Love it! Thanks!

You just confirmed that this confirms my beliefs about confirmation bias

@@AEONIC_MUSIC In fact you just confirmed what I had confirmed from Jeff Bedrick's confirmation of my previous confirmations on confirmation bias that I got from this video

@@HexViccissitude Another data point! I skipped over all the comments that didn't confirm anything as that are usless and a complete waste of time

Best comment of the year award goes to you my guy.

True! Though there's a high chance I wouldn't like it if I didn't already like it.

I love it

The perfect explanation of how he’s not a real comedian.

@@coreydolan3239 That is quite a dishonest way of just saying you don't like him.

this is my dream too lol

Never disappointing!!! Because he is is able to point out the hypocrisy on both sides without vilifying one over the other. The voice of the silent middle majority is so unrepresented in media these days. Fear based media playing to our deepest worry's is sadly what gets clicks!!!

For 12 minutes actually hahaha

And of the people who watched this.

Is that what they did?

Not to mention that your confirmation bias is so much better than all the other cofirmation biases, because it's right.

It's definitely the best feeling bias. It's basically the feeling of being right! :)

He seems like one of those try-hards, but it is much better to try too hard in order to find your shtick.

Unless you just learned about recency bias, in which case that one is obviously best.

It's like the word yes.

You just confirmed my thoughts. As I expected.

@@michaelg8193 I knew you would say that. And not just anybody, but you specifically (whoever you are).

I agree with you both. We're a tribe. Let's play.

My confirmation bias believes this comment is underrated.

This one made me LOL for real.

I love when the laugh is on the literal last word, and yes to what you said

Plus it’s universally correct that we’re all hypocrites, being flawed humans with our own biases and all. It’s the degree of hypocrisy and whether it’s weaponised against others that makes the difference though.

@@TheOrangeFlash ... and the degree to which we recognise our own hypocricy. Easy to spot someone elses flaws, quite hard to find a mirror we are willing to look in for our own.

It's pretty funny/cool that if you both had reached out to the author of the study, they would've very likely responded pretty quickly to clarify any doubts and maybe help resolve which conclusion is closer to the truth. I've reach out to researchers with my random ass layman questions and they are oh so happy to help out.

This is THE crucial issue. Our perceptions are SO different if you discuss with a person who has a different personality and/or values. I was 24 (woman, over-weight), in university (interest in educational psychology, plays piano, almost no work experience), and I happened to be friends with, rather unusually, a 39-year-old paramedic (very practical, gym everyday, stock investor CEO of his own little company, who values freedom and speaks from his heart. He once shared me a clip of Jordan Peterson, and I watched it before reading his comments. I thought the main points in the video were COMPLETELY different than he did, even though we both liked the video. We seem to have different perceptional tracks based on which we find what appears to be important. I purposefully try to acquintance myself with people different from me. I have learned a HUGE amount of gigantically important things from two of my older male friends with different interests and life tracks. EXAMPLES of new info Communism is actually bad and we in democratic countries are INCREDIBLY lucky, freedom of speech is crucial for civilization, rich people are not bad and actually do often more good to others than poor people because 1) they provide jobs 2) they provide a valuable product (money is an exchange of value). I used to have the disdaining attitude toward the rich, or I used to not prioritize money-making because I thought character was more important; I've made a big change in direction. 3) Free trade is the most important piece of how you get poor countries out of poverty, though not the only one. 4)Money-making is about taking responsibility over yourself, putting yourself first, self-respect, indeed character strength. After you are sufficient to take care of yourself, can you have an impact in trying to help others.

@@fran13r wow

Who was right? :)

This he nicked from a gag I made up and never told to anybody, especially him. You can work out the rest of it from the punchline: "You have stupidly small feet and you're still a dick".

Welllllll it's more a fact than a belief, though, isn't it ? I may be biased, tho...

@@TheNefastor Look at you guys, in your echo chamber

I clicked because I have not found him funny before. I still don't but this set is genius !

@@djd829 look at you confirming your belief that people who don't share your beliefs live in a bubble.

@@youtubewatcher2 🤣

😂

I'm pretty sure he was created in a lab coming the DNA of Bill Bailey and George Carlin.

@@zealotestheaussie5880 well thanks for that psychology analysis pov

@@zealotestheaussie5880 back to the usual nonsensical argument Atheism is literally a *lack of belief* In what way is that anything like religion? You, and even the most fundamental religious followers on the planet, are atheists 99.9% of the time. You are an atheist I assume about Zeus, or Thor, or Horus...

@@zealotestheaussie5880 Your confirmation bias is working over time there. Here, have a cookie 🍪 and a lie down 🛌, you must be exhausted.

