Michael 8 years ago: what if everyone jumped at once Michael now: Hierarchical power structures that rely on individuals making decisions for the collective run counter to the way our brains have evolved to tackle collective problems

“Iconic figures we can relate to are not bad” -An iconic figure we can relate to

Michael is a genius of communication, I guess that there's a staff that contribute to the script and editing and all that stuff, but the way that Michael explains such topics and ideas is amazingly good, every vsauce video feels like it's illegal to watch for free.

This is first video of Vsauce that I watched and I am very happy that I found his channel.

This legend didn't put a single ad in a 30 minute video

Haters will say it has cuts, but we all know that Michael is actually materializing those objects out of thin air with his psychic powers.

I think this very well may have been the most profound Vsauce video to date. In every video, he uses reason and the reasoning of others to create mind-boggling content, yet here, he evaluates reasoning itself.

watched the whole video, and every bit of a second was just phenomenal. Michael, thanks for making such thoughtful videos. I appreciate your work

After all these years I still don't want to tell Michael that my name is not Vsauce.

The only bad thing about Vsauce is that their videos are so thought provoking that I can't focus on what he's saying for more than 5 minutes because I get so involved in my line of thinking that I completely stop paying attention

Im going to start admitting that I don't have an opinion on most topics. Thanks Mike and team!

Wow. Used to watch this channel like a decade ago. Can’t believe this guy is still out here killing it. Love it!

My heart broke when Michael finally revealed he isn't an elephant

The worlds GREATEST teacher. Thank you Mr Saucy Sauce

That is THE Quality of content, the best media has to offer. Thank you Michael!

The way he manages to spark that feeling of curiosity is magical!

"The world is not a logic puzzle" is probably a very good thing to remember.

Not gonna lie this is one of my favorite vsauce videos of all time. Always come back to rewatch every now and then

Michael is a revolutionary mind of our time, not only providing his own ideas in a manner that is consumable and understandable, but inspiring others to develop their own ideas and conclusions. We all have something to learn about the world and about ourselves from him.

The legend.

Gotta thank vsauce for letting us borrow his mind for 30mins

I'm a masters graduate and Michael here is more clear, rational and wise than all my teachers combined since elementary. It is always such a pleasure learning science and concepts in this way. Love it! Please continue this Michael.

“The democratization of communication means that even unpopular, unconvincing, nonsensical ideas can be presented with the same trust inducing, tight faces, and professional look as common ones.” -Michael Stevens, Vsauce “The Future of Reasoning”

"We use conclusions to come to reasons," is the most perfect explanation of human interaction I've ever heard.

Vsauce dropping a new video is like an international holiday for internet surfers.

Michael I'm leaving this here as your video is the first time ever that my 6 months son learned to intentionally press the spacebar to pause and play your video. His first time using a keyboard. Thanks for your inspiring videos and I hope he watches more of them as he grows up :)

I love the endings to these videos. I find them inspirational to change wrong things to make them better. The most taxing question on the mind is if what we do now will benefit or hurt the future. What would historians find? What would future generations learn about us and what we right now did? Every action will be watched by our children 100 years later. That’s hard to think about, it inspires me as a person to improve people’s life’s and to show our children that we were good people. We can’t be self centered all of the time. As a collective society we need to help and take care of people around us and ourselves, but that’s hard, but it can be done. For us, for the future, for the world.

He stepped up his game. From appearing from aside or beneath to appearing out of nowhere lol

This man sat on a chair with same frame and spoke for 30mins and I didn't get bored.

I loved this channel since the beginning and I love it just as much now. Thank you for another great one :)

Had me until the Bill Gates book endorsement. It would take a lot to convince me that man truly cares about the climate.

"Or is it?" Oh my god, how much I've missed Michael saying that

all these years later, the vsauce theme drop still be hittin'

VSAUCE single handly is changing my perspective on things

You have a really great grasp on manifesting a clear and objective way to address strange and subjective topics. It's really impressive. Great channel man.

Can we just appreciate that Michael has consistently made nothing short of phenomenal content for almost a decade now

Post-Vsauce depression: when you have watched the new Vsauce video and you have to go back to your everyday life.

Imagine a world where everyone thinks the same way, always agrees, and sees things from the same angle. Sounds peaceful, right? Not quite. This, in a nutshell, is the paradox of unanimity: sometimes, more agreement can actually mean less certainty. While we tend to trust decisions everyone supports, the truth is, the chances of everyone being truly independent and correct are surprisingly low. Why? Because we're human, and shared biases, groupthink, and even emotional contagion can easily sway everyone in the same direction, even if it's wrong. This doesn't mean every viewpoint needs to be extreme or completely different. But in ambiguous situations, where right and wrong aren't clear-cut, diversity of thought is crucial. It's like a puzzle: the more perspectives you have, the better chance you have of seeing the whole picture and finding the right solution. Here's the catch: blindly following the majority can be dangerous. Think about how easily rumors spread, even if they're untrue. In complex moral decisions, groupthink can lead to mass delusion, where everyone believes something is right simply because everyone else does. This can have serious consequences, hindering our ability to distinguish right from wrong and leading to harmful choices. So, the next time you encounter a situation where everyone seems to agree, remember the paradox of unanimity. Don't be afraid to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and see things from different angles. It might be uncomfortable, but it could also save us from making regrettable choices and pave the way for a more nuanced and just society.

