It is Truth we all should seek .

So how does it feel to stand, so to speak, on the shoulders of the giants in their own home?

Outstanding, same with your channels. Thanks Tom

And you resisted the temptation to lecture everyone about the historic lectures that took place there. Very impressive.

Congrats on this and many other achievements in the last couple of years.

accurate description of my experience

This! :-D

Same let us bond over our mutual parasocial relationship.

Same thought I had while watching it.

"Came for Tom Scott." ... phrasing... ...but no judgement

it's underneath the suit

Lol

White reflects the entirety of the light spectrum so he is wearing a "red" shirt.

@@No-uc6fg Touché

or gray hoodie

It’s all about how he paces his sentences and how he stresses each word. The way he’s talking purposefully builds up a kind of tension, for lack of a better word

@@cerdic6305 i mean while that might be part of it, i think the most important thing is the content of what he says, because if you don't know what to say, then your ability to pace sentences won't matter

@A Guy: You might hope so, but I'm not convinced. The content of what he says here would seem to argue against that.

Jealous is a bit negetive now isn't it? Try impressed insted;-)

I learned how to do this to an extend with media training, it's crazy how a slight difference in tone can change your whole vibe

That's more than a decade of experience for you.

@@kgb4150 The only answer to the question "How can someone get so good at x?" Practice. The answer is always practice.

Autism. He really harnessed it as a force for good.

It's because he dressed up as a pirate and accidentally won some student elections once

So true. I accidentally clicked on the video expecting a talk about Gödel's incompleteness theorem, but then found myself captivated before even realizing this was not what I was looking for …

Strictly speaking , we are his friends, he is not our friend. I'm okay with that.

@@ICountFrom0 Brilliant, you guys. :)

@@ICountFrom0 one of the harder lessons in life: Friendship is not a symmetric relation.

@@Animaniac-vd5st And non transitive. And that sucks the big one too.

@@ICountFrom0 most shockingly, it's not even reflexive for many of us.

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

@@SeganHealthHacker LOL he's not anti-freedom. Youre confused.

@@SeganHealthHacker you are confused if you think left-wing is pro billionaire.

@@SeganHealthHacker better believe that ya weird then. I would recommend you watching Get Out!

@@luker.6967 It's a broad generalization but he is not wrong when you look at what is considered mainstream left.

I thought that too. I had to check the date.

Where was this?

Because none of the "anti-vax" sentiment before COVID was dealing with a vaccines that skipped all the normal testing. I also don't recall anyone saying someone's life and livelihood should be destroyed for questioning any vax prior to COVID even if they disagreed with them.

@@drdameron999 The pre-2020 antivax stuff was manufactured to get people ready to be angry later on if they ever needed to push a rushed vaccine.

@@drdameron999 The diseases are very efficient at destroying lives and livelihoods ... that's why we have the vaccines.

Son: Dad, I need $45 for Bruce Springsteen! Dad: You can pay your friend back next week. I never though that sitcom joke would become literal.

This is the best comment I've read in a while. :D Cheers for the intelligent laugh!

Thats what I thought.

The Elven Jedi gonna assume you’re referring to Paul Robinson , cause his joke was funny.

@@oxybrightdark8765 exactly what i thought! sad pikachu

@Jan van Coppenhagen Me too :/

helss yeah

First one was better

Tom peaked early with that video, i still love him tho

@@nemtudom5074 1 hit wonder but still a cool dude

I almost wooshed myself.

He's a blowhard. Well spoken, intelligent yet corrupt.

@@DanFrederiksen Why is he corrupt?

@@geammanDW by his own admission, I guess is the joke. Do you watch Tom's channel?

@@arsenymakarov6961 No, I never saw him before. Its just an honest question.

Same here, that exact moment! And the kind you can't click away…

If you want to get less ads, use an ad blocker

mine was half an hour long

@@NatoBoram I feel that suffering ads is my way of paying for the content.

This video had ads? People don't have free ad blockers running?

I was expecting something along the lines of it being impossible to find the objective truth. (The scientific method tries, but it technically only eliminates bad answers) Not disappointed its about machine learning "algorithms" used to curate our content and the consequences thereof.

link?

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

@@SeganHealthHacker mald

@@SeganHealthHacker "jordan peterson" yep the pillar of stable and wise content

He has a bunch of channels and a new podcast called Latent :)

@@SeganHealthHacker Why are you going to every comment then copying and pasting the same thing? Like people care so much about your opinion.

