His claim about studies not being replicated is actually totally true, I am in psych at Penn State and we learned about this and someone tried to replicate these studies and found 60% of them to be non replicatable.
Not a PhD myself but in university I found out slowly but surely that funding is at the center of everything. If you want to test something but get no funding then it won’t be tested. So if a “desired” result is wanted, then just fund only studies until it came back affirmative once and not fund any replications
Indeed, alot of our pre-concieved notions are based on fallable studies. It humors me, that we think we are better than the Catholic Church's imprisonment of Gallileo, while today labelling and ostracising "science-deniers" for questioning the consensus.
Medicine is even worse. I'm reading up on R&D patents produced by private corporations to make pharmaceutical drugs for a study. Numbers on irreproducability for some companies is upwards of 70%.
@MeChupaUnHuevon kinda, field of engineerings basic are replicating experiments for industrial uses. Although much of this still happens, due to the demand from Practicians, non replicable experiments aren't implemented
I’ll be honest, as a scientist I’m spending my time trying to figure out what the hell is happening with this one thing I think is neat. When I’m not working, I’m just out living life like anyone else. Scientists aren’t this storybook idea of impartial workers, we have interpersonal drama, we’re all idiots most of the time, we have fun, we are just people who’s job is to look at this one thing. Most of us do spend some amount of time trying to understand the wider field and how it can relate to other fields, and sometimes we can act on those cross-discipline ideas, but when you do that you’re no longer as secure in your job, which is to study this one thing. The scientific establishment is maintained by financial and political environment in academia so we follow it bc that’s how we get paid. I think it’s more apt to say we try and engineer our way through things. That’s because there is this tendency among engineers to mystify science as what you describe it as, and engineers interface with the real world outside of the one particular topic that a scientist does. Science is a tool and engineers think it’s a hammer. Mystifying things from the real world tends to be a poor course of action as things are never as perfect as they seem.
Science is definitely not subjective. Not even in the slightest of ways. Certain things can be wrong for sure but that's why we have to be critical and move measures
@@hopeintruth5119 The scientific method is objective, but the people who apply it are definitely subjective. Everyone has their biases that inform their thinking and interpretation of observations, experiments, and data as well as the hypotheses they make, questions they ask, and conclusions they draw. Scientists may be more trained than most to avoid that, but they are not immune from being human
@@hopeintruth5119 Peer review isn't subjective? Damn, it's been politically influenced for quite some time. If someone's thesis is immaculately researched, tested extensively and well written, but it goes against the status quo.. Might as well make a TH-cam channel.
@@walkingcontradiction223 peer review can have subjectivity but tell me there are 50-60 different people who study this around the world will have the same subjective opinions that could skew things ?? Really?
(Scientist/engineer here. PhD in Applied math.) Science has a lot of strong points and it's generally good but there's context people need to really understand and those who just yell "SCIENCE!" at things often don't. 1. Research takes money and money is given to those that can produce results or are working areas of interest. This means a high paper count, even if those papers aren't terribly high impact, gets you far. It also means science is subject to trends where tons of research gets done because something is a "hot area." It doesn't mean that what comes out of that is actually good or indicates a good world trend. There is also pressure to accept results and trending views to be on the good side of important people, the people who determine your funding. 2. Every measurement and result has an uncertainty associated with it. Good analysis talks about this. The press doesn't. They gloss right over the error and uncertainty analysis any good scientist does--because if you don't, no one is going to take your work seriously. That means wild results that have massive uncertainties can be hyped up by press that doesn't understand this fundamental part of science. 3. More science is inferred than you realize. Astronomy is a great example. I think people really believe that "they discovered a new planet" involves the researchers pointing a telescope at an area, looking in, and going "Yup, there it is!" Definitely not how that works. A lot of discoveries involve a chain of inferences and assumptions: if this model is right, then if we see this, then that means this thing has to be true, which means this other thing is happening and.... It doesn't make it wrong but it does place critical importance on the initial assumptions and hypotheses for the result to be correct.
That is not a good example of inference. The inferences made are made by scaling processes. They observe a phenomenon and then apply it at larger scales. Then they run the math a shit load of times, and also compare it to other known methods when possible. There are multiple methods for finding planets but which method can be used will depend on size, distance, how much shit is in the way, etc. The biggest inference they make really is infering it's still there today. Inferences alluded to in science aren't like the Inferences you or I make in daily life. For things considered established science inference usually means, yeah all the evidence points to this, and when we plug this in our models it checks out, and it falls in line with other established facts, and also it explains this other established fact without adding more questions to the actual subject at hand, and it doesn't rely on separate inferences, but we haven't or can't actually see it and be there so we're inferring this to be correct because it actually fits neatly within all the parameters and doesn't require some magical force or lead to a much much crazier and larger question/problem. The only times they allow for a larger gap to be made when filling a smaller one is if there really is no other explanation that doesn't also require magical thinking or create an even larger gap or i consistency.
The only explanation I can think of for you to believe this is that you're in engineering and saw a lot of physics particularly quantum and theoretical that made you believe this. However a portion of this video is about humans needing to imagine and bullshit a bit (while ironically condemning fictional writings). I would argue this is where we do this. Further the problem isn't that we can't ask what if, it's that when we dismiss what if scenarios it's oftsn because those presenting them don't have the knowledge to understand they're trying to to explore land that was discovered years or decades ago. If the established things that would need to be wrong were wrong much of our current tech, just wouldn't work. This would mean we're basically the orcs from 40k and it just works because we believe in it enough and if this were the case, then none of it would really matter would it?
A pity that watching this video us an disappointing (and almost infuriating 😖) waste of time. As a veteran Ph.D. (+ MS×2) in Engineering/Applied Physics, I find this video is pure opinionated garbage and ignorance. 👎 He does not know what is Real Hard STEM - the Western Way to Progress and Wealth! Some of his What If? videos are fun and interesting (although mostly with his opinions contaminated with the usual Anglo-American cultural prejudices and sometimes showing ignorance of the fine details on non-Anglo History.) It helps a little he is Right-oriented. politically. Wacko Woke 'What If's would be unwatchable 🤮. The author mixes in an indigestible salad the narrative, opinionated pseudo-Sciences - Social & Political Sciences, Freudian l Psychology, Philosophy & Humanities, the more political Economics and Sociology (plus the crappy misunderstandings of MSM Journalism and the malicious interpretation of both Extremes of Politics)- with the fact-based HARD Sciences & Technology. Hard STEM theories and models do not work if they are wrong. Hard STEM models are a coordinated collection of inferences and factual data (with measurable uncertainties and unavoidable unknowns). The are an approximation to Reality, always needing improvement and refinement. That is the reason - Thanks God/Nature/YMMV! - that REAL SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED or COMPLETE. Besides the guy does not have a clue on the highly non-linear, fractal, Catastrophic Mathematics underlying and describing STE theories and models. Unfortunately, most Humans can only manage a very limited, narrow Linearized view of the innumerable (and many unknown) variables needed for a full description of our complex Reality.
Dude's not wrong; the whole point of the Replication Crisis is that people took published papers as gospel, and don't spend a lot of time checking the published literature's conclusions. The guy looking for exoplanets doesn't usually feel the need to prove that a star appears dimmer when a planet crosses between the star and human telescopes, he just cites _the_ paper on the subject and moves on. But when you go to the social sciences and find out 'priming' doesn't work after you spent the last decade or two exploring the details and limits of priming... well, that's just flushed your entire life's work down the proverbial toilet.
I love telling people the story of how Galileo's house arrest was not the result of anti-scientific medieval backwardness, but rather politicized science that Galileo had the gall to dissent with (the Church being in fact the main sponsor of science at that point in time).
I find it appalling people think the Church the reason why science was held back. The Christian Church and other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, etc. were proponents and sponsors of advancing our scientific concepts and knowledge. The problem isn't religion but greedy and deplorable people abusing the system for their own gain.
It's similar to how people.think Robin Hood was a socialist. He wasn't a socialist, he was stealing money back from a heavy handed government. But everyone chooses the lens of their own choice. Even if it's a blurry one.
Antideppressants can cause serious adverse effects.. Every doctor I've ever seen has tried to prescribe me antidepressants. It doesn't seem to matter what I went in to see them about. Even though I have bad reactions to them. They always say "Well this is a new one and shouldn't effect you that way." But I've yet to try one that didn't make me waaaaay worse. That is a huge red flag for me. I flat refuse to take them anymore......not even to humor a new doctor.
To add to your comment about our world being just as interesting as any fantasy novel, I completely agree. I write fantasy novels and stories, and when I need inspiration, I'll turn on a nature or history documentary, research different cultures for their mythologies and stories, look up images of incredible architecture, landscapes, or natural phenomena. There's so many incredible things out there waiting to be discovered, so many amazing stories waiting to be heard. Even a lot of common fantasy elements are just exaggerations, retellings, or reimaginings of things that used to or currently exist/happened. Dragons are just reimagined dinosaurs who hoard treasure or control the weather. In some cases, fantasy tropes arise from our emotional reaction to the world. Lovecraftian, cosmic horror came out of a fear of the unknown and is rooted in the vastness of space and darkened depths of the sea and how little we know about either. The monsters we create in these settings are reflections of what unimaginable beings could exist in such vastness and how small we are in a massive, incredible, and ultimately unfathomable world. Anyone who thinks our world isn't interesting lacks the imagine to dream about what lies undiscovered or simply hasn't looked at what's out there
i usually just use my personal feelings and struggles and apply that to certain things. plus certain fantasy worlds are quite beautiful if overly optimistic. the best fantasy world is one that has inspirations from the hearts of man and the struggles anyone can face even if its not directly stated. lord of the rings is the best at this, having spiritual struggle as well as political within its pages recently for my own random head fantasy its been pokemon, in a world where shadow legendaries break society take over the world after they stop infighting, and in the post revolution society different groups of shadows have different ideals on how the new human slaves species should be controlled. some being more hands off, and creating something closer to a religious organization with the leader having a mild pychic link to all its humans. mixing control with manipulating the human nature for reacting well to religion and organization. this proves to be the better military option for the shadows that employ this have many humans give their souls willingly to the dragon/creature, strengthening it, while the shadows who prefer direct pychic control cannot get this power. its based on how i see myself as christian, but know i have certain aspects about me no god would accept. anger issues and other unrelated weird things. so i try my best to be as good as a i can, aware that one must mix good and evil within one's worldview, able to dip ones toes into both for a time.
You do realize that you're actually NOT adding to his point, you're counter it. Hos point was that people make up fantasy stories because they're bored from not viewing reality as a place of wonder. He's calling you specifically, a writer of fantasy, a bored person who sees no wonder in the world. YOU'RE PROVING HIM WRONG.
@@joshuapowers4623 I belive he is talking about modern fantasy or stories especially ones that are bland and uninspired. For example there is genre of stories in Japan called isekai where some random person gets transported to another fantasy world. While a lot are better than others almost every isekai story feels the same with the same tropes and some feeling nothing more than power fantasies and it is telling that there are many out there who do not take risks and just make copies of the exact story and settings.
@@WiseOwl_1408 look pal, there’re great people with kids, there’re great people without kids, there’re scumbags with kids, there’re scumbags without kids, life isn’t so black and white
"There were Dragons here." Everybody that reads that story has cried, and no one can tell me why. Then I read it, and it broke my heart. I now know why you cry.
That's the saddest SCP I know yet. Not because of the dragons' end but their cries for help, the feeling of being left behind I felt listening to it. It just a great metaphor for modern world-view, even though it's right up in your face 😅😅
I think the negativity bias - where it's so much easier to focus on negative things - emphasized by the news and social media algorithms gets us dwelling more on negative things than positive things. How often do we see wonderful and inspiring stories on the news - or facebook?
Its funny because we critisize science and the decontruction of meaning, myths, Intuition on the Basis of the rational. Just through the rational you end at Religion.
As much as I like Fantasy and Science fiction I tend to imagine how would a character from (insert fantasy book here) react to our world. This is why I like the His Dark Material series because you have this clash, this culture shock to lack of a better world. I like my DnD characters as much as I can but I can see my Human Fighter from Waterdeep being absolutely enchanted by just how I live my life.
thinking about the reaction of people from different eras or different fantasy worlds, in our world, has to be more entertaining than most fantasy fiction stories themselves.
@@jameswilkerson4412 80% of people could starve to death in the past, this number is below 20% today, not even counting diseases that can be treated today. We live easy because we expect to live being 50, 60, 70, 80 years old, barely impossible in the past
I feel like the biggest problem we have nowadays is less that we lionize science and more that we don't really want to ask the most important question to any scientific endeavor: What if I'm wrong? What if my basic assumptions are mistaken? Those two questions are existentially horrifying so people delete them from their "scientific" thought altogether. And I think the reason you and I get along is, we're both brave enough to ask them.
Skepticism towards ones own and previous observations have been a core concept within the scientific method since the 17th century. Science can only move forward when the standing assumptions are questioned.
@@mauritstorensma5854 exactly. And now we have people claiming that if you question The Science™, you're wrong and a neanderthal bigot on the wrong side of history.
I feel like most people in science do ask this all the time though. The whole reason we caught onto the replication crisis was after fraud was detected and scientists made a collective effort to question the conclusions of research that were considered foundational.
@@ataraxia7439 not “feel”, “does”. That’s what scientists do all day long, try to disprove their own or others theories to find the best one. In science, dogmatism is the anomaly. In religion, dogmatism is the norm. Traditionalists like to “both sides” this thing but there really is no question which is the superior methodology for arriving at the truth
It is often said that Pride is the deadliest of all the 7 sins. And I think the modern world and modern science truly proves that. The inability for a lot of scientists, politicians, engineers, doctors, etc. to ask the question about whether or not they are wrong, and could there be another approach, has resulted in absolute catastrophe. And I am talking about on the scale of millions of lives lost.
