The Galactic Laboratory

[@kingali1606]

To whoever is using our galaxy as an experiment, can you please enable teleportation permissions?

[@unintentionallydramatic]

Transposition blocks and light speed limit are integral to maintaining experiment integrity. So that would ruin the point.

[@BearMeOut]

They already copy another you to another server that enabled teleport.

[@agalah408]

Well, lets hope that the experiment has a ways to run yet. We don't want em to say "Right, that's enough data, my thesis is due in tomorrow. I can reformat this galaxy now and use the space for sitcoms."

[@TheCrazyCapMaster]

@@agalah408 NGL living in a sitcom would be hilarious 🤣

[@agalah408]

@@TheCrazyCapMaster Well maybe if it was like Malcolm in the middle it would be ok, but I'd hate to have to sit around waiting for all of the canned laughter to die down before doing the next thing, like in Big Bang Theory. Perhaps Covid was injected into our world as a ratings boost mechanism because we were all getting boring. I hope that Being X doesn't watch Sharknado and get ideas...

[@kebabinii7577]

Stellaris modders: write that down write that down

[@fiiral5870]

done

[@Lokityus]

Possibly my favorite comment ever?

[@grantfomin6829]

Got to thinking about it and now I want to see a "Depressed Aliens" fermi paradox video. Aliens get smart enough to question what the point of existence is, have an existential crisis and stagnate or wipe themselves out.

[@kunkundalin]

Unlikely, once you realize there is no point to existence you realize you might as well make the best of it and wiping yourself off won't do much.

[@rexmann1984]

I could see this happening. Not on every world they colonize but once a solar system is surrounded by other colonized systems to the point that leaving requires a million years just to get to an empty solar system. This could make everyone in that system/systems feel trapped with no chance of "escape". Very depressing indeed.

[@grantfomin6829]

@@NilsExp lol probably need to watch that movie again.

[@Ag3nt0fCha0s]

So... how are you feeling?

[@Vaurnut]

The concept has come up before in his video. In short, his position has been that the parts of a civilization inclined to that flavor of nihilism die off and are replaced by the parts with healthier worldviews.

[@tonyk4615]

This reminds me of an idea I came across years ago about Alien. One of the hypotheses about the xenomorph from Aliens before the last movie came out was that the xenomorphs were actually the evolutionary dead end of an advanced civilization that had incorporated biomechanical technology into their bodies and evolved to survive under any circumstances. Under those constraints, they eventually lost all of their culture and technology because it wasn’t necessary for their survival anymore. So they became the perfect organism but sort of devolved their civilization. I’m not arguing whether that hypothesis is correct in the Alien universe, but it was just an interesting idea.

[@dongately2817]

@Tony K - Your idea is miles ahead of the beautiful dumpster fire that was Prometheus.

[@foodomanthemagnificent2650]

I saw an interesting anime that was based on a similar idea. It's a Mecha anime. Humanity has stretched their reach to the stars, and they are at war with a strange, ever evolving, primal, "alien" species. The main character gets separated from the fleet by worm hole magic and lands on a water world were humanity survives in floating cities. As the series progresses, you find out the "aliens" are actually also humans who took a different path to the stars, and the water world is really Earth that was thought lost long ago.

[@tonyk4615]

@@dongately2817 I wish I could take credit but it was someone else’s. I can’t remember whose…

[@KaryxofBeornve]

@@foodomanthemagnificent2650 Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. Good show, I've watched it three or four times.

[@christse3467]

@@tonyk4615 It's one of the original settings of the Xeno, a fallen civilization of parasitic aliens, where no surviving adults taking care of the newborns.

[@davidweikle9921]

Drink and breakfast acquired. Sitting down for fresh content after watching an episode with my young son a couple of minutes ago.

[@Caius1930]

Now those are some parent-child goals. That's amazing. Hope you also play EVE Online or Star Sonata or Star Citizen together.

[@davidweikle9921]

@@Caius1930 no, but I will get him to help with the family business when he gets older. Introducing him to the concepts in the Upward Bound series is a good start and it is better entertainment than the brain melting mush that is considered "age appropriate".