Which will lead you to Computerphille because of his cameos there!

And hopefully you'll find "Citation Needed", which is just a bunch of smart young British men cracking jokes around a random subject. Amazingly funny,.

The UKposts Algorithm always has a plan. All hail The UKposts Algorithm

@@megatrollificus I have fond memories of this pathway.

Thanks Mr. Finland

Same here. This one's been appearing in my recommendations for months.

It's trying to communicate!

@@JontyLevine Mine too. Though to be fair, it _is_ an hour long, so I took my time in getting around to it.

@@AaronOfMpls but you watched it so the video about itself got a point.

And I have a conspiracy theory that UKposts recommendation system has a goal of applying Schema Therapy on its users. :)

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

@@SeganHealthHacker bruh

@@SeganHealthHacker JP became a sold out Israeli Zionist apartheid regime Ben’s employee.

@@SeganHealthHacker Don't write in bold. Your opinion is important, but other people's opinions are equally important. And they deserve an equal chance to be seen.

@@SeganHealthHacker Congratulations. You've created a post that I find so incredibly hard to tell if it's a troll. I could see it going either way. You're either trolling by saying something so clearly satire that nobody should take you seriously. Or your actually serious and that's your real opinion. I have genuinely no idea which it is.

It's also sort of what happened with Nikocado Avocado, where they watched him just for him and the drama

*He's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad. No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

@@SeganHealthHacker, just out of interest, why do you think those things? I don’t think that Tom Scott has openly talked about his views on politics. Also, Peterson (from what I’ve seen) and Scott have very different genres of videos, Peterson is much more political and Scott informational, so is that a fair comparison? I mean no disrespect to you, and you have every right to watch what you want to watch. I’m just interested in the reasoning behind the comment.

@@flyingsheep567 There's no use in trying to have a sincere conversation with someone like this. He looks like a total looney, but you're giving him the benefit of the doubt, which is well and all but.. if he looks like a looney, it's because he is. Go look at the rest of this comment section. He's sent this same non sequitur reply to like 15 other comments. It's not like he's trying to spark up a conversation with it or anything, he just somehow has gotten himself to think that reading this alone will convince someone. It might appear laudable to try to engage with an idea you don't necessarily agree with, but with a lot of people, engaging is really just a waste of breath because they're not here to listen. In this case, this guy's engaging in some real looney behaviour and clearly isn't the type of person you can hold an actual conversation with.

Conversely I mainly watch him because I am genuinely interested in everything he talks about and his style of videos explain it in a way that I can understand.

Yes

For 49.95 you can call the hotline to discuss.

I guess I don't need to make a new comment to say the same thing.

Very parasocial comment

Although due respect has to be shown to the venue, not even a red tie.... I am so disappointed two.

I did not realise this, and now I hate you for making me watch the whole thing again while fixated on his hands. But I will admit you are right, he is excellent at using his hands to subtly emphasise his deliveries and points.

The problem is that's too much work to most people

>we all have a moral imperative to never believe something outright Should've ended the sentence there, to be honest.

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

I don't think the algorithm is necessarily dangerous, and it's definitely not _always_ dangerous. It's also most definitely not what Tom implied with his statements. He even states it as a necessity to deal with loads of information and, in the case of UKposts, videos that can't be dealt with by people. But the human aspect shouldn't be ruled out, at least, that's what I got out of it.

@@SeganHealthHacker I find the topic interesting and find the presentation to be rather good regardless of whether I agree with it or not. However, I'd rather watch George Carlin at least once a week. I think I'll find more truth there!

I know I have an odd name, so it sounds like I’m being sarcastic, but legitimately thank you for your input, and for not just falling in line with the views around you, and holding on to your own opinions; because there are very few people who do that nowadays. Keep your head up and remember that your opinion about you is all that matters.

In the spirit of this video, imma do a thing. "Your opinion about you is all that matters" That same sentance can be either... A very encouraging thing to say to someone in a vulnerable place, or alternatively, a horrible thing to say to someone in dire need of re-evaluating their life. Like a smoker, or homeopathic fanatic, or violently racist individual. Its weird how the tools to fight depression can be used to affirm the zealots of the world. Human brains are strange (and i live in one!)

