Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future
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Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 372, November 24, 2022
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I'm sitting in my hospital bed at the moment, finished with my first round of chemo. I'm hoping to be discharged and allowed to go home today. Thanks for more reasons to smile, Isaac!
Awesome, always good to be able to go home especially for this day, good luck on the treatments.
@@isaacarthurSFIA thanks, Isaac! It's looking good. Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Stage 4 Terminal Cancer Survivor here 5 years official! You can do it!
Amazing! Very good news story, and further evidence of exactly what Isaac suggests in this narrative, that things are indeed improving every day, including the medical front. A very Happy Thanksgiving to you and to Isaac and all of his followers.
Have you heard about the Chrism oil that is supposed to cure all? Check out Exodus 30, 22-33. Be careful, very careful! It’s a very powerful medicine.
I am very optimistic. I'm certain I am part of the last generation of drug-free university graduates with a military background forced to sleep on the streets of America or in cockroach infested slum apartments. I truly believe that the next generation onwards will be allowed to use their military experience and university education to improve their community while still being allowed to live in a safe and clean home.
"the end is near" is a common phrase since humans can read and write and most possibly can think. and it is true so many species have gone in the history of this planet but there is one huge difference with humans ... we have our destiny in our own hands ... (mostly) ☺️ and cheers Isaac, your "show" is one small part of making this planet a better (and more educated) place in this vastness of empty space called universe 👍👍✌️
I used to get sick (cold, flu, etc) several times a year... One I stopped smoking I rarely ever get sick. It's crazy how bad it can be for my health. Been clean for 9 years now ♥️
Congrats! I passed my two year mark back when I wrote today's episode, and I would say it really cut down on my constant colds, as it certainly did, but air filters in the house, allergy shots, and a robot vac also played a big role.
"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves" - Terminator
this is probably exactly what the title says. reasons were presented. but i think what is more effective at the moment is a series of rebuttals to pessimistic forecasts. i am particularly concerned about pessimistic arguments from reversion to the mean, population decline and aging, and basic skill erosion from dependence on machines
Centralization of authority via tech being able to cut out middle men is also a big issue we will need to contend with.
A tyrant who isn't dependent on an army of corruptable/greedy human goons to enforce their will, but instead using a swarm of drones that automatically quash all desent is a dystopia trope for a reason.
Congratulations on your growing family. You will be amazing parents!
What a wonderful birthday gift. I get to listen to this while I cook Thanksgiving dinner and I got an Xbox series x as my birthday gift. Best birthday in years.
Happy Thanksgiving Arthur!
on a bad day personally, a optimistic video from Isaac arthur... can't look so optimistic like you, but i think your sponsor today is just a small beacon in the coming night of winter....
I'm not from the US, but given that it's thanksgiving, I suppose i could say that I'm thankful for, well, you and your work.
Watching your channel, and seeing everything that we can do as a species, how far we can go, gives me hope in a way I cannot properly put into words. My faith in humanity has always been the most important thing that keeps me going, and your work has helped me immensely in that regard (I've been crying a bit thoughout the video, haha), specially with the things I've been going through for a while now.
So, I wish you and your loved ones all the happiness you deserve, and, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, _thank you._
Thank you for the positive, hopeful episode!
An optimistic take on what is to come😍 Thanks for that🤓
Always!
I simply have to get my Isaac Arthur fix.
Would love Isaac's cat(s) to pop up in videos more.
I just have to ask: Did any other viewers see the dragon-fly-like creature on the opening thumbnail scene as a Q - from All Tomorrows?
I don't know man I understand that humankind has it's right to celebrate the fist step in the last frontier, but this also open door to our very odious being. Territorial disputes, ideological differences and social bureaucracy will invade it and further it reaches...
I am curious whether NAD+ has any real anti-aging effect. I have heard about it now several times, but never looked deeper into it. Does anyone know more about it?
3:05 Here's a missed opportunity to say "Dust and Echoes" (Halo)
“On the one hand, we should be grateful to live in an era of such prosperity and technological might, standing on the shoulders of many billions who have lived harder lives in the past to help us get to this point.” That made me stop and relisten.
