Who Wins in a Simulation? Liberal vs Conservative

Simulation Link (Unity 3D): github.com/hunar4321/find-glo...
DNA based life reproduces exponentially and because of the limited local resources, it will hit a wall. Internal struggle arises leading to optimization, hence, the survival of the fittest becomes the objective of life.
The purpose of this simulation is not to present the state-of-the-art algorithms but to bridge and link the terms that are used in the Machine Learning world, biology, and politics by making these toy simulations digestible to all related parties. I believe the Machine learning world can give so much to the other fields because life in essence is a survival optimization problem where everything is complicated by being stuck at a Local Maximum.
Important Note:
Absolute Global Maxima might not exist but at any point there might be several Maxima where one of them is relatively better than the others, hence, we label the best one a Global Maximum and the others Local Maxima.
Some experts say that Local Maxima doesn't matter in very high dimensional landscapes. This is true if the convergence speed doesn't matter and also if all dimensions have equal weights. However, we know that is not the case, convergence speed always matters in a competitive world like ours as all Life forms are in a tough race for survival. Also, not all dimensions have the same impactful weight. Many dimensions can be ignored or they are already pruned or not accessible, therefore, the actual number of the plausible dimensions is much less than the available dimensions.
Why Is Life Full of Struggle? Success Simulation Using Liberal & Conservative Agents Reaching Maxima
Other related videos:
Artificial Life: • Create Artificial Life...
Simulation Hypothesis: • Create a Universe From...
Other related Algorithms: Neat algorithm, Hill Climbing, Particle swarm optimization...,etc.
Other Optimization techniques that uses Calculus: Gradient Descent, Adam, Recursive Least Squares…, etc.
Other terms: Local Minimum & Global Minimum (when objective is minimizing error)
Deep Learning techniques are good to avoid being stuck at local maximum as they use many layers and lots of data.
Other learning methods: Hebbian Learning, Winner takes it all (WTA),
Topics: Neural Networks Machine Learning Mathematics Science brain neuroscience liberal conservative evolution politics left progressive right conservative artificial intelligence philosophy
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Website: www.brainxyz.com/
00:00 Reaching Your Goal In a Dark World
01:54 Hill Climbing Algorithm
03:32 The Local Maximum Problem
06:27 How Brain Learns (Hebb's rule)
09:13 Liberals vs. Conservatives
11:54 Evolution
16:25 Threat Simulation (Survival)
18:25 Existential Threats and Internal Struggle
20:22 Final Simulation
26:44 Sub-Global Maxima
30:00 Instincts (To increase signal)
32:06 Love (To share traits)
35:24 Memory (To expand vision)
35:53 Intelligence (To interpolate and extrapolate i.e generalize)
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[@DushyanthEdadasula]

Bro, among the billion things I loved about this, the single most thing I'd like to comment on is the way you build the narrative. You are a master storyteller!

[@DannyHudetz]

true, the music helps with that

[@birdbeakbeardneck3617]

33:43 am not crying you are

[@hillarymapondera4122]

If we had teachers like these in the world, learning difficult concepts would have been a piece of a cake,,, The narrative part is Gold

[@edreds2145]

AMONG? AMONG US?

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

when that reveal happened with the comet all of the sudden lmao. That was real drama.

[@JohnDoe-gv9gi]

25 years of learning and this might just be the most interesting concept I have ever learned in my life. I have literal goosebumps

[@Invisible12345ful]

I'd like to say this is one of the most important videos/ideas I have ever grasped. You were not kidding when you said "When I learned about the local maximum, it was the most mind blowing concept I heard in my life". I knew about local maximum before, I have tried to battle them on my own by increasing step jump length or trying random parameters, but could never be sure if it was the global maximum. Processing speed is a real challenge in these kind of tasks - not that I wouldn't wait for 5 days, I don't want to wait for 300'000 years to find the global maximum. Bringing this idea closer to meaning of life has blown my mind even more, this explains so much about why some people feel comfortable with where they are, and why some people want to shoot for "impossible" goals, why there are so much failed lives and incredible success stories. To make it all even more complicated, the amount of conservative/liberal traits in a person is likely a non-binary variable. This even applies on individual level. Are you on your local maximum? What higher maximums do you have around you? How much risk do you need to take before trying to achieve those maximums? Are you better off remaining in safety or trying something risky in order to achieve bigger achievements? Is it even in theory possible to reach a global maximum? This is just insane, my thinking is completely changed, my mind is blown. I also watched the "Artificial Life (Simulation & Code)" video before this one and it already blew my mind, this one just completely finished me off. Fully from heart I am very thankful you have made this amazing piece of educational content, please never delete it.

[@brainxyz]

Thanks a lot for the encouraging feedback and reveiw

[@katungwakioko465]

Mind blowing. I am from watching the 'artificial life' and by the way this guy explains these facts raises many questions. The question is how do I find my global maximum. Thank you for this.

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

Resource and Time costs play BIG TIME into what we're able to even reach. Sometimes we are "forced conservatives" just because we don't want to starve or be homeless. People with enough resources have much more chance to explore beyond what is familiar.

