Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

  1. Asked her out. She's already with a guy twice my size. I'm waiting for the heat death of the universe now, I guess.
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  2.  @viperblitz11  M'deity.
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  3. Oh no! Who would want to live in a world without aids!
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  4. If so, you are praying wrong. Praying means exchanging attention for blessings. Gods crave attention even more than women do.
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  5. It's not the "politicians", but the voters.
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  6. Just because you can look up how it works within minutes doesn't mean you can build it.
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  7. Total bullshit. Firstly bureaucracy is precisely what makes sure that votes count and things are determined by the "will of the citizens". Secondly all democracies in Europe are representative, not just the EU. Thirldy Article 13 is extremely harmful to many big corporations.
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  8. Reduced productivity is a kind of emergence. The total is less productive than it's parts.
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  9. >we can't even handle when someone has another skin color, or comes from another country Well speak for yourself. People have traded with others continents apart for over ten thousand years.
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  10. Bureaucracy and democracy go hand in hand. Without bureaucracy there is only corruption and dictatorship.
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  11. Physical symmetries have nothing to do with symmetries in animals or plants. Even using the same word for it can be confusing.
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  12. Science not that high quality imo. The universe could be finite without curvature, light could arrive at different times without it being a torus, the big bang doesn't imply a finite past and so on. But yeah, they're definitely on the level or better of most information that you find when quickly looking up a topic.
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  13. Bureaucracy is what distinguishes a modern liberal democracy from a corrupt dictatorship.
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  14. The romantic credo: 1. The past is better than the future. 2. Everything is a zerso sum game. 3. Problems are only solved with violence.
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  15. I think you are confusing evolution with god. Neither does what you say make any sense in the first place.
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  16. >in fact, it is outside the Moon's sphere of influence. This means that any satellites deployed from it would immediately go into Earth orbit. Where do you get that from?
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  17. That makes no sense.
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  18.  @lastsamurai3662  You guys are so cringe, it's unbearable.
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  19. No. A law is a mathematical description of a single dependence in nature. A theory is much more awesome than that, since it explains multiple dependencies and phenomena and may include many laws.
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  20. The problem with solar and wind is that you need to most energy when there is the least wind and sun.
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  21. There is no risk if you only do it properly. This was quite a lazy video,
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  22. How Is This a Name What you are doing is called projection. Because you have no idea how fracking works, you accuse others of having no idea how it works. If you had spent as much as five minutes informing yourself, you would have found out what exactly the potential dangers in fracking are and why it CANNOT poison drinking water when done properly.
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  23. Those people are called cruel cowards. If you can help, but refuse to, that's equivalent to creating the calamity yourself. Not preventing disease when you could is equivalent to creating disease intentionally.
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  24. An alien species forcing their offspring through millennia of suffering is not a nice thing. And the belief that victims are ultimately responsible for their own suffering is wicked in the highest degree. You have left Christianity behind so why fall into another pit of victim blaming.
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  25. Yeah that's complete bullshit.
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  26. Yes, it would be deeply unethical to have an unhealthy child unnecessarily. And there should be laws against it.
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  27. MrAlexkyra Oh excuse me for actually caring about other people.
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  28. @abcd abcd True. It's kind of a shit stain on their library.
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  29. >>According to evolutionary theory, humans stopped evolving several thousand years ago.<< Saying something idiotic like that only shows that you know nothing about evolution at all.
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  30. What the fuck are you rambling about, you fool? You missed the entire point of the video and in your blissful ignorance, you feel like the smart one. XD
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  31.  @hr2x  >We kill eachother because we simply dont like eachother. No. I don't understand how you can grow up and have such an absolutely idiotic understanding of conflict.
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  32. Firstly they were noticed. Secondly politicians are supposed to represent their voters, not who is currently on the streets. Thirdly "politicans" are not just one homogenous mass, but they disagreed with each other and many voted against Article 13. So you and those 2000 people are completely full of shit.
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  33. You already failed to surpass your intellectual limits... Think about what "limit" means.
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  34. Your puny deity didn't stop us from making smartphones. But perhaps it will punish you for using the web. What a pitiful envious god.
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  35. Less disease = less choice? What were you thinking when you wrote that, Jason?
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  36. In a representative democracy, the members of the parliament are not obligated to follow the loudest party on the streets. Otherwise there would be no point in representative democracy, don't you think?
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  37. This video is about cognitive functions, not consciousness. It completely misses the point. The question is not why, for example, an inner representation of the world is useful, but why it is experienced. Consciousness doesn't cause anything, it just is. Every explanation that makes it useful for something is fundamentally wrongheaded. By it's nature consciousness must have developed accidentally as a byproduct of something else.
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  38. Firstly that's false. Secondly without those "pointless wars" there would be no possibility of research anyways.
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  39. There shouldn't be a "food chain". Our proximal goal should be to deinstall the "food chain" here, not to extend the suffering to other planets.
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  40. Bingo. The video missed the point entirely.
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  41. I'm no longer a smoker, that never smokes, I'm a non-smoker, who smokes every day.
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  42.  @dassimplefolk  Why not just use weights instead? No need for scifi technology and vast ammounts of energy just to get a little heavier.
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  43. True. Diseases that only affect humans are also much less harmful, because their own lethality would have eradicated them.
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  44. That makes no sense whatsoever. It makes me sad that 600 people upvoted this. I wear glasses, but I'm not at war with people with good eyesight, nor have I seen anyone with bad eyesight reject glasses.
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  45. Perfect denial of reality.
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  46. @Galvan >> he kind of did << I don't think "kind of" is enough in this case. Even the mythological Jesus never claimed to want a new religion. He saw himself as a Jew all the way. Further this mythological Jesus is not a historical person. If Jesus of Nazareth is based on an actual person, we still don't know how he would have liked his teachings to be separated from Judaism. If any one person could be called the "founder" of Christianity, it would be Paul.