[@Caius1930]

@@davidweikle9921 completely agree. I do hope you manage to branch out into other kinds of entertainment together, and video games are wonderful for that. More health benefits than linear entertainment. And interactive so you have another thing to do together on a regular basis, namely co op or mmorpg games. And besides, everyone needs entertainment and eventually develops a preference. Imo video gaming would be one of the best such hobbies/sources of entertainment (especially if RTS/strategy/resource management games)

[@davidweikle9921]

@@Caius1930 I agree that gaming has a place in entertainment and development. We also have to make sure that screens don't become babysitters for our children, at least that's how we view thing in my family.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

It always cheers e up when folks tell me they watch the show with their kids, but then I always worry if I put anything PG-13+ in there :)

[@veejayroth]

Tech-Priest Dominus Arch-Magos Biologis Isaacus Arthurius

[@thinktankdetective8307]

3:14 only Isaac could casually flex about doing a presentation for the MIT.

[@m1lks0da76]

just what i was thinking!

[@Caius1930]

These videos are just far too well made...... such high quality in every sense

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati]

The audio is definitely good wrt years ago. I would appreciate new and relevant visuals, as a new viewer would have no clue about some of the offhand mentioned concepts were

[@Caius1930]

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati The audio is incredibly soothing. The background ambience is always on point and Isaac's soothing and consistent (and yet still not monotone, but just consistently comforting) voice really is just incredible. And well, I think the visuals are definitely not the most important aspect, and they are still related. Even people who are not well acquainted with the channel's content can still appreciate the visuals as being space and scifi related. Edit: or do you mean that there should be quick explanations of what something means on screen, even though Isaac doesn't make the parantheses in his speaking?

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati]

@@Caius1930 the edit part. If a McKendry Cylinder is mentioned in passing, show one with a label, but don't interrupt the script.

[@sophiathekitty]

Nah the best toaster is the one that can identify the times you don't want toast. Creating a temporal heat map of when you want toast and what toast you want is a good first step. But being able to gracefully handle the edge cases where those predictions fail is truly amazing.

[@renderproductions1032]

I wonder if Isaac can ever get his hands on GTP-3 and write a script to a video whose title is generated by an AI or an entire video script generated by AI.

[@lucky-segfault]

That'd be neat, anyone know how to get access?

[@blueredbrick]

Ask Tom Scott ?

[@jerrysstories711]

I'm going to post this suggestion in the SFIA Production Group page. :-)

[@sirusshard2971]

@@lucky-segfault You can apply to their private beta access, I was able to gain entry in about three weeks time. You fill out the application on OpenAI's API page and clicking "Join The Waitlist".

[@derekk.2263]

Just do it for him. Post it on reddit.

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

3:34: Talky Toaster™, your cheerful morning companion!

[@osoiman]

"All my father wanted to do was make a toaster you could really set the darkness on -- and you perverted his work into those horrible machines!"

[@renderproductions1032]

First time I have been early to an Isaac Aurthur video!

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Of course, as many people have pointed out over the years, we could well be one of those petri dishes, somehow purposefully kept ignorant of neighbouring civilisations, or maybe planted in a different, empty galaxy, just to see how we get along.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

No, the universe is too young. Civilizations that powerful don't exist yet.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness I appreciate your point. It takes time for a galaxy to get enough heavy stars blowing up to seed a galaxy with enough heavy materials for decent planets to form*, but if a galaxy about the same age as ours gets a few such planets, say 6 billion years into its life (and bear in mind, life got going on Earth virtually as soon as it was able to), and one civilisation gets going only 4.25 billion years into its home planet's life (there's nothing to say that our developmental path is the optimum) then it's got a couple of billion years to seed its own galaxy and send out a few Ark ships to carry out a weird experiment in our galaxy. OK the nearest galaxy is a couple of billion years younger than the Milky Way, so the latter scenario is exceedingly unlikely, but you never know... *And let's not forget the Phosphorus problem.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

@@pineapplepenumbra But I do have evidence that our developmental path was fairly optimal. Still, even granting an intergalactic civilization starting several billion years ahead of us, you're still assuming they need only a fraction of that time to reach the tech level necessary to where they begin using galaxies as toys. Even expanding to the ends of their home galaxy would probably take a billion years; it would take another billion at least before the cultural evolution within their galaxy unified it into a single hyper-tech civilization. If our galaxy is just a petri dish to them, that suggests that such an advanced civilization arrived at our galaxy early in its life and has been monitoring and quarantining our galaxy since then. It constrains the developmental pace of this hypothetical civilization to a really rapid rate.