@@willb5278 You don't live in a brain, you *are* the brain, you're just controlling this body by giving tiny electric shocks to a system of wires that makes the muscles pull or relax.

A hot tip for trying to convince her of truth over vaccines, the falsehoods of some vaccines (homeopathic ones, and ones with decreasing efficacy in just weeks) and the utter pit of detritus that are those essential oil antivaxxer groups: The more you attack someone, the more they will hate you. They will no longer listen to you, as you become their enemy.

@@willb5278 nice thing ya did there

"Somehow" uh, social media companies still make their profits off ads and all of us would like to be making more money?

Lecture was on September 27, 2019. There has only been 1

@@possoumous7266 well 2 now but still very relevant

Yeah it's almost like a problem from only 2 years ago is still around today.

*He's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad. No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

Oh yes. Tom Scott can sometimes have that effect on you. ;)

It makes me realize how people react to content, and how a large part really do care more about people. It sounds obvious, and it's been said many times, but his examples and references were insightful, as they did relate to the non-Internet world as well. I suppose more people get into "payed friendship" relation since social media times, even if they weren't much into "offline" stars before. A lot of communication has became that way, even for people who aren't famous (yet), which is why it starts in less obvious ways. It seems more people are adopting this behavior while trying to make a living online. A danger that somehow was felt, uncomfortable, but had to be heard in a clear way to fully realize.

@@aronhighgrove4100 Of course streaming in it self is a complex situation since the reason why some stream is to actually get friends. That is the streamer also gain a social benefit from streaming and do not expect any donations. Some feeling even bad about taking donations (and some refusing to do so). So the whole Parasocial relationship situation is more a grey scale in modern media then something very black and while like old broadcast media. This also goes for other new media like blogging and twittering where a lot of people do so at start as for social reason. Some becoming influencers later on. And some do it of course just to increase there media presence if there already known figure. On top of that we also have the situation where a lot of people seek out these new media, not to communicate with the Creator, but with like-minded fans. I know that when I my self use the chat function or post function in a lot of new media my comments are not aimed at the Creator but other people frequenting the chat, forum or what-have-you.

Great, another paradox making life worse 😂

@@crazydragy4233 not really a paradox. People are social creatures and we like to be accepted and respected by our peers. So if we think something that we think isn't a popular opinion, we will naturally keep it to ourselves. That's all the spiral of silence is, essentially, but on a larger scale.

@@doctorspockable I meant it in a sort of way that, it's natural behaviour that's hard to go against, but necessary to for systems to work and for everyone to live a better life

we talked about this in a sociology course, too, it's a fascinating phenomenon. It doesn't even have to be a 'loud' minority. People even start actively saying things they don't really agree with because they think it will make them more socially accepted, and it does, although solely because others belief the same. like complaining about the rain. do you really feel a few drops are so terrible? or is it just that everyone always says so, and thus you join in

A lot of people are very opposed to that notion, but democracy indeed begins to fail when a large portion of the population is swayed by populism and misinformation. Suddenly you don't just have sides arguing about how to approach a problem, now you also have sides objectively incorrectly arguing that the problem is of a different nature, that it doesn't exist or that there's a completely different problem which needs attention. And the logical extreme of that is: If misinformed and emotional voters are impossible to effectively eliminate, does that make the premise of the current model of democracy in modern world unrealistic?

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

​​@@CanIHasThisName Every weakness of people is also a weakness of a person. An individual can be swayed with misinformation just as well as ten. Populism is a tricky subject to grapple with, because although it has lead to bad outcomes, the central premises are often true: some people have substantially more power than others, this power imbalance often causes conflicts of interests, in those conflicts of interest those with disproportional power often hold the same interests, and if power is the cause of a conflict of interests, it's often a bad idea to maintain that power. If I had to guess, the reason that populism can lead to bad outcomes is because its a political shakeup which let's bad actors in. Like, imagine if there was a throne somewhere, and that throne gave you some sort of power if you sat in it. Populism would cause people to push the ruler out of the throne. After that, you just have to hope the next person to sit on it is there with good intentions. Let's talk about the misinformation part again. More specifically, let's talk about Technocracy. Under a technocracy, what you would typically expect is that the base system is that of expert appointees. Each branch of the government could deal with what's in their domain, the economists deal with the economy, the climate scientists deal with climate, and so on. They would conduct studies to find out if something is true. Now, what happens if theres a conflict of interests here? Something we forget now that these revolutions have been fought and won is that monarchies were supported in part just because of logistics. These logistics were, in the end, wrong. If a yes or no on a policy would make people happier, democracy will tend towards picking that option. So democracy always has that direct utilitarian benefit. A technocracy would hopefully try to have the best interests of the people in mind, but in the end there is no good particle. If you value human happiness or the word of god or doing the right thing even when it doesn't help anyone, you cant derive that from anywhere. And if the technocrats dont share the same values, you dont really have a good way of dealing with them. If a democratic majority is all it takes to get rid of technocracy, well, the line between democracy and technocracy is fuzzy. If a supermajority is required, all the technate needs to do to keep power is use misinformation to keep a minority on their side, with scientific legitimacy and much more power backing them up.