@@mattyguitar22 Atheism is not a lack of belief, full stop. Atheism is literally a belief that God does not exist. It is only a 'lack of belief' in the existence of God, which in itself is a belief. I don't disagree that atheism isn't a religion, but hopefully you can see why some might disagree with you.

@@corneliusnowicki5363 I maybe didn't write properly in my comment. What I meant was a lack of belief *in God* Which is of course the opposite of any kind of religion. In my opinion it's not believing that God doesn't exist, it's not believing that God exists. Which I think is different

I consume some Tim daily for past 14 years. Am 74 year old broad.

Same here!! Discovered Tim two years ago during the pando and have been watching content pretty much every day since 💖😁

​@@maryfitzpatrick3252 not gonna lie I am slightly envious of the fact you have been aware of him for so long😂 I don't regret much in my life, but one thing I do is not discovering Tim sooner

I think he might get uncomfortable

@@sarcasm-83 He is.. But!, theres is the one and only Cure.

Same. Even in the rant, he commits that which he argues against. The presentation of the two sides was, while critical of both, markedly different. By the time he finished with the “hippie” remark, I already knew where he leaned politically because both of his negative examples fell on the same side. The tone and further presentation expanding upon the his thoughts cemented and further defined it. The overall message was valuable. The recognition of his hypocrisy, poignant. It’s a shame the self-reflection wasn’t reflected in his performance beyond a nod. Play to your audience, I guess.

@@xa5150 Well yes, he knows who his audience is so it's mainly from the perspective of progressives. He's not saying that you can't have thoughts or opinions though, he's just saying that shouting at people who are different from you isn't exactly going to bring people together.

you are SO funny!

…is this confirmation bias?

Tim Minching stole your act

Well, if you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out.

Praise be to Tim Minchin. -slaps a counter-

THIS!

Ethan, I hope you can keep an open mind about the whole "god" question. I have no religion to sell you, as I have none to follow myself. I am concerned more and more that a kind of "religious atheism" is spreading (not that YOU are part of it) in which any thought of something greater, of larger scope, of superior ability, is dismissed by materialistic human hubris. A lack of belief in anything greater than one's self or species can (and I think already has) lead to mass extinctions and environmental destruction. From just seeing Tim for the first time, I can already surmise that he would say that there is just as much hazard in making a belief that there is definitely no god "no way, no how" a new form of dogmatic and tyrannical thought policing. It was tried in the USSR and a few other places. It never fully stuck, I believe, because there is part of every thinking person that realizes that no matter how smart we think we are, there is likely another life form in this galaxy which debates whether our species is actually "intelligent" or merely reactionary and with kindly evolved neurological clusters built into our DNA. It is quite likely there are species capable of all the magic tricks that Jesus and Jehovah are said to have performed in the Bible, though some books in the Bible is not very clear about whether God is actually what other books claim, i.e. the all-knowing creator of all things. At the very least, we should consider the possibility that something like those characters really are real. It's what Star Trek TNG hinted at in their episode with "Ardra" who claimed to be a god/devil thing who claimed ownership of a planet whose technology was not as advanced as hers. We can already do many of the things Jesus and Jehovah did. Personally, I'd appreciate a god-like being "coming back" to help straighten out some of the mess we've made. Just keep an open mind.

that's what she said

PHRASING.

@@utubepunk if yall had paid attention to this clip you'd understand the reference.

It's the kind of deep penetration that you just have to sit back and enjoy! Although, I'd be surprised if you continued to describe yourself as a right-wing Christian after such an impactful penetration!

Tim would be very pleased to hear this 😅. It is a broad church!

That's because it's confirmation bias. It's completely stupid if you actually think about it.

The song is Thank You God not Sam's Mom and the song is less about religion and more about Tim's desire to include his vast vocabulary into a song

@@jackwhitbread4583 it definitely is about religion

@@jackwhitbread4583 it's both.

@@jackwhitbread4583you wanted to show educational privilege? How dare you cannot hold back your bad manners.

​@@jackwhitbread4583 It is always a joy to have someone in the comment section who will take the time to correct strangers when they don't use the correct title of a song. Tim would 've never figured out which song she was listening to. It's a shame she didn't understand what the song was about. Her gratitude for the enrichment of her life and how it helped her are clearly based on her own feelings. She probably didn't even notice his vast vocabulary before you mentioned it.

Hallelujah 🙌 at that! He is a f**%ing genius!

More so they have read all the books to find the funny stuff

@@wobblysauce They have to be pretty well read to be this quick witted on the highly divisive topics and survive to have a career. It's not enough to just poke fun and run, they need to have all the contingencies figured out they can.