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  47. Gratefulness journaling was the worst thing I ever did. Made me feel miserable even when I felt great before. Only do it if your life is actually objectively better than those of others. I think a discontent journal is better.
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  48. Just Some Guy with a Mustache There is no "out of it".
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  49. The black holes, too, will eventually decay. And so will all matter.
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  50. In all scenarios there could be another big bang. More precisely: in our future there could be a time-reversed big bang. So there is the big bang in our past, expansion, heat death, random organization, pulling together, big bang. The direction of time is only defined relatively. So our past is the future of those living "after" the heat death.
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  51. That's monstrously stupid. I hope he didn't actually say that.
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  52. Sleipher That is complete bullshit. I can grant you all the gods you want, but there would still have been abiogenesis at some point. You are just adding extra steps. You are making the explanation harder for no reason whatsoever.
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  53. You are fucking dumb, man. The simulation hypothesis is not an explanation, you moron. It's an extrapolation.
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  54. >The universe knows that it exists, and we are proof of that. No. Two atoms as a system being conscious is different from each atom being conscious on their own. Similarly you being conscious and the "universe" being conscious are different things.
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  55. Those of your ancestors, who didn't want to survive, had fewer offspring.
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  56. How do we know we are not in a minecraft mod?!
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  57. Liu Cixin has a series of fiction books. He didn't make a formal argument. It's highly dubitable whether a "Dark Forest" scenario is realistic.
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  58.  @andrewhsu7538  I stopped halfway through the second book, because the aliens got pretty dumb and the story lingered very long on some sub-plot about an imaginary woman. Maybe I should pick it back up some time. Maybe what's stupid about the aliens is just a red herring.
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  59.  @adamzen1620  Not sure what that's supposed to mean. They tried to keep humanity from funding more science by confusing them. But that's not really "using the laws of physics as weapons".
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  60.  @andrewhsu7538  You do realize that people actually write scientific articles and textbooks about this kind of stuff? If you're just interested in speculation about extraterrestrial civilizations, you don't have to read specific sci fi books.
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  61. No, he didn't. And mice would greatly benefit from having mouse traps to trap other mice.
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  62. Every time after masturbating. "Thank you, allah, for all of this nettle fisting porn!"
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  63. Everything in the world influences evolution.
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  64.  @dragonreborn56789  >non-deterministic, consequential "behavior" does a rock show Rocks are more non-deterministic in their behavior than you are. The decay of their radio-isotopes is as non-deterministic as it gets. >They don't have the ability to make meaningful decisions. "Meaningful" decision is meaningless and if not, then most people aren't making meaningful decisions either. >Computers don't make deliberate decisions, though. They follow deterministic procedure No, they often use random actions. >the programmers made the decisions when they write the program No, otherwise it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass to predict the behavior of a system and test it. Not to mention machine learning.
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  65. Alphabet invests a lot into biotechnology.
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  66. Wouldn't be any better than Christianity or Islam. Probably worse because it is utterly irreconcilable with evolution and it's main tenant is victim blaming.
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  67. Not even close. I don't think even the entire military budget would suffice for the 1000$ basic income.
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  68. A soul doesn't explain anything about consciousness, it just adds a further complication.
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  69. Discipline and patience are as harmful as they are useful. They alliw you to waste arbitrarily much time for nothing. If you have infinite discipline, you can work hard everyday and stay miserable throughout. You need to be disciplined AND evaluate whether your actions actually maximize your long term well being.
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  70. Coffein is a drug and it is in all tea, not just black tea. Sugar is an essential nutrient and no drug.
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  71. Enlightenment is advertised as the ultimate cope, which makes all other copes superfluous.
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  72. We can't. The video was already extremely alarmist, but it still made it clear that everyone wouldn't die. You simply paid zero attention to the video and substituted your own fables.
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  73. That means starvation. The last animals including you will die when you cannot find any star to provide enough energy for your survival. There is no grand finale, just very slow suffocation.
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  74. No, he didn't. And that's a really dumb thing to say in dozens of ways.
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  75. Or smaller.
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  76.  @T3HR3PP4  Yes, they would, because people would stop breeding them.
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  77. No. Consciousness is the phenomenon of first hand experience. For all we know it is just as present in cats and dogs. In particular it has nothing to do with your pretentious superficialities.
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  78.  @VeryRGOTI  That's 100% wrong. Vaping is WAY, WAY less harmful than smoking.
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  79. Good candidate. But I say it's our ability to strangle other animals with our strong, nimble arms.
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  80. Perhaps you should watch the video again, because crispr involves no "mutation" whatsoever.
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  81. No, it's not.
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  82. ​ @IrishWhiskeyisLife You age slower if you accelerate in the car rather than someone not accelerated. That's basically the "twin paradox" setting.
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  83. To blame a victim for the actions of his tormentors is wicked in the highest degree. Whether that comes from a religion or a Sci-Fi author.
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  84. No, brains are very inefficient. My smartphone is a lot more powerful, just less adapted to specific functions like image recognition.
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  85. Your muscles and bones don't need to be as strong when there is lower gravity. Also why should moon citizens care about what the ethics board has to say?
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  86. None of these are problems with GMOs.
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  87. Yes and when you eat wood, your children will be strong and firm.
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  88. These kinds of conspiracy theories are pretty much defined by ad hoc adjustment of the claims / expansion of the conspiracy. You cannot simply "debunk" them, the conspiracy just gets bigger or modified. Jobs was sacrificed by the elites or not part of them. The elites are protected from the chemtrails in some way. Etc. The "end of the world" stuff is not supposed to be a conspiracy among the rich, but religious prophecy; The people, who believe in it, WANT it to happen.
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  89. No. And my grandparents didn't hate computers at all.
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  90. Oh the irony. "be fruitful and multiply" is supposed to mean to stop thinking like animals?! You didn't think about this for a second, did you?
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  91. Andrew Singleton You don't even realize when you make outrageous claims. A civilization is specifically something in which you don't just multiply. Bacteria multiply. We want to create a good world for people to live in. Quality, not quantity. And that's where your religion is diametrically opposed to civilization. Your god destroyed, in his own mythology, the human civilization, because he was envious.