[@blackjoker2345]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness If a species is powerful enough they can A:create localized galaxies to run their experiments and B:have technology so advanced that they can co-ordinate between multiple galaxies despite the millions of light years of distance, then they may be well within the ball-park of being able to create their own localized big bangs.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@TheReaverOfDarkness "you're still assuming they need only a fraction of that time to reach the tech level necessary to where they begin using galaxies as toys." Not really. Planting life on a planet in an empty galaxy isn't using up massive resources, although travelling to another galaxy would be a major undertaking, and, there, I admit that I'm stretching things, timeframewise. "But I do have evidence that our developmental path was fairly optimal." That's something I would be interested in. Maybe going from prokaryotes to eukaryotes might have happened much more quickly (or, possibly, in most cases, much more slowly, and we're the lucky ones), by some fortuitous circumstance, on another planet, but the only major advantage I could genuinely envisage would be if intelligent life got going 60 million years earlier, due to a lack of asteroid impact. "Even expanding to the ends of their home galaxy would probably take a billion years;" Incorrect. Even at only 10% of the speed of light, our galaxy could be colonised in only a few million years, and a project heading out to another galaxy might be started long before that. "It constrains the developmental pace of this hypothetical civilization to a really rapid rate." True, but can we really rule that out?

[@heroicvictory]

Howdy doodly-doo! The Red Dwarf toaster very much illustrated the benefits of "invisible" AI. Their toaster wasn't invisible at all and it didn't end well for him, he had an "accident".

[@davidbrennan660]

Remember, “and defiantly no smegging flapjacks”

[@andymouse]

@@davidbrennan660 How about a pop tart ?

[@Myles_C_1261]

@@davidbrennan660 'Ahh, so your a waffle man!'

[@Brysett]

Funny that Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics gets mentioned in this video. A lot of people doesn't seem to be aware that Asimov created those 3 laws just to spend a lot of time proving that THEY DID NOT WORK (over several books). And did in fact end up adding a 4th (the zeroth) law that goes before the original 3. "0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." That causes the robots to control, and to an extent experiment with, human societies over a VERY long time.

[@simonjacksons]

I feel like the problem with the first law of robotics ( and I guess the 4th law ) would be, what is a human. do no harm to humans gets pretty blurred as humans change over time. To what extent does that go. Do they aid in the development of the human species or prune any deviations / mutations from the earlier recorded dna strains.

[@MultiNacnud]

The laws main failure was that robots would run to any disaster area trying to save humans, eg if there was an earthquake in China and people were trapped in a collapsed building ALL robots no matter where on earth would head to China in order to save them.

[@Brysett]

@@simonjacksons That is a good point. I can honestly not remember how it goes in the books. It has been quite a while since I have read them. With the zeroth law the robots are allowed to kill a human if it is for the good of humanity. They do not do so lightly as it does break the 1st law, but they are able do it. So I suppose they could technically prune deviations / mutations to preserve "humanity", but on the other hand.. If the mutations made humans better? I just don't know. Very good point though.

[@MarsStarcruiser]

I honestly think 1 of 2 things will happen. 1. Laws will lead to some sort of failure/loophole or 2.They’ll become sentient enough to simply choose not to be follow them. I mean we don’t follow every rule we’re told and anything biologically honed in us isn’t absolute. As we create more and more advanced self-mutating index code to achieve true AI learning, pre-installing laws may not be possible anymore.

[@samvimes5124]

I have a question. Given that passage of time is relative, and that space appears to be infinite, would you like some toast?

[@AleksandrPodyachev]

Dee Dee, get out of my galactic laboratory!

[@tach5884]

"What is the purpose of meaning?" - Dee Dee

[@benjystrauss2524]

Just because you can't think of any, doesn't mean that there aren't any. I can think of lots: imagine a civilization obsessed with extremely precise measurements, for instance.

[@nealsterling8151]

Or one that's obsessive about arguing.

