Mathematical proof (that a high school dropout can follow) of just how deranged the idea of continuous growth is.
What’s shocking is just how far our mathematically illiterate intuitions are from the implications, like:
Half of all of the resources that are ever available are consumed in the final doubling period.
Continuous growth at any rate leads to a catastrophically sudden collapse in the resources that feed that growth.A petri dish is empty at 11:00, a single bacteria splits once per minute, the dish is full at 12:00.
At what time was the dish half full? 11:59.
If you were a bacteria in this experiment, at what time would you start to notice you’re running out of space?“Don’t Talk to the Police”
A classic.
It’s not the best video in this thread, it has it’s own touches of style which some will like and some won’t, there are probably even better examples on the same topic, but if I have to pick a general, worthwhile video applicable to everyone reading this:
Why The Political Compass is Wrong: Establishing An Accurate Model of Political Ideology
The very first YouTube video: Me at the zoo
Horses, Peacefully Farting and Snoring
Most fern videos
Why? They’re often a bit sloppily researched. Most videos of them have minor corrections in the comments. I’m starting to think they’re doing this because of engagement bait.
How the Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think by RealLifeLore (2017)
Surprised it wasn’t mentioned yet but Kung Fury
Also the There Will Be Brawl series. It’s Nintendo IP doing a murder mystery case
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqvL8As0lKe3MCLofF8ufXsPIfi1JdZgS
Thursday playing Full Collapse in it’s entirety.
Hell yeah
Dogs! There are some pretty solid cat videos too.
The recent sciencepetr video about ai was good.