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  92. Joshua Slowpoke So you don't care about the animals in the lake or the people, who live around it. You just care about it, because you think your deity does? That's pretty sad.
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  93. Andrew Singleton If you have nothing to say, then don't. But don't call me "militant" for responding to your bullshit. It's ok for you to go out and preach nonsense, but when I hold against it, I'm the bad guy?
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  94. Joshua Slowpoke Indeed. So why say you do what you do to appease a deity?
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  95. It's already in use. But I guess you mean in use in all humans.
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  96. That's completely wrong. Intelligence, compassion and courage are desirable, stupidity, sadism and cowardice are undesirable for example.
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  97. That's what you abominable morons say every single time and every single time the poor profit most from innovation. Today even the homeless have smartphones. Refugees use their phones to navigate.
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  98. matsomo That completely misses the point of evolution and it contradicts the bible / quran.
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  99. @Myconix That's not a "perfectly valid concern". To slaughter children in a horrible fashion because of "overpopulation" makes no fucking sense at all.
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  100. ActionCow At the moment the single person decides to have children, or just happens to get some. No matter how incompetent he is. What do you care more about, the life of the children, or the right to have some?
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  101. Latest News Yeah, the problem with fossil fuels is not that we will run out, but rather the emission of greenhouse gases. That's why we should expand alternative ways of generating energy, like nuclear fission and wind turbines.
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  102. Kuk vult...
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  103. The worst thing are minor tremors, which are barely noticeable.
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  104. Who pays the biologists and engineers in your "open source" world?
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  105. No, the problem was that high risk investments were considered low risk. Or perhaps both.
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  106. @Ikreisrond It's you, who doesn't understand what he's saying. You think money is both "mental", "virtual" and not "real". That's on the level of sophistication of a ten year old.
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  107. Feeling like you've learned something is different to actually being secure in your knowledge. Veritasium's thesis was about this.
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  108. >>diversity is the key to survival, GMO are the contrary of that<< ??? Modification creates more diversity, not less. There is huge databanks for seeds.
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  109. Of course you have a patent on what you develop. Otherwise NOTHING could ever be developed. What you raise are problems with monopolies, a lack of competition.
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  110. That is total bullshit. Nothing can achieve the same effects as genetic modification.
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  111. A certain crop, that could feed millions, doesn't grow in a certain region - maybe due to the soil or climate. How does your "permaculture" change that? How does your "permaculture" make plants immune to a certain kind of pest, endangering the sustenance of a region?
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  112. What does that have to do with banking?
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  113. How can a thoysand people upvote such a retarded comment? He has given no reason whatsoever for this divide. Why would people segregate? Only a handful of religious lunatics would force their children to live with preventable diseasea and those would be soon immunized by sexual reproduction.
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  114. There is no reason to believe that any of these modifications would be unhealthy. Nonetheless they were tested.
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  115. Also you should be allowed to take drugs. They should be regulated and available to adults.
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  116. If you are sad that technology gets better and things no longer have to be done by humans, then that is a problem with society. A rather big one. It's on society to change and adapt, so everyone can enjoy the fruits of technological progress.
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  117. I hope my children won't have to inherit my shortsightedness and my laziness. ; D A great video!
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  118. Evolution is central to biology, no matter what your preacher claims.
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  119. All of those catastrophes happened in old reactors with inferior security measures. We should expect ever fewer accidents.
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  120. Wait... how do you work? How do you know when anyone's birthday is?
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  121. A fictional character is not a "person in history". He mentioned the siege of Troy for the mythical aspect.
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  122. @Vitorruy That's a lie. I have nothing more to say to you. Get a grasp on reality before replying to me.
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  123. @Galvanized You are simply lying. No evolutionary biologist would say something that ridiculous. >>Humans stopped evolving after they halted the course of Natural Selection of their own free will.<< That is an insult to the intelligence of who ever you talk to. I feel insulted that you think I would believe such garbage.
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  124. @itanimulli No, Jesus didn't found Christianity. Did none of you guys ever go to school?!
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  125. @Voez You actually believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the "founder" of Christianity, hm? Yeah I'm tired of playing the substitute teacher. -_-
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  126. ATOMIC SHARK The moral advise of religion is no better than the scientific accuracy of it's myths.
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  127. We are already well on our way to meet the millennium goals.
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  128. I find universes giving birth to daughter universes even more uplifting than the big crunch. A huge family of universes.
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  129. Because they have been duped by capitalists into believing that you receive only what you "earn".
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  130.  @zaneyates5704  Nah, the worst one was about consciousness. Or rather it wasn't about consciousness.
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  131. Kill some fish. Scare some whales.
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  132. Damn, I believed in evolution and Newtonian physics and atoms, but I have never considered that you cannot mix a dog and a cat and get a kangaroo. It's all lies! Allahu Akbar!
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  133. Cruz Florero I have no answer to cats and dogs not mixing into kangaroos. I've seen the light! Hare Krishna!
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  134. Gene editing will be as much of a moral imperative as eugenics. There is no excuse for forcing person to live with preventable diseases. If we force someone into life, it should at the very least me sure that he is as healthy as our technology allows.
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  135. That is the most hilariously ignorant thing I've heard in a long time. You are an absolutely insane misanthrope, who obviously projects his own stupidity on everyone else.
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  136.  @NuclearLama  By that idiotic reasoning rams should be ruling the world by now.
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  137. There is no "goal", it's a mass hysteria with people parroting each other's bullshit. It's also not just the US government. It's reporters, doctors, etc the world over.
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  138.  @MySerpentine  One dude claimed that. The "war on drugs" is just part of a general hysteria about drugs that's way older than Nixon.
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  139. Consciousness cannot have been selected for because it has no effects. It must be an accidental byproduct of evolution. The video completely misses the point.
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  140. "Big tobacco" is losing here, because the vapes don't contain tobacco.