As always keep up the amazing work, I really do look forward to these videos
Even more than that, some day, our future sons and daughters will look back on us and say "our ancestors worked hard to give us the easy life we had today" while also feeling like everything is going to hell... >.>
Sadly I think we want to fat on alot of tech and it's going to ruin the future because there aren't enough jobs that pay a living wage and soon the majority of humanity will suffer as badly or worse than our ancestors while the elites only prosper more when they already have more than they will ever need.
Times I get pessimistic about our future but Isaac’s videos help keep me feeling positive! Thank you so much for you content, you help me dream of the possibilities❤️
Thanks Kobe :) Happy Thanksgiving!
@@isaacarthurSFIA Happy Thanksgiving!
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@@isaacarthurSFIA Happy Thanksgiving to you, your wife, and the kids too 😁
I Agree, Both Isaac, and the Canadian Russian Are So Dam Positive, You Have No Other Choice Than Be Positive Too. 👍🇺🇲🇨🇦
Two mottos I tend to live by are "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" and "It's darkest before the dawn". While Humanity has and still does have many trials and tribulations. Through these crucibles Humanity does indeed have the potential for a bright future.
That line about the dirt under our feet being a mountain deep pile of ruin that's been built up and blown away leaving us the only ones standing is honestly beautiful.
It probably also contains literal pulverized mountains, the past was an extremely brutal time, you have to be a fairly tough species to make it to this time.
honestly?
@@gives_bad_advice I live in Normandy, which is an almost island in the North of France with some small hills that used to be a mighty mountain chain ground down by subsequent glaciers on the edge of getting submerged like the rest of Doggerlands by the end of this Ice Age
@@Soken50 i've been to bayeux. had crepes and bought stamps at the post office. then on to the beaches and the American memorial.
There's also another conclusion - we're next
It's below zero, the air in my town is thick with smog as people are burning whatever they can to keep warm, and there's a war raging 5 miles away. So thanks for this, it's important to feel optimistic.
Stay warm, stay safe, take care :)
You know the situation and the human species overall mental state is extremely bad when great scientists started to say ' cheer up gentlemen!'
:) True
@@isaacarthurSFIA big sad moment for human species though give it a 20 years maybe something will improve I always trust on technology :]
@@thedoruk6324 I try to view rough times as getting warmed up in the fire for future forging... though that generally implies hammer and anvil time is approaching too, so that's either a very good or very bad analogy. :)
It was always bad. Civilisation was always more destructive than constructive thing. At least for 99% of species in the world and for biosphere and biodiversity it was, it is and it will be destructive
@@KateeAngel until we master the cloning dna recreation and space colonizing that is
I’m thankful for your technological optimism. Seriously, if it wasn’t for you, I’d still be in r/collapse mired in despair. The Civilizations at the end of time series was mind blowing, and I’m astounded with your consistent quality over the years!
Sometimes I'll go on r/collapse just to make fun of people being pessimistic idiots. Like who in their right mind genuinely believes that a few nuclear reactors going kablooey could take out *ALL* life on earth?
The best formula for balancing your optimism with your pessimism, is an oldie but a goody…
“Hope for the best…. But plan for the worst.”
A perfectly timed video. We face a lot of challenges, but we're constantly optimistic about the future - especially when it comes to thoughtful technology that can help us overcome those challenges. If you have any questions about Ground News and how it works, feel free to drop them in the comments.
How do you evaluate the factuality of news sources? It’d be nice to have universally agreed upon sources for factual information, but it seems like people can’t agree on what’s factual.
wtf is ground news and who cares
I was skeptical (labeling war propagandists CNN and NYT as "left" is suspicious), but I actually found a Grazyzone article debunking the OPCW cover-up in Syria. I am impressed, Ground News!
@@UpliftedCapybara all I got is try your best to look past the bullshit.
Don't let narrative be your guiding light.
Also generally speaking far right and right wing news sources tend to spew more bullshit.
It's just statistical and true.
@@UpliftedCapybara You hit the nail on the head. It's very hard to evaluate factuality because any fact can become a piece of misinformation without enough context. It's also impossible to fact-check effectively in real time and at scale. Our approach is to give people the tools to easily compare coverage so they can spot discrepancies and discern the truth. The factuality ratings on our site reflect the reporting practices of the news outlet - not the article itself. They are calculated based on ratings from three independent news monitoring organizations. These organizations look at the credibility of sources used, the speed at which the publication issues corrections, and whether the language retains context.
