I am from a third world country Bangladesh. I wake up every morning knowing that the rest of the day will be extremely painful. I work 16 hours a day restlessly and barely able to pay the bills. Life for me is all but misery. Still it breaks my heart knowing that I will not be alive to see the first interstellar ship that will reach another solar system. I am eternally grateful to you Isaac, for continuing this amazing channel.

@Jeda_Tragumee

11 ай бұрын

I feel so sorry for you. I am living in England and I hate to say this, but I feel very lucky to be born here. I wish that one day, your country may prosper in the future, and the living standards will increase. But sadly, I think this might not be the case as there will always be people who only want power for themselves and keep the rest of the nation in poverty. Hell, maybe, the UK might be a hell hole in the future. Maybe, the UK becomes a dictatorship. But we will never know. All I can hope for myself and you, is that we, and the rest of Humanity can prosper, and have a better future for us and the next generation.

@GDHMcKinsey

11 ай бұрын

I am from Bangladesh too. I live in Dhaka and I am grateful for the privileged life I have. I also took some effort to construct it in a certain way. I think mindset matters a lot. And Isaac's channel definitely is a prompt to that. Be optimistic and make small changes happen. :)

@ebonaparte3853

9 ай бұрын

@@Jeda_TragumeeDeveloping nations will eventually become prosperous. They’re called developing for a reason.

@KKk-qi9vx

9 ай бұрын

I hope one day, your country will have everything that it needs and not only needs--but wants. I hope your country thrives, I hope all countries thrive one day. I hope all of our countries can work together and collaborate and contribute on projects! Don’t be so sure! Let hope keep getting you up in the morning❤

@georgewilliamlyngdoh1973

8 ай бұрын

Yea I just want to know if there's other lifeforms too beyond our planet so I can die in peace knowing the answer. Too bad I won't live long enough to witness the first contact. Btw I'm from Meghalaya, your neighbor.

8:52 Who would've thought that the most horrifying thing 300 years from now would be that draconian homeowners associations still exist? Truly dystopian.😳

In 2323, I would definitly be the “back in my day” guy

@mikeohawk95

9 ай бұрын

50% of the pop may be

@arlenegrundy7671

9 ай бұрын

Nice...

@apricotcomputers3943

9 ай бұрын

You'd just be a head in a jar, that was resurrected by an AI bot. That a 5th grader summoned for a science project, who wanted to see what life was like in the pre-historic, pre-world war 3 era, pre-nuclear fall out earth, "age of war".😮

@mikeohawk95

9 ай бұрын

@@apricotcomputers3943 like matt groenings head museum form futurama

@apricotcomputers3943

9 ай бұрын

@@mikeohawk95 EXACTLY!!!!

The League of Home Owner Associations is the most dystopian idea I've ever heard, great fiction fuel and nightmarish realistic future-reality!

The fact that they live in an HOA makes this a dystopia.

In the year 2323, Isaac Arthur celebrates the release of his 2000th episode. His fans celebrate with him at a virtual party and symposium, and the comment section is filled with those who reminisce about episode 400 and how much he got right so far in the past 😊

@tomsmith4542

11 ай бұрын

1600 / 300 = 16 episodes every 3 years? u are not so optimistic then

@comentedonakeyboard

10 ай бұрын

​@@tomsmith4542he had a bit of a Burnout and a few of the world wars in between distracted him😂

@Synchbit

10 ай бұрын

If my calculations are right, it should be episode 160000 at the current rate

@comentedonakeyboard

10 ай бұрын

@@Synchbit including the shorts?😂

@connorwinton4343

8 ай бұрын

We better start aging the wine

Cant wait to watch this one in 2323 with my self replicating nanobots giving me the 10,000 complete iteration of myself and commenting, only 2000s lifeforms remember this banger 😂

My favorite KZreadr. You're like the Beethoven of KZread, having worked through, and overcome a not insignificant hurdle for a podcast/lecture style content creator, and create masterpieces of the art, inspire countless people, and have earned tremendous honors in your field.

@drew388

11 ай бұрын

why?