@@avi8r66 Well some do, just not the ones mentioned.

...Gallagher?

I hope this was the start of a fabulous journey through Tim's work

Mark Twain

👆 Terry playing along.. no mate it was George Orwell!!😬

@@herculesmclovin Then Orwell got it from Twain.

@@terryfall8915 nahh, you've been fooled !

​@@herculesmclovin Not really. This quote has been attributed to Twain for a very long time. Look it up. Twain certainly could not have borrowed the quote from Orwell. I did some research. Here is the original quote. It's not the exact wording, but it is the same idea: ""The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. ... How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" - Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)

Waiting for Tim's new song "Sorry Cardinal Pell". There's a couple of lines in there about 7 unanimous Australian High Court Judges, and a bunch of crims who put didn't even have the brains to make up decent lies.

​@@dougy6237 Why sorry? Pell acknowledged that he protected and defended convicted paedophiles and persecuted their victims... Doesn't matter about his case, overturned on a technicality, he is a disgusting piece of work

@@dougy6237 If you listen to the Cardinal Pell song, it has nothing to do with the charges against Pell himself. He is simply stating the findings of the Royal Commission - that Pell knew about abuse that was happening within the church and did nothing.

I think God did too.

You're both talking about gods ergo you must be christians because I know from the intermewebs that christians think only christians have a god called 'God' ergo you are religious nuts I know because youtube told me ergo I don't like what you have to say because Im atheist ergo you are not in my tribe ergo I disagree with everything you said and will say from now on because it will confirm everything I believe about you even if it doesn't and you are really iny tribe and just using god as your sentence prop because that's how confirmation bias works. Or something.

Which god are you referring to?

Eddie Izzard is another brilliant sod. 🤯

If this is anything to go by, he doesn't hold a candle to George Carlin. He needs a lot more cognitive development. He is full of confirmation bias and is spouting about it as if he knows what it is.

@Just a someone he literally admits that at the end when he calls himself a hypocrite. Shows he is self aware.

@@D4nnyC4tz Ah, ok, I didn't get that far - gave up on it about halfway through. The thought did occur to me that maybe he would do something like that at the end, but it seemed unlikely going by how convinced he seemed of everything he was saying. Thanks for letting me know. Maybe I will watch the rest.

@@justasomeone7860 in other words, you let your own confirmation bias stop you from watching the whole video because you anticipated there was a chance he'd say something that didn't confirm your bias. If you really are as much into Carlin as you seem to imply, maybe you should listen to him some more. And maybe this time listen to his *entire* points, not just the first halves.

I was going to go for the show near my birthday at the end of November, but my severe social anxiety got the best of me after covid cancelled all group therapy. FFuuu. It's never been more scary to go out in the world with how divided people are on ... everything. Already have "what if"-thoughts and now I gotta wonder if my life will be ruined if I disagree a little with the wrong person lol. But very glad that there's a special I can still watch. God I wish he will still do a tour some day in the future and I'm well enough to go see him. Would be a dream come true.

Any idea where he is touring ATM?

@@budd2nd He was in Melbourne earlier this year. Does that help?

@@triarb5790 okay thanks

Just enjoy the ride bro. We all doomed.

Think I got home about 7 to The Lakes, memorable 👍🏼

Ikr bubble friend! You're alright!

He was succinct???

Actually, the irony is entirely lost on Tim (and you).

Your message isn't love. Progressivism is pure evil, hatred, and suffering and always has been. Progressivism is the world's most dangerous religion.

Oh, please, let us know how would you inspire a fascist to stop being one?

@@aleksandra... By fixing the problems fascists are upset about.

@@carlkenner4581 pls elaborate because the way you phrased it, you might as well openly advocate for genocide(s) hope not, and you were just clumsy in expressing your thoughts

Spreading love to fascists and bigots doesn't work - they'll only ever understand the error of their beliefs if they find themselves on the other side, being treated the way they treat others. Until then, they keep trying to weaponize tolerance as cover for their continued shitty behavior

The diplomacy dyke seems to be on its last legs

I see what you did there.

@@thescribblequeen 😜

*rare but fun, but ye

@@Gongasoso haha yes let's just say poetic licence and late night typing 😜

Waiting for Tim's new song "Sorry Cardinal Pell". There's a couple of lines in there about 7 unanimous Australian High Court Judges, and a bunch of crims who put didn't even have the brains to make up decent lies.

​@@dougy6237 in his come home cardinal Pell song he does not accuse George of anything, he simply appeals for him not to be a coward and answer to questions that were surrounding him about covering up pedophillia. He also donated every single penny of that piece of music to the victims of the Catholic Church, tell me douchnozzle, what exactly did the sewer rat George Pell do to help any of the Church's victims?