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  141. Everything useful can be used for evil.
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  142. FunkyTikiGod You are getting confused. Matter is not alive, but a structure might be called alive.
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  143.  @victorcadillac5075  Comments like this show that drugs lost the war on drugs. You are have all fully bought into the propaganda.
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  144. You mean YOU are dumb.
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  145.  @schrenk-d  The USA didn't gain jack shit. They threatened an embargo against Japan, because the Japanese were horrible slavers and murderers and torturers of innocents. The Japanese attacked the USA simply because the latter gave a fuck about their victims and that way they brought defeat upon themselves.
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  146. That's admirable dedication to truthfulness.
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  147. What would be the point in only simulating human consciousness? If anything, you'd want to simulate a whole universe or at least a bit of spacetime with physics as best as you can. All you gain by simulating only minds in a pseudo world is a lot of suffering.
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  148. Ok, let's just all surrender to the tyrants of the world. You don't just pull your pants down and bend over, you're pulling the pants of other victims down.
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  149. Why should we be able to see whether other star systems are inhabited?
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  150. Yeah, speaking phylogenetically you are a fish. So? Those boundaries only exist in a snapshot of life at the moment. Mammals are nested within amphibians and amphibians within fish. Ever heard of the "tree of life"?
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  151. No, it's more like the death of the sun for us. Global warming can, at the very worst, cause a mass extinction. The cooling of the rogue planet however means the certain end of all life on it. Similarly the end of the sun means the certain end of all life on earth.
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  152. The EU is more critical of China and Russia than any other region in the world is.
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  153. I know that you're probably just 10 years old or something, but it's still extremely arrogant on your part to think that conflict actually works that way. You actually believe that there is no genuine conflicts of interests and disagreements between groups.
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  154. That's not implied at all. The past isn't any less real than the present or future. Physics doesn't point at presentism at all. To the contrary, relativity strongly implies eternalism.
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  155. Only that's competely wrong.
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  156.  @neilwilson5785  That's a popular cliche, not "rationality". You didn't spent a second of your life thinking for yourself or calculating.
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  157.  @e.eriksson8191  No, it's a greater victory than most conventional victories. The USA is far spread out, it can re-form from any mid sized city of population center from the pacific to the atlantic. Russia is very concentrated.
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  158. You are conscious is the absence of emotion. You can for example simply feel the chair under your butt.
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  159.  @minh1b  >a country owning a nuke could be attacked No, it couldn't. Because it could use it's nukes. Look at what Russia and North Korea are getting away with.
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  160. There's everywhere else to go.
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  161. @firewithfire2745 "Rewilding" IS mass animal slaughter. "Rewilding" is essentially the same horrible idea as creating biospheres on other planets.
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  162. Sounds like nocebo. How much motivation do you think is the baseline?
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  163. Nuclear weapons are not "immoral". They can be used for good just as well as evil. What conquerors did to civilians in history is much worse than having a nuke dropped on your city. In any case, a nuclear arms race is not the problek, but a symptom of ideological differences. Those differences are what have to be adressed. Russia won't give up their nukes, because it's the only think putting them on an even playing field with NATO.
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  164. Bullshit, of course any intelligent being would contemplate that possibility. Even ancient religions are not much different.
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  165. The second to last sentence is the smartest I read online in a month.
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  166.  @Tarototh  A paradox is an apparent incongruety. Stress on the word "apparent".
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  167. You can slaughter a goat to appease "nature" while we reasonable folk work to alleviate diseases, ok?
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  168. >as a vector rather than a point That's the same mathematically. So your attempt to make your nonsense sound scientific was an own-goal. >constant of nature, rather than a feature of biology Panpsychism or no, you still have to explain why consciousness is one way and not another. >then it becomes clear that its emergence is an inevitability If it's a "constant" it doesn't have to emerge. >The whole universe is... an Egg. It's actually a coffee mug.
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  169. rochat What if there is a pink elephant orbiting pluto?
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  170. What mistake?
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  171.  @ghostlyfieldclub2930  You think attacking others for the explicit purpose of abducting women to rape them is better than punishing your soldiers for doing any sort of harm to civilians.
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  172. You wouldn't know it. Even if you show strong symptoms those only appear long after infection.
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  173. No, "money" (ie commerce and specialization) is what enables us to develop those technologies in the first place.
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  174. This doesn't really make sense as you stated it, but there might be different ways in which a civilization could evolve that are more condusive to it's prosperity and expansion.
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  175. Did you get your political education from a comic book? The EU was said to dissolve soon since it's beginning. Critics always conjur up crisis and claim they are the end and they are always wrong.
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  176.  @Yassty  No. Drugs should simply be legal. Being "equitable" is just being racially discriminatory. To see the racist origins of many drug prohibitions is useful to understand why specific substances got prohibited historically, but is not important now. Btw this pattern is much older than the 1970. People have always considered their drugs good and useful and the ones of other cultures damaging. Drugs like marijuana and heroin got a bad reputation from being associated with foreigners long before 1970.
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  177. It's contentious whether it "requires" general relativity, but people are definitely wrong when they say it doesn't require acceleration. Acceleration is the only thing breaking the symmetry.
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  178. ​ @Samu2010lolcats Well, he's flat out wrong and so are many other videos on Youtube. The Wikipedia article was also wrong, because an editor was confused by a video. They all make the same mistake of choosing two distinct references frames for the outbound twin, begging the question.
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  179. ​ @romyaakovyan8067 No, that's completely wrong. It has nothing to do with the position of the earth or other objects. It's about one twin accelerating with the force of the rocket thrusters. Acceleration in this sense isn't merely the second derivative of location, but an absolute quantity you can measure locally.
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  180.  @_kaleido  Being "anti-war" just means being for the enemy. That's it. Being "anti-war" means being against the victims of whomever you're trying to fight. It's the most immoral stance possible.
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  181. There should be the death penalty for BS Einstein quotes.
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  182. If you are interested in advanced civilizations or space travel in general, you should check out Isaac Arthur's youtube channel.