Spending life surrounded by nihilism and the popular thought that we are going to be extinct next Tuesday or something, Isaac Arthur's video's are just a breath of fresh air.
It's really nice to know for sure that I am not the only one who thinks humans are going to be sitting around billions of years from now discussing the history of the age we are living in right now. Perhaps we will be remembered as the builders who made the foundations that carried us across the galaxy and beyond, or perhaps not but a guy can dream can't he.
In many ways nihilism is a lazy mental exercise really.
Even if 99.99% of the human race was eliminated that would leave 8 million humans who still have access to advanced technology. Humanity is hard to eradicate at this point. Even the most catastrophic events would have a tiny probability of eliminating more than 50% of the population and that includes nuclear war.
I was nearly suicidal when you posted this. Thank you sir.
Winter can be a rough time, I hope the show helps a bit, thank you for watching :) Take care
Isaac is obviously a mind reader lol. Or at least a comment reader! Thank you Isaac, all your videos usually help me be more optimistic, but a specialized one certainly won't hurt 😁👍
Edit: happy belated birthday!
Thanks :) And an intermittent comment reader, back in the day I used to read and reply to every single one, but after about 10,000 subscribers it started getting unmanageable, so now it's hit and miss, happy thanksgiving!
@@isaacarthurSFIA that's completely understandable, I hope you've had a great Thanksgiving!
It’s important to stay positive because anyone can be scared about the future. Especially that the new media can over exaggerated about war, climate change, pandemics just to name a few about the coming future.
the trouble with media is they know they get more attention by playing on our negative emotions, it's a hard-wired cognitive bias
Bury your head in the sand. Ignore the obvious problems staring us in the face. Replace solutions for blind optimism. Technology alone will not save us. It will not be put to use for the good of all if it is in the hands of those who have sentenced us all to our fate.
I think one of the best things I ever heard was the line "A better world is possible, and it's possible today". I often think of those words and look at the world today, with all it's capable hands and tools at our disposal, and I feel hope for tomorrow.
My friends think I'm too optimistic, but I stand by it.
So, by 2050, 10% of the population will live to be 90. Now, as it happens, 2050 is the year I turn 90. I'm not sure whether I should be optimistic about that or not. I've always wanted to see the year 2100. (I think that's because Arthur C. Clarke once said that, after that year, it was pretty much impossible to predict anything.) On the downside, the percentage of people living to be 140 is now zero. On the upside, if you do make it to 2100-well who knows?
Watch what happens with longevity research. It's quite likely that biological immortality would be a thing by 2050, or on it's way and reachable thanks to longevity escape velocity.
This is exactly what I needed right now. I've been having a major depressive episode these last few days. Thank you Isaac.
Something I think people should also consider concerning the future, when they feel it might be weird, scary, or alien to them -
Humans really stay very consistent in terms of personality, in the things we desire.
An example of this:
Sci fi prediction, 1950: in the future we will all live in homes made of metal or plastic, assembled in spherical or very geometric shapes (ex, Disneyland's house of the future).
Reality: people still live in normal looking homes. Taste in architecture has changed, and homes aren't always built of the same materials, but they're often built to look similar.
I feel confident that if we were to jump to the year 2072, we would find that many things are different. Revolutions in material science, energy, transportation... we'd see crazy advancements in medicine, and changes in society at large -
But in the end, if we looked into someone's home, in their day to day life, we'd still find familiarity. We would find families spending Thanksgiving together, having probably a lot of the same food.
I'm not afraid of the future, as long as it's a future with people in it.
I really liked where you spoke about needing diverse sources of power. I am fond of solar, wind, water, biomass gasification for powering my homestead.
Yes I still need to put some solar in here, given that's its northeast Ohio I've not really been motivated to rush to grab those 'savings' our weather occasionally might permit, but I like diverse power grids
@Isaac Arthur I am only a few hours from you, I am in southern Michigan. While solar can be good, I have noticed that residential sized wind is a good investment as well. For power storage, I suggest looking into server rack batteries for computer servers.
If you gasify wood, then you can run a generator off that. TH-cam has some good videos on wood gas.