Was so excited when I saw the title of the video. So much here. One thing to comment on, which our good friend and host essentially already did here with one particular set of vocabulary, is that science is but one way of knowing and understanding the world better. It's one very useful, important tool that is incredibly narrow and imperfect when not aided by others. Frankly, it is foolish of our culture and society to make naturalistic science solely the end all be all of epistemology, hence, why we've seen justified some of the atrocities of the past century, removed from ethics, religion, aesthetics, and frankly, common sense. Second, the vast majority of people generally don't understand the skeptical, self defeating nature of science in that it's more useful in telling us what we don't know or what isn't right than it is actually giving us workable information to use. The best the scientific method can do for us at any given point is give us a slightly more accurate, less crude model of our known universe to work with than the one that came before it. That's incredibly powerful, useful for humanity, but it's also incredibly slow, always changing, and tells us more of what's false than what's true (speaking to the nature of testing a hypothesis). As well, people are incredibly ignorant to the history of science's development (also touched on in the video), that even when you build a society modeled perfectly in line and aimed perfectly down the barrel of the current scientific model perfectly (if such a thing were even possible), it and its horrors and shortcomings and mistakes would still be shown, plain as day for all, in all their weakness and inaccuracy, to the coming generations. That's more or less exactly what happened in World War II, what happened with the societal experiment of eugenics entertained in the US during the past century, and what happened under the various communist regimes around the world during the past century. I just love the premise of this video in that instead complaining about the "spot on the rug" of our society and recent history, it straight up pulls the rug up and looks at what's underneath the rug. In a society dominated by an insincere-at-best mantra of "trust the science", no one is talking about the actual limitations of science and its shortcomings in recent history.
People using their own “happiness” as the standard of morality and meaning has been around for thousands of years. The Book of Judges 21:25 summarizes one of those times with “and everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” And to those not familiar with the Judges, it basically tells several stories about how everything went to hell in a hand basket.
Judges was written during the time of the Bronze Age collapse so yeah lol not a surprise that our civilization is doing the same thing that they did during their collapse. Our civilization is going to meet the same fate.
I remember getting a used Bible at one point and that verse had been underlined several times. Indeed, it's the most brutal book outside of Lamentations.
@@jhinthevirtuoso4886 i mean, truth is truth yes but there are definitely things in this world that are subjective and gray areas exist. that being said i still 100% agree that the saying "the ends justify the means" is a huge rabbit hole that if you go too far down you'll enter hell
Maths is great for its objectivity but that also makes me apathetic towards it. Since I know people who mathematically prove something have to go through the highest level of scrutiny I feel no need to care, I can trust the institution without much need to personally investigate
I view my world as a mystery novel. Always looking for the twists and turns in the story ahead of time. And once you start looking, twists and turns are everywhere, some you catch ahead of time and some literally seem to come out of nowhere.
It's because of the topics he talks about. He purposely picks topics most people don't talk about but are extremely important and when people don't want to talk about a important topic it's either because they are ignorant or they don't want to deal with it because its so negative to them and or their world view. If you pay attention he is mainly negative of the state of modern times but he dose have a bit of optimism under the pessimism for the future. It's just that it's easier to predict a worse future in a time that seems to be getting worse.
@@drekbleh7081 a lot of his videos tend to end on a more positive and provide advice and suggestions on these topics. He even says a lot of the time what he is saying isn't perfect and that he may be wrong. At least he is more honest than most people on the internet who claims to be right.
Honestly one of your best Videos yet. Normally there at least a couple moments i tend to disagree or which i take a bit uneasy, but this video, it was just great 👍
Science is a great tool - nothing more and nothing less. The inherent lack of values is a feature, not a bug and the choice of what to aim science at is one driven by human values. Sadly, while the iron rule is brought up a lot, a second rule is just as important (but rarely upheld): Everything can change in the light of new information. Everyone who can consistently create triangles in a euclidean space with a different sum-of-angles than 180 degrees will upend mathematics. As I Biologist, I welcome anyone who can demonstrate a third sex in the animal kingdom according to the biological definition of sex. The implications for evolution and selection would be amazing. I have my doubts in both cases, that such novel information will be presented in my life time.
Geometry isn't science; it's math. If you can have a triangle that doesn't sum to 180 degrees, you are explicitly not in a Euclidean space, because you can show that the rules of Euclidean space ensure triangles within have exactly 180 degrees; to get a different answer, you need a different set of rules, and such a set of rules are non-Euclidean. And non-Euclidean doesn't mean weird and Lovecraftian; it just means you're not building your geometry around infinite planes; you can build it around finite spheres, which has all kinds of uses, what with the shape of planets.
@@boobah5643 While it is true, that math isn't a science, the underlying principle is the same. Sum-of-angles in euclidian space is an axiom as far as I know. There is no proof of it. Should an axiom fall, it would shake mathematics to the core. But it won't fall, since the axiomatic assumptions are so simple and basic and confirmed by everyone who ever did geometry, that it's close to impossible that every human to ever math missed it.
S'why I argue it's so important for people to understand the scientific method, its incredible power, its limitations. Scientific literacy should be the basis of our entire civilization so that we can appreciate our symbolic, spiritual and abstract nature that much more.
@@Charles-pf7zy But they were claimed to be scientific, it's not very relevant that they were disproven scientifically, before science existed as we understand it today plenty of ideas were disproven as well. Science was used to justify them despite them being based on weak evidence or no evidence at all. You could make the same argument about religious dogmas, you could say there were stupid religious dogmas in the past until a new religion came and replaced them with the correct, current religious dogmas. And you know they are correct because there is linear progress and new things are always more true and people wouldn't believe false dogmas. Right?
Thank you! Yes, most of the problems he mentions in the video are not caused by science but either by the misunderstanding of science, scientific findings by the laymen or by an economic system thats instead of the truth, seeks out profit, and it bends science to its purpose: instead of seeking the answer that is true, scientists will seek the answer that sells.
Your deep analysis is very much appreciated. In a world where everything is shock value, it's nice to hear opinions based on so much research. Great content.
This is a stellar video. It expresses eloquently the views that I have myself espoused, mainly the lack of creativity, broader perspective and practical wisdom in academia, without turning over into religiousity, ethereal spirituality and fake science. In this video you didn't push your own biases on viewers, generalise too much from uncomplete data or use bad sources to ground your arguments, which sometimes ruins otherwise perfectly formed arguments and interesting theories. The best choice _isn't_ to forgo science and turn over into ignorance and superstition. It is to integrate scientific knowledge with things like art, philosophy, strict morality, social awareness, curiosity and common sense
My favorite aspect of digesting your videos has been when and where I disagree with something you're saying. My examination of why we disagree ends up being very enlightening. Sometimes I end up agreeing with you and sometimes I end up disagreeing with you even more, but never once have I considered your position not worth examining.
"Let the intelligent elite run things and you'll have a utopia. It fell flat on its foolish face, of course, because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centred as to be lacking in social responsibility." Probably one of my favorite quotes from Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers book.
@@tonytaskforce3465 Yeah a political system ruled by military veterans or people who did demeaning or dangerous government work for years is really authoritarian. Always hilarious with the amount of shitheads who constantly dunk on the government but then lick the boots of police and military
they are told by their financiers what most of their actions are to be. When given a choice at all they resort to polling results to tell them which way the wind is blowing.
Love the comparison of beautiful traditional art vs grotesque modern art. I often think this applies to many other aspects of modern western society as well. It was better before.
I think the most important thing modern art brings to the table is the freedom of it. Art has become a creative outlet, something to enjoy doing, rather than only something to enjoy seeing. Give it to the people, I say :)
Yeah but how can we expect people to create beautiful and inspiring art if the artist's today have either a really hard life financially or are too rich to care. Art is the reality that went through their eyes and emotions so its natural that in our modern world that the art is depressing if we ourselves find it that way
@@obiwanlover6314 van gogh was dirt poor, and everyone made fun of his paintings contemporarily. Nowadays, however, those same paintings are priceless. Paintings MONETARY value comes from convincing rich people that it is indeed worth that much. Their ARTISTIC value is subjective and comes from how “much” the artist put into the painting, it that makes sense I could be wrong, but this is what I observe to be true
The main beauty of modern art is noticing its contrast with genuine art. :D Now, I'm pleased with myself as I've denigrated the "life works" of many a beatnik. There were degrees of both irony and sincerity in each of the above sentences, which makes me even more pleased with myself. :D Think I'll try painting.
@@jas3.14 Well said. I get frustrated with criticisms based on the supposedly objective "lack of artistic value" in grotesque modern art, because that value judgment presupposes that art should only evoke a set range of feelings (e.g., wonder, beauty, awe). Now, I think that range of feelings is important to represent, but I don't think it's in good faith to claim that art should be restricted that way - because art is about evoking ANY feeling the artist chooses to capture. The measure of a work's success is not "how happy it made you feel," but "how well it evoked what it was designed to evoke." As such, any emotional judgment about the value of a work is purely subjective. For example, some people like horror films, but some people don't. That doesn't make horror films an invalid medium. The same is true for grotesque modern art.
Human mind and conscience is just an emergent system, born or biology and physical laws, just one extremely complicated, we eventually will crack the code about how it actually works, and once that happens we will indeed have the algorithms that rules our minds on our hands.
The only thing my Molecular Biology degree ever did for me is convince me in the existence of some sort of higher power, because the amount of things that had to go right for life to even exist in the first place is infinitesimally small. How else can we explain how a bunch of nucleic acid chains floating around in the ocean gained the ability to self replicate? And then become self contained units? And eventually lead to us millions of years later?
That's cool for you, but it seems a bit backwards to me that you would learn about the insane amount of time life has existed, and your only conclusion is that there's intelligent design. Given a billion years of constant back and forth, almost anything can happen.
23:08 I remembered reading about Bogomilism long time ago - a middle ages Christian sect that believed Earth was created by the Devil. Their ideas spread very fast and were hard to remove.
the earth being created by the devil honestly would explain a lot, that and god having one hell of a sense of humor, especially how tough living in the middle ages was and all the pain? no wonder that became a popular
Stunned. 76, this is the first time I've heard my postulations expressrd by someone other thañ myself and roundly jeered at for decades. 2 am, alone sitting on my lanai, I feel a sense of vindication and thank you.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race but great for giving Whatifalthist a topic and the means to share his video.
"Disaster for the human race?" Does that mean that living disease-ridden and superstition-filled lives of subservience to aristocrats was the golden age of the human race? For a specific time to be able to be called bad, there have to be better times surrounding it.
@@michaelb9386 You see, living disease-ridden and superstition-filled lives of subservience to aristocrats that had MEANING AND PURPOSE is still preferable to the vapid comfort of the present day, where meaninglessness is enforced. Its got very little to do with material comfort and everything to do with finding meaning and purpose. The Industrial Revolution has robbed humanity of all the tried and tested ways people found fulfilment, meaning and purpose in life. You have soulless, depressed people as the norm, not the exception, all individuality crushed, all beauty rejected, all wonder torched and all joy made stale. So yes, it absolutely has been a disaster for mankind. Its an unpopular opinion for a reason - its why few want to admit to that terrible truth Ted Kaczynski laid out for all to see.
When I watch you're videos I'm like that stock meme of the guy choosing between 2 buttons to press, "Like video because I strongly agree with 65%" or "Dislike video because I strongly disagree with 35%"
I have been saying this for decades, so much that I actually agree with the unibombers manifesto lol! It’s a shame that we have the world library in our pockets and could do so much to improve our work, yet it’s used to control peoples emotions and sell them things they didn’t even know they wanted till they fell victim to advertising… you go back less than 100 years ago and you will find that doctors couldn’t even advertise, but every time I walk by a television I see ten commercials for the newest pills they want to push.
@@skeleex And once AI takes everyone's jobs, then the big question remains: Space communism, or cyberpunk dystopia? Cyberpunk 2077 should be a warning bell, not an ideal to strive for
Great video. I wish you would spend more time on the end part of this video. I think it gets to the reasons why we are in this mess. Does populism work? Or does the iron rule of oligarchy rule over all? From my experience and looking at other nations, other societies, it appears to me that it all comes down to "do the elites of the society actually like the people they rule over or not and do they have skin in the game or not". The essential precondition for a well run society is simple: the elites must like the people, and they must feel that they have skin in the game (ie feel that there will be consequences).
I literally tweeted that science is more corrupt than the catholic church, now this video, i was exaggerating but peer review and company funding be like that
I get you. Everyday this world amazes me. Nature, history - all of it! Science informs this amazement, enriches it. It is a component but not the very essence of it all.
The thing that I always agree with you the most strongly on is how sad the way people see the world is now. (17:00). The pessimism I encounter everywhere is so frustrating. More people need to see life on Earth as the incredible experience that it is.
i see it both ways. on one hand, life is a crazy exhilarating spiritual experience that can be great fun, even in the worst situations. giving the one who torments you hell back is a feeling nothing can match. it can be wild, and even the most mundane life can be an adventure if you use the right perspective, or talk to the right people. however, life can also be a slog sometimes. somedays are just boring. somedays are just hard. sometimes the hard days last a few years after a major trauma and you spend the better part of a decade picking up the pieces of who you used to be and trying to regain your sanity, finally settling on a peace deal between two very differing personality sides within yourself, finding a strange synthesis within your religion. even if that synthesis in the end is a beautiful thing you can take with you forever, those hard times were hell. no perspective nor adventure nor peptalk can help.