[@brainxyz]

Hi Everyone! I want to clarify some points here: 1. This is a simple simulation. The main aim here is to generate interest in "Local Maxima" which is a mathematical concept that has a much wider implications than many of us realize. 2. Local and Global maxima are abstract concepts. For example, if your goal is to become the number one chess player in the world, that is your Global Maximum. If you reach it, congratulations. If not, then it's possible that either you haven't tried well or you have tried but you stuck on a Local Maximum. You know that when you try hard but your progress is stuck, this is the situation where you should consider unconventional methods. Another example, let's say your goal is to find a cure for cancer. You take the obvious steps toward becoming a medical doctor, and you achieve sub-optimal results by treating some of the cancer patients. However, the ultimate cure may come from an engineer who will invent a nano-device that can attack & destroy cancer cells. 3. Absolute Global Maxima might not exist (we don't know what's life's end goal). However, it's still insightful to assume that the ultimate goal of DNA-based life is its survival & continuity. 4. Liberal & Conservative terms in this simulation doesn't map directly to the political factions but you are free to draw your conclusions. In real life, things are more complex and more mixed. 5. The optimal ratio of Liberals vs Conservatives might vary depending on the situation. Let's say Bob's tendency to invest in crypto. based on 30% of winning versus Alice's tendency to invest when her chance of winning is 80%, in this case, it's obvious that Alice is more conservative. In a well-functioning society, both types are necessary but if more evidence pointed to a higher risk in crypto investments, then a higher conservative ratio might be more optimal. 6. For those who want to tinker with the simulation, the code is available on GitHub in the description section. Also, I have revisited this topic with more sophisticated algorithms in my later videos on consciousness and GPT By the way, I'm really flattered by some of the comments here ☺( I swear I haven't paid any of them nor made any advertisement ). Thank you from my heart for all the encouraging words. The video itself have stuck on a local maximum for the last year and only recently got more views because of my recent video about "Artificial Life". It looks like people are now trusting my content more and they watch it till the end despite my weird accent!

[@TouringBassist]

Added you on LinkedIn. This video is incredible! You've gotta do one where the basics of the world are there. Plants that grow with water and sunlight in land that can support it. Animals that eat plants. Animals that eat one another. Different physical traits, different mental traits. Have them all be completely random values. Let attractiveness be appearance and confidence based, where confidence is visible swagger from a life of good choices. Let them all have sex. Let them sleep. Make a 3D real-world biodome much like the 2D one you created, but assign real world attributes to them. Use real world assets in unity, try to do a 1:1 mapping with real things -- physical, concepts, whatever -- that exist in our world. You're onto something amazing my friend!

[@SavvygeMediaGroup]

your accent is not weird, your voice is calm and collective

[@deltalima9640]

You blew my mind. On so many levels. Including that its worthwhile listening to people with accent 😜 No. That was a joke. I have an accent myself. But I have rarely seen a video of a narrator with accent, that made me stick around. So, kudos to you.

[@MilkDrinker01]

the artificial life video was a banger, instantly subbed (which i rarely do) and this was in my recomended. both were great watches

[@andregustavo2086]

Man, you should make a TED Talk about this. This definitely deserves one!

[@CagrTunca]

This concept should be taught in primary school as a fundemental viewpoint to life. Amazing storytelling and visualization. Thanks very much for your efforts.

[@barzijaf9369]

I totally enjoyed every minute of watching and listening to this. Such presentation needs more recognition. Thank you very much for your insights.

[@brainxyz]

Thanks for the nice feedback

[@EmptySpa_e]

1. If you enjoyed this video I recommend the books The Black Swan/Antifragile by Nassim Taleb and Complexity by Melanie Mitchell. They're easy to read and full of insights related to the ideas in this video 2. This should have a billion views. Seriously, well done

[@Luis-ni8hl]

I'm more than a year late, but this is possibly a great topic for a sci-fi novel. From small steps to gigantic leaps across many existential abysses, running away from extinction, complex automata trying to prolong the simulation set up by the ultimate life form.

[@ohjahohfrick9837]

One thing that helps evolution not get stuck is the fact that the terrain itself changes over time(literally and figuratively). With valleys turning into peaks, peaks into plateaus, and whole mountain ranges popping out of the sea. This tells us how important chaos is at speeding up evolution, and I think it's no coincidence that humans were forged from a time and place with an incredibly chaotic climate.

[@andreaszetterstrom7418]

Does the terrain change though? Perhaps it's rather your view of the terrain that changes due to new information or experience? I would argue that in this metaphor the terrain is the absolute truth but the agents with their short sight and lack of understanding of what their actions result in does not see much of it and therefore get an incorrect internal visualization of the terrain.

[@ohjahohfrick9837]

@@andreaszetterstrom7418 The change I am referring to is the change in environment that leads to different strategies being more/less successful than they used to be. Meaning literal(continental drift/climate change) and figurative(the video's metaphor) terrain change. For instance animals wouldn't do quite well in a world without oxygen, and mega-fauna don't do quite well in a world with a lot of humans, but in other environments they both do quite well.