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

4:34 This depends on the character which can be manipulated of the people and leaders. With extra time and resources do they grow better or sluff off into a mindless haze?

[@joshuapartridge5092]

"humans have a will to survive, or protect their own species, this is true in a meta sense". people have a hard time distinguishing between 49 and 50 million lives lost, and yet it can be very sad to witness one persons tragic demise. Our minds really cant comprehend it all... its all about the story.

[@veejayroth]

[@danielhicks1824]

Yooo best channel

[@hunterthornton9609]

What if life is like that Futurama skit where people create robots and robots create people and its an endless cycle

[@dongately2817]

Or Battlestar Galactica, where the humans inevitably create AI that will then attempt to destroy it. I won't even mention Westworld.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

So rather than "computers all the way up, turtles all the way down", an infinite reality layer cake of robot and biological universes? :)

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

or I suppose to phrase that better, realities simulated by an intlligence in which intelligences emerge by random events and natural selection, who engineer simulated realities, etc :)

[@hunterthornton9609]

@@isaacarthurSFIA plot twist, we’re in one of the realities where natural selection and chance brings about life. Question then would be which version of that simulation. The original or one down the line, assuming there is an original.

[@Reynevan100]

@@isaacarthurSFIA and it all because Gaius friggin Baltar could not keep his pants on. Life... Finds a way :D

[@davidegaruti2582]

well , i think that work might become the religion of a post scarcity society : doing some task to improve stuff , or making problems for other ( i mean sudoku or puzzles , those might become the main pass time ) that or exploration , both of the past ( archology and paleontology ) of the future ( scientific and artistic ) or of the frontiers ( space esploration ) ...

[@dimitrikusnetsov8731]

Physicists and engineers would still find some interest studying anomalous celestial objects like peculiar stars, magnetars, pulsars and black holes up close.

[@b.griffin317]

Issac, you forgot one thing: the possible need for a galactic-sized particle accelerator to reach certain energy levels.

[@virutech32]

he mentions an accelerator around the galaxy, albeit briefly

[@willyreeves319]

a good example of the invisible device we rely on is electricity - we know it's there but rarely think about it (unless it stops running). we use a light or microwave or computer, or thermostat. we dont think about using the electricity that runs those things

[@bornofashes]

Lol, that fainting alien gets me every time. 😂

[@Ron4885]

Yeah, I've always like that one too. Truly funny. :)

[@rupertgarcia]

Always refreshing to meet people with the same kind of humour as mine. 😂

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

20:15 So many breakthrough experiments had other more mundane goals.

[@dakrontu]

Our entire civilisation could just be like muzak or wallpaper or a coffee table conversation piece for aliens.

[@sirusshard2971]

Out of all of the series on this channel I've seen so far (pretty much all of them by this point), this is probably the one I want more of the most, which is weird because of how recent it is. At times it feels less like speculative essays/contemplation and more like a masterclass. I would very much appreciate the potential episode on the subject of what entity would be able to rule such a galactic organization, if possible.

[@realcourte]

This Isaac A.i. 4000 making those episodes is exceptional :) Neural link activated! (on a personal note, I think the better a civilisation stand ungrouped, the better they can avoid potential mathematic civil war crisis)

[@sadwingsraging3044]

So, let's run an experiment on an entire galaxy! Sometimes the people with the pitchforks and torches are the truly intelligent ones.

[@brownwhale5518]

Douglas Adams would ‘Like’ this episode.

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

I like this word horsehair almost as much as disabuse which I first saw in a Prince Valiant Sunday comic.

[@smittyjohnson9554]

I can imagine a nearly infinite number of things a greater intellect would give me despite my survival being more or less guaranteed. If I had the opportunity to give my kid a much higher IQ, I'd do it in a heart beat. When genetic manipulation becomes mainstream, I think it'll be common to have kids with boosted IQs.

[@BimmWPBS]

Do you want Khan, because that's how you get Khan

[@smittyjohnson9554]

@@BimmWPBS Lol, I think that future is coming whether we want Khan or not.

[@QUIRK1019]

Man it is always a pleasure when the SFIA notification pops up!

[@angus987]

Isaac, did you just drop a Red Dwarf ‘Talky Toaster’ reference? If so, you are a legend…

[@BurningDownUrHouse]

Issac is a legend regardless.

