He has >100k subs. That's more than one in 70,000 people.

more!

indeed

I agree. I think to people that disagree the weakest part is probably the visuals, I've tried to get some friends to watch, but they complained about that the visuals don't add much, they are often repeated, and just there in the background. And that more should be done with them. I personally don't mind, but I can see what they mean. Though super custom are expensive/take a lot of time, so not much to do there I guess.

I just listen to these in the background whilst doing something else.

I wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk turned out to be a highly advanced android sent back from the future to warn us about the dangers of developing sentient AI, so ... could Isaac Arthur be a Matrioshka Brain heralding our reality simulation ?

I think Larry Niven did a short story about that, I think it was called "what do you think of Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers" or something like that

Notice Isaac never objected to this

whoa

BrazilianBikini38 That's it. I've got the anthology "Niven Space."

From what I saw in the shows, or at least my impression, was that the Federation of the most recent era really didn't seem to concerned about such things. In fact I remember on more than one occasion they were more than happy to allow the Cardassians to forcibly relocate people willy-nilly without so much as a whimper of complaint. As a matter of fact the Cardassians committed horrible atrocities on Federation citizens, the types of things which even our society today would consider war crimes, and yet there was never any attempt by the Federation to seek justice for the victims of Cardassian war crimes (federation citizens to boot!). So ya, I doubt they really give a shit about the Klingons or Romulans exploiting primitive species. Seems to me the Federations top priority is to avoid war at all costs even if that means the betrayal of there own citizens. Well except for DS9, atleast Sisko and crew had some fucking balls...

That plot was just stupid. Some people had left the Federation to start their own "back to nature"-cult or whatever, only they were squatting on Cardassian planets. So when Cardassians told them they have to leave or start paying taxes they claimed they were Federation citizens after all, but when Feds told them to come back to their own side of the border, they wanted the Federation to start a war over them instead. And to make sure that happened, the squatters became terrorists and attacked both Feds and Cardassians. Oh, and the settlers are supposedly descendants of Native Americans who are again being driven from their lands by "white men", just to make things stupider. Assuming there really was a group inbred enough to be able to trace their ancestry directly to some tribe on Earth, they either left the Federation or agreed to abide by it's charter when they went off to start their colony. And given there are trillion or more people in the Federation who have no interest in starting a war over few thousand squatters when there are thousands of free planets in Federation space that they can live on, the vote is definitely against them. EDIT: Oh, right, and 99.99999% of the Federation has no connection to anyone whose ancestors were doing anything to any Native Americans either, so any "we can't treat them like our ancestors treated their ancestors" idiocy is also pure BS. Might as well have Sisko make a speech about how he is against Cardassians because he feels guilty about his ancestors being Nazis...

+AnalystPrime The Federation sold off already-settled planets with citizens on them to the cardassians. They hadn't left the Federation to start a retarded anti-tech cult and in fact tried to use tech to fight back against the cardassians that mistreated them.

If they were official Fed colonists, why were they so far outside their borders? If they had been on those planets long enough to get attached to them and build anything resembling a "home" there, where are all the industry and defense systems that would make the place both worth keeping and able to keep Cardies away? If the reason why they were living in teepees was that they just got off the colony ship, then it should be easy for them to get back on, move to one of the hundreds of other habitable planets available in UFP space, and maybe sue whoever didn't check for prior claims when they sent them to colonize the wrong side of the Cardassian border. That whole plot is equivalent of some Sami people from Norway moving to Alaska to create a new homeland and when USA tells them they are on someone else's property they complain to EU, but when instead of helping them conquer Alaska EU offers just to pay for their plane tickets back, some idiots decide to become terrorists and we are supposed to be cheering for them. And because four thousand years ago the ancestors of Finns pushed away the Sami to settle in Finland, the modern day Spanish people should feel guilty about not helping the Sami terrorists start a war with America. Also, in this scenario EU is a post-scarcity society with the ability to build islands and space colonies for more land to live on, while USA is a third world country that desperately needs that plot in Alaska because they don't have any better place to colonize that they could reach without their cars running out of gas. The scriptwriters just wanted to make up a scenario where the Federation is in the wrong and utterly failed to make it believable. If they had set the whole thing up as a plot by Romulans or Dominion to cause trouble, or another plot by that faction that tried to take over the Federation, that would actually make some sense. Or they could say Q replaced all the excellent diplomats and other competent people UFP has that would have kept this from ever happening with a bunch of idiots to see if anyone will notice, even that would have made a better plot.