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  183. No. We already torment children with endless anti drug propaganda. Nor is that even true. It doesn't "only solve temporary problems", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
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  184. Stop posting the same dumbass quotes over and over again.
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  185.  @TheAmazingDoorknob  It matters crucially how many you have.
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  186.  @YourNecro936  That you have to quit is just wrong in the first place. I don't understand why people insist on taking nicotine with their lungs or not at all. Just like it orally, like most other drugs.
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  187. For the people, who survive, it would be great. They'd have the world for themselves, all of the joy of rebuilding, all of the power to make important decisions, all of the boinking to repopulate.
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  188.  @deniss2786  The US and it's allies should have intervened against your idol Assad at the start of the conflict. Unfortunately they are deterred by appearance in the minds of idiots.
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  189. It's a metamorphosis. An origins myth about gods transforming things into other things (mostly as punishment).
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  190. twistedyogert That's the new stupidest thing, I've ever heard.
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  191. Should have done three to prevent anime.
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  192. No. Rather the comfortable, enlightened human, Nietzsche despised.
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  193. I don't think any moray can bite that hard tbh.
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  194. No, that is not in the least surprising. You are just confused by the presence of pronouns in the English language.
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  195.  @MDP-m7t  That's absolute bullshit. Coffee and tea have the exact same psychoactive compound and none of their other compounds are toxic.
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  196.  @bruh10246  Most people stop drinking coffee after months of drinking it without even thinking about it.
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  197.  @nolovedivision3882  Everyone would have those improvements you dunce.
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  198. That has literally nothing to do with each other.
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  199. The video is outdated and alarmist. Modern estimates make the nuclear winter way less extreme. No idea where you got your bullshit from.
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  200. Pfft most of my programms do that.
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  201. It's a stretch to say that it could be like nothing else, but at the largest scale lots of big bangs (and reverse big bangs) could be happening in the same continuum, yes.
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  202. ​ @spindash64 It's mostly because people don't inhale alcohol. If people exclusively consumed alcohol via enemas it would probably be similarly harmful to smoking cigarettes.
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  203. ​ @TheThe-om3qt Nothing. The main downside of regular caffeine consumption is that you're probably not getting as much benefit as if you only took it occasionally. E.g. I'm switching to decaf to make it really count when I lift.
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  204. ​@InterdactedIt hurts you precisely because it's amazing. Any medicine that actually works can also harm you.
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  205. Good point. You can take nicotine in other ways than smoking. Pretty much all of the harms come from inhaling smoke.
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  206.  @mynamestumbleine  Crowd funding has nothing to do with investment or sharing risks? How? It's a bunch of people investing into something together. Quite impossible not to share the risk that way.
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  207.  @Ananamitron  If you survive, it'd be significantly better than before, because now you have all of the world for yourself and you have all of the fun of rebuilding.
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  208. It shows an atrocious lack of compassion. Mosquitos don't cause much more suffering than other animals.
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  209. No. Even if 99% of people die, that's irrelevant in the large scheme of things. And not nearly 99% would die in any conceivable nuclear war.
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  210. It is in everyone's specific interest to screw over the rest in his own favour by reducing regulations. That's why you need a conspiracy of agents.
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  211. There could be like a decillion universes only one quadrillion of which contain any civilization at all. Then it'd be completely unsurprising for us to be alone in the universe.
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  212. So you still didn't understand it after watching the video?
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  213. Every day I get up before dawn and slowly lift my hands as the sun rises while waking up the neighbours with loud grunts and screams. I'm taking responsibility for the sunrise and I'm the happiest man alive.
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  214. Perhaps CRISPR can cure your racism abd stupidity, kay.
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  215.  @ogladaczr.t.3168  End of civilization is not in the cards and even if, it's better than the absolute tyranny and stagnation that nukes prevent.
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  216. Lol, feel free to link those "studies".
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  217. Because it wouldn't be. It'd be completely irrelevant compared to the direct destruction of infrastructure and the dust.
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  218. What mess? You have a horribly distorted view of nature.
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  219. Would be great if you could share sources / further reading in the description.
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  220. With that ignorant and immensely arrogant mindset of yours you will never understand anything. In your tiny brains, no one besides you has genuine interests and everyone else is retarded.
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  221.  @ind4730  I haven't checked, but this is most likely just another fake quote.
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  222. No. One is normal, the other inexplicable.
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  223.  @thehighground174  Yes, Einstein cared about Jews and not about Asians.
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  224. So what? If your grandmother had been prettier, your grandfather would have come earlier and a different sperm would have reached the eggcell.
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  225. Or you could just use a condom, you dunce...
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  226.  @IloveGorgeousGeorge  It's not optimistic at all, it's pure fantasy. You don't even seem to have paid any attention to the video, which is itself extremely alarmist.
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  227. Then you don't know what the word "consciousness" means. When you feel hunger, that's consciousness, when you watch a movie, that's consciousness, when you feel your butt on the chair, that's consciousness. No awareness, self, emotions or others required.
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  228. That's what happens when you put your limited imagination over reality. You typed out this enormous comment arguing that "collaboration" cannot evolve. Yet it did. So you have really only succeeded in showcasing your own ignorance.
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  229. 6:40 I'm gonna need a citation for this "processing" of emotions stuff. That's something most people uninformed about psychology believe, but I have never seen a shred of evidence for it.
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  230. Installing a biosphere is deeply immoral. That's like a million holocausts a day.
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  231. Adam Kudelski True. However then we don't have any reason to suppose that this universe harbors civilizations like ours running simulations or even life or matter at all. The whole argument starts with a universe exactly like ours.
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  232.  @charlescole645  They should have used more bombs until the emperor committed sudoku.
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  233. What sort of "complexity" would help you understand more? >With humanity knowing so little Little compared to what? >it is unreasonable to expect to understand our own existence What does that even mean? Just because you are confused about concepts that doesn't mean you need other hardware to get over it. This video is confused about what consciousness means.