Excellent work. I’ve been thinking a lot about death and life’s purpose lately. This video provide some clarity and direction. I really appreciate the book recommendations. Thank you for the superb content! 💪🏾
I love this channel! Not because I always agree (one of many eg's today is that many animals are brutally treated by people in non-industrialised settings - cruelty did not start with factory farming, it just got ramped up) but because I am in awe of the research and intellect on display here. Also, the typos, omissions and general lack of coherent editing make me feel slightly less inferior.
Science has engendered the most formidable temptation ever to confront man: that he may mistake his renunciation as an act of real power and something to be proud of, and mistake a shadow of power for the real thing.
@@Gronolo_31g No, I don't really think so. It is of course good to be critical of ideas that revolve around things as important as differing methods of socio-economic organisation, but even if you are only moderately familiar with leftist thought, the assumptions it makes, the arguments and theories that it is built on, you quite quickly will realise that whatifalthist is not. All of his takes on anything remotely left appear to come straight from fox news and contain such egregious mischaracterisations, misinterpretations, and straight up infactualities, that that they can really only be explained by either malice or incompetence.
I generally love your videos, but this one was especially great. Yes there are sad and depressing things in the world, but there are SO MANY great, beautiful, exciting, and hopeful things too. Obviously it's their choice, but I feel sad for people when I hear various dismal outlooks on our world and where we may be headed. I choose to believe it can be a great future, if we make it so.
Thats exactly what i realized when i was at university. I really prefer to investigate the bigger picture, the whole network and the meaning behind it. I also realized that "science" is not as factual and objective as everyone made it out to be. I found it be so subjective and kind of bullshit to be honest because its so easy to manipulate data. I felt like the whole idea came from a toddler trying to understand the world, kind of a naive way to relate to the world. Everyone around me in university seemed to be completely convinced of the whole constuct . It definitely made the world better in so many ways but it also isn't perfect, definetly not "objective".
@@xx_amongus_xx6987 so you’re telling me I have to prove that if you do the exact same thing twice you’ll have the same results, do you not realize how stupid you sound
@@level_breaded5364 WTF is this strawman? You can look at the universe and say that it behaves in an objective manner. That doesn't mean the people executing the science, collecting data, and publishing results are behaving in an objective manner. God, you're probably insufferable with how smart you think you are. You're literally arguing against something OP never said.
Regarding experiments that seem to decide between two theories: even their decisiveness must be revisited sometimes. For example, in 1802 Young's famous 2-slit experiment seemed to decide absolutely in favour of Huygens' wave theory of light against Newton's particle theory. Over the rest of the 19th century, more and more evidence stacked up in favour of the wave theory. However, in 1905, Einstein found that the photoelectric effect needed an explanation akin to a particle theory. This was the beginning of the wave-particle duality of quantum theory.
@@hispalismapping155 I know the idea of something being a morally neutral concept is earth shattering to you but putting it as a leading question doesn’t make it clever.
@@dyer4677so to you, science has no negative effects whatsoever? I'm sorry but everything that exists in life has its own negative effects. science isn't a magical thing that has no flaws or negative effects
Your videos and your pursuit of truth and knowledge has inspired me to do the same as you. I've now dropped out of University and have started a podcast which I hope one day will be a platform for free thought and open discussions. Thank you for the inspiration and keep doing what your doing. :)
Modern technology can be misused very easily by unethical people. First they go after the most vulnerable people. And then everyone else. But back in the Middle Ages there was a cultural assumption that if someone did that, they would face punishment in the end. And be rewarded, if they didn't. So, it gave people more motivation to make the best decisions possible.
Hey man. Few comments about the video. I always appreciate somebody shilling out lost connections. I work in psychotherapy and if everybody read that book I would happily be out of a job. Also as a whole I appreciated your nuance regarding evidence and the scientific method. I think that you're somebody who uses evidence and truth to justify your belief system and what you share in the videos, and I thought that you were able to balance that skill along with laying out critiques of scientism. Much love happy holidays bro
funny how common sense can just mean "whatever the fuck i currently think is true for any reason". dating is such a funny example to use when our intuition in dating is based off of mechanisms in our brains that have been developing since our ancestors first had neurons, ie mechanisms for ensuring the best mate selection for optimal genetic fitness. Just because we have brains optimized for this task does not mean that they are similarly optimized for intuitive judgements about, say, quantum mechanics or astrophysics. You are making the argument that the natural world won't violate our innate, biased expectations, when the history of scientific development is filled with us getting surprised by the results of well-constructed studies. Unrelated criticism, but you just said we only use fantasy worlds for pop culture while completely ignoring the massive success of science fiction, which usually focuses on space.
DUUUUUUUUUDE!!! THATS AN AMAZING IDEA!!! WhatIfAltHist would be like, and then i hiled the Appalachian trail, which was the hardest but most rewarding thing i have done in my life, where i found god and learned that i wanted to be ben shapiro when i grow up.... KnowingBetter would be like: lets get back to your point about how modern america will fall into a massive civil war which republicans will win due to democrats decadance and how that is supported by examples like the Taiping rebellion, the agricultural revolution and the Hittite sack of Babylon in the bronze age....
I’m pretty sure a majority of Christians currently and throughout history have interpreted the Bible, New Testament and the story of Jesus in a very literal way. Christians literally believe he was the son of god, that he died and was resurrected and that he will come back to bring hell fire and damnation to sinners. The only time I have seen someone interpreting the Bible, New Testament, or Jesus in a symbolic way is if they are (sometimes closeted) atheist/agnostic. If Christianity did take a more symbolic view of its text and stories then it probably wouldn’t be in such a precipitous decline. It’s incredibly difficult to tell a congregation that the world was created in 7 days, that evolution isn’t real, or that gay marriage will destroy society, when your adherents are presented overwhelming evidence to the contrary outside of church, and expect them to still take you seriously. The cognitive dissonance eventually becomes too great and people decide that they are atheists/agnostic or just adopt some type of alternative spirituality that isn’t riddled with incongruencies.
I hope that one day(whether I'm alive to see it happen or not) that passion and understanding, becomes the new "currency" of the world! Though we as a species have a long way to go in order for something like that to happen I admit!
Probably the most valuable thing about Rudyard, is that while these are conservative ideas, he's the only conservative you will find who will tell you about them, without sounding like a 60 year old drill sergeant who is reprimanding you for not having cleaned your boots properly. While not all of them do, a few of Jordan Peterson's videos sound like he is lecturing his 18 year old son for taking his car out at night and not coming home until 3 in the morning. In my experience, negative childhood reinforcement is almost always a very strong prerequisite of conservatism. The fact that Rudyard is able to discuss this philosophy, again, without it coming across as a reprimand of his audience, is both rare and extremely valuable.
I certainly got negative reinforcement, but it was always paired with massive positive reinforcement. How could you possibly think only one side of that equation being used results in a healthy mindset? You need negative, because the world applies it naturally and you need to learn to deal with the world.
16:08 I find this part of the video to be quite strange. "We are the only historical era I know of that views the world as a boring place." What is this statement based on? I feel like it's quite the opposite. People are overstimulated, and boredom is an important part of the human experience. It's part of what drives people to create new things. You then say, "You can see this in our pop culture in which whenever we have adventure/interesting stories, we put them in fantasy worlds." But then you go on to say at 17:29 "I view the world I live and walk through as if it was a fantasy novel." 17:43 "There's really no logical reason to not the view the world that way." Have you really deeply questioned what interests you and why you're interested in what you're interested in? Interest as a phenomenon is far more irrational than you might think. It's what drives people to choose certain careers. It's what drives people to pick up different hobbies.
If you've already read Johann Hari's book Lost connections, I greatly recommend Stolen Focus by him. It shines light on more than just social media = bad and even that most people aren't aware of nowadays.
Funny Thing: I am a student of history and cultural anthropology, and today, we spoke about Margarete Mead at university, but without even adressing the critizisms of her work, which I only learned existed threw your video. Therefore, thank you.
I lived in Samoa for a few years & am fluent in Samoan - yeah her book is total BS. They are very very Christian & have been for 2+ centuries now. They look down on sexual promiscuity but it does happen, but it’s not culturally accepted or encouraged. Family values are very very very strong there. If you get a girl pregnant, you’re expected to stay & figure it out, & start your life building your family.
Thank you. In your articulate, genuinely thought out way you have affirmed my worldview. I'm glad to have chosen to live in a far off and rural corner of America where my life has meaning and the core of my values is love, respect, forgiveness and gratitude. And my life (as William Wordsworth has said) ....is "bound each to each in natural piety" Maybe you ideas will catch on. There is plenty of room for others to follow.
i have plans to try to prepare for things having issues too. i might not move out of my town (live in a college town in norcal, only 100,000 people so not too dangerous). but things like backup plans, a firearm or 5, and canned food. of course me being barely 20 its unlikely i'll have time to get all these things for a bit.
At first I thought you were completely wrong and there is no significant negative effects. Now I see why you made this video. You have shown me that all I need is to stop viewing this world as depressing place worth only to progress in science and it won't be so. Not everything has to be perfect and strict like the Iron rule, sometimes all you need is to be happy.
The video topic I've been waiting for. Wish more people understood this. The idea I had while going to the education system was that Science has replaced Religion as the dominate faith based belief system in the world, since most people aren't and can't be experts in the focused fields of todays society, we "trust" experts to tell us what's important and relevant to us. I continue this line of thinking to say, one day Science will be replaced by another mode of thinking to explain the world around us. Weather it is because the scientific institutions become corrupted or we find something even better at explaining the world around us, I think this change will occur - especially as we evolve with computers and AI. We will "trust" this new system the way most people "trust" scientists and the scientific community today. Or maybe there will be a "renaissance" of the scientific method and the growing problems I see in the field generally brought about by our society's complexly, and that's all that will be needed. Just a comment on a youtube video.
I hope we can, in the future, to use both religion and science to explain the world around us, which is what Saint John Paul II wrote in the encyclical Fides et Ratio
There is projected to be a massive religious revival in the world sometime in the coming decades in response to cope with the great famine that will be caused by the inevitable breakdown of globalized trade and World War 3. It's already happening now as young people are turning to gurus and inspirational/self help speakers which in a way are semi faith preachers, the next natural step is the consolidation of this trend into completely new organized religions or popular return to already established organized religions which will experience theological reshaping of their old textual interpretations and procedures to make it more up to date(relevant) with its contemporary audience.
@@JBGARINGAN that is a very interesting idea. I myself worked in a Unity church for five years after high school while going to college, working AV equipment for church and private events. Can definitely see where you are coming from.
@@DRienecker we are probably heading even further than we've seen already with these mega churches in 20,000 seater stadiums closer to 40,000 with the portable chairs on the field with the giant projectors and stages with speakers, that mirrors the massive cathedrals and mosques of old to a larger scale but the internet has brought about the same volume of knowledge and literacy comparable to the Gutenburg Bible and it will be utilized in that manor as a way to outreach to every corner of the globe. Already the main ISIS/ISIL terror group itself inspired by the original Al Queda and Taliban has created offshoot cells in the Muslim populations of West Africa, Southeast Asia especially Indonesia and Mindinao province of the Philippines, and and as some analysts fear among the many Afghan, Pakistani, and Syrian refugees/migrants and the Bosnians utilizing the world wide web and darker connections to broadcast their propraganda message of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance to incite jihad. Hopefully in the west the religion we create or our return to Christianity will be one of honor and chivalry that espouses duty(work ethic but also loyalty) and rewards good traditional morals. Even a simple spirituality that reverses our current state of decadent materialism and idolization of criminal behavior and a culture of laziness(the chill mentality which admittedly is only another coping mechanism for the craziness of the world but we need to work hard to get out of it) out of control gender sexual promiscuity and liberation which is frankly insane because it rejects actual scientific reality(grounded factual biology not the scientific mentality which we were previously discussing) I find agreeable though I would prefer it be based on core Judeo Christian values among the most fair of the axial age/Abrahamic interpretations when it comes to women and food and certainly more fair than the older bronze age pantheons which created the oppresive ancient slave empires(which made hunter gathering preferable which is why the bronze ahead collapse happened) whilst Christianity emancipated the slaves into peasants with significantly better rights in the medieval European kingdoms(not serfdom in Eastern Europe that sucked but in the west freemen were educated in monasteries, organized into guilds, and elected mayors who could actually stand up to the lords and the abusive clergy[particularly in the German realm of the Holy Roman Empire but also in France and Italy the nobles would become bishops so that their lands could not be divided as much by their sons or seized or taxed by the monarch, this corruption continued into the greater Catholic hierarchy until the papacy itself was bought and sold for political purposes just as the HRE a battle between secular and divine power]) and specifically and progressive Protestantism made those peasants citizens of the modern nation state.