[@qwerasdliop2810]

This video is incredible, and I think it might be life changing. My biggest take away from this is that we must take a conservative path to the local maximum, and once we reach there we must act progressively. This is true for every goal/path in life. I have been facing a difficult decision in my life, where I feel like I have reached a path to the global maximum for one of my interests, however the path I am currently following may not lead me to the global maximum for other things, such as happiness or wealth. Now that I am on a path to the global maximum, this video makes it clear to me that I should act more progressively. I should explore other dimensions progressively, despite following my main path conservatively. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! This video is truly eye opening

[@LeetMath]

the real trick is that you have lots of agents trying things and you can try to see how the others are doing and try to copy them based on how well they seem to be doing. this strategy is used by most humans, and the result is we look for role models who seem to have managed to achieve great things & live successful lives

[@nedames3328]

Individual maxima and group maxima are often different. If society glorifies winning at all costs people will copy that. Empathy, compassion and justice give way to blindness, indifference, and selfishness. If society honors honest contributions, working together, and the rare genius' ability to see further we get more of that. Feedback loops work both ways. Research into cooperation/competition using agent models shows how quickly a community can flip from competition to cooperation or vice versa. It's complicated.

[@dekippiesip]

@@nedames3328 it's a bit of a controversial opinion, but this is why I like capitalism. I think it is the best system that naturally gives rise not necessarily to genuine cooperation but at least to symbiotic relations in society. This gets the best of both worlds. In order to maximally win as an individual, you need to contribute a lot to the collective. By making the amount you win proportional to your contributions to society we incentivize contributing to society without demonizing personal ambition. If you build a large company that makes life very convenient for countless millions by making ot easy to buy stuff online, you get a lot of money. If you invent a new form of energy you get very rich and society as a whole advances too. Your succes doesn't have to come at the cost of others, instead your succes depends on how much you help others. Of course you do have leeches in this system. They are criminal organizations, scammers, etc. They get to the top by putting others down, either by misleading them or coercing them with the threat of violence. These are indeed part of the problem.

[@jessehorstman]

Where are the people who are worth emulating?

[@wojciechmackowiak24]

holy shit this is gold. Love how you get the feeling of being a part of a group that's working together towards something that benefits everyone even thought we are different and need to be in order to survive long term. Problem solving in the multidimensional environment where there are many good but not great solutions requires multiple approaches and optimal balans between them. Here for the first time and I absolutely love your video. This should go viral for more people to appreciate this beautifully explained concept

[@Tubeytime]

The story about trying to reach our former glory at the global maximum ties together the philosophies of religion and science so well. I love the idea that heaven and hell aren't places we go, but rather they're places we create right here in our back yard. Loved your insights and can't wait to see what other ideas you share.

[@burkhardstackelberg1203]

One more experiment: Make the youngsters mire liberal, with the elders getting more and more conservative. The elders will stick to what they found, while the youngsters go out and explore.

[@tung-hsinliu861]

This is actually a very very good video! Doesn't involve in difficult theories and maths, but is funny and throws out quite accurate and mind blowing real life examples for us to think about. This video is seriously underrated! Seriously why is this video only 3.7k views

[@devon9075]

Your agents need some kind of a sensory input about the risks from their environment. You should add a sense function for them that is a logarithmic relationship to their current height difference from the water surface. This pressure sense will give them the ability to 'feel' when danger is near, and create a selective pressure for ones that can respond to their environment and adjust accordingly. You also need to make sure the agents dont have a 50/50 chance of rolling liberal vs conserv. That would be cool to see as a hyperparemeter or set of parameters that can fluctuate. Really cool video. Thanks for sharing.

[@1abyrinth]

Wow. Just wow. I'll admit when I first saw how overwhelmingly positive the comments were I was a bit suspicious and after watching the first half or so of the video I thought I had already figured out what your conclusion was going to be, but I was sorely mistaken (in the best way possible) when you took it so much further. I can say the positive comments are definitely deserved. I disagree with a couple of (relatively minor) points you made, but the quality of how you presented your information and explanations without being too dry nor overly dumbed down is truly impressive, as well as is how you started with what seemed like a rather ordinary (but still interesting) mathematical problem and ended up with a deep and existential conclusion.

[@uncanalmenor]

The philosophical question is global maximum of what? What's the real goal societies and life more generally strive toward? Is it pure survival at all costs? Is it something so subjective and immeasurable as happiness? Maybe life just is and there's really no trophy. Maybe life's goal is not the solution to an optimization problem. Maybe we shot way off the global maximum at the crevices of an hydrothermal vent in the bottom of the ocean and we are just hanging out at the metastable catastrophe between multiple local minimum.

[@kasper7203]

I am here to share what I found as a failure.. 1. Don't slow down, you are never safe... You must work hard constantly and always. I worked hard for about the first 18 years of my life and then I started thinking it is OK to persue dreams instead of making decisions based on what would give me the best chance of survival.. That was a mistake. 2. It is very very very hard to get off a bad path. You must do everything you can to avoid going down one because once you make 1 mistake, it becomes harder and harder to avoid the next ones. 3. Don't get involved in conflict unless you are in an absolute position to be able to help or can handle the worst possible outcome. If there is a bully, picking on somone, walk away no matter how hard it might be. Trying to help when you have no power is not brave, it is foolish. 4. The world is a dark and hard place. The lessons we learn as children from fairytales are almost all false. Good does not always win over evil, evil wins most of the time. Honesty is not the best policy. Money is very important. Love does not conquer all. What others think about you does matter, popularity does matter. Judging a book by its cover is somewhat an indication of its content. 5. No one wants to help you. In reality, once you get into real trouble (aka can't find work, losing your significant other, lose your life savings, get really sick).. No one, not your parents, siblings, best friend or the government wants to help you. Real problems don't have solutions that are easy and once you get yourself into that kind of situation, you will realise you are on your own. People only care about those who have something to offer. If you can't give them anything then they lose interest. I hope this helps somone out there to avoid my mistakes. If you don't agree that is fine and I understand.. Most of my life I was naive to the harsh reality of life as well. But you realise it soon when you reach the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy and find yourself without food, money, a place to sleep and other things I took for granted.