Episode 400 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉, I can't wait for what's in store for me this Arthursday😅

@theorize999

11 ай бұрын

Is it really? Wow I’m impressed I though5 I was a real fan then you came along

@CharChar2121

11 ай бұрын

400!? Gosh, I just love it. I've been here since almost the beginning and I love that there is always something new to learn.

@mclovin6039

11 ай бұрын

St Arthur bless us all

@stanleydavidson6543

11 ай бұрын

A lot of this is unworkable and crazy 😅

@stillill10000

11 ай бұрын

Del

I need a "Day in the life of" playlist from SFIA. Episodes like this one and Ceres are my favorites.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

You gave me the idea to make a C playlist of videos significant to Christian ethics and apologetics. I think I will

@richardavery2807

10 ай бұрын

GODSPEEED

There's a lot of chaos, unrest and injustice in the world, quite a lot to be upset about, and rightly so--but this channel keeps my hopes for the future alive. Thank you, Issac, and congrats on episode 400!

@NakedProphet

11 ай бұрын

Fantasy and escapism.

@jasonkinzie8835

11 ай бұрын

@@NakedProphet How is it fantasy if his predictions don't violate the laws of physics? He could be wrong in his predictions but the onus is on you to explain why they are impossible.

@Sara3346

11 ай бұрын

If we are rid of prejudice or at least heavily shackle it we can go very far.

@bbbf09

11 ай бұрын

Humans are - as science has proven - inherently optimistic by default. Unfortunately reality isn't. Hence the increasing chaos and unrest.

@jynx3978

11 ай бұрын

@@jasonkinzie8835 mind uploading violates laws of physics

What a ride.... most people I talk to, don't give a shit about things you envision. Most "trolls" online can't think beyond their fancy cars or the latest fashion trends. I am very happy to see that you number of subscribers unstoppably moves towards a million. And until 2323 you sure reach a billion ;)

Episode 400?! Didn't we just congratulate you for episode 300? Well done Isaac, keep up the fantastic work - ❤

@oldkid8811

11 ай бұрын

just means we are all getting old together

@jasonGamesMaster

11 ай бұрын

​@@oldkid8811getting older is preferable to the alternative, I always say.

@chriscuthill1905

11 ай бұрын

​@@jasonGamesMasternot for much longer...

@PazLeBon

11 ай бұрын

@@oldkid8811 lmao shhh

Episode *400* !!! Congratulations Isaac and the entire SFIA community!!! What an amazing channel and group of people we have supporting it. Onward to episode 500 and 1M subscribers!! 💫🙏🍻

@mrt1957

11 ай бұрын

I had to stop listening because his narration is so calming I always fall asleep. I hope when I die I wake to this man telling me my journey has just begun, grab a drink and a snack.

@js70371

11 ай бұрын

@@mrt1957 hahaha!! As do I my friend!! If it wasn’t for Isaac Arthur and John Michael Godier I think I don’t think I would get half the quality of rest that I do at night! 🙏💫😴🍻

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

@@js70371 That is a standing joke with me and John, what percentage of our audience falls asleep listening to us and whose is higher :) One of our staff at Nebula messaged me to check if it was okay to add my show to the recommended watching fro those trying to fall asleep, in case it offended, I told him I'd been proudly curing insomnia since 2014.

@dingo4530

11 ай бұрын

Next stop, 500 million subscribers!

@schm00b0

11 ай бұрын

Here’s ‘food for thought’: Instead of imagining possible science for future centuries, maybe we’d be smarter thinking of a way to fight for a world that gives most of the people a livable planet, food for everyone, renewable sources and greenest storages of energy, as much transparency in politics and the working of the governments as possible, least inequality possible, progressive taxes, no misogyny, no racism, no ableism, no homophobia or transphobia, no prejudices toward people different than those that represent the privileged majority, free education for everyone, free medicine for everyone, free housing, transportation and Internet for everyone, a functional infrastructure, reparations to those affected by settler-colonialism, imperialism and ‘free-trade’ capitalism (neoliberalism), least possible working hours, etc… And when I talk about everyone, I talk about the whole world. Not only the ‘global north’. While it’s nice daydreaming about the future, why not do it in a way that imagines a better world for everyone? What I’m trying to say is that you can’t imagine a realistic future if you’re ignoring all the stuff that’s wrong in the present. The technical stuff isn’t the problem, nor is it a solution, as long as the overall system guiding everyone is monstrous. We should strive for Star Trek or The Culture, not Blade Runner or Mad Max.