The problem with misinformation is it is now the norm even in the mainstream. So when we talk about limiting misinformation were actually just talking about limiting extremes opinions (which would be desirable) and second opinions on the mainstream feeds (which is not desirable). I will give an example, all over BBC and other international government broadcasters, which you assume are the lest biased, were flooded a bunch of stories about how rent control in Sweden failed. The stories were a thinly vailed attack on the interest of renters in favor of the banking system. The articles were full of misinformation, not backed by the data, and purposefully crafted to misinform. Sweden's rent control issues are actually better for access and price even in its worse situation than in Canada in its best situations. We have professionals here that not only cannot afford house they are spending over half their income to share a basement in old single family homes. One case was 7 men in a basement two of which worked for a bank. Half were so embarrassed they refused to be filmed. In the articles on how Sweden's rent control failed, they covered a professional new graduate that had a whole apartment to themselves that was paying the same amount as the people in a shared basement here.

@@SeganHealthHacker You express the real issue with social media, that it’s far too easy to find and then focus on those who share your values, meaning you become highly biased and prejudiced, lacking any impartiality. Peterson is equally extreme in his perspectives which, as Tom says, is a win win in the social media circus run for attention span and advertising revenue based on retaining viewing till the video ends.

Surprised to see you here😆👍 Have a nice day!

@@ikkeolve You only replied that because you believe that you are Sl1pg8r's friend 😉

@@misode Oh no, it went full circle 😳

He learned that from Darren Brown.

and got baack literally 3 min before the end of the video

Can't bodge on a Mac.

First thing I noticed.

@@melonduofromage6058 what self respecting nerd wants to own a Mac? Most nerds run Linux

@@MarceldeJong you can totally install Linux on a Mac. More like what self respecting nerd would pay that much extra for the hardware?

@@davidgustavsson4000 I heard that decreases battery life a lot. Like halves it. You'll probably get the same performance and more battery life from anything else that's half the price.

I think its related to their being a short pause at the end of the sentence, and youtube has an ad placement algorithm that tries to not cut people off mid sentence and loves to put ads at transitions in videos. (Which can be annoying, but sometimes it has perfect comedic timing)

scrolled down just after he said that

relatable

@Im this guy's Other account who are*** correct

@@HighestRank 56:05 why are you falsely correcting this - you are not my people

*Liked the comment by a person who is right and is one of my people*.

Wot? Wdym?

@@mayankraj2294 they mean that it might not be true or untrue. But is is definitively authoritative.

Lololololol

First listen. Ill take ya as a warning..

Authortitiv

i think at this point we could plug brady harans channels and the people that are in those videos.

Aki San a lot of Brady’s videos don’t feature Brady himself, and instead feature the experts - Brady stands in for the viewer, asking the questions to help the conversational nature of the video continue, giving that parasocial relationship Tom described.

thats what i said...

Same. Wintergatan and Standupmaths to name a few of them. I don't donate loads, I can't, but unlike some kid streaming games it's original and not self sustaining.

@@woutervanr I especially like The Science Asylum's and Tantacrul's work.

@@WarrenGarabrandt Me too, I think his work is too underrated.

Yea that's kind of what it's for ...🤔

Let's hope the things you are helping to fund aren't the downfall of society. Let's all bow down and praise the dystopian nightmare, total surveillance control grid, total tracking of the global population "new normal", that they are telling us all about, while we ignore and call anyone questioning it a "crazy conspiracy theorist". George Orwell's 1984 here we are.

I like how it was Only matt xD

I hadn’t noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out!

And now this makes me sad because the talk is exactly the type of thing they would have had a park bench video on.