Vsauce is the only channel that can have just one man sitting in the same room talking for half an hour and gaining millions of views. and that is phenomenal, in this time

Michael has always says thanks for watching, but have we ever thank him for showing?

For 7 years this man doesn't look like he's aged a week.

There is a lot wrapped up in this video. I appreciate the effort you put in to make the heaviest subjects approachable. Thank you Michael

7:39 me and my friend had almost this exact same discussion the other day about something else. I didn't want to do something and I gave a reason which he was able easily counter until I put in the work to figure out a good enough reason. It mainly happened because I didn't realize he was quite as passionate about it, nor just how lazy I was feeling about the idea. I could've just said no and thats final, but it would've made my friend upset with me for a while, so socially you need powers of reasoning.

In Ireland we have a system called the Citizens Assembly. Where a large group of random citizens come together to discuss and debate pressing topics, and then recommend conclusions to government. It has been very successful on many issues

"We will some day be the ancients... and we can choose what that means." Just how much effort do you put into those videos, holy fuck, your writing is so good.

My minds been thoroughly blown with this one. Vsauce kinda reminds me of a really good album, he literally drops nothin but bangers.

Great topic. But what about the future of seasoning?!

Micheal may not be an Elephant, but he sure is awesome

It’s probably unhealthy the amount of total vsauce i’ve ever watched, but this is probably the first video where clicked on and it wasn’t 5 years old

I greatly appreciate the notion that we can not just appreciate the knowledge imparted to us by "classic" notions of debate, but that we ourselves might one day become that ancient teacher to our decedents. Where most channels skirt the actual questions they pose, few expend the energy to delve into them properly. Just kidding after reading the comments I realize that 99% of people here are still developing basic listening and comprehension. Maybe the real problem is human stupidity and self-righteousness.

really outstanding and thought provoking content. you are doing such a great service and this beautifully constructed portrait of ideas should be presented and discussed in schools.

This video’s conclusion falls somewhere between “Return to monke” and “we could be collective consciousness space gods”

"Why do you trust everything Michael says?" "Dunno, it's just my intuition"

Hell... I've left my previous comment while I was still half way through watching this... Thing is, that I'm far more thrilled now that I've finished it. And how excited I am for finding this channel ......... NO, Scratch that, since I wasn't really looking for it, so NO credit for me here, but only to KZfaq's genius algorithmic set up, for my stumbling upon this Mega Master Mind of a channel! Damn me if this wasn't THE BEST "cognition engaging" content, delivered in a truly masterful way, while arriving at such a genuinely solid conclusion with very much possible, real life applicability, that I have ever had the pleasure to witness. Supremely Well Done Guys! Thank you for such a mind expanding, engaging and illuminating material! Sincerely!

One of my favourite vids ever tbh outstanding perspectives Michael great work!

Each V-Sauce video is higher quality than the thesis presentations at my university

Vsauce is like a solar eclipse: It doesn't happen often, but when it does, you knows it's going to be special!

Just wanted to express love for your capture of early internet optimisation, genuinely warms my heart.

you are the only one who inspires me this month, your ways to reasoning is so like me, if i have to use a reference or maybe a social matrix psychology, i would say your content or you are using a great extroverted intuition, but i admire you, cuz maybe is the practic and your time doing this, but i admire so much how you put everything in order, thats why i want to improve of me, learning from you. My name is Stephano Padilla, lelele is my nick and thank you so much for the video. -ENTP

We will someday be the ancients

I’ve been watching Vsauce since 6th grade and I’m now 23 years old. I’m very grateful for the knowledge he’s passed down and believe these videos have had profound impact on me growing up

Vsauce inspired my childhood with these amazing timeless masterpiece videos and they always excite me with anything they talk about

This is such a good video, I always come back to it. You hit on so many good topics, specifically the notion of randomly selected people as leaders… Still keeps me thinking lol

Vsauce has some of the best content on KZfaq hands down. He uploads so infrequently that it becomes a treat when he finally does.

“We will someday be the ancients, and we can choose what that will mean.” This hits hard

The power of knowledge and the understanding of the world around us will forever be stronger than the power of any politician or government. We live in an era of great changes, and it is a birthright of all of us to have a broad, universal perspective, to take things in proportion, to feel good and to spread good. Thank you for this wonderful gift of a video, Michael, this world would truly not be the same without you. 🌍

Honestly this might be one of the most important videos I’ve ever seen. I think about this constantly even two years after it came out. It explains so much about the things I hear people say, and has changed the way I communicate for the better.

Hello World.

I want to congratulate Michael on this incredible script: so dense and yet flows like poetry. This was the most profound video he has ever made and would be a genuine benefit to anyone who watches till the end.

This is one of the MOST important/powerful videos (based on PURE logic only) I've watched in a long time, that I truly wish all of humanity could sit and watch/listen to.... and comprehend EVERYTHING that he's saying. Absolutely well done. 👏👏👏👏🙌🐐👑💐💜

I always watch until the end. Not every KZfaqr can achieve this as Vsauce does.