I am someone who has, largely, built their life on science. I've always studied it, I'm an engineer now, and technology/chemistry are things I like in my free time. This video is awesome. Here I see a man who actually thinks. Now, I try to build everything I know off of empirical evidence, but I have learned that not everything can be learned this way. We're human and we can't know everything, sometimes we need to go with what "seems best", or even just make a choice. There are literally so many things in this video that I like and that impress me, I cannot write it all down. But here are a few things: 1. Scientific ideas are indeed completely misapplied in our society. The common people always try to process scientifically, but exactly as Whatifalthist points out, they can't do this because they don't understand what science is on a fundamental level. 2. Many "scientific" studies cannot be replicated. Now, some fields are better than others. But psychology/med seems... dangerously bad. Chem and physics is generally pretty good. And he didn't even mention p hacking... 3. Life is not meaningless (from an objective standpoint). Indeed, in order to determine this via science you need a very exact and physically measurable way to determine if something is meaningful. My friends, meaning comes from within. We create it. What do you find meaningful? 4. Science has given us a great arrogance. I would also say this: Science should not make us arrogant. Much of what he described is not a logical response to science, but an emotional one (how ironic!). We *feel* like we are better and more powerful because we are confident in our answers. We *feel* like the world is more boring because we understand so much. The reality is, we feel confident in our answers because we do not estimate our errors (more on that next paragraph), and we feel things are boring because we choose to look at them that way. Science offers us the ability to make incredible wonders - and personally I find it fascinating and exciting to think of what I can create with the scientific knowledge and thoughts I have. Indeed, I create some of these things, as I am an engineer. For estimating errors, it may be interesting to consider how a drone thinks. Drones do not just know their position and have a full confidence in it - they are always estimating and guessing their position, triple-checking it, and seeing how wrong it is. There is math used so they know how wrong they are. It is a lesson to us humans - that we should consider the likelihood and magnitude of how off our information may be. All measurements have an error, it is never exact. If in the end, you really have no idea what the truth is, and you must make a choice, then there is one thing you can be certain of: you will learn a lot very soon :) I'm not a religious person. I have no faith. I have tried very hard to answer my existential questions, and not jump to illogical conclusions. It can be difficult. My point there is - I have no motive to reinforce religious ideas, or any political views. I just am so fed up with how nonsensical and illogical our world today is - and that's why I love this video so much. Thank you Whatifalthist for bringing your thoughts to the people. You are a smart, knowledgeable man, and a good thinker.
I don't think science has given us great arrogance. Most of the time it humbles us. Compared to many other things like religion who out us at the center and give some or other a superiority or victim complex. From an objective standpoint. Whether something has meaning or not is subjective. Science doesn't even make a claim of something is meaningful or not unless we are talking towards a goal we want
@@hopeintruth5119 You're taking that into account of scientist however we are talking in relation to the common woman or man on the street which often see science akin to tribalistic sports so long as we have the best gadget and most money we must be smart thatis the general thinking many in intelligencia meet when it comes to science in general
@@jackhhun2698 what? The regular people misconstrued science a lot. From biology to medicine, from physics to psychology. Ton sof regular me and women misconstrued science a lot. You know the amount of people that say " survival of the fittest" and take it as whoever is strongest lives the longest or gets the food. When In reality it means the animals who are most well equipped for the environment and pressure they are in survives. You know how many of these " alpha" men misconstrued wolf pack structures. You know how many sports work out people misconstrued health facts about vitamins, fat, and protein. You know how many people who are anti- vax don't even understand how vaccines work. Don't let me get into the fact on how many conservatives use extremely old outdated data to try to conform to their own outdated beliefs.
Want to reply to 14:08 in support of modern art. A) Photorealism hasn't gone away. Iconography hasn't gone away. In fact, you can find many many artists who specifically recreate the styles of many eras of history. B) Of course modern art doesn't look as immediately pleasing as art that was specifically designed to look appealing. That's not what modern art's trying to do. When you look at a Rothko painting, Rothko's not trying to get you to see 'anything'. He might be suggesting something, but ultimately it's up to the viewer to project their vision onto the canvas. In this way, it becomes more of something to 'think to' than a concrete image to be analyzed or compared to a real world subject. Of course the painting at 14:12 is a bad representation of a human. It's not trying to represent a human at all! Whether or not it's a good painting is something entirely separate from whether or not it's an accurate or pleasing depiction of a human. It comes down to a fundamental difference in how you approach art. On one side, there are people who treat art as a way of stimulating visual pleasure. Perfect proportions (either accurate or, sometimes, enhanced to be perfect beyond reality... Look at how the renaissance artists drew people. They all have body proportions that are perfect resonances and shit), photorealism, and effective storytelling are what these people tend to like. On the other side are people who like art for what thoughts it invokes in them. They may find a photorealistic depiction of something extremely underwhelming if it doesn't evoke any thoughts to them. Of course there's a spectrum between enjoying art entirely for either of those things, and everyone is somewhere on that spectrum, but I hope I've at least made the case for why modern art appeals to people even if it may be 'ugly'. btw your section on the meat industry really made me think about my meat consumption. I don't think there's anything ethically wrong with eating well-husbanded animals and obviously meat is necessary from a dietary perspective, but I think I'm going to start trying to limit myself to having meat at most once a day, and occasionally taking off days. I don't want to support the meat industry with my money anymore.
I believe so firmly that this is the "positive discourse", that some people I know that identify as "left" and some "right" really MUST understand in order for us to move forward as a species. This gentleman is making one of the best attempts I have seen at bringing that to a reality. MASSIVE kudos in my book.
My lord your point on fantasy worlds being the place for our stories really hit home with me. I never really understood why I had such a distaste for fantasy and super heros. I just never could really get into them but give me a history book or a dramatic retelling of events in history and im enthralled. In example one of my favorite movies of all time is "Master and Commander" it's not an exact historical story but it is so grounded in our real world history it's amazing. The first time I watched it I went through the gambit of emotions.
i like to create fantasy worlds in my head, although i usually insert moral/idealogical plug ins into, to make it more personal. fun stuff, helps me cope with a reality that i otherwise couldn't cope with. not the type of fantasy where everything is fine and dandy, but more idealogical wars between forces with unrealistic/non-human powers. i think lord of the rings is one of the better fantasies out there because there is a whole long message about faith, morality, the limits of ones strength, oath keeping, and more. its not just a fantasy setting, but one with a underlying story of faith and fighting against "ends justify the means"
It’s similar to my love for the uncharted games (from a world building perspective). Nate and sully are complete history nerds, and their adventures stem from crazy alternate history scenarios (tank in Tibetan mammal ice monster village), or say in uncharted 3 where they enter the eventually burning mansion, but underneath it is a whole network of 14-1500’s cave architecture and puzzles that lead to a clue. It’s core game design, real world history, and fantastical elements blended really well into one game.
I think a lot of his conclusions are generally correct… for Western society… most action movies are filmed in foreign countries (US films). I like his conclusion that we rely on science too much and lost a lot of meaning through losing philosophy… but the world he uses it to support isnt one Id want my kids to live in. Overall really like his content as it challenges me to develop my own alternative ideas
Scientists here. I would respectfully say that the problems you're pointing out (e.g., the crisis of reproducibility, strong correlation between funding a study and results that benefit that study, etc.) are with the scientist, not science per se. Your videos are awesome--keep making them.
I’ve become a huge fan of your channel and perspective, so perhaps I’m a bit biased, but….. In my own humble opinion- This is the best video you have ever created!
I like your videos. I may not always agree on all your points of view, but the important thing is you make me think and reflect about them whenever I hear them. It doesn't feel like you're telling me whats what, it just feels like you're telling me what you think you know; great job
thats the best anyone can do. too many people think their view is 100% correct at all time and will fight you if you disagree at all. so yeah, i may not agree with rudy but i can respect a man who is attempting his best.
I'm nearing the end of my Biology degree and we're finally talking about how( at least in the realm of microbiologists and evolution) that for basically every scientific paper written there's about 15 other papers discussing why that paper is wrong or why the people who think it's wrong are wrong. It's fun seeing scientists get into huge fights over literally the tiniest of things.
A great example of what you're explaining here is vegetable/seed oils. They're in all of our foods and it's accepted that they are healthy. In reality they're the primary cause for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis asthma, and it's even looking like cancer. The consensus has slowly been stepping back on blaming saturated fat, but has not quite got to blaming the proper culprit, which looks to be Linoleic Acid(an omega-6 PUFA). There's sufficient data at this point, and even 2 of the best randomized controlled trials ever done in nutrition point this way.. yet we're hidden for decades, and still largely ignored or incorrect conclusions drawn based on the data because of bias, such as by the Hardard school of public heath. *_These are the Sidney diet heart study and Minnesota coronary heart experiment_*
Good video Not many will touch this sacred cow . I came across these problems in science years ago while studying physics at University. And more Even in physics there are “heroes” that lead people down rabbit holes and people spend decades studying the wrong thing
This is the only video on the channel which which I have some beef. You're quoting people that are not experts and are thoroughly debunked (the brain chemistry guy), you're also mixing what science actually is (wasn't established in the video) with academia, institutions and popular opinion. I understand why a historian is more concerned with what the average person thought that scientific truths were than the scientific community, but I think the difference needs to be reflected. If the average joe thinks for example red meat and salt are bad for you - even though debunked by science - doesn't mean science is bad, means joe is kept stupid because neither the media nor the education system are interested in teaching him correctly. If a dictator decides to interpret something in a way and cherry pick the best offs, well, it's him, not the scientist. I mean was Hitler a scientist because of Mein Kampf? By the logic of the video, he was I'd argue
Interesting video! Us using the scientific method on too many aspects of our lives could be a good way of explaining why the modern world can often feel empty
His claim about studies not being replicated is actually totally true, I am in psych at Penn State and we learned about this and someone tried to replicate these studies and found 60% of them to be non replicatable.
nah i agree. its fuckin insane. mostly caused by profit incentives not being in the right place imo
Not a PhD myself but in university I found out slowly but surely that funding is at the center of everything. If you want to test something but get no funding then it won’t be tested. So if a “desired” result is wanted, then just fund only studies until it came back affirmative once and not fund any replications
Indeed, alot of our pre-concieved notions are based on fallable studies. It humors me, that we think we are better than the Catholic Church's imprisonment of Gallileo, while today labelling and ostracising "science-deniers" for questioning the consensus.
Medicine is even worse. I'm reading up on R&D patents produced by private corporations to make pharmaceutical drugs for a study. Numbers on irreproducability for some companies is upwards of 70%.
@MeChupaUnHuevon kinda, field of engineerings basic are replicating experiments for industrial uses. Although much of this still happens, due to the demand from Practicians, non replicable experiments aren't implemented
I’ll be honest, as a scientist I’m spending my time trying to figure out what the hell is happening with this one thing I think is neat. When I’m not working, I’m just out living life like anyone else. Scientists aren’t this storybook idea of impartial workers, we have interpersonal drama, we’re all idiots most of the time, we have fun, we are just people who’s job is to look at this one thing.
Most of us do spend some amount of time trying to understand the wider field and how it can relate to other fields, and sometimes we can act on those cross-discipline ideas, but when you do that you’re no longer as secure in your job, which is to study this one thing. The scientific establishment is maintained by financial and political environment in academia so we follow it bc that’s how we get paid.
I think it’s more apt to say we try and engineer our way through things. That’s because there is this tendency among engineers to mystify science as what you describe it as, and engineers interface with the real world outside of the one particular topic that a scientist does. Science is a tool and engineers think it’s a hammer. Mystifying things from the real world tends to be a poor course of action as things are never as perfect as they seem.
Science is definitely not subjective. Not even in the slightest of ways. Certain things can be wrong for sure but that's why we have to be critical and move measures
@@hopeintruth5119 The scientific method is objective, but the people who apply it are definitely subjective. Everyone has their biases that inform their thinking and interpretation of observations, experiments, and data as well as the hypotheses they make, questions they ask, and conclusions they draw. Scientists may be more trained than most to avoid that, but they are not immune from being human
@@LostPilgrim sure but that's why we have peer review and debate and discussion. We update our knowledge and understanding every day.
@@hopeintruth5119 Peer review isn't subjective? Damn, it's been politically influenced for quite some time. If someone's thesis is immaculately researched, tested extensively and well written, but it goes against the status quo.. Might as well make a TH-cam channel.
@@walkingcontradiction223 peer review can have subjectivity but tell me there are 50-60 different people who study this around the world will have the same subjective opinions that could skew things ?? Really?
(Scientist/engineer here. PhD in Applied math.) Science has a lot of strong points and it's generally good but there's context people need to really understand and those who just yell "SCIENCE!" at things often don't.
1. Research takes money and money is given to those that can produce results or are working areas of interest. This means a high paper count, even if those papers aren't terribly high impact, gets you far. It also means science is subject to trends where tons of research gets done because something is a "hot area." It doesn't mean that what comes out of that is actually good or indicates a good world trend. There is also pressure to accept results and trending views to be on the good side of important people, the people who determine your funding.
2. Every measurement and result has an uncertainty associated with it. Good analysis talks about this. The press doesn't. They gloss right over the error and uncertainty analysis any good scientist does--because if you don't, no one is going to take your work seriously. That means wild results that have massive uncertainties can be hyped up by press that doesn't understand this fundamental part of science.
3. More science is inferred than you realize. Astronomy is a great example. I think people really believe that "they discovered a new planet" involves the researchers pointing a telescope at an area, looking in, and going "Yup, there it is!" Definitely not how that works. A lot of discoveries involve a chain of inferences and assumptions: if this model is right, then if we see this, then that means this thing has to be true, which means this other thing is happening and.... It doesn't make it wrong but it does place critical importance on the initial assumptions and hypotheses for the result to be correct.
That is not a good example of inference. The inferences made are made by scaling processes. They observe a phenomenon and then apply it at larger scales. Then they run the math a shit load of times, and also compare it to other known methods when possible. There are multiple methods for finding planets but which method can be used will depend on size, distance, how much shit is in the way, etc. The biggest inference they make really is infering it's still there today. Inferences alluded to in science aren't like the Inferences you or I make in daily life. For things considered established science inference usually means, yeah all the evidence points to this, and when we plug this in our models it checks out, and it falls in line with other established facts, and also it explains this other established fact without adding more questions to the actual subject at hand, and it doesn't rely on separate inferences, but we haven't or can't actually see it and be there so we're inferring this to be correct because it actually fits neatly within all the parameters and doesn't require some magical force or lead to a much much crazier and larger question/problem. The only times they allow for a larger gap to be made when filling a smaller one is if there really is no other explanation that doesn't also require magical thinking or create an even larger gap or i consistency.