Your episodes like this where you talk about everyday life in the future are some of the best. It’s great to talk to things like megastructures in isolation, but it really grounds things when you discuss how individuals live and work in those situations.

After all these years, these videos remain my most consistent source of hope, awe and inspiration. Cheers and thank you, Isaac 🫡 🍻

Hell, can you please do more storytime style entries? I love the regular content immensely, don't get me wrong, but you're painting such impressive scenes in my head! I will buy a book from you now xD

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

It was really great frameworking. Minus dialogue, it read like the first chapter of an exciting book. And of course, by necessity, more exposition than demonstration

@Zarcondeegrissom

11 ай бұрын

I do miss "the traveler" stories from the early outward bound series, and the crew of Unity from the early life in a space colony series. I'm not sure if the story is vague enough that we can just imagine ourselves being there, or if it is just short enough snip-its that we can fill in the rest with our own ideas based on our experiences. I also do agree it's a nice fresh slate without plot contrivances or evershifting clark-tech magic just to progress a storyline. maybe someday, the SFIA plot ideas may be considered the 'new steampunk era' of a sort, with no FTL or unobtanium, just good old-fashioned reaction drives and sub-light travel.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@Zarcondeegrissom clarkepunk

@charlesmcdowell9436

11 ай бұрын

I'm into this type of stuff, too. Check out my book and let me know how I'm doing.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@charlesmcdowell9436 is it read by an AI, did you hire a voice actor, or is that your own voice? Leaning toward ai because of how it paused at commas. Andit mispronounced cradling. As for the writing, it's uninspired. Of course that's based on the prologue alone. Got nothing else to do so I'll listen as long as i can before giving up. I have not read widely in sci fi books, so my frame of reference is limited, but my main criticism of the prologue is that it feels like a 4 year old smashing two action figures together. It failed to make an impact and sounded like it was trying to copy a sci fi battle the author had seen but not understood what had made it exciting. It was also very bare bones in how it described the scene, making it easy to tune out and drift off. Lots of questions could be asked, like why the captain would have to stay with the ship while everyone else could make it off, why they decided to fire everything, why they didn't detect the object until seconds before impact, and the almost half dozen maybe more references to the Nexus, which came across like cheap advertising, just telling me what the author subconsciously thinks is important, but neglected to convince me, and violating the "show don't tell " rule of exposition. What i mean by my frame of reference -- you should buy The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund, which has genuinely exciting space combat and exposition. Worth drawing inspiration from. The interpersonal storytelling was better, primarily in the structure. Not terribly cringe in the narration though the dialogue frequently made me roll my eyes. That might be because i have very little interest in teenage high school drama stories and, well, that's pretty much ALL you've got in the first video. The plot beans down as follows: - dad dies due to unknown object - boy talks to mom about dad and schoolwork - boy encounters bully. - girlfriend intervenes - boy casually talks to girlfriend - boy gets beaten up by bully - girlfriend and mom praise/feel bad for him, and he feels more confident Super low stakes and scope. Between the television adaptation of the shannara chronicles and Lord of the Rings, you're making the former. If you want to make an unserious work of art, establish a teenage love triangle from the get go. Your epic adventure will be contracted down to that one dimensional aspect and cease to be epic. As for characterization, it's pretty weak. I highly recommend you listen to The Critical Drinker's video "The Drinker Fixes:Rey/Luke Skywalker" And then listen to this video by Isaac again and then your own video. You'll see that you're missing a lot that you could easily provide to make your characters more compelling. So far i know the boy is weak, in high school, bullied, got a not-girlfriend girlfriend, likes space, wants to be a pilot, and maybe doesn't know much about his mom's past or interests 🤷. The girlfriend used to date his bully, she's impressed The boy stood up to him, she gets in the face of the bully and plays rugby, so she's mannish. All we know about mom despite that you introduced her first is that are retained some Astronomy knowledge from school because her husband would talk about it. We know hardly anything else about her. Your narrative is third person. You can tell us the mindset of characters without them having to say it, although since that easily becomes a tell don't show violation, you might just have to let some things be unsaid on the moment id it comes across wooden. You want a great example of agar I'm talking about? Watch the first 20 minutes of the absolutely horrible fan made Maximum Ride movie.

