@robinsmith8846]

Fun a new vid-- early for members!