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  234. The USA is extremely careful to reduce deaths of civilians. North Korea targets civilians.
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  235. The video is sponsored by anti-nuke extremists. They only reveal that in the end.
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  236.  @artur9782  You're totally delusional.
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  237.  @usipussi6647  What do you mean with giant space ship? We can already build space ships of any size. The question is what they can do. How fast can they go and how far.
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  238. Billions of cells fighting and dying in vain bcs of no gf.
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  239. @Unknown550 Next time you post a comment read it again to remove the insults and instead make a point. So far you are insulting no one in particular, because no one even understands, whom you are angry with.
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  240.  @brianisme6498  >if you think relationship is just about sex It is. That's what distinguishes a sexual relationship from a friendship. >Your partner is also supposed to be there to support you Who tf doesn't? Also how would you know that apriori? >love you for you Maybe you should wait until you are ten years old before giving advice.
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  241. People unconsciously move towards food all the time.
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  242. It wouldn't. Did you even watch the video?
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  243.  @Meitti  More like 10 years of misery. And 90 years of boinking and rebuilding.
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  244. I don't think the relativistic kill missile requires anti-matter engines necessarily. If you want to learn more about this, Isaac Arthur's channel is a good place to start.
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  245. Those "hard" drugs should be legal as well. Especially LSD and mushrooms.
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  246. Not really. It's simply a sphere or a torus. The universe could be twisted around like a mobius strip, but that's another thing.
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  247. I've since slightly changed my opinion. Consciousness can't be a pure epiphenomenon, because we can think and talk about consciousness.
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  248. D!g!tal Core No, the time of religions will soon be over.
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  249. So a light switch is conscious?
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  250.  @nobodyoneify  Drugs lost hard. It's hard to even find a person, who doesn't think of recreational drugs as threats primarily.
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  251. That's not how simulations work.
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  252.  @mhaland2775  LSD can turn your life around more than most other drugs.
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  253.  @Red_Neck  No. Eg you're conscious while sunk in a movie.
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  254.  @LolLol-pq5fp  No, it's not. Ten times of code can be aware that they exist and most people don't think they're conscious. Meanwhile most people aren't aware that they exist most of the time throughout their days, yet we think they're still conscious while reading, watching movies, playing computer games, etc.
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  255. It's not just that there's an infinite copies of the solar system if the universe is infinite and homogenous, there's also an infinite number of versions of our solar system with the most hellish, unimaginable suffering happening to an unfathomable magnitude of beings. At least it would be absurd to say that such a scenario is impossible. And whatever is not impossible happens an infinite amount of times in an infinite, homogenous cosmos.
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  256. How do we know that we are not someone's mindcraft mod?
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  257. People wouldn't simply forget "the power of the atom". The same people who survived the nuclear winter could start building on powerplants and uranium mines right afterwards.
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  258. That doesn't make sense. The "aliens" would come from interstellar space anyways. All they have to do is not to decelerate some of the spaceships and the impact of the relativistic mass will destroy the planet's surface.
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  259. You'll never learn anything if you never start thinking for yourself rather than adopting other peoples views as "lessons".
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  260.  @JiGameAudio  >I know about the attrocities of the Japanese empire, but that choice from the US in the war for me puts them as more inhuman than any other actor. In that case you, too, are a facilitator of genocide, slavery and mass rape. I knew there is crazy anti-nukers but you just demasked as an absolutely despicable person.
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  261. >I can't even begin to fathom how we'd use them all Maybe you should get better at geography. There's more than enough targets.
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  262. Why tf would the dogs get stronger? Our ancestors routinely killed mammoths without the aid of firearms or computers or cars. You have an absolutely cartoonish understanding of a post-nuclear war state. As for "psychological scars": if you survive, it's actually gonna be way better for you than pre-war. You have the world for yourself. You can rebuild everything and boink to repopulate.
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  263.  @alfarizky9708  I apologize to women. I don't know whether women crave attention more than men. But gods crave it more than anyone else. Why do you think people perform rituals, prayer and sacrifice? Because they think gods like it. To gain the favour and support of deities is the purpose of those practices. Your modern, secular conception of prayer is an afterthought.
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  264. At least you are addressing the problem unlike the video, but panpsychism just seems like such a lazy copout and there is no reason to believe in it.
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  265. You are seriously dumb mate. And you mix that stupidity with an overwhelming arrogance. You think you are smart for equating people, who accept natural phenomena as they are, with people, who deny them in favour of mythology. That's not smart. That's dumb as shit. You are dumb as shit and you will be relieved once you notice that.
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  266. One is not enough at all. Also there's interception.
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  267. It thrusts the solar system. But I guess you could do the same thing to a galaxy with enough determination. Building stellar engines around a lot of the stars / black holes.
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  268. Lol. What service is better than getting something for free?
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  269.  @some_doofus  Steam is literally a thing you need to use to play lots of games that could otherwise just be downloaded and executed.
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  270.  @jrzygurl  Your problem is that you're not taking the happiness and suffering of others serious at all.
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  271. Your mindset is the most toxic in the world. It is the same as Christianity. You don't care whether people are happy, you just care whether you can be more "virtous" than others. Disgusting. This worldview must be eradicated.
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  272. What a bunch of horseshit. The "post apocalypse" would still be way better than most people had it throughout history. And within a couple of decades everything would be back to pre-war status or better.
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  273. No, but it's still an interesting question.
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  274. Only 2%? Don't tell my Linear Algebra II prof or he'll make the exams harder not to be outdone by the Thymus.
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  275. Well, make sure you don't confuse consciousness with self-awareness again.
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  276. Damn I wish I had leukemia, too.
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  277.  @CareForEmAll  No, it isn't. You're shitting in people's mouths, the solution is to stop doing that.
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  278. You fundamentally misunderstand what a simulation is.
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  279.  @Safouan0  Sounds like you have no clue what LSD is or does.