Loved the storytelling and world building of this episode. Big and creative in a way only you can be. Congrats on reaching Episode 400! Here is to 400 more!❤

@dannytourigny9403

11 ай бұрын

Here's to watching episode #40400, 400 years from now!

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@benjigeez who needs world anvil when you can just listen to Isaac’s library?

It would be very funny if Issac, who throughout this whole episode is like "I don't know the future, I am essentially guessing. I am prepared to be wildly off," is just dead on.

The bit about cells and DNA being a proof of concept for self replicating nanobots points to an underrated and underdiscussed revolution in science that's happening right now, in the form of microbiology, both medical and environmental, and biomolecular science. Rather than creating inorganic nanites, DNA nanostructures and deisgner proteins and synthetic cells could be the way of the future. But as a microbiologist I am biased XD

@virutech32

11 ай бұрын

we will probably have modified organic nanides before we have fully synthetic ones but it's unlikely that biology is the global maxium of micro/nanoassembly

2323: I live on a minor unnamed planet out in the Kuiper belt. I had moved to Mars in the late 2050s or early 2060s (I built a hab in 56, but didn't move in outside of virtual visits via remote controlled Android until 2063) after living on an Earth-Mars cycler as the mechanic for three loops. Shortly after that I had a genetically optimized clone made, had myself optimized, and raised my son as a single father. Though he did have an android nanny, so that might not count. But when, in the 2280s Mars became far too urbanized for my tastes, I bought a small rotating hab that used to be a mine out in the Kuiper Belt and moved out there. I still tune into Isaac Author's weekly broadcasts, though, and have all of them downloaded into my station's library along with lectures on every subject that interests me.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Your 2050 estimate is too optimistic. I be the first self sustaining settlement (not dependent on earth supplies) will be post 2070. Post 2150 if blackrock wins and enslaves a generation

@MyFirstHandle

10 ай бұрын

What about living in the darkness of interstellar space can you do it? I wonder if there are sci-fi natural ghosts out there.

@cosmictreason2242

10 ай бұрын

@@MyFirstHandle yes easily and absolutely not

@ancapftw9113

10 ай бұрын

@@MyFirstHandle don't have to worry about darkness as long as my fission reactor keeps running.

@ebonaparte3853

9 ай бұрын

Love this!

The AI generated visuals are refreshing and improve the visual experience a lot. Imagine what you could do with text to video when that gets better.

@FLPhotoCatcher

11 ай бұрын

There will come a time when the videos by Isaac will be made into a fully fleshed-out movie by AI. Next will come the time when inhabitable virtual worlds will automatically be made to match a specific episode. Isaac will then not be predicting the future, but *creating* the future.

@Kainlarsen

11 ай бұрын

A.I visuals always look cold and soulless.

@cedriceric9730

11 ай бұрын

I can't wait I just cant

@TheDefender123Plays

11 ай бұрын

Idk I would disagree that they add to the videos.

@rommdan2716

11 ай бұрын

Honestly I wish Isaac just hire an artist.

You certainly can’t complain about an inconsistent upload schedule on this channel! Here’s to the next 400 episodes!

This was a GREAT episode, and definitely one of my favorites in a while! I appreciated the narrative structure here--that was quite entertaining and fascinating. I'm constantly amazed how you are always so creative with the scenarios you can think up, especially with these types of episodes. It definitely gives me something to think about for my writing (I got a new idea right now from Cameron's family ranch, actually!)! :D Here's to another 400 episodes, Isaac, and I will see you for the livestream on Sunday!

Congrats on 400 episodes 🎉 that’s damn impressive

Congratulations to the whole SFIA team and contributors. Thanks for the ponder fuel

one thing that stands out to me, and that I don't know if it will be true, is that the worldbuilding in these implies the future will have a high demand for human labour

I love this channel it is by far my favorite! I’ve learned so much over the years and always look forward to new episodes and always rewatch older ones. As someone who enjoys content like this it is truly a blessing to behold what comes into fruition every week! Thank you Isaac Happy 400th and cheers 🍻 to 400+ more🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🤘

Ever considered a video on exotic or even hypothetical matter? Orionsarm had magnetic monopoles and a slew of technologies derived from them, like reactors that caused baryon decay of ionized matter to produce energy.