[@meinnameistlol5081]

sorry, thats BS, you live in a world fear my friend. almost everything you said, its absolute the contrary haha. yeah, dont take things for granted and things fall not from the sky but you live in a state of lack and will percieve everything from that perspective my life experience has shown me otherwise and it is/wasnt always easy.

[@kasper7203]

@@meinnameistlol5081 hope you don't have to learn the hard way.

[@GermanTopGameTV]

What I gained from this: finding a local maximum is impossible unless you observe the entire space of solutions. While that is impossible, what we find is the bigger the observed space of solutions is, the more likely we are to find a maximum. So, to be successful, you don't need a special game plan. What you need is to expand the solution space as wide as possible (while still being able to process it that is)

[@gtasa4life]

You’re the one of those who move the world to global maxima. By inspiring people with such videos, you can trigger some other hidden talents to work towards the main goal, the ultimate goal. I’m happy I’ve discovered your channel (from russian guy’s translation video), can’t wait to watch your other videos. Thank you!

[@davidzyuz2860]

God damn it’s absolutely mind blowing! Thanks to the youtube recommendations it shows me a translated version of your video (from another channel), which author put a link to the original video. So your ideas spreads on other languages. Thank you for your work it’s absolutely awesome!

[@Letsbehealthy437]

What a mind blowing video! After watching that video, I don’t know whether I have to cry or just ignore that reality, because thinking about it always, kills you…

[@brainxyz]

Thanks for the nice feedback! The reality can be tough but known it gives us the insight to solve the upcoming challenges.

[@richardpatnaude2484]

Coming into this I was not expecting the quality or the narrative. It is excellent! I’m going to share this with as many people as I can.

[@saras8120]

I tihnk this video changed my life - thank you for this amazingly creative and insightful lens on humanity's struggles. You simplified it in a way that does not take away from the point you are making. Bravo. Genuinely blown away. This type of thinking could help humanity find peace 🙌

[@xenicmark]

Wow, just wow! Every once in a while I come across a channel that is brilliant. This might be one of the most brilliant I've seen in a while.

[@Torpidity]

This is such a high-quality video. Well done on the production quality and the storytelling. Extremely well-done. I'm surprised this doesn't already have 150k+ views

[@lyuboslavilov]

Omg, mister. I just stumbled upon your channel. I love the content, your narrators script and the actual presentation. Thank you! And what you said (paraphrasing) Life organisms are interfaces to the DNA effort to reach the global maximum... Just mind blowing...

[@nilo_river]

This video should be shown to everyone who is now saying that one side is better than the other. Here in Brazil, polarization is extreme and everyone only accepts their side.

[@gunjitkumar]

This is what KZbin was made for, Sharing Ideas Now it has come down to reels, moving the humanity towards global Minima

[@ZubairKhan-sp8vb]

This should explode on the internet. Truely marvelous!

[@rolands8200]

Hei, Brainxyz! You have a wonderful content! I'm so glad I saw your comment under the russian version of this video and could find the original one! Keep up the good work!

[@llaith2]

Dude! Who are you!? :D This really is the answer to everything! I now see this everywhere, in my relationships, my work choices, my lifestyle... and everyone else's. Totally fascinating! Superb job!

[@Josephkerr101]

Criminally under viewed content.

[@AhmedMuhammed12]

دەستت خۆشبێت دکتۆر گیان . Good job

[@CalemSmith]

This is truly brilliant. I'll do my best to get as many people as possible to see this...

[@kennethbeal]

32 minutes in, the answer? "LOVE"! Not sure I can properly capture the feeling I am experiencing, here; when you said that, my intestines gurgled. This is often (not 100%!) a message from one's higher self of encouragement. Earlier today I had expressed that "love is the answer to all questions" so this was really neat, almost a "response/answer/confirmation"! Loving your presentation, thank you! Then you moved on to have one of them pray for you after you saved it, that's so cute! :) Thank you again, subscribed. God bless in Jesus name.

[@spencer__]

Amazing work. This is a video series I have wanted to make for a long time, you executed it perfectly. I think creating simulations like this to explain complex social and economic ideas has massive potential to pull humanity out of short sighted thinking. Awesome work

[@SidharthGat]

This video can hardly be overpraised. Well done man!

[@Soma2501]

Love the optimism towards human progress and how we can get there

[@anonoanon1198]

Programming, algorithms, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, all at once. Great video.

[@timen.space.]

Amazing! :) Thank you for putting in all the work to create this video. I learned some cool new concepts and the video linked together some neurons in my brain that were not very linked together before watching this video.

[@matthewdukes3207]

Kind of reminds me of that logic riddle where if you're looking at 2 different jobs. One pays between 50 and 150 percent of the national average and fluctuates. Where the other pays between 80 and 120 percent of the national average and fluctuates. Which job should you pick? If you want short term financial security the 80-120 would be less of a fluctuation and therefore less of a risk. But assuming you have to spend money to make money, and value of the currency you're making changes, the 50- 150 has a higher chance of putting you at a greater local maximum in time for some catastrophic historical event. Yet simultaneously has a higher chance of making sure you're the first one to sink when the water starts rising.