The only explanation I can think of for you to believe this is that you're in engineering and saw a lot of physics particularly quantum and theoretical that made you believe this. However a portion of this video is about humans needing to imagine and bullshit a bit (while ironically condemning fictional writings). I would argue this is where we do this. Further the problem isn't that we can't ask what if, it's that when we dismiss what if scenarios it's oftsn because those presenting them don't have the knowledge to understand they're trying to to explore land that was discovered years or decades ago. If the established things that would need to be wrong were wrong much of our current tech, just wouldn't work. This would mean we're basically the orcs from 40k and it just works because we believe in it enough and if this were the case, then none of it would really matter would it?
A pity that watching this video us an disappointing (and almost infuriating 😖) waste of time.
As a veteran Ph.D. (+ MS×2) in Engineering/Applied Physics, I find this video is pure opinionated garbage and ignorance. 👎
He does not know what is Real Hard STEM - the Western Way to Progress and Wealth!
Some of his What If? videos are fun and interesting (although mostly with his opinions contaminated with the usual Anglo-American cultural prejudices and sometimes showing ignorance of the fine details on non-Anglo History.)
It helps a little he is Right-oriented. politically. Wacko Woke 'What If's would be unwatchable 🤮.
The author mixes in an indigestible salad the narrative, opinionated pseudo-Sciences - Social & Political Sciences, Freudian l Psychology, Philosophy & Humanities, the more political Economics and Sociology (plus the crappy misunderstandings of MSM Journalism and the malicious interpretation of both Extremes of Politics)- with the fact-based HARD Sciences & Technology.
Hard STEM theories and models do not work if they are wrong.
Hard STEM models are a coordinated collection of inferences and factual data (with measurable uncertainties and unavoidable unknowns). The are an approximation to Reality, always needing improvement and refinement.
That is the reason - Thanks God/Nature/YMMV! - that REAL SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED or COMPLETE.
Besides the guy does not have a clue on the highly non-linear, fractal, Catastrophic Mathematics underlying and describing STE theories and models.
Unfortunately, most Humans can only manage a very limited, narrow Linearized view of the innumerable (and many unknown) variables needed for a full description of our complex Reality.
Dude's not wrong; the whole point of the Replication Crisis is that people took published papers as gospel, and don't spend a lot of time checking the published literature's conclusions. The guy looking for exoplanets doesn't usually feel the need to prove that a star appears dimmer when a planet crosses between the star and human telescopes, he just cites _the_ paper on the subject and moves on.
But when you go to the social sciences and find out 'priming' doesn't work after you spent the last decade or two exploring the details and limits of priming... well, that's just flushed your entire life's work down the proverbial toilet.
I love telling people the story of how Galileo's house arrest was not the result of anti-scientific medieval backwardness, but rather politicized science that Galileo had the gall to dissent with (the Church being in fact the main sponsor of science at that point in time).
I find it appalling people think the Church the reason why science was held back. The Christian Church and other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, etc. were proponents and sponsors of advancing our scientific concepts and knowledge. The problem isn't religion but greedy and deplorable people abusing the system for their own gain.
Bro thank you
Define the space between the atoms. Describe the space between the atoms. I'M LOST FOR WORDS, God?
It's similar to how people.think Robin Hood was a socialist. He wasn't a socialist, he was stealing money back from a heavy handed government. But everyone chooses the lens of their own choice. Even if it's a blurry one.
It's a bit of an oopsies
Antideppressants can cause serious adverse effects.. Every doctor I've ever seen has tried to prescribe me antidepressants. It doesn't seem to matter what I went in to see them about. Even though I have bad reactions to them. They always say "Well this is a new one and shouldn't effect you that way." But I've yet to try one that didn't make me waaaaay worse. That is a huge red flag for me. I flat refuse to take them anymore......not even to humor a new doctor.
Like you have any kind of alternative solution.
@@ANDREALEONE95 i mean meditation and mindfullness. intense therapy and psychoactive substances are pretty good
@@gregoryfridman5680 meditation and mindfullness aren't sufficient. It's like curing cancer with aspirine
Get better doctor's then...
@@postalmann7866 so you are saying that you are hiding you problem.
To add to your comment about our world being just as interesting as any fantasy novel, I completely agree. I write fantasy novels and stories, and when I need inspiration, I'll turn on a nature or history documentary, research different cultures for their mythologies and stories, look up images of incredible architecture, landscapes, or natural phenomena. There's so many incredible things out there waiting to be discovered, so many amazing stories waiting to be heard. Even a lot of common fantasy elements are just exaggerations, retellings, or reimaginings of things that used to or currently exist/happened. Dragons are just reimagined dinosaurs who hoard treasure or control the weather. In some cases, fantasy tropes arise from our emotional reaction to the world. Lovecraftian, cosmic horror came out of a fear of the unknown and is rooted in the vastness of space and darkened depths of the sea and how little we know about either. The monsters we create in these settings are reflections of what unimaginable beings could exist in such vastness and how small we are in a massive, incredible, and ultimately unfathomable world. Anyone who thinks our world isn't interesting lacks the imagine to dream about what lies undiscovered or simply hasn't looked at what's out there
i usually just use my personal feelings and struggles and apply that to certain things. plus certain fantasy worlds are quite beautiful if overly optimistic. the best fantasy world is one that has inspirations from the hearts of man and the struggles anyone can face even if its not directly stated. lord of the rings is the best at this, having spiritual struggle as well as political within its pages
recently for my own random head fantasy its been pokemon, in a world where shadow legendaries break society take over the world after they stop infighting, and in the post revolution society different groups of shadows have different ideals on how the new human slaves species should be controlled. some being more hands off, and creating something closer to a religious organization with the leader having a mild pychic link to all its humans. mixing control with manipulating the human nature for reacting well to religion and organization. this proves to be the better military option for the shadows that employ this have many humans give their souls willingly to the dragon/creature, strengthening it, while the shadows who prefer direct pychic control cannot get this power.
its based on how i see myself as christian, but know i have certain aspects about me no god would accept. anger issues and other unrelated weird things. so i try my best to be as good as a i can, aware that one must mix good and evil within one's worldview, able to dip ones toes into both for a time.
Couldn’t agree more. Life is a magical and beautiful adventure.
You do realize that you're actually NOT adding to his point, you're counter it. Hos point was that people make up fantasy stories because they're bored from not viewing reality as a place of wonder. He's calling you specifically, a writer of fantasy, a bored person who sees no wonder in the world. YOU'RE PROVING HIM WRONG.
@@joshuapowers4623 I belive he is talking about modern fantasy or stories especially ones that are bland and uninspired. For example there is genre of stories in Japan called isekai where some random person gets transported to another fantasy world. While a lot are better than others almost every isekai story feels the same with the same tropes and some feeling nothing more than power fantasies and it is telling that there are many out there who do not take risks and just make copies of the exact story and settings.
Yes there are beautiful places on earth but most of it is quite shitty and boring nowadays. It doesn't come close to fantasy worlds.
One day, I’m gonna tell my grandkids, this used to be an *actual* alternate history channel…
You won't have any
@@WiseOwl_1408 republicans are the easiest people to trigger AKA you
@@WiseOwl_1408 damn, didnt have to kill the man like that
Is it more proto-Nazi talking points?
@@WiseOwl_1408 look pal, there’re great people with kids, there’re great people without kids, there’re scumbags with kids, there’re scumbags without kids, life isn’t so black and white
In some parts this reminded me of SCP-1762, where an entire realm of existence is destroyed by humans no longer being able to dream and fantasize.
"There were Dragons here." Everybody that reads that story has cried, and no one can tell me why. Then I read it, and it broke my heart.
I now know why you cry.
I never thought I’d see a fellow scp fan watching this channel and I’m pleasantly surprised
Isn’t that just the Neverending Stooory🎶?
That's the saddest SCP I know yet. Not because of the dragons' end but their cries for help, the feeling of being left behind I felt listening to it. It just a great metaphor for modern world-view, even though it's right up in your face 😅😅
@@jdblay66777We exist! There are dozens of us!
I think the negativity bias - where it's so much easier to focus on negative things - emphasized by the news and social media algorithms gets us dwelling more on negative things than positive things. How often do we see wonderful and inspiring stories on the news - or facebook?
Yup because of hypothesis claiming many people fall undermined.
ah yes the skeptical sceptic of sceptisism. love your vids
Scep-ception
Its funny because we critisize science and the decontruction of meaning, myths, Intuition on the Basis of the rational. Just through the rational you end at Religion.
Even thought, mastering the dreamstate on a mass scale sounds better than having only religion for finding meanings and muses.
I'm sceptic about scepticism and deconstruct deconstructionism
@@4zdr456 You hit the nail right on the head. Well said.
As much as I like Fantasy and Science fiction I tend to imagine how would a character from (insert fantasy book here) react to our world. This is why I like the His Dark Material series because you have this clash, this culture shock to lack of a better world.
I like my DnD characters as much as I can but I can see my Human Fighter from Waterdeep being absolutely enchanted by just how I live my life.
thinking about the reaction of people from different eras or different fantasy worlds, in our world, has to be more entertaining than most fantasy fiction stories themselves.
The irony of life being so easy it got hard for people to cope with.
It’s only “easy” if your expenses don’t grow faster than your income
@@jameswilkerson4412 80% of people could starve to death in the past, this number is below 20% today, not even counting diseases that can be treated today. We live easy because we expect to live being 50, 60, 70, 80 years old, barely impossible in the past
@@sergiowinter5383 you’re comparing different levels of Maslow’s Pyramid, so apples and oranges
@@jameswilkerson4412 It's easy because we have a Maslow Pyramid, in the past was all about survival to the majority of the population
People used to live 150
I feel like the biggest problem we have nowadays is less that we lionize science and more that we don't really want to ask the most important question to any scientific endeavor:
What if I'm wrong?
What if my basic assumptions are mistaken?
Those two questions are existentially horrifying so people delete them from their "scientific" thought altogether. And I think the reason you and I get along is, we're both brave enough to ask them.
Skepticism towards ones own and previous observations have been a core concept within the scientific method since the 17th century. Science can only move forward when the standing assumptions are questioned.
@@mauritstorensma5854 exactly. And now we have people claiming that if you question The Science™, you're wrong and a neanderthal bigot on the wrong side of history.
I feel like most people in science do ask this all the time though. The whole reason we caught onto the replication crisis was after fraud was detected and scientists made a collective effort to question the conclusions of research that were considered foundational.
@@ataraxia7439 not “feel”, “does”. That’s what scientists do all day long, try to disprove their own or others theories to find the best one.
In science, dogmatism is the anomaly. In religion, dogmatism is the norm. Traditionalists like to “both sides” this thing but there really is no question which is the superior methodology for arriving at the truth
It is often said that Pride is the deadliest of all the 7 sins. And I think the modern world and modern science truly proves that. The inability for a lot of scientists, politicians, engineers, doctors, etc. to ask the question about whether or not they are wrong, and could there be another approach, has resulted in absolute catastrophe. And I am talking about on the scale of millions of lives lost.
Oh, boy. I can already see Vaush losing his shit over this.
Considering he argued that the period table is a social construct… nah he would probably still lose his shit
Period or periodic?
@@sheltonyukevich7722 probably the second one
Vaush debate 2??
Vaush is a moron so the fact that he destroyed this kid so fucking easily just goes to show how absolutely brain dead WIAH is
Was so excited when I saw the title of the video. So much here. One thing to comment on, which our good friend and host essentially already did here with one particular set of vocabulary, is that science is but one way of knowing and understanding the world better. It's one very useful, important tool that is incredibly narrow and imperfect when not aided by others. Frankly, it is foolish of our culture and society to make naturalistic science solely the end all be all of epistemology, hence, why we've seen justified some of the atrocities of the past century, removed from ethics, religion, aesthetics, and frankly, common sense. Second, the vast majority of people generally don't understand the skeptical, self defeating nature of science in that it's more useful in telling us what we don't know or what isn't right than it is actually giving us workable information to use. The best the scientific method can do for us at any given point is give us a slightly more accurate, less crude model of our known universe to work with than the one that came before it. That's incredibly powerful, useful for humanity, but it's also incredibly slow, always changing, and tells us more of what's false than what's true (speaking to the nature of testing a hypothesis). As well, people are incredibly ignorant to the history of science's development (also touched on in the video), that even when you build a society modeled perfectly in line and aimed perfectly down the barrel of the current scientific model perfectly (if such a thing were even possible), it and its horrors and shortcomings and mistakes would still be shown, plain as day for all, in all their weakness and inaccuracy, to the coming generations. That's more or less exactly what happened in World War II, what happened with the societal experiment of eugenics entertained in the US during the past century, and what happened under the various communist regimes around the world during the past century. I just love the premise of this video in that instead complaining about the "spot on the rug" of our society and recent history, it straight up pulls the rug up and looks at what's underneath the rug. In a society dominated by an insincere-at-best mantra of "trust the science", no one is talking about the actual limitations of science and its shortcomings in recent history.
People using their own “happiness” as the standard of morality and meaning has been around for thousands of years. The Book of Judges 21:25 summarizes one of those times with “and everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” And to those not familiar with the Judges, it basically tells several stories about how everything went to hell in a hand basket.
relativist thinking is easily the most dangerous idea in the world. you remove a society's moral standards and everything else soon follows.
Judges was written during the time of the Bronze Age collapse so yeah lol not a surprise that our civilization is doing the same thing that they did during their collapse. Our civilization is going to meet the same fate.
I remember getting a used Bible at one point and that verse had been underlined several times. Indeed, it's the most brutal book outside of Lamentations.
I have many colegues who believe in their own "truth".