The most intelligent? …confirmation bias. 😉

If you can find the specific information that you refer to here I would be really interested in looking into it. It makes perfect sense and I struggle with it daily in my social circles

@@Gongasoso I wish I had more, but I can't even remember the official/formal name of the field of study ☹️ I should have written some of it down and saved it to my Dropbox or something, but I didn't, and now my brain's memory centers are failing me.

To take this a step further, we know we are tribal animals, and that has been a large part of our evolutionary success. That cant just be switched off. I cant think of a single tribal trait that cant be explained as beneficial in some evolutionary strategy. For millions of years it has served us. It will take generations to remove them.

@@Gongasoso Holy shit, I found it! It took some Google-fu, and then I literally sat there reading every citation on multiple Wikipedia articles until a name sounded familiar, but I found it! 😁 It's called the theory of optimal distinctiveness, and it was pioneered by Dr. Marilynn B. Brewer.

@@ltmund It can't "just be switched off", but we can use our neocortex, especially our prefrontal cortex, to recognize when our instincts are unhelpful or unworthy, and choose to ignore them in our decision making.

Things that you already agree with!

Except for a person that is inherently devils advocate

People have become brain dead since social media man. Its painful dealing with anyone now. Everyone thinks they are the main character.

The fact people need this pointed out to them in 2022 is so depressing.

@@lifeunderthestarstv how so? As I see it we all need to hear this regularly, just to make sure we filter our current beliefs

@@CreationistDouchebag I can kick you to wake up. But not 258 times in a week.

@@randomspirit6061 Are you okay?

@@CreationistDouchebag if people haven't self realised this by late high school / college. They just aren't built for critical thinking Imo. And good for them, it's not fun. It's easier being ignorant.

But I like mint chocolate.

mint chocolate is the best

Don't listen to them; they're objectively wrong

You are absolutely right I can't abide mint chocolate 😁 i adore Tim Minchin though and he's a genius. His hilarious rants are extremely insightful and intelligent as well as being laugh out loud funny. The extreme right and extreme left may eventually go so far as to meet on the other side and cause annihilation.

Funny thing mint is a food in its own right being a herb, and mint chocolate is great! As are mojitos and all manner of mint variety things…

I bet if you showed them love and kindness before the event things would be different. I submit that we'd lower the liklihood of people bringing assault weapons to drag shows if there weren't so many people gleefully engaged in winding people up with stories of drag shows in schools. "Whats wrong with this man in drag reading 50 Shades to kids bigot?!" You can actually prevent fascism before you have to deal with it. You can prevent violent opposition by not going out of your way to stir up violent opposition.

@@basilfawlty123 No one is reading 50 Shades of Grey to kids. Even they’ll know it’s shit. And nice victim blaming, the drag artists just read kid’s stories to them. Yes, it can seem strange to some but drag isn’t always sexual.

@@GazB85 ok groomer

@@basilfawlty123 LOL. Thank god someone showed up to stick up for the fascists. I totally forgot that it's a completely rational response to murder trans people for...*checks notes*... existing. GTFO troll. I don't like you and Tim Minchin doesn't either.

@@spencerharmon4669 who said it's a rational response? I didn't. I think you're arguing with your perception of me rather than me. People sometimes respond irrationally to irrational shit. When small groups of ideologically driven lunatics try tearing down the very fabric of society, don't be surprised when small groups of ideologically driven lunatics on the opposing side start doing the same. Apparently attempting to explain how to prevent fascism is sticking up for fascism now? I think you've helped prove Tim's point 🤣

This whole video is a perfect example of confirmation bias.

Once you go down the Tim Minchin rabbit hole you'll never want to leave! Everything he does is brilliant! Search for "Anthem for Palestine", "If I Didn't Have You" (go with the full uncut version), "Prejudice", "Dark Side", "Some People have It Worse Than I".... then keep going! You can thank me later. Or not. I'll understand. It's difficult to come up for air once you've swam along with "(Fuckin') Tony the Fish".

Yeah the sheer amount of people who think they are the most accepting and kind, but instead act about the most judgmental and shut every disagreeing person out is completely baffling to think about. Never managed to quite put it to words as well as Tim here though and I'm glad someone said it out loud..

You're missing the point. You shouldn't be trying to win people over when there's a 50% chance that they're right and you're wrong.

That's one of the faults of capitalism. We choose popularity and nicety over fact and truth. It's why we elect idiots. Not experts of their fields.

did not expect to see you here mr lindybeige

​@@carlkenner4581 That's not how truth works

@@kddidit08 Incorrect. You in particular need to start considering the possibility that the people you are talking to are smarter than you.