Sorry, not me!

@@MattGrayYES Matt has a laugh Doppelganger...

Oh he knew. It's like clockwork.

UBlock Origin. Check it out...

@@KipIngram on mobile

@@omori3007 Ah, sorry about that. Do help me spread the word on UBlock Origin, though - it's. a fantastic package for desktop Chrme browsers.

Omori If you're on Android, try NewPipe from the F-Droid repositories. Alternatively, the UKposts mobile website is a buggy piece of whatsit and just doesn't play adverts.

right? Mr. Scott deserves it tho, he's credible as all get-out.

the most comprehensive take on any given issue will always be a take on the larger family of issues that it is a part of.

It's much more amazing than that. Tom Scott obviously does not have knowledge on youtubes algorithm (only yt does) but talks about twitter, twitch, discord, reddit, etc in such detail and clarity. The unexpected tangent about the parasocial and its connection to the main story was also so mindblowing. One of my favourite videos ever!

@@hybmnzz2658 l

Yeah, had exactly the same thing...

I didn't, curiously. Maybe your work has already paid off?

Same. Ad served up.

great advice from someone that makes money from ads /sarc

Mine was unskippable, too.

His oration's insane. A little too quick for my tastes, but otherwise a total master.

4:06

5:59 I've found that he's says "uhm" directly after telling a joke during the applause

He's learned the trick of replacing uhms with a short bit of silence.

He said "uh" at 37:46 but it fit in so naturally with the sentence I didn't notice it the first time I watched this.

Mfw I find a relatable comment from 3 hours ago, while rewatching a video from 3 years ago. Yeah the Wintergatan journey has felt like a slow burning disappointment

Markyroson Happened to me too...😂😂😂

gotta skip more. I had no ads for the whole hour

@@g___________v6850 same for me... I guess UKposts realised they done goofed and demonatized the video 😂

Doesn't the uploader have control over that if they want?

Do some research into Adblock Plus and/or Ublock Origin.

I noticed it too

Wasn't he referring to Darren Brown,that magician he talks about in the middle? The one he's stealing the trick of "show something in the beginning then set it aside, let them forget, and then bring it back in the end"? He's doing that: Talking about the algorithm pof truth in the beginning, putting it aside and bringing it back in the end.

Same. I now set an alarm to tell me to get off UKposts in the evening.

@@recklessroges good answer!

I've started only getting on youtube one day a weak... keeps the number of everything down to a resonably number

UKposts has a timer of 2 hours and asks you to take a break in settings

Same. 2:48 here right now...oof.

Well said👍

@Steven Moore -Murphy's Law

I recall that concept dealt with at length in W. E. Deming's great work on Total Quality Control.

Could someone please explain that to me. It sounds profound, I'd like to get it.

@@ulalaFrugilega Some scientists, engineers, and designers may focus so much on hitting a certain goal that they don't care what gets worse in the process of reaching it. For example: many people want black Americans to make the exact amount of money as white Americans- that's a measure of money. The issue with this is even if they were given enough money, that wouldn't account for all kinds of factors that would put them back in lower statuses. So you'd have to perpetually keep redistributing to them taxpayer money in order to make up that racial wage gap that is there. That's a huge burden on the taxpayer. That's bad science. A better way to approach the issue is to find other ways to help them out without outright redistribution. Does that help?

Wow! Really? Is there really much cross over between Scott And the RI?

@@SilverMe2004 It appears so.

What game were they playing and who was the guy?

I don't remember his name, but they were playing Monster Rancher for the original play station, I believe.

@@jamalcolmson That was a game? I thought it was only a TV series.

@@danielsjohnson It was a videogame before it was a TV series.

@@jamalcolmson I think I may have wandered into a world where Pokemon came out on home consoles. :P

The thoughtful reader will now confront the question of how algorithmic probability could have been ignored in the social sciences for nearly half a century? There are a number of explanations for this but perhaps the most salient explanation is the lack of incentives to get at social truth. The Royal Society was founded precisely to separate is from ought questions during a period of religious enthusiasm. We now experience a world in which people have social theories to which the adhere with religious fervor. This has infected the academy.

After watching the rest of the video it is pretty clear that if this lecturer is representative of the royal society's value system the aforementioned religious fervor has infected the leukocyte stem cells.