It's quite annoying as truth is truth no matter if you choose to believe in it or not.
@@jhinthevirtuoso4886 i mean, truth is truth yes but there are definitely things in this world that are subjective and gray areas exist. that being said i still 100% agree that the saying "the ends justify the means" is a huge rabbit hole that if you go too far down you'll enter hell
That's why I prefer mathematics. But it also has its own foundation flaws
Namely, being boring as fucking hell
FAGGOT
Maths is great for its objectivity but that also makes me apathetic towards it. Since I know people who mathematically prove something have to go through the highest level of scrutiny I feel no need to care, I can trust the institution without much need to personally investigate
Math was always my favorite subject in my courses because it doesn’t care about the real world, but it can be applied to the real world all the same
Maths may a become religion in the future
I view my world as a mystery novel. Always looking for the twists and turns in the story ahead of time. And once you start looking, twists and turns are everywhere, some you catch ahead of time and some literally seem to come out of nowhere.
"Hey whatifalthis could it be possible to be a bit more positive?"
whatifalthis:
So now when it comes to *“Science”* you want him to be positive?
@@just-some-muslim It just feels like his only moves are
-Pessimism about the future
-Pessimism about the past
It's because of the topics he talks about. He purposely picks topics most people don't talk about but are extremely important and when people don't want to talk about a important topic it's either because they are ignorant or they don't want to deal with it because its so negative to them and or their world view.
If you pay attention he is mainly negative of the state of modern times but he dose have a bit of optimism under the pessimism for the future. It's just that it's easier to predict a worse future in a time that seems to be getting worse.
@@drekbleh7081 a lot of his videos tend to end on a more positive and provide advice and suggestions on these topics. He even says a lot of the time what he is saying isn't perfect and that he may be wrong. At least he is more honest than most people on the internet who claims to be right.
i didn't come here to be happy i came here to have an existential breakdown at 2am
Honestly one of your best Videos yet.
Normally there at least a couple moments i tend to disagree or which i take a bit uneasy,
but this video, it was just great 👍
I feel bad for all the people who aren't intelligent enough to realize how brain dead this guy is
Yeah, I tend to disagree with a lot of his stuff but there are moments when he says some really insightful stuff
Science is a great tool - nothing more and nothing less. The inherent lack of values is a feature, not a bug and the choice of what to aim science at is one driven by human values. Sadly, while the iron rule is brought up a lot, a second rule is just as important (but rarely upheld): Everything can change in the light of new information.
Everyone who can consistently create triangles in a euclidean space with a different sum-of-angles than 180 degrees will upend mathematics. As I Biologist, I welcome anyone who can demonstrate a third sex in the animal kingdom according to the biological definition of sex. The implications for evolution and selection would be amazing.
I have my doubts in both cases, that such novel information will be presented in my life time.
Geometry isn't science; it's math. If you can have a triangle that doesn't sum to 180 degrees, you are explicitly not in a Euclidean space, because you can show that the rules of Euclidean space ensure triangles within have exactly 180 degrees; to get a different answer, you need a different set of rules, and such a set of rules are non-Euclidean.
And non-Euclidean doesn't mean weird and Lovecraftian; it just means you're not building your geometry around infinite planes; you can build it around finite spheres, which has all kinds of uses, what with the shape of planets.
@@boobah5643 While it is true, that math isn't a science, the underlying principle is the same. Sum-of-angles in euclidian space is an axiom as far as I know. There is no proof of it. Should an axiom fall, it would shake mathematics to the core.
But it won't fall, since the axiomatic assumptions are so simple and basic and confirmed by everyone who ever did geometry, that it's close to impossible that every human to ever math missed it.
S'why I argue it's so important for people to understand the scientific method, its incredible power, its limitations. Scientific literacy should be the basis of our entire civilization so that we can appreciate our symbolic, spiritual and abstract nature that much more.
Yea lol. Is this guy really trying to discredit science by giving examples of wrong ideas that were disproven scientifically?
@@Charles-pf7zy whoosh
@@Charles-pf7zy rationality isn't the same
@@Charles-pf7zy But they were claimed to be scientific, it's not very relevant that they were disproven scientifically, before science existed as we understand it today plenty of ideas were disproven as well. Science was used to justify them despite them being based on weak evidence or no evidence at all. You could make the same argument about religious dogmas, you could say there were stupid religious dogmas in the past until a new religion came and replaced them with the correct, current religious dogmas. And you know they are correct because there is linear progress and new things are always more true and people wouldn't believe false dogmas. Right?
Thank you! Yes, most of the problems he mentions in the video are not caused by science but either by the misunderstanding of science, scientific findings by the laymen or by an economic system thats instead of the truth, seeks out profit, and it bends science to its purpose: instead of seeking the answer that is true, scientists will seek the answer that sells.
No lie, I listened to this while doing my chemistry homework b/c the video dropped right as I was starting
Oh no I had to go back and listen a second time to catch everything
Your deep analysis is very much appreciated. In a world where everything is shock value, it's nice to hear opinions based on so much research. Great content.
Ah yes, I remember when the concept of fictional writing was invented in 2010.
I'm so jealous of this young generation that gets to read novels. I graduated right before that.
I was there; it was magnificent historical moment.
Science fiction and pure fantasy are rather recent genres of fiction though. The closest you get from older literature are stories about the Gods.
The bible is the biggest fantasy book thats more than 2000 years old, so I dunno what he's talking about.
This is a stellar video. It expresses eloquently the views that I have myself espoused, mainly the lack of creativity, broader perspective and practical wisdom in academia, without turning over into religiousity, ethereal spirituality and fake science. In this video you didn't push your own biases on viewers, generalise too much from uncomplete data or use bad sources to ground your arguments, which sometimes ruins otherwise perfectly formed arguments and interesting theories.
The best choice _isn't_ to forgo science and turn over into ignorance and superstition. It is to integrate scientific knowledge with things like art, philosophy, strict morality, social awareness, curiosity and common sense
I dont always agree with all of your theoris, but its so refreshing and fun to hear your ideas and to analyse them ! please keep up your work!
My favorite aspect of digesting your videos has been when and where I disagree with something you're saying. My examination of why we disagree ends up being very enlightening. Sometimes I end up agreeing with you and sometimes I end up disagreeing with you even more, but never once have I considered your position not worth examining.
Wow. As soon as I saw the title I knew you would nail this. A decade or so of all kids understanding this might heal our society's world view. Wow.
This is a very timely episode. I appreciate how you find topics of relevance whenever you produce. Thank you, brother. Christ be with you and us.
"Let the intelligent elite run things and you'll have a utopia. It fell flat on its foolish face, of course, because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centred as to be lacking in social responsibility."
Probably one of my favorite quotes from Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers book.
Robert Heinlein wrote liberal war veteran fanfic, not serious political texts
@@danisrusski6297 "muh librulz"
Lmao, anything else?
@@apple_m2_delight Yes, there's no guarantee that the intelligent elite would act in anybody else's interest.
Heinlein was so close to fascism as made no difference. I stopped reading him decades ago once I realized how repulsive he was.
@@tonytaskforce3465 Yeah a political system ruled by military veterans or people who did demeaning or dangerous government work for years is really authoritarian. Always hilarious with the amount of shitheads who constantly dunk on the government but then lick the boots of police and military
I don’t know if you’ve made a video like this, but a video about the side effects of nations thinking too rationally would be interesting.
they are told by their financiers what most of their actions are to be. When given a choice at all they resort to polling results to tell them which way the wind is blowing.
China’s single-child policy is a perfect example of a nation being too rational
Love the comparison of beautiful traditional art vs grotesque modern art. I often think this applies to many other aspects of modern western society as well. It was better before.
I think the most important thing modern art brings to the table is the freedom of it. Art has become a creative outlet, something to enjoy doing, rather than only something to enjoy seeing.
Give it to the people, I say :)
Yeah but how can we expect people to create beautiful and inspiring art if the artist's today have either a really hard life financially or are too rich to care. Art is the reality that went through their eyes and emotions so its natural that in our modern world that the art is depressing if we ourselves find it that way
@@obiwanlover6314 van gogh was dirt poor, and everyone made fun of his paintings contemporarily. Nowadays, however, those same paintings are priceless. Paintings MONETARY value comes from convincing rich people that it is indeed worth that much. Their ARTISTIC value is subjective and comes from how “much” the artist put into the painting, it that makes sense
I could be wrong, but this is what I observe to be true
The main beauty of modern art is noticing its contrast with genuine art.
:D
Now, I'm pleased with myself as I've denigrated the "life works" of many a beatnik.
There were degrees of both irony and sincerity in each of the above sentences, which makes me even more pleased with myself.
:D
Think I'll try painting.
@@jas3.14 Well said. I get frustrated with criticisms based on the supposedly objective "lack of artistic value" in grotesque modern art, because that value judgment presupposes that art should only evoke a set range of feelings (e.g., wonder, beauty, awe). Now, I think that range of feelings is important to represent, but I don't think it's in good faith to claim that art should be restricted that way - because art is about evoking ANY feeling the artist chooses to capture. The measure of a work's success is not "how happy it made you feel," but "how well it evoked what it was designed to evoke." As such, any emotional judgment about the value of a work is purely subjective. For example, some people like horror films, but some people don't. That doesn't make horror films an invalid medium. The same is true for grotesque modern art.
"The modern world looks for Newton's laws of motion to apply to human nature"
That really sums it up. Great one liner.
No, science is based on objective observation lmao, people love finding counter examples in logical reasoning all the time
@@Pundapog this is about the broader effects of science on society, not science itself, you are literally the problem.
Yeah this is pretty much THE problem with pretty much everything at this particular moment, isn't it?
@@Pundapog tell me you didn’t understand the video without telling me you didn’t understand the video 😂
Human mind and conscience is just an emergent system, born or biology and physical laws, just one extremely complicated, we eventually will crack the code about how it actually works, and once that happens we will indeed have the algorithms that rules our minds on our hands.
The only thing my Molecular Biology degree ever did for me is convince me in the existence of some sort of higher power, because the amount of things that had to go right for life to even exist in the first place is infinitesimally small. How else can we explain how a bunch of nucleic acid chains floating around in the ocean gained the ability to self replicate? And then become self contained units? And eventually lead to us millions of years later?
That's cool for you, but it seems a bit backwards to me that you would learn about the insane amount of time life has existed, and your only conclusion is that there's intelligent design. Given a billion years of constant back and forth, almost anything can happen.
No amount of time turns an impossible event into a possible one.
23:08 I remembered reading about Bogomilism long time ago - a middle ages Christian sect that believed Earth was created by the Devil. Their ideas spread very fast and were hard to remove.
the earth being created by the devil honestly would explain a lot, that and god having one hell of a sense of humor, especially how tough living in the middle ages was and all the pain? no wonder that became a popular
Stunned. 76, this is the first time I've heard my postulations expressrd by someone other thañ myself and roundly jeered at for decades. 2 am, alone sitting on my lanai, I feel a sense of vindication and thank you.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race but great for giving Whatifalthist a topic and the means to share his video.
Spittin
nice reference
"Disaster for the human race?" Does that mean that living disease-ridden and superstition-filled lives of subservience to aristocrats was the golden age of the human race? For a specific time to be able to be called bad, there have to be better times surrounding it.
@@michaelb9386 You see, living disease-ridden and superstition-filled lives of subservience to aristocrats that had MEANING AND PURPOSE is still preferable to the vapid comfort of the present day, where meaninglessness is enforced.
Its got very little to do with material comfort and everything to do with finding meaning and purpose. The Industrial Revolution has robbed humanity of all the tried and tested ways people found fulfilment, meaning and purpose in life. You have soulless, depressed people as the norm, not the exception, all individuality crushed, all beauty rejected, all wonder torched and all joy made stale.
So yes, it absolutely has been a disaster for mankind. Its an unpopular opinion for a reason - its why few want to admit to that terrible truth Ted Kaczynski laid out for all to see.
@@michaelb9386 yes
When I watch you're videos I'm like that stock meme of the guy choosing between 2 buttons to press, "Like video because I strongly agree with 65%" or "Dislike video because I strongly disagree with 35%"
I feel exactly the same
I have been saying this for decades, so much that I actually agree with the unibombers manifesto lol! It’s a shame that we have the world library in our pockets and could do so much to improve our work, yet it’s used to control peoples emotions and sell them things they didn’t even know they wanted till they fell victim to advertising… you go back less than 100 years ago and you will find that doctors couldn’t even advertise, but every time I walk by a television I see ten commercials for the newest pills they want to push.
If only there was an economic and political system responsible for such maximization of profits at the cost of humanity.... weird
Uncle Ted was right. Also lol at the college Marxist thinking “postmodernist science worship” is a unique failing of capitalism
@@skeleex
And once AI takes everyone's jobs, then the big question remains: Space communism, or cyberpunk dystopia? Cyberpunk 2077 should be a warning bell, not an ideal to strive for
All roads lead back to philosophy.
Ted Kaczynski was right!
Great video. I wish you would spend more time on the end part of this video. I think it gets to the reasons why we are in this mess. Does populism work? Or does the iron rule of oligarchy rule over all? From my experience and looking at other nations, other societies, it appears to me that it all comes down to "do the elites of the society actually like the people they rule over or not and do they have skin in the game or not". The essential precondition for a well run society is simple: the elites must like the people, and they must feel that they have skin in the game (ie feel that there will be consequences).
Yes, the end was very captivating and left me wanting more.
Read the populist delusion for your answer about populism.
I was literally just pondering science and its effectiveness as an idealism/philosophy all last week. It's like you read my mind.
it's more of an epistemological protocol.