federal colonist came cardassian turf after border war and fed got cardassian colonies too , that back to nature cult did entirely abandont fed and common sense

Yes though from a production standpoint it mostly represents the huge frustration the writers tended to feel about the rules Gene had limiting all sorts of conflicts, arguments, unenlightened behavior etc.

@Dream0fSkye Which is part of why he was so goddamned annoying.

TNG got better after Gene Roddenberry died. Then again he was alive for TOS and TOS was pretty good.

Simon Moore lmao

Even better, it was the Space Mexicans that paid for it! :)

Because its not even a fancy zoo or anything, it is the zoo of space Mexico city.

Funny: In ST canon, the Milky Way actually _is_ surrounded by some kind of impenetrable barrier! (Though I can't remember any specifics right now) So maybe the zoo is just a bit larger than the video suggests? xD

Meanwhile in Mexico...

It helps with simulating to have a max speed too :)

@@isaacarthurSFIA 1.39 Terahertz

Blood for the Blood God!

Slannesh to be specific.

Praise KEK.

The Chief Engineer is awesome. If I found out someone with fantastic technology was intentionally keeping us in the dark I'd be pissed. I hope they're all like the Chief Engineer, practical, instructive, and kinda cute despite the construction hard hat.

MILK FOR THE KHORNEFLAKES!

why would u be terrified it won't be u.......it will be a copy of u .........unless your body is slowly over time replaced with nano bots cell by cell and than everyone with that sort of body get's piled up in a big server......than it will be u but u will have changed over time ...........why would "uploading" mean u kill the original....u upload a copy/simulation of the pattern in your head u can copy it 50 times and u will still be the dude in the skull ......the other 50 dudes will just have the feeling of being u and than being popped out of your body

Yeah, I've been pondering that question myself as well. If I had the option to be uploaded to a computer, would "I" still be me, when the transfer was complete? I feel the uploaded "me" would be a copy, and "I" would never actually experience it, but my copy would continue thinking it was me and still is - and it would be correct for its perspective.

Joel Dowdell, The proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids that make up a brain (or simulated brain) are regularly breaking and the parts get digested (or they are simulated to break and digest). All of the molecules in your childhood brain have been replaced. Have you died multiple times?

Since nothing about us is constant, perhaps the only real way to describe consciousness is as a wave of complexity (order) that propagates through matter over time. Perhaps if the change over happened gradually, piece by piece(as pumpupthevolume said), you would still really be the same. If however, every piece was replaced with another one copying it at the same time, I would consider that death, followed by the creation of a clone since the "wave" was broken. More food for thought, if indeed we are digital, do we then die and are reborn every time files are moved or the system goes down for maintenance?

I think if you are digital, you don't die from doing file things. But turning off the computer is definitely something more than sleep.

This video needed more Smug Slugs.

Wait.... Stellaris released a new DLC today?

ArchAngelThomas Synthetic dawn. A mod after myself

Stellaris devs (paradox) should team up with Isaac. Would make for a great DLC.

Guess I need to make a race of Smugliens, hailing from Smugness IV.

lol, that was one of my favorite episodes to make.

They are surprisingly humble

erik2000 that's a nice start. But as soon as we make first contact with an alien race, that number is gonna soar. Unless they're "dumb" aliens and just into unboxing videos and Jake Paul. God help us all if they learn to dab

erik2000 that's a good start. Then we have a possible multiverse to deal with. That's some serious ad revenue!

Not enough videos of cute kittens.

What are the other 2?

1. Isaac Arthur 2. TeamFourStar (not science related) 3. Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell (science for dummies ^^) :)

@@nerdpraxis I love TFS.

and thanks for the work !! you rock

james Fra yeah, right?!?!?!?