@mostazapistacho2131

11 ай бұрын

I think he did that in the meta-materials video

@godsfavoriteheathen4700

11 ай бұрын

@@mostazapistacho2131 I’ve seen that video. Didn’t notice much about exotic matter

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

We have another called Upcoming Advances in Material Science kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYR3z9SHcb3UeKg.html We've considered more but it's been on the backburner for a while, I probably should add it to the image poll list.

@godsfavoriteheathen4700

11 ай бұрын

@@isaacarthurSFIA yea, that’s more along the lines of magnetic monopoles. I just really enjoyed your video on dark matter, which was actually a bit more expansive than the Orionsarm website was

@Valchrist1313

11 ай бұрын

​@@isaacarthurSFIA Can you look in to the US military's claims of having created a 'nano-aluminum' that perfectly converts water to hydrogen at 100% efficiency with no added energy, which supposedly works in even the dirtiest water?

Hahaha The 'gross' joke totally cracked me up for some reason. Congrats on ep 400!

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

Its borrowed from Tolkien as a bit of shout out to half elves and numenorians :)

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Can’t believe I missed it

Your cannel I have been searching for. One of the only people talking about this stuff. I absolutely love it. Thank you!

thank you mr. arthur i remember requesting this a few months ago and couldn’t wait until i saw this in my recommended. this is exactly how i envisioned it. the individual lives you created is perfect. bravo!

that intro 10 seconds describing living my whole life in a village and knowing nothing outside it sounds really nice.

@MogofWar

11 ай бұрын

Kinda goes full circle when it gets to the band of misfits crewing the ark ship...

@Lady_Flashheart40

11 ай бұрын

Depends on the village

When I heard Isaac use Oskalossa as an example I thought: "Cool! That's in my home state!" Congratulations on 400 videos Issac!

Congrats on 400 episodes! Coolest lore audio book I've listened to for a long time!

Isaac, I've been watching your show for a long time and they just keep getting better and better. Thanks for all your inspiration.

Love your work Isaac! Congratulations on making 400 episodes!

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

That calorie dense greenhouse that Cameron's family runs is exactly what I'm looking forward to constructing. I have hardly ever heard anything like it mentioned except on this channel. You'd think that U.S. farming communities would be discussing that kind of thing by now, but I've not heard a single peep from Texas to Missouri to Wyoming.. I hope to get started on designing and property acquisition in the next decade, and getting to prototyping within two decades. Building the supporting businesses to fund the project will take some time.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Just build a normal greenhouse quonset and place reflective mirrors around it to amplify the amount of light hitting the plastic because it will scatter it inside so it’s indirect light, the direction it comes in doesn’t matter quite so much. This will do for an initial test. Don’t forget your control (Quonset with no mirrors) and standard (plants in and same location with no greenhouse structures, and with and without sprinklers). Publish your results and make KZread shorts. As for sustainability, consider making that plants be flowers that you can then sell. That also allows you to compare the profitability of the greenhouses for extra data points. After this branch out into crops. Suggest lettuce and celery, not potatoes and corn right away)

@draidiansfather3382

11 ай бұрын

You're forgetting livestock. Our livestock burns enormous numbers of calories keeping warm in winter and looses weight to hot summer days. How much more efficient would they be if they never suffered extreme temperatures... how much less fuel would you burn if you didn't have to put up hay... the climate control could greatly shrink the heavy farming equipment industry.