I literally tweeted that science is more corrupt than the catholic church, now this video, i was exaggerating but peer review and company funding be like that
I get you. Everyday this world amazes me. Nature, history - all of it! Science informs this amazement, enriches it. It is a component but not the very essence of it all.
The thing that I always agree with you the most strongly on is how sad the way people see the world is now. (17:00). The pessimism I encounter everywhere is so frustrating. More people need to see life on Earth as the incredible experience that it is.
i see it both ways. on one hand, life is a crazy exhilarating spiritual experience that can be great fun, even in the worst situations. giving the one who torments you hell back is a feeling nothing can match. it can be wild, and even the most mundane life can be an adventure if you use the right perspective, or talk to the right people.
however, life can also be a slog sometimes. somedays are just boring. somedays are just hard. sometimes the hard days last a few years after a major trauma and you spend the better part of a decade picking up the pieces of who you used to be and trying to regain your sanity, finally settling on a peace deal between two very differing personality sides within yourself, finding a strange synthesis within your religion. even if that synthesis in the end is a beautiful thing you can take with you forever, those hard times were hell. no perspective nor adventure nor peptalk can help.
People sre frustrated due to lack of financial stability. Think of 2008.
Excellent work. I’ve been thinking a lot about death and life’s purpose lately. This video provide some clarity and direction. I really appreciate the book recommendations. Thank you for the superb content! 💪🏾
I love this channel! Not because I always agree (one of many eg's today is that many animals are brutally treated by people in non-industrialised settings - cruelty did not start with factory farming, it just got ramped up) but because I am in awe of the research and intellect on display here. Also, the typos, omissions and general lack of coherent editing make me feel slightly less inferior.
Science has engendered the most formidable temptation ever to confront man: that he may mistake his renunciation as an act of real power and something to be proud of, and mistake a shadow of power for the real thing.
Renunciation of what?
Beautifully said
Can you explain like I’m five? What are people renouncing ?
I would love a vid on the rise and fall of the USSR from you. It would be super awesome.
He's too biased against leftist ideology to make a good video on that topic
@@visionsofthescreen7123 that's exactly why I think he could make a good video on it.
@@visionsofthescreen7123 "biased"? I think the term realistic would be better
@@visionsofthescreen7123go away communist
@@Gronolo_31g No, I don't really think so. It is of course good to be critical of ideas that revolve around things as important as differing methods of socio-economic organisation, but even if you are only moderately familiar with leftist thought, the assumptions it makes, the arguments and theories that it is built on, you quite quickly will realise that whatifalthist is not. All of his takes on anything remotely left appear to come straight from fox news and contain such egregious mischaracterisations, misinterpretations, and straight up infactualities, that that they can really only be explained by either malice or incompetence.
I generally love your videos, but this one was especially great. Yes there are sad and depressing things in the world, but there are SO MANY great, beautiful, exciting, and hopeful things too.
Obviously it's their choice, but I feel sad for people when I hear various dismal outlooks on our world and where we may be headed. I choose to believe it can be a great future, if we make it so.
Thats exactly what i realized when i was at university. I really prefer to investigate the bigger picture, the whole network and the meaning behind it. I also realized that "science" is not as factual and objective as everyone made it out to be. I found it be so subjective and kind of bullshit to be honest because its so easy to manipulate data. I felt like the whole idea came from a toddler trying to understand the world, kind of a naive way to relate to the world. Everyone around me in university seemed to be completely convinced of the whole constuct . It definitely made the world better in so many ways but it also isn't perfect, definetly not "objective".
oh Yeah? I’d be interested in hearing how you suppose the universe isn’t objective, pretty big claim to just not back up
@@level_breaded5364 It'd be a pretty big claim to say the universe is objective.
@@xx_amongus_xx6987 so you’re telling me I have to prove that if you do the exact same thing twice you’ll have the same results, do you not realize how stupid you sound
@@level_breaded5364 WTF is this strawman? You can look at the universe and say that it behaves in an objective manner. That doesn't mean the people executing the science, collecting data, and publishing results are behaving in an objective manner. God, you're probably insufferable with how smart you think you are. You're literally arguing against something OP never said.
Immagine then says that a Rib Woman made from a dirt man cursed all humankind when eating an Apple given by a talking Snake with legs
Step 1: convince society that everything "science" says is ineffable
Step 2: pay scientists to say whatever you want people to think
Step 3: profit
Regarding experiments that seem to decide between two theories: even their decisiveness must be revisited sometimes. For example, in 1802 Young's famous 2-slit experiment seemed to decide absolutely in favour of Huygens' wave theory of light against Newton's particle theory. Over the rest of the 19th century, more and more evidence stacked up in favour of the wave theory. However, in 1905, Einstein found that the photoelectric effect needed an explanation akin to a particle theory. This was the beginning of the wave-particle duality of quantum theory.
This man entered his "I'm 14 and this is deep" phase and never realized he was supposed to grow out of it
Has science been immutably positive and have had no negative effects on society?
@@hispalismapping155 I know the idea of something being a morally neutral concept is earth shattering to you but putting it as a leading question doesn’t make it clever.
@@dyer4677so to you, science has no negative effects whatsoever? I'm sorry but everything that exists in life has its own negative effects. science isn't a magical thing that has no flaws or negative effects
@@apple_m2_delight bababooey
@@dyer4677that's a professional response, am I right? lol
"Professional Public intellectual" @ 20:16
There's always a few good laughs to bed had
I have to agree.
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Your videos and your pursuit of truth and knowledge has inspired me to do the same as you. I've now dropped out of University and have started a podcast which I hope one day will be a platform for free thought and open discussions. Thank you for the inspiration and keep doing what your doing. :)
Not if u keep listening to this bullsh*t. Dropping out just mean you ain’t gonna make it through
I like listening to you because you provide me with new tools for my toolset on how to analyze and understand the world.
It's because science has brought us so much nobody dares to speak out against it
Modern technology can be misused very easily by unethical people.
First they go after the most vulnerable people. And then everyone else.
But back in the Middle Ages there was a cultural assumption that if someone did that, they would face punishment in the end. And be rewarded, if they didn't.
So, it gave people more motivation to make the best decisions possible.
Hey man. Few comments about the video. I always appreciate somebody shilling out lost connections. I work in psychotherapy and if everybody read that book I would happily be out of a job.
Also as a whole I appreciated your nuance regarding evidence and the scientific method. I think that you're somebody who uses evidence and truth to justify your belief system and what you share in the videos, and I thought that you were able to balance that skill along with laying out critiques of scientism.
Much love happy holidays bro
Love your content brother❤
Same
Hellyeah I might not agree with everything he says but overall one of the only right wing channels worth watching imo
funny how common sense can just mean "whatever the fuck i currently think is true for any reason". dating is such a funny example to use when our intuition in dating is based off of mechanisms in our brains that have been developing since our ancestors first had neurons, ie mechanisms for ensuring the best mate selection for optimal genetic fitness. Just because we have brains optimized for this task does not mean that they are similarly optimized for intuitive judgements about, say, quantum mechanics or astrophysics. You are making the argument that the natural world won't violate our innate, biased expectations, when the history of scientific development is filled with us getting surprised by the results of well-constructed studies.
Unrelated criticism, but you just said we only use fantasy worlds for pop culture while completely ignoring the massive success of science fiction, which usually focuses on space.
WhatIfAltHist in a nutshell right there
Hey bro, congrats on your relationship with Lord Miles!
Our love knows no bounds
I wonder why on Earth I subscribed yo this channel in the first place. Enough is enough.
I love that he address such taboo subjects and examines alternative viewpoints that are unknown to the general public
I feel bad for all the people who aren't intelligent enough to realize how brain dead this guy is
I would love to see a argument between you and Knowing Better.
I fully second this. I think it would be very interesting and constructive to hear what they each have to say.
Ha! That would be good! The definitive clash between ideology derived from research, and research shaped by ideology.
DUUUUUUUUUDE!!! THATS AN AMAZING IDEA!!! WhatIfAltHist would be like, and then i hiled the Appalachian trail, which was the hardest but most rewarding thing i have done in my life, where i found god and learned that i wanted to be ben shapiro when i grow up.... KnowingBetter would be like: lets get back to your point about how modern america will fall into a massive civil war which republicans will win due to democrats decadance and how that is supported by examples like the Taiping rebellion, the agricultural revolution and the Hittite sack of Babylon in the bronze age....
@@TheBackslash1 Now if only you could tell which is which
I’m pretty sure a majority of Christians currently and throughout history have interpreted the Bible, New Testament and the story of Jesus in a very literal way. Christians literally believe he was the son of god, that he died and was resurrected and that he will come back to bring hell fire and damnation to sinners. The only time I have seen someone interpreting the Bible, New Testament, or Jesus in a symbolic way is if they are (sometimes closeted) atheist/agnostic. If Christianity did take a more symbolic view of its text and stories then it probably wouldn’t be in such a precipitous decline. It’s incredibly difficult to tell a congregation that the world was created in 7 days, that evolution isn’t real, or that gay marriage will destroy society, when your adherents are presented overwhelming evidence to the contrary outside of church, and expect them to still take you seriously. The cognitive dissonance eventually becomes too great and people decide that they are atheists/agnostic or just adopt some type of alternative spirituality that isn’t riddled with incongruencies.
I hope that one day(whether I'm alive to see it happen or not) that passion and understanding, becomes the new "currency" of the world! Though we as a species have a long way to go in order for something like that to happen I admit!
Probably the most valuable thing about Rudyard, is that while these are conservative ideas, he's the only conservative you will find who will tell you about them, without sounding like a 60 year old drill sergeant who is reprimanding you for not having cleaned your boots properly. While not all of them do, a few of Jordan Peterson's videos sound like he is lecturing his 18 year old son for taking his car out at night and not coming home until 3 in the morning.
In my experience, negative childhood reinforcement is almost always a very strong prerequisite of conservatism. The fact that Rudyard is able to discuss this philosophy, again, without it coming across as a reprimand of his audience, is both rare and extremely valuable.
I certainly got negative reinforcement, but it was always paired with massive positive reinforcement. How could you possibly think only one side of that equation being used results in a healthy mindset? You need negative, because the world applies it naturally and you need to learn to deal with the world.
The world is not boring, it has meaning and it is still a brutal place
This might be the most interesting, thought provoking channel I came across on the platform. And I've been actively using TH-cam for almost 20 years
Lmfao
It's a sarcasm or what
TH-cam is only 17 year old
this is not a good reflection on ur ability to think critically and creatively
@@jayantkumar2314 “almost 20 years”
Bro I agree!
16:08 I find this part of the video to be quite strange. "We are the only historical era I know of that views the world as a boring place." What is this statement based on? I feel like it's quite the opposite. People are overstimulated, and boredom is an important part of the human experience. It's part of what drives people to create new things.
You then say, "You can see this in our pop culture in which whenever we have adventure/interesting stories, we put them in fantasy worlds." But then you go on to say at 17:29 "I view the world I live and walk through as if it was a fantasy novel."
17:43 "There's really no logical reason to not the view the world that way." Have you really deeply questioned what interests you and why you're interested in what you're interested in? Interest as a phenomenon is far more irrational than you might think. It's what drives people to choose certain careers. It's what drives people to pick up different hobbies.
This sort of reminds me of classical postmodernism, which is an interesting philosophy you might want to make a video on!
If you've already read Johann Hari's book Lost connections, I greatly recommend Stolen Focus by him. It shines light on more than just social media = bad and even that most people aren't aware of nowadays.
Funny Thing: I am a student of history and cultural anthropology, and today, we spoke about Margarete Mead at university, but without even adressing the critizisms of her work, which I only learned existed threw your video. Therefore, thank you.
I lived in Samoa for a few years & am fluent in Samoan - yeah her book is total BS. They are very very Christian & have been for 2+ centuries now. They look down on sexual promiscuity but it does happen, but it’s not culturally accepted or encouraged. Family values are very very very strong there. If you get a girl pregnant, you’re expected to stay & figure it out, & start your life building your family.
Love these. More videos about ideas please! The althistory is fun but these are priceless 👌🏻
I feel bad for all the people who aren't intelligent enough to realize how brain dead this guy is
@@xp7575 Thank god you are here to dispute his ideas and educate us.
Please proceed to do so!
Thank you. In your articulate, genuinely thought out way you have affirmed my worldview.
I'm glad to have chosen to live in a far off and rural corner of America where my life has meaning and the core of my values is love, respect, forgiveness and gratitude. And my life (as William Wordsworth has said) ....is "bound each to each in natural piety"
Maybe you ideas will catch on. There is plenty of room for others to follow.
i have plans to try to prepare for things having issues too. i might not move out of my town (live in a college town in norcal, only 100,000 people so not too dangerous). but things like backup plans, a firearm or 5, and canned food. of course me being barely 20 its unlikely i'll have time to get all these things for a bit.
At first I thought you were completely wrong and there is no significant negative effects. Now I see why you made this video. You have shown me that all I need is to stop viewing this world as depressing place worth only to progress in science and it won't be so. Not everything has to be perfect and strict like the Iron rule, sometimes all you need is to be happy.
The video topic I've been waiting for.
Wish more people understood this. The idea I had while going to the education system was that Science has replaced Religion as the dominate faith based belief system in the world, since most people aren't and can't be experts in the focused fields of todays society, we "trust" experts to tell us what's important and relevant to us. I continue this line of thinking to say, one day Science will be replaced by another mode of thinking to explain the world around us. Weather it is because the scientific institutions become corrupted or we find something even better at explaining the world around us, I think this change will occur - especially as we evolve with computers and AI. We will "trust" this new system the way most people "trust" scientists and the scientific community today. Or maybe there will be a "renaissance" of the scientific method and the growing problems I see in the field generally brought about by our society's complexly, and that's all that will be needed. Just a comment on a youtube video.