It is so easy to be blackpilled these days. With insane politics, the fear of climate change, inflation, war, pandemics, there is so much to be afraid about, it always feels like a welcome fresh breath of air to not be blasted with doom and gloom, but with hope. Roll up our sleeves and lets make a better future!
Very true, and I think I might borrow the term 'black-pilled'
@@isaacarthurSFIA the internet has expanded on the red pill/blue pill metaphor a bit in the past few years, black pills are reasons to despair at a situation, and white pills are of course their opposite. thanks for the white pills 👍
@@isaacarthurSFIA You're welcome to it. It gets used a lot though. So many pills around, a veritable pharmacy.
@@xXx_Regulus_xXx I always wonder how many memes I'm barely catching these days, I still think of the scene from the Matrix. :)
"problems are good things" reminds me of a Slavoj Zizek quote that has really helped me both in my personal struggles and feeling optimistic abiut humanity, "Don't worry, there will be new problems". Its unambiguously hopeful, its like saying nothing is finality, history doesn't end, our struggle master ourselves and our environment is eternal as a matter of our species, and we should move forward with this vigor and confidence that whatever comes our way, we will come out of it.
As a student of history- just look, 100 years ago even the richest people didn't have virtually anything electric, anti biotic , or digital.... just think how far we will go in the next 100...
So excited to find this. A unexpected Thanksgiving gift from my favorite TH-camr. The optimism is contagious.
For the medium to long term future I am very optimistic. The coming next years will be very bad though.
It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I think we as a civilization will have to face the full effects of climate collapse before the powers that be enact solutions that have been available for decades.
Congratulations on becoming parents. My wife and I adopted a few months ago and it is a game changer. I'm sure you will provide a warm, loving and optimistic home for these children. Best of luck!
As a huge fan of futurism, the World Fairs, and Tomorrowland (the film more than the section of Disney, which sadly has not been remodeled to look similar, which was influenced by both), I love the idea of reviving the World's Fair.
I feel that too much of society has lost the sense of imagination, inspiration, and optimism for a better future that existed in the 60s (in spite of the threat of nuclear annihilation). I want less talk about the problems we are facing, and how we are going to solve them, and improve our quality of life, AND live in harmony with nature.
I dare say that development projects like Marina Bay in Singapore show that we already have a template to work with regards to architecture and landscaping (or architect-scaping?), for example.
I think it’s important to keep a healthy dose of optimism about our ability to avert crises, adapt, and make the world a better place, but we definitely can’t look to technology as a crutch. Human action is the key to a bright future, not future technological fixes.
This, 100%
We have big structural problems that need bold solutions. I am optimistic about the future in the long term but so many still struggle to get by day by day. One eye on the ground, one of the horizon!
Thank you for the technological optimism; it's really helped address one aspect of future-anxiety. I was especially touched by the section about self-image; I can only hope society as a whole can one day make it normal, or even expected, to change even fundamentals about one's own body, as the topic hits home with me in particular.
I like to be optimistic about the future. But realistically, even if all this and more comes to pass, I will not live to see it. Even if drastic life extension is invented in my lifetime, there's no way I'll ever be able to afford it.
Hi Isaac! Haven't seen this video yet but thank you for making one on this topic. A breath of fresh air from the common media theme of doom and gloom. Humans are beautiful! Our progress from the early days of life is beautiful and I only have high hopes for where we will end :)
Yasha
"Haven't seen this video yet but thank you"
I feel that.
But there’s a long way to go until we reach the End, a stable position.
I hope to see you there!
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I was prescribed this when I was 15 for hayfever as everything else stopped working and the other alternative was steroids
It genuinely helps me through the hayfever season
There's a lot of people in the world that suffer with some form of dysphoria or dysmorphia, so new and improved body modding will likely help alleviate a lot of pain and problems in that regard. Plus there's the whole avenue of radical self actualization in ways that would make a garden variety transhumanist blush, but that's a different story. :)
The body modding caused state of happiness will soon wear off beneath skin deep.
@@fireofenergy doesn't really matter if it can remove the negative effects of dysmorohia and dysphoria
I don't share Arthur's optimism. Of course humanity will remain. But in the absence of problems, decadence will spread and an ever larger part of society will contribute nothing positive, either because of lack of skills or because of destructive ideologies and living.