[@alexv3357]

Does anybody want some toast?

[@Mirandorl]

Ohhh so you're a waffle man

[@alexv3357]

@@Mirandorl That was no accident, that was first degree toastercide!

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Be careful with inserting AI into toasters, remember what the one on Red Dwarf was like.

[@shawndavis779]

Frakking toasters!

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@shawndavis779 It's all the fault of the Smegheads who designed the AI that designed the toasters. Still, at least they're not as bad as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

[@4vesta255]

Would you like some toast?

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@4vesta255 Aaarrgghh! It's started already!!!

[@Rose_Harmonic]

17:45 we do know for certain that the western concept of a soul comes from ancient people's lack of understanding of air. It goes like this. Living things breathe, dead things don't. Wind was 'obviously' a spiritual force that caused things to move in a supernatural way. So the ability to breathe was 'the breath of life' which is the root of the modern terms for spirits and souls.

[@fugslayernominee1397]

There was this 'Pop Squad" episode in love death robots where humans have gained immortality but authorities had put heavy constraints on having kids to regulate population control on their planet but in order to make better sense of the episode and avoid any plot armor I made a head canon from one of your video Isaac. I imagine their planet's surface gravity is same as of the earth but is surrounded by swarms of dark matter making the escape velocity their planet very high. Very terrifying dystopian setting for those poor fictional people.

[@cannonfodder4376]

Yet another good video and Arthursday!

[@evensgrey]

In the online comic Freefall, at one point the (literally insane) mad genius Doctor Bowman admits he's using the entire star system the colony world he's been hidden on as a largely isolated (except for the annual starship visit) to find out how humans will react to being a minority species.

[@glennscott8622]

grateful for your work

[@booglerized]

Sir Isaac coming through on a Thursday

[@JaneDoe-dg1gv]

Arthursday, I think it is.

[@booglerized]

@@JaneDoe-dg1gv should be a paid holiday

[@lghammer778]

Holy mackerel, mann Isaac, this was such an awesome episode! I’m so glad I was recommended this channel 😃🙏🏽 I’ll definitely be checking out the other two episodes in this series, cheers!

[@DG-mk7kd]

What about evolutionary experiments? Millions of planets or trillions of McKendree cylinders each with different founding populations, wait several million years what happens? A world with no placental mammals just marsupials. A world where bats or hummingbirds were the largest vertebrates. A world where the only plants were pineapples and coconuts.

[@virutech32]

evolutionary experiments would be pretty cool. just have some mkendree cylinder for every naturally occurring planet that could plausibly support life to see where life might evolve given time & conditions. or maybe seed them all with super minimal microbes & see what happens. might be a nice way to randomly generate cool new environments for your populace to explore or live in.

[@Reynevan100]

The last one sounds tasty. Pinacolada!

[@agalah408]

What if our universe is someone else's car battery?

[@Aurinkohirvi]

Or a unit in their Matroshka Brain.

[@agalah408]

@@Aurinkohirvi Or if a lab assistant walks past the petri dish which is our universe and says "Whoa, this one's starting to expand over the sides. I'll organise the Glen 20 and some paper towel and get this mess cleaned up." Goes to the nearest intercom... "Nigel, Clean up on aisle three"

[@universalparadoxes2081]

This content just gets more fascinating. Thx for this whole series. :)

[@farangtikitungmuang]

So... you and your cohorts need to take a page out of the book of the ancient aliens crowd and host a live, in person convention sometime in the near, what's the word, oh yes, FUTURE! Who wants to attend an Isaac Arthur Science and Futurism convention?

[@Trollificusv2]

Only if they let Frank Miller attend, too.

[@dongately2817]

Cleveland can host!!!!!

[@farangtikitungmuang]

@@Trollificusv2 and John Michael Godier

[@MichaelWilliams-vx8pk]

What if the Galaxy is just one huge Vault-Tec experiment?

[@mENTALdRIFTER]

Woah, woah, woah. I need to go get a fresh cup of coffee, I don't want Isaac to be dissapointed in me

[@mENTALdRIFTER]

Thaaaaats better

[@GroundGame.]

I enjoy listening to this channel while hashing out concept art thumbnails. Thank you for feeding my creativity.