I hope we can, in the future, to use both religion and science to explain the world around us, which is what Saint John Paul II wrote in the encyclical Fides et Ratio
There is projected to be a massive religious revival in the world sometime in the coming decades in response to cope with the great famine that will be caused by the inevitable breakdown of globalized trade and World War 3. It's already happening now as young people are turning to gurus and inspirational/self help speakers which in a way are semi faith preachers, the next natural step is the consolidation of this trend into completely new organized religions or popular return to already established organized religions which will experience theological reshaping of their old textual interpretations and procedures to make it more up to date(relevant) with its contemporary audience.
@@JBGARINGAN that is a very interesting idea. I myself worked in a Unity church for five years after high school while going to college, working AV equipment for church and private events. Can definitely see where you are coming from.
@@DRienecker we are probably heading even further than we've seen already with these mega churches in 20,000 seater stadiums closer to 40,000 with the portable chairs on the field with the giant projectors and stages with speakers, that mirrors the massive cathedrals and mosques of old to a larger scale but the internet has brought about the same volume of knowledge and literacy comparable to the Gutenburg Bible and it will be utilized in that manor as a way to outreach to every corner of the globe. Already the main ISIS/ISIL terror group itself inspired by the original Al Queda and Taliban has created offshoot cells in the Muslim populations of West Africa, Southeast Asia especially Indonesia and Mindinao province of the Philippines, and and as some analysts fear among the many Afghan, Pakistani, and Syrian refugees/migrants and the Bosnians utilizing the world wide web and darker connections to broadcast their propraganda message of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance to incite jihad. Hopefully in the west the religion we create or our return to Christianity will be one of honor and chivalry that espouses duty(work ethic but also loyalty) and rewards good traditional morals. Even a simple spirituality that reverses our current state of decadent materialism and idolization of criminal behavior and a culture of laziness(the chill mentality which admittedly is only another coping mechanism for the craziness of the world but we need to work hard to get out of it) out of control gender sexual promiscuity and liberation which is frankly insane because it rejects actual scientific reality(grounded factual biology not the scientific mentality which we were previously discussing) I find agreeable though I would prefer it be based on core Judeo Christian values among the most fair of the axial age/Abrahamic interpretations when it comes to women and food and certainly more fair than the older bronze age pantheons which created the oppresive ancient slave empires(which made hunter gathering preferable which is why the bronze ahead collapse happened) whilst Christianity emancipated the slaves into peasants with significantly better rights in the medieval European kingdoms(not serfdom in Eastern Europe that sucked but in the west freemen were educated in monasteries, organized into guilds, and elected mayors who could actually stand up to the lords and the abusive clergy[particularly in the German realm of the Holy Roman Empire but also in France and Italy the nobles would become bishops so that their lands could not be divided as much by their sons or seized or taxed by the monarch, this corruption continued into the greater Catholic hierarchy until the papacy itself was bought and sold for political purposes just as the HRE a battle between secular and divine power]) and specifically and progressive Protestantism made those peasants citizens of the modern nation state.
I am someone who has, largely, built their life on science. I've always studied it, I'm an engineer now, and technology/chemistry are things I like in my free time. This video is awesome. Here I see a man who actually thinks. Now, I try to build everything I know off of empirical evidence, but I have learned that not everything can be learned this way. We're human and we can't know everything, sometimes we need to go with what "seems best", or even just make a choice. There are literally so many things in this video that I like and that impress me, I cannot write it all down. But here are a few things:
1. Scientific ideas are indeed completely misapplied in our society. The common people always try to process scientifically, but exactly as Whatifalthist points out, they can't do this because they don't understand what science is on a fundamental level.
2. Many "scientific" studies cannot be replicated. Now, some fields are better than others. But psychology/med seems... dangerously bad. Chem and physics is generally pretty good. And he didn't even mention p hacking...
3. Life is not meaningless (from an objective standpoint). Indeed, in order to determine this via science you need a very exact and physically measurable way to determine if something is meaningful. My friends, meaning comes from within. We create it. What do you find meaningful?
4. Science has given us a great arrogance.
I would also say this: Science should not make us arrogant. Much of what he described is not a logical response to science, but an emotional one (how ironic!). We *feel* like we are better and more powerful because we are confident in our answers. We *feel* like the world is more boring because we understand so much. The reality is, we feel confident in our answers because we do not estimate our errors (more on that next paragraph), and we feel things are boring because we choose to look at them that way. Science offers us the ability to make incredible wonders - and personally I find it fascinating and exciting to think of what I can create with the scientific knowledge and thoughts I have. Indeed, I create some of these things, as I am an engineer.
For estimating errors, it may be interesting to consider how a drone thinks. Drones do not just know their position and have a full confidence in it - they are always estimating and guessing their position, triple-checking it, and seeing how wrong it is. There is math used so they know how wrong they are. It is a lesson to us humans - that we should consider the likelihood and magnitude of how off our information may be. All measurements have an error, it is never exact.
If in the end, you really have no idea what the truth is, and you must make a choice, then there is one thing you can be certain of: you will learn a lot very soon :)
I'm not a religious person. I have no faith. I have tried very hard to answer my existential questions, and not jump to illogical conclusions. It can be difficult. My point there is - I have no motive to reinforce religious ideas, or any political views. I just am so fed up with how nonsensical and illogical our world today is - and that's why I love this video so much.
Thank you Whatifalthist for bringing your thoughts to the people. You are a smart, knowledgeable man, and a good thinker.
Great comment. Thank you for sharing.
I don't think science has given us great arrogance. Most of the time it humbles us. Compared to many other things like religion who out us at the center and give some or other a superiority or victim complex. From an objective standpoint. Whether something has meaning or not is subjective. Science doesn't even make a claim of something is meaningful or not unless we are talking towards a goal we want
@@hopeintruth5119 You're taking that into account of scientist however we are talking in relation to the common woman or man on the street which often see science akin to tribalistic sports so long as we have the best gadget and most money we must be smart thatis the general thinking many in intelligencia meet when it comes to science in general
@@jackhhun2698 what? The regular people misconstrued science a lot. From biology to medicine, from physics to psychology. Ton sof regular me and women misconstrued science a lot. You know the amount of people that say " survival of the fittest" and take it as whoever is strongest lives the longest or gets the food. When In reality it means the animals who are most well equipped for the environment and pressure they are in survives.
You know how many of these " alpha" men misconstrued wolf pack structures.
You know how many sports work out people misconstrued health facts about vitamins, fat, and protein.
You know how many people who are anti- vax don't even understand how vaccines work.
Don't let me get into the fact on how many conservatives use extremely old outdated data to try to conform to their own outdated beliefs.
Computer Engineer here, I feel the exact same ways.
This was probably one of your best videos yet.
Want to reply to 14:08 in support of modern art.
A) Photorealism hasn't gone away. Iconography hasn't gone away. In fact, you can find many many artists who specifically recreate the styles of many eras of history.
B) Of course modern art doesn't look as immediately pleasing as art that was specifically designed to look appealing. That's not what modern art's trying to do. When you look at a Rothko painting, Rothko's not trying to get you to see 'anything'. He might be suggesting something, but ultimately it's up to the viewer to project their vision onto the canvas. In this way, it becomes more of something to 'think to' than a concrete image to be analyzed or compared to a real world subject. Of course the painting at 14:12 is a bad representation of a human. It's not trying to represent a human at all! Whether or not it's a good painting is something entirely separate from whether or not it's an accurate or pleasing depiction of a human.
It comes down to a fundamental difference in how you approach art. On one side, there are people who treat art as a way of stimulating visual pleasure. Perfect proportions (either accurate or, sometimes, enhanced to be perfect beyond reality... Look at how the renaissance artists drew people. They all have body proportions that are perfect resonances and shit), photorealism, and effective storytelling are what these people tend to like. On the other side are people who like art for what thoughts it invokes in them. They may find a photorealistic depiction of something extremely underwhelming if it doesn't evoke any thoughts to them. Of course there's a spectrum between enjoying art entirely for either of those things, and everyone is somewhere on that spectrum, but I hope I've at least made the case for why modern art appeals to people even if it may be 'ugly'.
btw your section on the meat industry really made me think about my meat consumption. I don't think there's anything ethically wrong with eating well-husbanded animals and obviously meat is necessary from a dietary perspective, but I think I'm going to start trying to limit myself to having meat at most once a day, and occasionally taking off days. I don't want to support the meat industry with my money anymore.
Once an institution (in this case, Science) gains credibility, it attracts people who want to manipulate it for their own purposes.
I believe so firmly that this is the "positive discourse", that some people I know that identify as "left" and some "right" really MUST understand in order for us to move forward as a species. This gentleman is making one of the best attempts I have seen at bringing that to a reality. MASSIVE kudos in my book.
My lord your point on fantasy worlds being the place for our stories really hit home with me. I never really understood why I had such a distaste for fantasy and super heros. I just never could really get into them but give me a history book or a dramatic retelling of events in history and im enthralled. In example one of my favorite movies of all time is "Master and Commander" it's not an exact historical story but it is so grounded in our real world history it's amazing. The first time I watched it I went through the gambit of emotions.
i like to create fantasy worlds in my head, although i usually insert moral/idealogical plug ins into, to make it more personal. fun stuff, helps me cope with a reality that i otherwise couldn't cope with.
not the type of fantasy where everything is fine and dandy, but more idealogical wars between forces with unrealistic/non-human powers.
i think lord of the rings is one of the better fantasies out there because there is a whole long message about faith, morality, the limits of ones strength, oath keeping, and more. its not just a fantasy setting, but one with a underlying story of faith and fighting against "ends justify the means"
It’s similar to my love for the uncharted games (from a world building perspective). Nate and sully are complete history nerds, and their adventures stem from crazy alternate history scenarios (tank in Tibetan mammal ice monster village), or say in uncharted 3 where they enter the eventually burning mansion, but underneath it is a whole network of 14-1500’s cave architecture and puzzles that lead to a clue. It’s core game design, real world history, and fantastical elements blended really well into one game.
I think a lot of his conclusions are generally correct… for Western society… most action movies are filmed in foreign countries (US films). I like his conclusion that we rely on science too much and lost a lot of meaning through losing philosophy… but the world he uses it to support isnt one Id want my kids to live in. Overall really like his content as it challenges me to develop my own alternative ideas
Scientists here. I would respectfully say that the problems you're pointing out (e.g., the crisis of reproducibility, strong correlation between funding a study and results that benefit that study, etc.) are with the scientist, not science per se. Your videos are awesome--keep making them.
I’ve become a huge fan of your channel and perspective, so perhaps I’m a bit biased, but….. In my own humble opinion- This is the best video you have ever created!
I like your videos. I may not always agree on all your points of view, but the important thing is you make me think and reflect about them whenever I hear them. It doesn't feel like you're telling me whats what, it just feels like you're telling me what you think you know; great job
thats the best anyone can do. too many people think their view is 100% correct at all time and will fight you if you disagree at all. so yeah, i may not agree with rudy but i can respect a man who is attempting his best.
I'm nearing the end of my Biology degree and we're finally talking about how( at least in the realm of microbiologists and evolution) that for basically every scientific paper written there's about 15 other papers discussing why that paper is wrong or why the people who think it's wrong are wrong. It's fun seeing scientists get into huge fights over literally the tiniest of things.
You should do next "The Negative effects of Religion on Society"
You could’ve published this any day. Had to pick the day when we figured out nuclear fusion. What timing
A great example of what you're explaining here is vegetable/seed oils.
They're in all of our foods and it's accepted that they are healthy.
In reality they're the primary cause for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis asthma, and it's even looking like cancer.
The consensus has slowly been stepping back on blaming saturated fat, but has not quite got to blaming the proper culprit, which looks to be Linoleic Acid(an omega-6 PUFA).
There's sufficient data at this point, and even 2 of the best randomized controlled trials ever done in nutrition point this way.. yet we're hidden for decades, and still largely ignored or incorrect conclusions drawn based on the data because of bias, such as by the Hardard school of public heath.
*_These are the Sidney diet heart study and Minnesota coronary heart experiment_*
Good video
Not many will touch this sacred cow .
I came across these problems in science years ago while studying physics at University.
And more
Even in physics there are “heroes” that lead people down rabbit holes and people spend decades studying the wrong thing
This is the only video on the channel which which I have some beef. You're quoting people that are not experts and are thoroughly debunked (the brain chemistry guy), you're also mixing what science actually is (wasn't established in the video) with academia, institutions and popular opinion. I understand why a historian is more concerned with what the average person thought that scientific truths were than the scientific community, but I think the difference needs to be reflected. If the average joe thinks for example red meat and salt are bad for you - even though debunked by science - doesn't mean science is bad, means joe is kept stupid because neither the media nor the education system are interested in teaching him correctly. If a dictator decides to interpret something in a way and cherry pick the best offs, well, it's him, not the scientist. I mean was Hitler a scientist because of Mein Kampf? By the logic of the video, he was I'd argue
Thank you for talking about Science as Dogma issue that pervades our modern way of thinking. It’s truly a problem.
you should make an entire video just listing the books you recommend, I would actually watch that.
He’s one of the few youtubers you can have faith in
If you check the majority of authors he cites are hacks, plagiarists, and conmen.
@@desdenova1 Who isn't?
Interesting video! Us using the scientific method on too many aspects of our lives could be a good way of explaining why the modern world can often feel empty
another great video. on my way to binge watch this whole channel
I agree completely, the Real World is Absolutely Amazing and Wonderfull and Terrifying at the Same Time!
16:30 People are disenchanted with nature... proceeds to give an extra terrestrial example of how exciting things are.
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