[@pal181]

Magnificent video, discovering your statements myself was quite harsh tho, but your delivery smooths out the corners!

[@DaveDevourerOfPineapple]

One of the most fascinating and insightful videos on KZbin, without a doubt. I absolutely loved this. Instant subscribe, so glad the algorithm threw this my way!

[@Carlo1208]

What an awesome video. Im gonna spread it as far as I can, more people need to learn about this approach - many thanks for the work and thoughts you put into this!

[@groadybones]

I absolutely adore this video. Fantastic work. You merge several concepts, some of them from wildly different disciplines, and you did it beautifully.

[@rainbowskyrunner]

Thank you for this creation and your work on our common goals as a species. The one thing I could think of to add is individual and group sourcing of information both in a liberal way making large jumps and nets of information about how to make further jumps even safer, and more conservative localized concentrated information pools about how to maintain safe ground. Both sides should still maintain a focus on information that gives them an advantage at their given strategy. This could represent high level organization and institutions of various sizes becoming increasingly more adept at their given strategy and would allow for increasing variance in strategies that are effective. Further simulating the effectiveness of focused intentional strategic efforts. Like local individuals forming groups to assist and compete. Because human beings use our brains to store data in the many ways they do and there for our minds are creating a internal to external mapping of reality that we are all creating higher and higher levels of decentralized global communication and community through the internet and the global economic relationships. I do feel like you have done well to simulate this already thus why I said to further simulate. That is it hope it makes since and is inspiring or informative in some way.

[@rafikisreise282]

Wow! by far the most important Video I saw after 15 years of youtubing! You deeply understood this concept and are able to share it with such a love. Thank you deeply -greatings from germany

[@bmo7454]

Wow, stumbled upon this video randomly but I must say......very, very nice man. Quality info, Great amount of humor and effects....seriously. Thumbs up x100 (o.o")

[@Raiden-hi1gr]

This is simple yet such accurate approximation of life. I myself made a huge jump to the unknown a few years ago, when I decided to move to a new place without much acquaintances, information about it and understanding my capabilities. I happend to be on much lower point than before and since then I was thinking this whole thing over. Now I see the place where I am and a path to improve it a bit more clearly. Thank you for this amazing video!

[@DigitalPlayer9]

Very inspirative , thank you so much for sharing your "point of view", so crucial. I'm happy I found you, I subscribed to your channel. I'm currently preparing my audience to talk about this kind of subject, I already started. Before I was doing translations but recently I opened myself to people by sharing my point of view on the world. I believe, I think we're pretty much on the same mountain. Please don't stop, the world needs this type of content ♥️

[@kzakaria91]

Man, your videos are awesome and inspiring. Thank you so much

[@sepro5135]

One cool thing, among many others you showed, is that this principle can also be used to explain a lot of things in your personal live. On the one hand mundane things like: Lying in the couch is a local comfort maximum but if you would leave that, you could reach a higher local maximum, like lying there with the dishes done or having worked out or even just having grabbed a cup of coffee. On the other hand, it can be used to explain in a very simplified way, why people don’t leave a 5 year relationship in which they are not happy, even if they are only 25. Or why people don’t leave a job, they are unhappy with, although they have enough money to bridge the gap to the next job. Or many other big and small, personal, societal and global issues.

[@MattLaMasse]

I'm so glad YT recomanded this, other comments will wrote it better but hey man, this was absolutely amazing.

[@cronch8903]

The way concepts are explained make them so easy to grasp, came here from the Artificial Life video and I have to say when there will be more content like this then I will FOR SURE watch it when I get the opportunity.

[@Ryzeke]

Thank you for this video! I've had ideas similar to this, but they were too loosely connected and never made salient. Your work has finally given me the understanding I was craving!

[@HigherSelfKorea]

OMG, this is soooo good!! It explains so much! One has to be willing to go into dips in order to find a new height (or die). And it explains why there are always clusters of knowledge and survival strategies. I think this can be applied not only to survival and genetics, but also to cultural value-systems. Of course there are always higher grounds in effectiveness and way of life, but once someone has reached a cultural local maximum (e.g. christianity, judaism, wicca, scientism, new age spirituality, existentialism, capitalism etc.) that's most often the end of the story. From time to time, there are individuals who might reach a new height through uncertainty and struggle, but most often they end up in the ocean alone eventually. They might even communicate a new truth, but the other clusters would probably interpret it according to their maximum standard. Thank you Hunar, this was amazingly eye-opening! I didn't even know, such research was being done.

[@brainxyz]

Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I keep telling my friends that "local maxima" concept can be applied everywhere not only in mathematics.

[@bilalhasan2604]

this is by far the best thing i have ever seen on internet,iam eager for your next topic.thanks for this dr.hunar.