Reasons to be optimistic about the future: "Humanity sits on a throne atop a mountain-high pyramid of skulls and catastrophes..."
Strap Grug to rocket and fire at the heavens. Grug is ready!
There are no technical, physical or economical reasons for why humanities future shouldn't be bright, but that doesn't mean it's automatically guaranteed. Indeed today our society works in such a way that a few people profit from the necessary steps not being taken, and technological progress alone will not fix that. It's crucial to keep that in mind.
I think that as more and more people become better educated -- a proper education that reflects reality and a healthy skepticism of what is "100% known" -- it becomes easier and easier to avoid temporary though terrible setbacks. They don't become impossible to avoid, just more likely.
Of course, there will always be unforeseen consequences just beyond the horizon but past experience and knowledge can be somewhat applicable to that as well.
Look at all the caution and care that surrounds genetic engineering. I'd argue that there's too much caution, but I can clearly see where that comes from and it's probably better to be overly cautious that nonchalant. Introducing new species (genetics) into an established ecosystem or potentially genetic population can cause absolute chaos but we know that and try to minimize those consequences. Same with pumping chemicals into the water and air. We now know that that's bad and present and future humans will probably only do so with hesitancy. Same goes for clear-cutting forests, printing money when there is scarcity, using history as mostly a propaganda tool and not an accurate retelling of the past ... the list goes on.
One can pretty easily see how these wisdom lessons could be applied to "new" situations in the future. I'd argue that it's better to start with a somewhat correct assertion and work from there than just throwing stuff at the wall and then having to play whack-a-mole.
It would be such a pity to ignore the vastness of the universe and just focus on our own petty issues. I'll be satisfied that some of my molecules will someday be part of a space colony far far away.
"Humanity sits on a throne atop a mountain-high pyramid of skulls and catastrophes"
-Isaac Arthur, from his uplifting and inspiring Thanksgiving episode 😂
More seriously, congratulations on the kids! What a wonderful thing to add to the list of reasons to be optimistic about the future! You'll be celebrating "Gotcha Day" for the rest of your natural life.
Finally, as I listened to the episode, I kept thinking of the song "Perpetual" by VNV Nation. It's my all-time favorite song, and perfectly captures the theme of this week's episode.
Great video. Also, congratulations on the adoption, Isaac!
Thanks so much Thomas!
"Well that's where we are. You say we're on the brink of destruction and you're right. But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve." - Professor Barnhardt : The Day The Earth Stood Still
Happy Thanksgiving I'm grateful for SFIA
Happy Thanksgiving to all those celebrating, and best wishes to everyone everywhere. May all our futures be bright.
Its REALLY refreshing to see someone actually happy for the future especially the future, it gets tired fast when every future in a game/movie/book is were humanity is struggling either because it caused it or not
I think a future where humanity or sapients are struggling or in conflict is more common due to drama coming from conflict. If you have a setting where intelligent benevolent societies are the norm, than there is a lot less potential for interesting drama. That and most sci fi where humanity has gotten outside of Sol tend to either have a frontier where law and order haven't really gotten to, or have war and politics involved (think Star Trek, or Star Wars). That sort of thing naturally leads to futures where you've got plenty of political backstabbing or warfare going on, or the frontier is pretty rough and tumble.
Hell, I think Star Trek (from my limited knowledge of it) had the Federation look a lot less utopian once we started spending time in it, mainly because they could get more drama out of it than small personal struggles. At least that's my explanation.
@@mattmorehouse9685 i was referencing the thought of human future societies not ones meant for stories
I'm generating A.I. Art that I hope can be used in SFIA videos. Not knowing which video to start with, I googled "Isaac Arthur's most optimistic video" and discovered that this one arrived 11 minutes ago. that's a reason to be optimistic.
Neat, if any of it looks nice feel free to email me direct at isaac.arthur.utube@gmail.com
Vertical farming and cultured meat is going to greatily facilitate rewilding. Earth is going to get way bigger.