Oh god it is. wtf

erik2000 Oh yeah. These two too. I saw that in my subscription.

ARTHURSDAY

Thursday night football & Isaac Arthur new episode, are two things that I look forward to on Thursday, and not necessary in that order of importance. :)

said everyone who ever played against the Eldar (Warhammer40K)

So Thomas where have you been

Oh, the locals have AIDs epidemic. Did you record that? Good. Fukushima and Chernobyl? Alien's funniest bloopers.

Yeah! like that total dick Eldrad!

no God involved please ...We seem to be on a DAMN IT to hell planet ...Zoologist Wall builders and Control maniacs...Beware !!! Damn it

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Inquisitor Thomas. lol, Good one.!!

i`d like to see what happens to the inquisition when the emperor returns

Most excellent Mike A!, a variation of the poster that hung in our pilots ready room when I was in the service.

Ratchet and clank?

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Quick Question. Has Arthur done a video about Saberhagen's Berzerker series or another "galactic-scale super-predator" as a solution to the Fermi paradox? I watched the Dead Aliens series a while ago and I don't think he directly addressed it.

I'm from Ohio :) The 100k special goes over all that bio stuff

Isaac Arthur I'll have to give a listen. Your cadence reminds me of the better voice actors for the X-man Gambit..

Isaac Arthur bro can you tell me how you were diagnosed with a speech impediment im from Australia and can't understand a single word being said literally it's just a bunch of garbage and yet they don't get diagnosed

Matthew Thompson, you haven't heard scottish people. I can't watch Stan Lee's Lucky Man without subtitles because of the main protagonist.

For real OP is right, I was never bothered by the wabbits but you've gotten noticeably better at dealing with it, love the show keep it up!

Matracokura me, every week

Not sure how I feel about the anal probing either. I guess it would depend on the probe :-p

KILL

I'll pass..

Matryoshka brain anime girl?

And I figured out what to pull from the spank bank this evening. Thank you.

the Quanto Never, sadly. Well, not without genetic engineering anyway.

Prima Aprilis...

Yeah it is pretty creepy, I can't see escaping it either.

Oh also, I really enjoyed the Star Trek analysis, and especially the use of the bridge View Screen set. Great episode.

Yeah it's important to know what the main priority is, you can have multiple ones but you need to know which one is #1, 'live and let die' makes sense for certain types of scientific research but not for others and definitely not for a petting zoo. :)

@RuleofVicus You regretting say this yet?

@RuleofVicus The current death count is well over 150k www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm And that's not even the full impact, people that survive can still be left with things like permanent lung or brain damage. If you wanted to It's kind of a meme that the same people naming it after china and promoting xenophobia are also the people that don't understand what's going on, and post weird sites that don't actually show everything unless you download from the sketchy website. The current chart shows we were on a downward trend before another spike, and we don't know if we'll hit another spike or not soon now that people are increasingly ignoring quarantine, with the quarantines most likely being what caused the initial dip. Please actually research things instead of spreading misinformation guided by racism and xenophobia.

@RuleofVicus I wish you were as enlightened as you claim, you can literally look at the death count charts to see the second spike. Why are you so averse to facts and logic while claiming you're the paragon of them?

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james Fra Maybe they are but you just doesn't know. Maybe you are really just a bit of computer code in a massive computer. Perhaps from the point of view of the aliens you are just a random npc in a massive online game. 😉

Naa... But the likelihood is that if there smug alien zookeepers then this is likely a simulation. So you need to reframe the question then to get more sentable answer. Problem with the Simulation Hypothesis is that you can set it up so it becomes pretty much untestable. The other methods for keeping earth in a zoo is more easy to test and we have seen no signs of earth being a zoo. Should be noted that if this is a simulation then we can not assume it for our benefit. There actually a ton of scenarios on why one would make a simulation. It could be for research. To teach people about their past or other cultures. To use as a training tool. Or this could just be The Sims 256 that some alien kid runs on there computer just for fun... Though the last one is less likely as we would see a lot more people dying for fire related "accidence"

Another possibility, one that I think is more likely, is that we're just characters in somebody's story, or more likely the descendants of common ancestors of characters of somebody's story.