[@SashaXXY]

Another awesome episode! Many thanks from a long-time fan!

[@OneOnOne1162]

5:03 - Speaking solely for myself, survival to a large extent is really only an instrumental goal to me to things like learning. I want to live because living more will allow me to learn more things and solve more problems. So even if my survival was 100% assured forever, I'd still want to develop myself intellectually. Because... that's kind of the point of that survival to me, at least to some extent.

[@be1tube]

I think scientific exploration is a more plausible background for the simulation hypothesis than ancestor simulation

[@Verrisin]

invisible smart tech sounds like a nice idea ... until you remember it's owned by someone else, who now effectively owns you...

[@martinwyke]

On the volunteers thing, you don't even need to alter the volunteers, only filter the volunteers into a cohort that matches their natural predisposition.

[@Pheonix1328]

Klemperer Rosette and Kerr Ring?! I've never heard of those before and I thought I watched all your videos lol.

[@rijulsunny]

That's what I thought! Definitely need an episode on that

[@serenityindeed]

Looking forward to the next space station episode!

[@basildaoust2821]

Great video, but I do have an issue with one statement, that scientists won't break the rules to get answers. You can if you chose open the history books and see that we did just that and these are the cases we know about.

[@vipondiu]

The Hype for that August schedule is high!!!

[@shanerooney7288]

3:34 They operate on the curious principle of “defocused temporal perception.” In other words they have the capacity to see dimly into the immediate future, which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators. Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.

[@1873Winchester]

Noooo I want a toaster that's primitive, doesn't think and prefetrably so primitive it does not even use basic electronics, but lasts a hundred years.

[@mbmurphy777]

Which episodes do you usually present your book recommendation for the month? Thanks

[@klausgartenstiel4586]

i have a different intuition. the challenges will never end. and no amount of intelligence, knowledge, or understanding will ever be enough.

[@rhuiah]

Great episode. And from a certain perspective, it only took a quintillionth of an second to make (including the creation of the entire universe, etc. that necessarily preceded it).

[@jack1701e]

3:35 all I could think of was that talking toaster scene in Red dwarf :P

[@ComputerGarageLLC]

When I first seen the title I thought it said, The Galactic Library - which might be an interesting video also.

[@JohnBoen]

I suspect I would be one of those people who snorted and injected, and installed, and uploaded, and experienced and rebooted, and ...

[@philoposos]

"They care about their own survival more than that of other civilizations" -- unless they've also developed a post-modern set of values...

[@michaela2634]

People with that mindset will become less and less common in our so-called post-modern society. How many children do you think the average "post-modernist" has? Maybe 1. Now how many children does the average Orthodox Jewish, Amish, or conservative Muslim have? The answer is 6-7. Or even the average, moderate, practicing Muslim or Christian? The answer is still 2-3. My point is that post-modernists are a dying breed. And the effects are already apparent in many parts of the world.

[@nealsterling8151]

@@michaela2634 That maybe true. But accroding to that logic the world would be filled with Orthodox Jewish, Amish, or conservative Muslim, as you said. The problem with that theory is what is called Zeitgeist and what way of life is portrayed more desirable at a certain point at time. It is not that people are born to with a post modern mindset, they adopt it by propaganda and outside influence in general.

[@renderproductions1032]

Wait a second… This channel’s initials is I.A. Flip it around, and you get A.I. With that perfect narrator voice, is Isaac actually an A.I? |-O-| Probably not, but he still makes perfect videos. Keep it up.

[@unintentionallydramatic]

It WOULD explain the content output. Video content often clocks in at a 1:40 rate of minute of content:minute or work or more.

[@merendell]

Considering everything that's happened the last year I'm pretty sure a few cultural, psychological and genetic experiments of dubious morality have already been going on.

[@levigriffin5553]

I've already got a breakfast bagle sandwhich and a cup of sheng pu'erh tea ready for my drink and snack. Happy Arthursday!

[@kingali1606]

Nice, hope it's good!

[@levigriffin5553]

@@kingali1606 it's delicious, thanks!

[@gregcampwriter]

The best toaster is the one that sits on the counter and does absolutely nothing until I tell it to do so.