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  280.  @Safouan0  Firstly because LSD is one of the drugs most likely to change your mindset in the long term. Secondly because you speak of "drugs" in general, not referencing anything about LSD.
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  281.  @bigmiki2620  What you just said is so catastrophically stupid and callous that if it were believed even in the tiniest degree, human civilization would end. Even the entire mindset that goes with it is toxic to the core.
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  282.  @bigmiki2620  "Tiniest degree" is an exaggeration, but the idea that you should make things intentionally bad so people are forced to "work hard" is a cancer on the mind. And even if you worship "hard work", you still get more of that by allowing people to lend money. An entrepreneur works more and harder than some clerk, who doesn't profit at all from working more. The reservations against money lending contributed in no small part to economic stagnation in the past. It's a childish mistake to overlook the importance of time, of getting something earlier: a mistake that was made holy law in some religions.
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  283.  @bigmiki2620  People die on streets, yet I haven't seen anyone argue for destroying all of the streets because of it.
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  284.  @bigmiki2620  "Maybe money shouldn't be lent out on a large scale at all." — you
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  285. Surgery doesn't come close to fix nearsightedness, but it can alleviate it. With crispr we have a chance to eliminate it.
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  286. Finally someone actually thinking.
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  287.  @baguettegott3409  >to get humanity to agree on something as simple and obvious ??? If they agreed they'd have no reason to use nuclear weapons offensively. Kim Jong Un thinks I should kiss his ass. I disagree. Therefore he has a nuke and I want a nuke. Simple as.
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  288.  @hackfleischking5162  I would say like 20 years to have the resources to build more nukes. A few generations to get back to the old population numbers.
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  289. 1/3 of the people, who try cigarettes become addicted?! I had no idea they were that addictive. I always taught it was about one in ten. Indeed I didn't think anything was that addictive.
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  290. It's odd that you skipped human evolution, but school can't cover everything. Perhaps cell biology is more important for a start.
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  291. Nathan Beaver What? Why?
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  292. From our point of view: Yes they are infinite. Especially energy is "infinite" in that we are right next to a star.
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  293. That's not a problem, because it doesn't matter in the slightest for the detection of civilizations.
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  294.  @jonny8479  No, it doesn't. It matters not one tiny bit how competitive or cooperative they are. The communist aliens will need energy just the same.
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  295. All of those cells fighting and dying in vain, because I can't get a gf. Sorry, t-killer-cells.
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  296. The problem is when someone escapes your genocide.
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  297.  @thefool3130  >modern data points towards Dolphins being nearly as, if not as intelligent as, Humans Where did you get this from?
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  298. Aging is not the cause of diseases. Rather the sum of diseases that increase in severity and likelyhood over time are called aging.
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  299. Where does the fuel for the generator come from? You are far more likely to have enough farm land than all of that crap.
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  300. Perhaps you got some sort of brain damage in one of your suicide attempts and that made the change.
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  301. Evolution is the diversification of a species. A billion years ago you might have recongized the ancestors of all vertebrates as one species. As for "adding new information", I don't know where you are getting that from. Do you mean an increase of the size of a genome? Single celled animals don't necessarily have smaller genomes and a genome can increase in size.
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  302. Your entire worldview is childish and idiotic. Hope you grow up eventually.
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  303. Jesus does not fulfil the prophesies even though he was written to fulfil them. Sometimes he does in one gospel and not in the other.
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  304. Cowslayer7890 That would destroy the entire argument though. It begins with a universe and a civilization just like ours. Take away the universe and you lose the civilization running simulations in the first place.
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  305. I absolutely wouldn't navigate a website on my phone when I'm at my desktop computer. It's way easier, more comfortable and more efficient to navigate the website with the mouse and keyboard and a big screen. Losing a phone is stressful not because of the idiotic concept of "phone addiction", but that it's obviously a huge problem when you're losing something so important for nearly everything you do. You're losing pictures, contact information, work, notes, you're losing the monetary value and you're losing the ability to get help in the moment to deal with any of the issues you now suddenly have.
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  306.  @corvus1970  You've been wrong for 35 years.
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  307. 1. You recognize that your impact on the things you really care about is minimal and things are mostly up to luck or out of your control. 2. You realize that you hate the status quo and yourself so much that even the prospect of a small change is highly satisfying. 3. You do what is most likely to lead to change.
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  308. They can commit sudoku to escape a slow death from radiation.
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  309. Consciousness doesn't require any "awareness". You are still conscious while sunk into a movie or computer game. You are conscious in a flow state.
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  310.  @auwa69  It's 100% wrong. A computer program with less than a hundred lines can have "awareness of awareness" and most people don't think it's conscious. Meanwhile, we don't have "awareness of awareness" 99.9% of the time throughout ourlives and most animals never have.
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  311. You still have to explain why consciousness is like this and not like that, how it comes to conscious experience at different levels. But yeah, I guess some difficulty is avoided if you don't have to decide between happenings that do and such that don't generate consciousness.
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  312. That's absolutely atrocious. Those animals survive by killing other animals and hurting raping their kin. We'd have to create completely different animals before putting anything on a new planet.
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  313.  @Chris.Davies  "no food chain" is precisely what they should do. But even if there's 0 predators, there's still competition between the herbivores. Creating an earth-like ecosystem is deeply immoral.
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  314. The big bang in no way implies that there is a finite past. It just means that there was a state of very low entropy.
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  315. Decrease, not increase. But they wouldn't decrease by much unless the holes are gigantic.
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  316. There is plenty of nothing. The thing is that nothing doesn't ask why there is nothing rather than something.
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  317. Then why do democracies do so much better than monarchies?
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  318.  @pluspiping  Let me guess... You don't vote?
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  319. I don't get it. And I watched some animes.
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  320. Cucumbers.
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  321. I think you misunderstand what genes are.
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  322. Why tf not?
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  323. What if I'm grateful for being dissatisfied, narcissistic and materialistic? 🤔
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  324. So? Don't eat the nuclear waste. Then you're fine.
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  325. The ending is so silly. It appeals to the lowest common denominator.