[@brainxyz]

Thanks for the nice feedback

[@Invisible12345ful]

Hey, I saw you changed your title recently. I have sent this video to several non-technical people and I liked the title "How not to stuck at local maxima" more because it would grab more attention and create curiosity (What does this mean? I want to understand better what this guy is about to say). Whereas the current title "Evolution - How to avoid Minima traps" sounds very technical and may be more attractive to people with experience in neurology related sciences and AI's, but for non-technical people it will seem as if I sent them an explanation on how double integrals work. Honestly the content does not deep dive into technicalities, your visualizations have provided a good abstraction layer for non-technical people to grasp the concept, I love it. My advice is to change the title to something more interesting to the general public, but also to spark interest in technical people. And this is not "just something to do", even Veritasium has mentioned how important KZbin titles are for performance of a video. Something like "Local And Global Maxima - Is This The Answer To Everything?" perhaps? I think this video needs to reach a lot more people than you might have expected firstly. There are so much indirect concepts in this video to learn about: future unpredictability, human behavior, politics, evolution, religion, why there are no dinosaurs, elasticity of life, philosophy, intelligence, and so much more. I may have interpreted some things differently than you intended, but some unexplained cut-scenes I think I understood what you wanted to say. Your work is a true masterpiece that should be seen by a lot of people, they may draw their own conclusions but in the end you would change something about how many people think. This video has a potential to impact people on a global scale. Thank you! PS: Copying and pasting the title of your video into KZbin search does not even find your video, that is very annoying. I guess you need to understand what your title will be and stick to it. Maybe bots have not made a clear association.

[@brainxyz]

Thanks a lot for your comment and your nice suggestions, I really appreciate that. Last year, I released this video and put the link in a Facebook group. I got around 2000 views with some very positive feedback but the video stuck with that amount of views for a year! I thought the video has reached its limit because it's too long and narrated by a non-native speaker. However, due to my recent video, this video is getting lots of traffic and positive comments again which now makes me re-think again. I'm currently experimenting with different titles and thumbnails to see what represents this video the best. I'll pin your comment for now and see what other people think and suggest. I'm looking for a representative, interesting title & thumbnail suggestion. Thanks again, I really appreciate the encouraging comments form the viewers 🙏.

[@Invisible12345ful]

@@brainxyz Hey, even if you are not a native speaker, I think your english is very good and understandable. I think it is a great idea to let people suggest different title and thumbnail ideas, after-all as you said, one of the best ways to reach a better maximum is to share ideas. So if anyone here can help this person with popularizing this video, please suggest ideas! :)

[@LevantWasTaken]

It worked for me

[@LevantWasTaken]

@@brainxyz kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWPbeY2GfZqGpMk

[@speedfastman]

@@brainxyz the political representation of "conservative vs liberal" in the thumbnail seems very confusing to me. I definitely thought it was a political video at first glance.

[@flourlesscake3143]

Amazing work. Thank you.

[@johnshearing]

If your cells could think and talk would they recognize that they are part of a single body? Would they recognize that from their activity emerges a consciousness (you) that loves and cares for them simply by loving and caring for itself? Everything in this universe from micro to macro is a neuron communicating faster or slower than we can perceive and through mediums that we are not yet familiar with. The memory and computing power of the universe is beyond limitless. And it's love is beyond endless. Death is impossible. We will all reach Global Maxima together. Do a video on complex adaptive systems and this will all become clear. ❤

[@HemnAhmedhm]

Well done!, we will wait for the next illustration videos

[@vanderkarl3927]

You present complex ideas in a digestible form. Well done!

[@sarkawtkafroshy5413]

without exaggeration this video should be seen by almost every intellectual throughout the world it really expands the way you see life so much greatful for sharing your valuavle ideas kak dr

[@brainxyz]

Thanks Dr.Sarkawt for your nice & lovely feedback.

[@hewaa.babany7879]

Agree 👍 100%

[@brainxyz]

This is also a nice video from Computerphile on Local Maxima: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYTHgaCuh6iKrdU

[@WWLinkMasterX]

This gave me an idea. As you say, each random walk only represents a single dimension. Complex organisms have to 'traverse' several of these dimensions simultaneously. So we might think of each independent landscape to be traversed as a kind of gene. Tendencies toward liberality and conservation are just representations for the different drift rates on the 'landscape,' and so might be considered analogous for the spread of *variance* for a given gene. Finally, at the end you said it would be optimal for both "conservative" and "liberal" types to interbreed, sharing their respective advantages to suit varying challenges. Well, what if a species could be subdivided into two categories, one with considerably greater gene variance than the other. And what if these two groups _had_ to reproduce with one another? I wonder what that would look like, crazy...

[@sebbes333]

*@Brainxyz* One optimization (but less realistic? for the simulation), is that when they take a random step & it turns out to be worse than their previous location, it also means that the opposite direction is an improvement, so they don't really need to take more than 1 random step (but this would definitely make them stuck on local maxima's). Basically: X1 & X2 is 2 different points on the X axis. If X1 > X2 (go that way ). When comparing 2 points, you ALWAYS know which point is biggest, even if your result showed that your new position is smaller ( = previous was bigger).

[@ryanpmcguire]

It boils down to a problem of perception. How does one judge what is better? Clearly, there are competing ideas.