What do you mean not testable? The simulation hypothesis is testable in a whole host of ways and actually there has been several experiments done all showing evidence that we are in a simulation rather then not! Still likely ET's but they would also be simulated. www.scientificexploration.org/forum/some-evidence-for-the-simulation-hypothesis

Do not get me wrong Apex. I am not saying you can not find evidence for reality being a simulation. That is quite possible. But the problem is you can never disprove reality is a simulation. And that is a issue.

apologies in advance for replying to such an old comment, but if earth was taken by aliens and all the life on it inserted into a zoo simulation. id be soo pissed at the aliens. because theyd literally control the reality we existed in and let that reality still have torture and atrocities in it.

The aliens are probably like "What the heck is wrong with these things? If they just distributed food so everyone had a 2 month surplus instead of wasting all of it, they could literally just wait it out, along with a bunch of other diseases. "

Just wait until 2030, when Issac works for Neo-Pfizer to create a vaccine for implant rejection syndrome.

as much as i enjoy those channels, nothing compares to your indebth videos, your videos are like feature length movies as theirs are like a commercials, they dont even stratch the surfice compared to you

Are you kidding? He doesn't need those hacks.

An if we tech up and contact them and learn that they could cure AIDS, earthquakes, hurricanes, and prevent Fukushima and Chernobyl but chose not to?

But imagine that the reason they refuse is because WE didn't cure illnesses or prevent and unnatural natural disasters. It would be refusing to give prothesis to a person missing a limb BECAUSE said person is missing a limb.

Yup. It's called point and say "haw haw." Lookit the dummies that still use fission reactors. Let them poison themselves. Let them suffer from AIDS. Let them die in hurricanes.

We don't lack the technology to save our planet, we're just too apathetic and greedy to dare change our ways.

We lack the technology to stop hurricanes, AIDs, Fussion technology, efficient solar technology, and the solutions to tons of problems. Yeah we lack technology.

Thanks Saraneth!

Ayush Sharma If the galaxy is fully colonized we would not be here to see the lack of civilizations, also they probably would have deconstructed every planet in the galaxy for more materials for their Dyson swarms. Speaking of Dyson swarms they should have built one around every star in the galaxy including the sun. But if they really had just colonized every planet it the galaxy which was habitable to them then this could work.

Ender Bob But colonizing only planets you can live on is similar to finding Americas and only settle one small island in Caribean because its to dificult to get on the mainland.

A colonizing alien totally can expand to neighbor galaxies. More importantly, we could detect from afar that a galaxy is colonized.

@@musaran2 "we could detect from afar that a galaxy is colonized." See, that's just plain arrogance. The entire claim there is that our puny instruments are advanced enough to properly detect alien life, which is like saying they are perfectly capable of detecting Ghussanthonus. No that's a real thing, because I just made it up, and that's my point. When we talk about "alien life" we're really THINKING of beings like ourselves who think in the same ways, have the same culture, developed in the same ways, and resemble us closely enough that we can easily form connections and mutual understanding with them. The reality may very well be that aliens will be so utterly alien in appearance, thought, mindset, and culture that we couldn't detect them because they weren't using advanced digital tech or any kind of signals our instruments can detect, using instead technology that they developed in a completely different direction than us.

@@StarboyXL9 Physics are the same for everybody, there is only so much chemistry to run on. Any life form abundant enough on it's planet will alter it enough to be detected. Engineering is constrained by physics, there are only so many solutions to find. Any intelligent life spread enough will leave marks enough to be detected. We already spotted some potentials, and we are planning much better detectors.

This happened before, they called them the n word and told them to fuck off because we are full.

melelconquistador Alien civilazation:... we must make room. 4chan: here’s how *shows them ww2 memes* Alien fighters appear over cities spewing out gas at the sound of ‘kek’ and as they fly through the air their engines go ‘kek kek kek!