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  326. A dyson swarm around a star would darken it and at the same time radiate heat (low wave length radiation). I'm not a physicist, but we can detect much, much finer things with spectroscopy than a galaxy, whose every star has been surrounded by a dyson sphere.
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  327. Finally someone using their brain.
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  328.  @tsm688  The rulers are a dynasty. The current ruler is literally the grandson of the first ruler and founder of the nation.
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  329. Have you ever tried to get a computer game with conscious NPCs past the ethics commission.
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  330. You haven't made a single argument. It sounds like you have zero critical thinking abilities and only vague gut feelings. Your way of looking inwards seems to be totally unproductive and unable to get you to think clearly. Spirituality to you is an excuse never to help anyone else. You're doing it wrong.
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  331. But doesn't the first law of tehrmodainamics say that God dun did it?!
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  332. That is meaningless garbage. What does it mean to be not really real?
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  333. Had to scroll very far to find the first good comment. Kurzgesagt spreads outdated information, funded by an anti-nuke extremist organization.
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  334. Finally someone thinking for themselves.
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  335. What's absolutely insane is your lack of imagination. A state of perpetual tyranny is infinitely worse than one small hiatus.
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  336.  @wiorekw  That's 100% wrong. To the contrary leaders are chosen, because they represent the interests of their people. Conflict happens when the interests of a group are in danger. Be that religious values, wealth or not wanting to be raped.
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  337.  @badateverything8434  What a bunch of absolute horseshit.
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  338. You don't learn much from educational videos. You actually have to test yourself and engage with the subject actively.
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  339. Romantics and authoritarians always imagine the world as a zero sum game and resources to appear out of nowhere in a limited ammount, rather than seeing that they are the result of human labor. Everything that you have is the result of "more people".
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  340. He made nothing.
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  341. What do you mean with "we"? You don't exist. Only my consciousness is simulated!
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  342. If "everything can happen" what exactly is your pile of gold good for? Shouldn't you stock up on seeds and guns instead?
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  343. Pretty much the opposite of god: Working with limited resources and knowledge to increase happiness.
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  344. The "people in power" aren't ignoring it at all. I'm ignoring it, because I don't care. And I like it warm.
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  345. ​ @raynac224 There's no absolute speed in special relativity. It doesn't matter how the planet and sun are moving.
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  346. ​ @aaronsmith7946 Yeah, you don't get more time per se, but you get to have stuff happening faster, like reaching distant galaxies much sooner than under Newtonian physics.
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  347. ​ @imnotmike Speed is relative. You age less in comparison to others when you accelerate in the car, because (proper) acceleration is absolute.
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  348. No. You're still conscious while watching a movie for example. There's no feeling of choice while sunk in a movie.
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  349. I always wonder why people don't take nicotine orally.
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  350. What "destruction"? Do you think the earth is a person?
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  351. The only dumb person here is you. There's no "personal" interest in building nukes. They are for protecting the lives and liberty of large groups of people.
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  352. If the worm thing is right, you should get an allergic reaction when eating a large ammount of parasitic worms.
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  353. ​ @Persun_McPersonson ??? What's cool is cool by consensus. Coolness isn't a physical property.
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  354. ​ @mastatheif9909 If you want to increase testosterone levels, take testosterone.
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  355.  @homerinchinatown2  Yeah it is weird, because it's a misconception based on fiction. I don't know what gave you the impression that Mad Max is a scientific prognosis. Most people throughout history have lived under circumstances like those post nuclear war or worse. None of the knowledge or technology would be gone. Within 100 years, they'd be as many as before again and probably with better infrastructure.
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  356. They aren't. Also all of the old stuff is still around, including the know-how. An all-out nuclear war would be a tiny, insignificant hiatus in the history of civilization.
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  357.  @korabloxsome1900  You just watched an alarmist video that still explains why you are wrong and you're simply ignoring it. Not even something like the KT asteroid would kill everyone, let alone any nuclear war.
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  358. Zedekiah No organism is even close to "perfect", whatever that means.
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  359.  @Billy_D  They didn't over-simplify it. They missed the point entirely. They're talking about metacognition and self awareness. It's like being asked about the economy of Tansania and talking about the mating behavior of sloths. It's really completely different.
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  360. So better medicine results in you being in a wheelchair how exactly? The fight against aging is not some kind of afterlife, which you are locked in.
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  361.  @RogueGMR  Quoting something immensely stupid just adds to the immense stupidity.
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  362.  chico2033  1) No, it wouldn't make earth "uninhabitable". 2) Earth being uninhabitable is a million times better than the tyranny of a North Korea.
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  363. Try opioids or amphetamines. E.g. Kratom, Methylphenidate.
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  364. The remains won't be trapped in the ice forever, since eventually all matter will decay.
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  365. The gills aren't the problem. The problem is that we need much more oxygen than fish of the same size. So a human with gills would still have to go take a breath regularly.
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  366. Vi W True. That's one of the main reasons to reject the assumption of living in a simulation. The argument starts with a race of curious, cooperative beings building a galactic civilization. It falls when we must additionally assume that some extra factor made them extraordinarily cruel.
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  367. That you think of drugs primarily as something that "ruins lives" only means that the propaganda was 100% successful.
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  368. Most of the disadvantages of smoking are simply due to consuming it with your lungs. I'm always telling people to just take nicotine orally like other drugs.
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  369.  @shingosshojiopoulos6608  Yeah I was writing this while watching the video. Still they never made that point. They have a graphic in the end showing people consuming nicotine in other way, but they don't say anything about it. And the context are "ways to quit". Imagine if most people took alcohol by pouring it up their assholes. And then I describe drinking alcohol with your mouth as a "way to quit". It kind of misses the point. Taking nicotine orally or in some other way is simply a superior way of taking it for most purposes.
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  370. ​ @shingosshojiopoulos6608 Sure, but nowhere on the scale of inhaling a fire.
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  371. I always try to create that, but people don't want to. : (
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