I don’t know if you get to read text messages, Isaac, but I am someone who struggles with the desire to end my existence a lot. You are one of maybe a dozen people in this world that really gives me hope. There aren’t too many people that can ignite the world to live in me. The fire in Me doesn’t last long and goes out again and my thoughts turn dark, but the fact that you can even start that flame up, even for a short time, says a lot about you as a person the fire in me doesn’t last long and goes out again, and my thoughts turn dark, but the fact that you can even start that flame up, even for a short time, Says a lot about you as a person and as a spokes person for knowledge. Like Neil Degrasse Tyson, and meet your Kaku, you yourself are one of the greats Isaac. Thanks for all you do. I am truly says a lot about you as a person and as a spokes person for knowledge. Like Neil Degrasse Tyson, and meet your Kaku, you yourself are one of the greats Isaac. Thanks for all you do. I am truly grateful for all you do, and all you are as a person and as a science communicator. Stay amazing Isaac. I look forward to your next video.
I take my cues on optimism about the future from a line in The Terminator: "In a hundred years, nobody will care."
With desalinization, one of the concerns I hear about is that our current methods filter out part of the water, leaving an incredibly salinated brine, which can be ecologically hazardous. How would future desalinzation technologies offset or deal with this? What could we do with all that excess salt?
Typically you either dump it down an empty salt mine, sell it, or just let it back in the ocean, the sheer quantity of saltwater there would barely notice even a billion tons of salt, and the water desalinated from it is going to return at some point, rain or runoff.
@@isaacarthurSFIABrine can still cause local changes in salinity.
The future is NOW! No, wait... NOW! Bah, there it goes again.
Love what I've seen so far as always Issac. Sure it'll be another great video. Just posting to help the algorithim and I'll watch the rest in the morning!
Another amazing video! Happy Thanksgiving to you, your team & the subscribers!
We are living in the best era in history, with unbelievable potential in the future...
And yet pessimism and nihilism (the pessimistic nihilism) is so prevalent, its sad.
For most of my life now, I have allways been optimistic about our future and have allways felt like I was isolated with an ocean of pessimism.
Thats why I am so greatful for this video. We need more optimism (grounded optimism, backed with facts), especially during (yet another) chaotic times.
There's 10x the number of seconds in a day, compared to the number of hours in a year. Thus, according to the old adage "the sun gives Earth the amount of energy we use in a year every hour", we use over 10 seconds worth, every day (and growing).
Some day, batteries will store more solar energy alone than the entirety of fossil fuels. Then there's wind, hydro, and of course, Alvin Weinberg's molten salt reactors 😃
Happy Thanksgiving
Personally, Im optimistic that one day we will have Universal Healthcare in the USA. All the infrastructure is already in place. Its just a matter of doing it. Then we can tackle the concept of UBI. Again, all the infrastructure is already in place. Just a matter of doing it. I can go on and on. And Im sure most of you can also.
Hope is the fertilizer of optimism. Optimism is the tree from which curiosity fruits.
Curiousity, plucked at the peak of sweetness, is rendered via learning into knowledge.
Knowledge enables ability and craft.
Innovation is the result.
Men and women free from oppression are able to fulfill the innovation stack.
This is why societies that enforce, protect and foster Individual Freedom generate and maintain innovation more consistently and at higher levels.
As imperfect as America and its Western compatriots maybe...
This is worthy of being thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving
I have a lot more pessimism about the near future due to the political inertia to doing what's required at this moment in history, but I am heartened by the possibility of a robot assisted inventory of life on Earth.
Boy the view sure is nice from the top of this multi billion year deep corpse pile we're up on.
~The Vibe Of This Video
if we cant be part of his imagined future considering were mere collateral damage to him. why even kid ourselves?
Just coming out(?) of a see-saw lockdown where I live. It's good to see videos like yours at this time. As someone originally born in New Zealand, I always viewed Thanksgiving as 'an American thing.' Living as an expat in a place where many locals looked at me and thought, "You speak English, therefore you celebrate thanksgiving." didn't help things. Even so, I'm thankful for the optimistic tone of your videos.
the title says "Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Future" but the thumbnail has what could perfectly be a Qu.... I'm getting mixed signals here Arthur.
The future we are ALWAYS travelling to, there is no one in this comment section who can say, they're travelling into the past. 🤣
I want an entire O'Niel Cylinder to myself. Just me and my cat and a nice temperate environment with the best ion and radiation shielding money can buy. Also, an army of robots
"You can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time." Unless you live in Singapore.