[@GnotAGnome]

So much effort into this video! I cant believe it has so few views

[@starblaiz1986]

Wow, all the comments about how great this video is were certainly not wrong! O= I've been searching for years for insight into the purpose of conservative and liberal views from an evolutionary standpoint. This video was the most insightful 38 minutes and 12 seconds I have EVER found! O= This liberal has a restored confidence in her path, a new vision on how to better apply that mindset, and most imortantly - a newfound appreciation and respect for conservatives and their role in this game we call life. They may be stuck at local maxima, but at least temporarily they act as an anchor point to repopulate from should all the progressives manage to fall foul of the dangers of life. Its on the shoulders of liberals like myself to go out and take those big risky leaps in order to establish higher highs to outrun the rising tide of fate, and we can reduce those risks / make better more educated guesses by communicating and sharing information. Actually mind-blowing and puts so much into context. Thank you

[@shanejohns7901]

@8:55 Whenever it is stuck at a local maximum that is not the prize, that implies that another local maximum elsewhere has the prize. So set a long-term destination direction, and move twice your view distance in that direction. Loop until you find the prize OR you can no longer go in the long-term destination direction, in which case a new long-term destination direction is chosen. I say 'twice the view distance' so as to avoid overlap, but you could play with this value or set it as a family trait subject to evolution.

[@roger_isaksson]

One must consider the 3D surface as an 4D optimization problem. The extra ‘dimension’ of search is accomplished by randomly distributed additional agents searching. The agent could also hypothesize that the surface is, for example, constructed by a 3D polynomial function, or superimposed normally distributed “voxels”/height maps. Perhaps simply assuming that all maxima are local in the “game of life”. The search goes on forever until the agent discovers how to improve the terrain generator function itself.

[@Captain_tiberius]

Amazing video, i had heard of global Maximums before but had not seen the concept applied on such an (in hindsight) obvious level! Your narration did excellent in showing both the value your dna's perspectives, along with the folly's. I have to admit i chuckled at your remark at 34:00 about feeling bad, when i write stories, i find myself thinking similar things. Is a difficult thing when playing god, knowing that your punishing someone for the folly's you designed them to have.

[@akamahmad3129]

That was, actually a Braingasm, thanks Dr Hunar, you’re phenomenal.

[@lasansanjula1909]

i am lucky to have such a great video for free ! also this changed my life for ever ! I think u deserve much bigger ordience !

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

Entertainment Addiction is a local maximum most of us are stuck on because truly Meaningful Accomplishment is too hard. Unless we reach outside the comfort zone...

[@nekemli1491]

We think it's too hard but it'd really not and we know it

[@OysteinG]

Holy f*** thi video caught me off guard. You literally changed the way I look at risk-taking in humans. Hopefully I will be more respectful to careful people in the future (I'm a risk-taker).

[@MyArtsProduction]

My brain is working at a local maximum during your videos.

[@guitarrock58]

This was an awesome video, really funny too, and great music choice, I loved all of it !

[@x200ants]

Strangely the video is exploding in terms of views after what seems like a year of relative inactivity. It's not too early, the video is well done. I think that this is due to the video 'Artificial Life (Simulation & Code)'. It was fun to play with that software too ! :D

[@karakson]

Bruhh; amazing and mind blowing thoughts and experiment and everything, thank you for that! This is like a super massive black hole of many information of the related videos can be found on KZbin.

[@karakson]

OK... I wrote this comment at about 15:30. Now I have no words.

[@karakson]

OMG! How can such a well constructed video even exist :DDD

[@alvarito8496]

Every video that you make, is a work of a genius. My respect.

[@petersmythe6462]

I think a huge optimization to both these agents would be to backtrack most seriously failed moves and then move randomly, instead of moving randomly after a seriously failed move. Like maybe the chance not tobacktrack moves is inversely proportional to how bad the the moves are. So a move losing 0.01 units of utility only has a small chance to be backtracked, while one losing 50 units of utility will have a very high chance.

[@didar384]

This was amazing Dr. Hunar 💞

[@Jmzz542]

Dr. Ahmad, you are a true genius and a hidden gem on youtube. Please keep making these videos, they are literally the only videos maybe on all of youtube that are teaching people new things and making us explore concepts from new perspectives. really well done my man

[@user-fr2jr6hd4i]

Such an inspiring video! Before this video, finding maxima is just a math problem, but now it has different meaning to me.

[@tommicallef]

This is awesome! Well done 🙏🏽

[@Zebramskiy]

You know, there is the most optimistic what i heared for last years. Big thank author for this video. (i watched it in Russian translation,sorry for bad english)

[@MrMoman7]

There I am, realising I am certainly at a local maximum, doing nothing about it:D This video could be seriously life changing for many people, which is the highest decoration for information presented in such a medium. It should be seen by as many people as possible, no doubt. The concept of "prediction" is so useful to explain what the brain is working at.. If able to incorporate this realisation into everyday life, it can really change the perspectice to the better. It is quite close to the goal of meditative practise also - the recognition of the base state of ones conciousness. In respect to the qualia like a twitching muscle seeking to evaluate something - constantly. Being able to control this urge soothes/refreshes the mind in a deep way and enables rational and non-judgemental thoughts... sounds like an ad I suppose:) "I believe the Machine learning world can give so much to the other fields because life in essence is a survival optimization problem where everything is complicated by being stuck at a Local Maximum" - I study biology and the impact of machine learning is already sooo huge, as u perfectly know. Although being able to search/create proteinstructures surely gets funky and morally complicated. We are in for a ride. I will definitely strive to find my own sub-global maximum as best as my little monkeybrain lets me:) 33:28 - or rather die trying, hehe.