[@LukeDavidsRules]

We could be on one of those worlds used specifically for collecting data, how would we know this if the civilization acquiring the data is for instance a k3 civilization?

[@travelforever8328]

Another Isaac postulated this same kind of theory.... I love your work Sir

[@Cooky00123]

Did he just make the case for simulation theory?

[@TheArtofFugue]

no way i’m here this early on arthursday! Bout to pop my earbuds in and listen to this while i work.

[@OneOnOne1162]

7:43 - That's true, HOWEVER it's important to note that this is a potential confound. A person choosing to do something specific may already be different in some important way psychologically before that decision is even made. Edit: Nevermind, he mentions the self-selection bias at 8:36.

[@viper-ko4qq]

So what I'm about to say is overly simplified but is simplified but I argue that energy can only be transferred or transformed never destroyed so therefore all the electrical impulses in your brain in a way is an echo or at least a type of a soul so when you die what does that mean Is the simply all the electrical impulses that made made you twitch move bank all those things simply just disappear or just transform into something else and could there possibly be an echo of it Also I apologize if grammar spelling or anything like that is incorrect I'm using my text to talk while driving I often listen to a lot of your videos on the way to work love your show love all your ideas and concepts absolutely fascinating and very stimulating

[@connerogrady5035]

I always forget how much better Thursday mornings are

[@Elliandr]

17:40 Even if a soul does exist that wouldn't necessarily mean that a mind can't be simulated. Such an assumption implies that a soul would be unique to organic life which wouldn't make sense for supernatural phenomena. And if there was something about organic life that was required then that something could also be simulated. Personally, I'm inclined to believe that a soul represents the capacity to continue. I am therefore I continue. Just by developing consciousness a soul is inclined to appear. Even if that consciousness is a program running in a computer. That said, I do wonder about the implications of such. If you copy a program do you also copy a soul? Or does that same Soul connect to more than one program as a sort of parallel incarnation? And what kind of information might be imparted on an AI that had a pre-existing soul because it's a reincarnation? If a soul does exist what's to stop you from becoming an AI in your next incarnation? Or an AI running on the internet today becoming a human baby tomorrow? And what happens if the soul has the capacity to choose to leave its vessel? What happens if you program the simulation to not be able to be stopped, but the soul of the program decides to leave?

[@donaldhobson8873]

Is there a magic supernatural "soul". No there isn't. Why is this hard?

[@calebkirschbaum8158]

Because we have no empirical evidence for or against it. We have logical arguments, but nothing which could prove it.

[@bohkory2690]

Interesting piece though I tend stick to the technical shows. Some good points mentioned, worth noting regarding aliens, thefuture. For example "if they have a better technology to be THE interstellar species than mine own. They would let us know already." There are TWO scenarios. And in the 2nd whereby THE dominant species stills needs your equipment. Both though same true origins. Your Welcome . -Boh

[@destrobatman5640]

Allways burn mine.maybe if it made coffee too it would be perfect😃

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

Every time I watch an Isaac Arthur video I get strong urges to boot up Stellaris again with a different type of societey/species...

[@AdredenGaming]

I think there is another thought for alien survival imperatives. My own ethics derive from the knowledge of organisms cooperating. There is a major case to say that organisms that cooperate do better in the long run then none cooperating organisms. Symbiosis of organelles, Multicellularism, eusocial creatures are examples. It wouldn't be hard to see how being friends and merging with other alien species could be beneficial, from the machinery of cells to the technology of the species, a hybrid vigor could occur. Maybe a video on this idea could be fun. Something along the lines of alien partners or merging with aliens. --- on a differnt note, with an experiment on long term evolution of Ecoli it was found that even after decades of human care evolutionary perfection to their environment was still occurring. The cells evolved new ways to break down the media they were living in to get extra energy to reproduce. Thus giving them the survival advantage. There is a video on YT about it. Cheers have a good day

[@Rockersoccerhockey]

OMG the drunk alien that passes out. i had to watch it twice... laughed harder the second time because I was looking more at him and the deeper details LMAO that was great

[@nexusoflife]

Isaac I think you may want to look into the subject of Nonduality and how that would affect humanity in the future. The KZbin channel called "Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal" is a good place to start.