With the increased diversity described, it may also become harder to achieve a consensus, causing societal paralysis....
We had a sever obesity crisis right after the government declared that hog fattening feed as the optimal diet for humans.
_Love_ that food pyramid.
Thank you so very much Isaac! Futurism is the fuel that keeps me going on a day-to-day basis and it is people like you who help society care about it.
Don't know how anyone could watch your videos and not become an optimist! I was a bit of a luddite before I found you
I find it so hard to be hopeful of the future with how things are now, but this video did inspire some of it in me
The perfect Thanksgiving gift. We may face big challenges but you give us very logical reasons to hope. I needed this video.
A wonderful video Isaac and Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and the team.
I wish I could have half of your positivity. I very rarely get to see the good side from others, and am well past the age to actively make any difference in their or my own life. My dreams were thoroughly dashed early in my adulthood so all I am able to do is try to not make anybody else's lives harder. While think being just optimistic is a huge waste of time, I prefer to call it being be hopeful - preparing for the worst, but working for the best.
Agreed.
I haven't even seen the video yet, but just the title of this video made me smile. I'm going to watch the video now. Thank you Isaac Arthur, I'm glad I'm subscribed to your channel. I am Pure Consciousness, which is infinite and eternal, experiencing life in a temporary human form. 😊
I will always be excited about the future of science even if we'll never see 99.999% of the amazing things our species will discover.
Ground News are no less an echo-chamber in what they present to you in the first place.
So, no corporate dictatorship? I want to be optimistic, but it isn´t exactly easy to trust that others have my best inerests in mind.
So far, grabbing and stuffing your own pockets seems the top priority. That really hinders our progress, both as a society and also spiritually. Those who are obedient and do not escalate are the victims of the tyrants. That has not and likely will not change. If it would, this would be really a reason to be optimistic. But I remain sceptic. It will hardly happen, or if, then only with more violence and dread involved.
Anyway, I am curious about that accent. South Africa?
Optimistic doesn't mean naive. You can be optimistic and anti rich at the same time. End stage capitalism is an obstacle we can overcome if we try.
It's honestly kinda strange, but also sensible, that despite loving science I've always been an escapist. Looking to science fiction and many other types for fun, being disillusioned with the real world, but assuming that in the future I'd learn enough to change it.
Despite some decently fundamental changes to my worldview, I've actually kept this with me to some extent, although, one if the biggest changes was me going from a starry-eyed kid fascinated with science, to a lesserly-starry-eyed adult *actually **_learning_* the science. I feels like every time I learn a big enough new concept in math. physics, and/or psychology, I look upon the world with new eyes... or at least fresh ones.
I see changes around, for better or worse, but lately it seems like so many have reached a state of either defeatism (which is probably the less common one, or at least less than you might think) or some form of absolutism. In any case, they seem to look upon the future as either being there's or worse, even doomed. To say that I've not understood why would be untrue, but I've also, rarely ever felt the same, because the future isn't made, and because we still stand. The people who realize this aren't looking at, or even for a Utopia, but simply looking at what they see to be a legitimately plausible, or at worst possible outcome, and seeing Issac and these followers here really reminds me of how lost things _aren't._ That there are people that realize that we are actually getting better in more ways than we're getting worse.
It reminds me of a segment of a video I saw from another TH-camr: th-cam.com/video/PQAWBeFnkg8/w-d-xo.html, something that reminds me that oftentimes just as much as blind optimism or even more so at times, _pessimism_ can be immature and short-sighted. I'll step off the soapbox and say that I've been following this channel for (I've lost track, tbh 😅) over a year after finding it from Up and Atom's Boltzmann brain video and, considering that this is one of the only channel's I've gone through and re-watched multiple videos after sifting through over 100 videos and content that came from before I had a TH-cam account, I have been quite enamored most-all of this time. I thank Isaac and his team, and his closer fans (especially the one that reminded him he sounded just fine in the earlier days) for all the great ideas and times... And wish you all a great year's end. 😌
Congratulations on the adoption! Wish you and the new family all the best! You’ll make an amazing father with your immense intellect and charming personality. 😊
“What do you think the dirt under your feet is made of?” Best quote ever!