Well I like his work. He surely did a good work here too right? I'm not in love with handsome Scott, only with his work I swear!

Same

The thing that really gets me going though is did he intend for the photo to come up or did he intend for it to not come up so he could talk about it?

I didn't realize at first that this wasn't his channel in the first place. This whole lecture does seem like it's the sort of content he will upload.

I'm here because I like Tom Scott. Always watched the Christmas lectures every year, same institution, more grown up. I like a good institution :-)

Yeah, it’s kind of creepy how subs and donations work on Twitch.

The best dystopian is real world after all

It's one of those things where I'm starting to think I'm somehow too old to get it. The idea that I'd give someone money to watch them play a videogame is completely alien to me.

@@CanIHasThisName i dont do it myself, but i can sort of understand some of the reasons. After all, plently of people pay money to watch, say, their favourite footballer play, or to listen to a live performance form a singer, etc, etc. the fact that the barrier to entry to playing a video game is quite low is an added bonus, in that by watching a streamer, you can be in the position of listening to them explain their thoughts about a given tactic, or see their solution to a problem, then think "yhea, i might try that", then boot up the game to try it yourself. added to that the sucessful streamers are often not the most skilled players, but the most entertaining ones, ones who can blabber for hours in inane commentary, and play the game with half an eye on the chat. for some, it becomes like hanging out at a friends house while he plays a game.....just done virtually. like i said, i dont watch streams myself, but i can understand some of the drivers. it doesnt appeal to me, but i can see the appeal

​@@xerxeskingofking You almost have a point. Problem is 99.99% of people dont do that, they are paying for friendship and attention. So many streamers wont even talk to you if you dont donate. I personally have never donated, but I see it happen. The subs have this feeling of superiority over non subs.

@@HighestRank What came first: the chicken or the egg? Was it the algorithm recommending this video that brought them here, or was it this person's trust in the algorithm to provide an engaging video? Both contributed, but determining the #1 main contributor of this outcome is all a matter of perspective.

Tho, ignoring an algorithm also is an algorithm and therefore fallible.

The machines learn from us; keep making thoughtful, intelligent choices. We can all help influence how the algorithms grow and change.

What so ironic about this

@@HighestRank Deterministic probabilities ;)

columbus8myhw lol?

@@columbus8myhw You're right, I don't know Tom personally, but that doesn't mean I can't respect somebody because of their talent, and talking directly to someone in comments doesn't make us friends.

He's been doing public speaking and master of ceremony gigs on the side for years. He's used to this stuff.

@@columbus8myhw how would you know who scott's friends are?

It should be noted that Tom has done these types of talks for nearly 10 years. Although 10 years ago he was doing graph comedy for thinking digital.

(ಠ_ರ) Well that’s a grim perspective. That seems to be an esteem issue or maybe you’re surrounded by morons? If you think you’re smart enough to identify the worst maybe use your Boolean logic to identify the best, and associate with them instead.

​@@databang I hope I am wrong but I don't see how we can change course.

databang thus leaving the sub-par majority to drive us off a cliff anyway? Finding ‘the best’ in your example is effectively just locking yourself in an intellectual ivory tower if you happen to be blessed/cursed with a brain capable of deeper thought. If the majority still lose the match for us, we all still go down...

@@TheAcdcninja Sounds like a problem to solve.

Solgato Blogopogo I spend my whole life wondering how to save the world. The only time’s I feel like I might have something even vaguely viable, I’m definitely into supervillain territory.

thank you kind sir

Top job lad

Comment for the algorithm

Comment for algorithm

Helping your fellow viewers - good on you!

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

Lol. "Not paying for that". Haha.

@@SeganHealthHacker Did you understand the comment before answering? Hint: you didn't.

@@k1ry4n Ignore the spam bot copy pasting that reply onto several people. Not worth anyone's time

Some twitch streamers are fun to watch, and some small ones have slow enough chats that you can have actual genuine conversations with either other viewers or the streamer. However, i have no illusions about this being some sort of friendship. Its like having a favorite superstar musician, they provide entertainment and i provide money, and they may even be humble enough to be immensely grateful for their fans who enable their way of life, but they aren't your friend. (Maybe you litterally are friends with Beyonce, obviously she has real friends and not just parasocial groupies, and I don't know you.)

It shouldn't be too hard to find a Tom to be your friend, there might even be a few Tom Scotts around as both parts of the name are quite popular.