[@BartvandenDonk]

You made me think further and asking myself, what is another variable that would help in this picture. One guess is mixing all the interaction with random weights. Like privacy. Somethings you tell somethings you don't. Not all history is kept (invention of writing) or is lost (error reading) a backup tape. Communication over distance. From writing letters and now we have internet. The problem in internet is commercial gain (egoistic gain). Gain in our lifetime, gain for our own offspring. Maybe add ego and altruism? Our feeling of emotions, belonging, thinking about what we don't know, self awareness. There are lots of variables you could add. Your pinned remark explains a lot. That changing (creating new) stories brings people back to this episode (they want to know your history path). I like the way you have grown.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

WOW ~I had no idea this was going to be so relevantly therapeutic for me. I've recently been struggling a lot lately after learning from my endocrinologist, I have an endocrine disorder and he found out it made me infertile. So out of nowhere I started stressing over just knowing, I'm not going to be able to have a kid.. adoption is always a option but the thought of not being able to pass on your families lineage is a really strange existential crisis sorta feeling. BUT this video ending up diving into a aspect of Life that I didn't even realize could be utilized as a beneficial tool to help me internally. ~So I always say perspective is such a useful skill and tool when you start realizing how you can harness it alongside combining it with your observation skills of your surroundings. I use it in photography, to cope with difficult situations in life, to over come past addictions, to hike in the Oregon woods and not get lost, and learn from observing the behavior of Nature and the core aspects of the cosmos (since I've always been a in love with science) BUT my point is: Your video cheered me up because it opened up a new pathway in my brain and it's perspective, that even tho I cannot reproduce and have a child with my families Gene's... I can still live my life and focus on the importance of even the smallest bits of information, you are right, beneficial information lives on with in people and it's a great way we can benefit each other as a whole, is by just being helpful, share art, ideas, possibly find improvements, solve puzzles, and most of all, just be kind to others and share kindness because a lot can come from just being open and not closed off to others. I have always enjoyed helping others. It's more fulfilling and rewarding than when I get a gift for myself or given to me. I personally enjoy making others happy and helping do projects that make other people's life's improved in anyway. That is what really makes me feel like "This is what life is about" so thank you for snapping me out of my mental funk over not being able to have kids, that doesn't mean that life is meaningless and I'm a failure.. if I wasn't kind or curious about the world around me and didn't want to help others, and was just mean... Then that's really what life is NOT about. So thank you for helping me gain a new perspective on how a individual can impact the world around them, even in the slightest of ways, it's a really helpful manner to approach life in general. I seriously love the work you are doing and the science and thought experiments you dive into. You're a very talented person Man! Please Keep making more content when it organically comes to you! Because your content is literally so uniquely helpful in today's modern society. Have a wonderful day.

[@brainxyz]

Thanks for the encouraging words. Best wishes to you.

[@blackrule7259]

That was awesome, I’m really enjoy it thank you for sharing those valuable ideals.🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@dimitrioskaragiannis1169]

Wow amazing video and great presentation !! 😊 My best wishes to continue your educational work in your chanel✌️👌

[@set-tes4316]

I've always applied this concept to whatever I do, it takes a lot more time then sticking to whatever works best at the time but it is a core concept in achieving something greater. I believe human tend to be satisfied with local maximum cause it usually takes enough work to get there and it is gratifying enough. I also believe you gotta let go of the perfectionnist trait cause global maximum might not even be real, just challenge yourself to reach a higher local maximum from time to time and rethink.

[@Game_Lab_Germany]

Why i feel like the one little guy that explore to much instead of reproduce. This Video feel like a mirror of our reality. I understand why love, sharing DNA and ideas make sense. My solution for the sub to global max would be throwing my self into the unknown and hope for landing on something. The Reason for this: There is a higher max we have to conquer. The communication Solution would help alot with the new ability to do insanly high and risky jumps. I would love to see what happen if there is a small chance for an outlier that jumps crazy high and if land reproduce and create the "non risky but stable guys". I threw my self alot into the unknown and got in serious danger sometimes, but in this video i learned, as a pioneer i do this not for myself, i serve everyone. I take crazy risks to explore, even when i get wiped out someday, i save everything as knowledge maybe in a diary. When i die my point of view will be shared with everyone else, so i achieved my view of a valued life. When i save and share my progress, i do my duty and marching into the unknown.

[@jeremiahandrews4841]

Check your ego before overdosing on copiun

[@filippe999]

this reminds me of another life simulator whose only real goal was survival, you could live indefinitely with 100% love

[@Beatsbasteln]

that was a very elaborated way of saying "we need both conservatives and liberals" and i think that's beautiful

[@businessdog7290]

I think the liberal should be programmed not to reach the highest mountain, but to reach a local maximum which is higher than the one it was born in & to then establish a colony on said hill before setting out again, in other words as the liberal climbs it should moderate & as it moderates it should take smaller steps. I think the conservative should be programmed to take account of its offspring & to calculate for the exploration decrease in population relative to liberal birthrates in order to predict danger by the unaccounted loss of population due to rising dangers, therefore the conservative should liberalize as more of its offspring go unaccounted for. Awesome video I really enjoyed basically the entire thing & if you continued it in some way i would love to see more things like this, very underrated video which demands far more attention!

[@yourqualia6341]

Love this so much. You are making important hard hitting videos, so inspiring. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Here's to the next local maxima!!!

[@flameofthephoenix8395]

Another thing mentionable is that our current scientific views could also be a "local maxima" perhaps it will turn out that nearly every scientific theory was faulty, and not far off were the correct ones.

[@AdamSecousse]

Moving and enlightening presentation. Thank you