While I'm optimistic about the future gradually getting better in the long term, it's foolish to not see the writing on the wall ahead.
The climate collapse is looming, it's been known about for decades and the powers that be have chosen to sell the rest of humanity out.
The destruction of coastal cities and communities will be devastating. The mass displacement of these people will lead to a refugee crisis on a scale we have never seen before. This will lead to a global surge in ethnonationalism, and authoritarian populism will feed off of this. The increasing droughts will lead to global crop failures. The tropical storms, and floods will get more devastating.
Mass automation will outpace global economic growth. This technology will be held in the hands of the wealthiest few. People will become easily divided by corporate media and compete for the ever shrinking labor market with the mass influx of climate refugees.
This will keep going on, and people will keep denying it as it is happening. Those in power will keep letting swathes of humanity perish until there is a mass rejection of this by the disenfranchised masses. When no one has a job anymore there's no way to pay for living expenses and no way to negotiate non-violently through striking. With a an authoritarian police state there's no way to non-violently protest either.
It will be bloody and terrible and likely end as a stalemate. Dissuaded by the existance of persistsnt insurgencies attacking their supply chains and such, there will be a compromise by the oligarchs of society to implement a universal basic income to preserve the existence of capitalism. I believe humanity will eventually rise above authoritarian dictatorships, and even capitalism further down the road.
There will be a demand to develop ways to reclaim land that is devestated, and this will kickstart terraforning technology. It will be a major societal setback, but I believe humanity will get through it and will be better in the end for it.
at the end of the day. facts dont matter for the normies. if they can find a drop of water in the desert of meaning. they will cling to it for dear life. regardless of how pathetically fleeting it is.
There's optimism and then there's realism.
But a lot of realists are just pessimists. Things can go well.
@@emjakos3548 Pessimism is a realistic disposition to the looming future of our world. Things *can* go well, but they can also get much much worse.
@@grainos5 But, as a whole, quality of life has steadily improved. We do not live in holes, we do not die from common diseases.
Technology, medicine and society in general is leagues better than it was in the past.
The current geopolitical situation is scary, but there has never been a war that ended the world.
The recent rise of fascism isn't the world falling into oppression and anti-intellectualism. Rather, these are the last screeches of dying ideologies reacting against our world becoming more free and equal than ever. In the end, they will disappear like they have been for centuries.
I just wanted to write that down somewhere
Holy shit! I just thought of visiting this channel after almost a year hoping to find something that shows humanity's future in a positive light and found that this video was just uploaded.
Isaac really knows how to put his point of view into perspective for me. Thank you sir, much appreciated
Pre-Video: I'm not usually even remotely optimistic because I fear being constantly disappointed. I spent years being constantly disappointed and desire little to return to that state. Maybe the world has changed since then, or maybe I'm fundamentally wrong on many factors that influence this feeling but I fear I would be often disappointed and harmed more often than I am now if I were to be.
I suspect have experienced many pleasant surprises by having my very low expectations often surpassed(stars above the neighbor returned my greeting, a miracle!) but I do want to hope and maybe this can change that for me because glaring at the whole world becomes exhausting and is hardly enjoyable when one is not being surprised.
Also, the history of humanity at least as I've had time to read it, mostly reads to me as a history of not only diseases and famines but murders (yes my view is murder does not stop being murder when it increases in scope such as in war or deliberate embargo of supplies needed for life)but worse chronic unneeded cruelties on a worldwide basis whose scope has accelerated and grown with increasing contact between humans with vastly varying value systems.
I do not fear the extinction of the species soon but my species' track record on anything other than survival and inventing new ways of killing each other, and new ways of justifying such reads so poorly to me that every act of actual kindness or selfless sacrifice seems genuinely miraculous to me.
I have always appreciated your optimism though and hope I might be persuaded towards it here! :-)
As for 19:50, raw honey supposedly does wonders for people with allergies, especially the spring-time one. Which is also why beekeeping is underrated.
moreso if the honey is local, it's a way to basically just expose yourself to allergens from plants in the area in a controlled way, plus the other benefits of raw honey
@@xXx_Regulus_xXx indeed! :D
Happy belated birthday. This feels like a great episode for today.