@@DomenBremecXCVI Yes, you're right. I'm sure it's even within reason to befriend a Tom Scott who is wearing a red T-shirt.

"I am not your friend" -Ludwig

@@DomenBremecXCVI ok but I live in el conurbano bonaerense

@@gonzalograu8451 try kidnapping one. Your own personal Tom Scott

Keep up the good work fella. Translating is a core component of communication and communication is the key factor in trust between peers, its a very important yet often underplayed field of study and work. I do encourage anyone to continue in such a field of study as it is not an easy one for sure! politely, you did made a mistake in your comment, you wrote "conspericy" when what I think you meant is "conspiracy". You also wrote "theroy" when you probably meant "Theory". best of luck in your future endeavors. Have a good day.

​@@TheSpectralFX Hey anonymous friend and stranger, thanks for being so kind 😊

@@TheSpectralFX As q layman, I am an expert pn the subject you speak of. I could fill several texts with the dynamics of relationships and casual encounters that are created or effectual through communication. It would be from a specific foundation that I've built my observations on. Its something that has always dominated my social orlentation, and I am always surprised that people havent thought about it. I believe your statement about communication relies on an assumption, that the communicating is Truthful and Honorable. That would be the foundation from which I work. Once one defines Truth,the roles of moral principles become easy to see. And a failure to communicate Honorably can easily be traced through relationships to show it picking away at it block by block..... Learning Honorable communication, that is, the spreading of Truth, is a skill, a metaphysical skill of courage, and a necessary component of learning to recognize the Truth, and of living a life of spiritual Truth. Peace

公孙全, I'd love to see your translated copy if it's available. I hope you're doing well and having an interesting time thinking about information, human societies, and truth.

this is a sad comment to see because it only took 2 months for the entire world to get locked down due to the virus

Just like a good comedian.

What a magician

Will the Earth survive such _meta goodness?_ Or will humans merely make a _meta effort?_

*If you really like him, you almost can't see he's very pro-globalism (pro-billionaires), very left wing, anti-Freedom. Too bad... No matter how decent a presenter (even though he blatantly copies Derren Brown's persona, which I like), I can't follow anyone who spreads ideas that are diametrically against what I believe in. Much, much rather watch Jordan Peterson, a thousand times.*

this is a very good point. As humans, we largely function by heuristics, because time-effective decisions are vastly more important for survival than highest possible accuracy (or so I'm told by sources I trusted :D), therefore we often need to identify people we can trust on certain topics so that *we* do not have to research them ourselves. But naturally trust is largely dependent on social relationships - after all, how can we believe something someone says if we don't believe the speaker is talking in our best interest? On the other hand, if the speaker is our friend (or we think he is), that part at least is taken care of. Obviously the problem here is that this very basic idea doesn't work if we believe someone to be our friend when he's actually not, which is often the case for these kinds of relationships. Naturally, the speaker could also earn viewer trust by demonstrating sound research principles, or good ability to argue their beliefs - but I can also say I wouldn't watch someone I don't like (because of any personal information I've acquired on them) despite those things being there.

This is a solid point. I feel this a lot when Hank Green vents about people needing to trust experts more (regarding climate change, usually, but also medical science). And I always think, "what are those experts doing to earn my trust? What are they doing to repair trust that has been broken?" Hank sometimes comes worryingly close to arguing that someone who is an authority figure is inherently trustworthy until proven otherwise, but that belief has obviously been shaped by his status (socioeconomic and otherwise): legal authorities, for example, tended to treat him with basic human decency and give him the benefit of the doubt. Political leaders and government authorities make laws prioritizing the wants and needs of people in his categories. Other people have learned from personal experience to distrust authorities until proven otherwise. The question of, "how can I earn and repair the trust of the public?" is a serious one, and it can be answered ethically or unethically. But it the problem won't be solved by people who hold "the public" in contempt.

I wish there was someway to save comments like yours from UKposts

​@@Joe--Thanks! You can always screenshot it or copy/paste, I suppose. Sorry I uh... don't really have anything else to add to these responses!

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im confused he was talking about anti vaxers before covid? the first covid cases were in november 2019 this was uploaded in october

​@@fullsendit292antivax isn't a new thing, although it started going haywire in 1998.

Twice, no less.

tom scott probably timed that on purpose knowing him i got the same one too

he said as much, "you choose which way you fall"