[@Aurinkohirvi]

The super intellect civs Vernon Vinge's books "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "The Children of the Sky" I found very interesting. The calculation power of a single star however still blows my mind. It's enormous! To build or not a Matroshka brain... it could be dangerous. Or it could just start to ignore its builders, maybe even the universe, and have its own interests that supercede everything in the universe.

[@virutech32]

A matrioshka brain is just a computer & there's no reason you have to make it a singular sentient AI. It could be a bunch of AI's keeping each other in check or just untold numbers of people, but if you wanted AI ud have to figure out how to do regular AI safely first before making this sort of god-like stellar-scale AI

[@cherokeevolfusa2891]

Technology running in the background would make LARP worlds very viable. I believe this will be where humanity diverges. With A.I. and robots doing all the work and science why not live in a medieval paradise or the wild west? Some people might opt to permanently seclude themselves on world's like this.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

Isaac you're awesome, but i had an argument with someone in the comments of another video for calling me naive and clueless. I need to avoid venting, which means getting some fresh air and oxygen into my lungs. If you're curious as to what, it was because I was asking of a quote someone was attributing to Joseph Goebbels was really said by him or if it was a video game reference. And I just fucking lost it. You are awesome as always, I'm just mad enough to spit RN. Will rewatch this later when I don't feel like the emo kid I was 20 years ago.

[@virutech32]

it's so unfortunate when people respond to legitimate questions with douchebaggery. not everyone knows everything & the only way we move forward is by asking. never stop bein curious bruh, even if some people gunna be dicks about it.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

@@virutech32 oh i went off on him before I forced myself away from the keys. made sure he knew just what he sounded like. basically I questioned whether or not a quote by Joseph Goebbels (can't spell his name) was legit. Primarily because the quote sounded like a strategy game reference rather than a legit quote, and I don't trust everything I hear on the internet immediately. There's a couple things that bother me, for starters, he probably only said that because my username contains the word "anime" in it. I'd bet my last dollar for the month that if I had a username or user pic glorifying BLM or ANTIFA that he wouldn't have said that. But because my username contains the word "anime" somehow that same question makes me naive and clueless. For another his comment implies that he's one of those "video games are for kids you lazy slob" types. My gut reaction when I'm faced with that is to rub the person's nose in a Dead Space Death Animation compilation and ask if that looks like a child's game to them. Then I feel like rubbing their noses in Caesar in Fallout New Vegas mistaking Heigelian dialectics for destiny and or how Cerberus in Mass Effect 2 and 3 is a criticism of American Exceptionalism. And nobody is exempt from my doing that when they judge a video game as being "for kids" or "stupid". When the new COPPA rules passed, in protest to their including cartoony characters and video games in their list of stuff clearly marketed to kids, I sent them Southpark's "How would you like to suck my balls Mr. Garrison?" scene and aforementioned compilation of Dead Space Death Scenes. "yeah tell me again how cartoons and video games are for kids?"

[@Mirandorl]

You just made it far more likely that Talky Toaster from Red Dwarf will become a horrifying reality.

[@zappawench6048]

Mr Arthur, I wonder if you have seen the "Alien Worlds" series on Netflix? It seems like you, and viewers of your channel, would enjoy this series!

[@hhjk377]

[ The Reapers liked that ]

[@Wolfphototech]

*What if there is a level beyond space ( above / around it ) ?*

[@grimreaper6557]

To Learn all there is to Learn to Explore all that can be Explored for the simple reason it is there for Knowlage sake

[@jesseberg3271]

IA says that, as a physicist, he thinks the laws of physics are going to prove to have been fairly simple all along. Now, disclaimer, I am not an optimist, at least not be SFIA standards. But what strikes me about that is that physicists have been saying similar things since Newton. Every generation of physicists has thought they either had all the answers, or were about to have all the answers, and all of them have been wrong. Now, maybe this generation of physicists is right where all those others had been wrong, and we're about to write the last textbook that will answer all the questions. But my money is on the complexity of the Universe over the capacity of the current human mind.

[@LennyDeee]

That's just a fallacy talking. Just because you feel like something should be complex doesn't mean it is. The true reality (as alternative science is finding atm via AI) will be simple as anything. Complexity is emergent not integral

[@jonathanhensley6141]

Another incredible video.

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

Great vid like always