Really wish there was more discussion of stuff like this. Not just what decisions are made and who gets to make them, but the society-wide information-processing and decision-making process.

Nice, I was due another existential crisis right about now

You've done some brilliant work. I think this may be your best. Thank you. Sharing everywhere...

Please please keep doing this , your one of the very few things giving me hope for humanity

Someday Michael is just going to turn into a sentient cloud of gas that occasionally shares some divine knowledge with us mortals

It is one of the biggest privileges on this Earth that this content is free. Seriously, thank you, Michael, for this. This is incredible.

THIS video makes so much sense about why I've always disliked how others think. When it comes to social reasoning? That was never me. I was NEVER interested in a truth that could possibly work, but ALWAYS interested in what THE truth actually was. So ANYTIME I encountered a possible truth that I hadn't encountered and fully considered before... I would go to the library and/or online and look for ALL the material I could possibly find with a proper description of that truth and why people believed it or not. Then once I'd fully evaluated the new truth, I'd determine whether or not it was more likely to actually BE the truth or not compared to any contradictory beliefs I'd held at that point... and then since contradictions cannot exist I would simply incorporate the new belief into my overall belief structures and get rid of all the previously-held contradictory ones if the new truth was determined to be the actual truth. And if not, then it would be actually kinda unfortunate since all that research I'd just done wouldn't lead me to have a change in my beliefs, but either way it would be worth it because I'd know about at least one more piece of information and whether or not it made sense with the world. I honestly grew up thinking I was special and thought differently from how others do because of how much better I'd be able to perceive the truth of nearly any given situation than everyone else. But I've spent the last HALF of my life at least thinking "okay no dude... you are NOT that special... everyone thinks the same you're not some crazy genius or anything just calm down." Yet FUCK! Clearly I actually AM this crazy god damn genius since there's apparently nobody else that thinks the way I do. I've spent so many of my later years just questioning more and more every god damn thing I thought I knew and just kept assuming I was probably wrong about tons of things. But no... fuck no man. I'm actually consistently wrong less and less over time BECAUSE of the unique way I think. AKA I already KNEW I needed more confidence in my life. But now I know for a fact that I have earned more confidence than nearly anyone I could ever meet in my life could possibly even come a billionth of the way close to.

i love this video so much, i keep coming back from time to time to rewatch it

babe wake up new vsauce video

“Where is your mind?” I don’t know dude still looking for my fingers

This was amazing Michael, so glad I finally sat down and watched it, did not feel like 30min at all. Thank you.

I keep coming back to this one. Society needs to take many of Michael's suggestions to heart. Something needs to be done, as the present course seems destined to failure.

5:48 Put this music over literally anything, and you know shits getting real

This is the guy that can literally talk about anything and make you question your existance and everything

Great Topic. That's why if you have a wish or dream, don't tell it to anyone. Telling anything about it invokes our tribal mind that starts to need all sorts of justifications, and checks in with the tribe, your mind will sabotage your plans on every step whenever something is off in the reason department. Don't speak of your dreams, don't speak of your plans. Do not beat a drum in the search of the fugitive. Just go and catch him silently. Without a word.

Wow! I randomly had the thought that politicians felt insufficient because they don't represent the needs and voices of an entire nation. They only support the needs of those like them and that's not good enough. That's why we have presidents that inevitably disappoint someone. You could reason how a president has done some good for a nation, but then you can also reason how they performed poorly. To hear that thought come to life in the words of such an intelligent person is so validating. I vote for the idea of lottocracy. I hope enough people get talking about that idea so our governments can be reformed one day. I'd gladly join that fight!

I feel like with each video, michaels "thanks for watching" becomes more sincere

New Vsauce videos are exactly like they were 10 years ago and I'm all here for it

Hey the algorithm brought me to you! I have to say LOVE your thinking, reason being is because you are talking out my thoughts! Thus thanks!

I use this video as a landmark in time. I remember an experience after holiday 2020 where I felt the moment a new chapter of my life started. And it was about intuition, clarity, reasoning, understanding. Existential stuff. I'm grateful this uploaded very soon after that experience because it's one of the few "cannon events" from my life that was really the crux or turning point that got me through a lot. This videos like an anchor, in a sense. I've never related to any other content on the net or otherwise than this right here. This is the most significant. Thank you for that.

I feel really bad for Michael.... he doesn’t recognize his friend just does not want to go on a lunch date with him to ABC Burgers lol

im not used to hearing him say “or is it” without moon men playing

Thank god yt decided to push your content to me again, its been ages! This was as usual. A masterpiece.

most content numbs my brain but vsause just makes it G R O W

You know when you see the eyebrow perk up and the "bong", you are about to get your knowledge on (5:48)

The fact his first video was of Mario farting and his channel evolved to what it is today blows my mind.

We all know how amazing Michael is, but this particular video is something else again.

Definitely one of his best videos. Unparalleled by any other youtuber.

"We don't have measuring-tape tentacles that shoot from our eyes" Speak for yourself.