@draidiansfather3382

11 ай бұрын

These greenhouses are not just for plants and crops. They can house fish hatcheries, aquaponics, meat herds, tropical fruits.. position your structure at the currect depth, with appropriate thermal control and you can house any environment you want. The issue is that some few people have done tropical greenhouses on a small scale and make bank on it, but their produce is not something the average person can afford escept as a treat. My goal is scale. This needs to be a superior method of large scale farming, and doable on a large scale. Right now, I know of no system that can handle a herd of cattle.. I aim to change that, if nobody does it first.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@draidiansfather3382 but you need proof of concept to generate investment

@MyFirstHandle

10 ай бұрын

Hey, I was the one spreading this kind of story of mine on Wattpad called "Life in the next 5 Centuries" I published it on Nov 2022 and I start spreading this idea in the comments section. I'm happy to see a video like his existing now. I'm not a big fan being responsible of being a fame and I like someone can do that for me and they get all the credits. My story is mostly about longevity and assisted reproductive technology. I made that story to focus away this overrated predictions about robots, AI, and flying cars.

Just found your channel and I am now obsessed and fascinated with your videos. I'll be binge watching you!! You gained a new subscriber today! Can't wait to see what more your channel brings to me!! I absolutely loved this story. And the visual effects go so perfectly. Amazing job!! ❤️❤️

Well if any of us are still around by then, I think we should get together and make plans in 2323 to have a viewing party of this video and see how well it held up. Potluck!

I wouldn't mind looking like a seven year old at the age of 140

@springbloom5940

11 ай бұрын

Looking like a 7 year old, means you have the physiology of a 7 year old. You probably don't recall, but being 7 had more cons, than pros.

@user-qi6pv9jh7o

11 ай бұрын

Thousands wouldn't mind someone looking like 7yo at the age of 140 Though technology to make 7yo look like 30yo would make human trafficking wider

@UpperDarbyDetailing

11 ай бұрын

There are so many questionable things in this thread...

@springbloom5940

11 ай бұрын

@@UpperDarbyDetailing Well, 'user' doesn't seem to understand why someone would be interested in a 7 year old... which I guess is a good thing 🤨

@electroflame6188

11 ай бұрын

@@springbloom5940 nothing that can't be solved with cybernetics

Episode 400 :) it’s incredible, just how long and enduring your creativity, and the well-meaningness and growth of the community endures - this channel really is something special - congratulations, SFIA, I hope you make it to 2323 with the rest of us ♥️

Such an incredible video and amazing milestone, CONGRATULATIONS on your video and marriage! Looking forward to many more! 🎉🎉🎉

Wow! Episode 400! I found your channel around episode 100. Seems like yesterday. Congratulations and looking forward to seeing your 1000th show air. It'll probably be about some great new invention of science that hasn't even been thought of yet!

Gary’s tale was the perfect way to close out this great episode.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Sounded horrifying. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

@@cosmictreason2242 You're welcome to interpret it that way, these guys aren't meant to be heroes just thought-stimulating vignettes on differences that the future might have, not necessarily positive or negative, but that's not the written intent with Gary. He wouldn't be viewing it as suicide but a life-threatening gamble to save friends and an endangered colony ship full of thousands, if it kills him and replaces him with a copy that has all his same personality and knowledge to help them, he'd view it as a regrettable but acceptable outcome as the character is supposed to be illustrating the AI who exemplifies humanity in an effort to strive to be one, and he explicitly is supposed to be on the fence on if this sort of transfer is imperiling his life or identity. He is envisioned as transfering his brain one bit at a time from digital to an interwoven bunch of artificially grown neurons, he's not copied on some vegetized human, the character is loosely built off a mix of pinochio, Data from TNG, and the bicentennial man, he'd find body-snatching someone horrifying, but I'd also imagine many folks would worry that was what he'd done and could potentially be right too. But then they might assume the AI transferred onto the existing human eventually eroded and the human emerged. Again it's meant to stimulate thought not illustrate utopia :)

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@isaacarthurSFIA and I do appreciate it. My explicitly theological pondering is an extrapolation from what I’ve gleaned from your videos and considered in light of mind-body dualism. While I gather that you’re not Christian and your decision to avoid vague judgments on different religious views is deliberate, I had you pegged early on as someone who had a catholic background, which was at least half right. I enjoyed a bit of self satisfaction when you revealed the details more recently 😁. I could tell because some of the implicit assumptions, and considerations, that you would make are absent from many nonchristian futurists or science popularizers (eg Tyson, Kaku, Krauss, Sagan). I very much appreciate that you don’t simply put forth an uncritical Roddenbery-esque humanist materialist presumptiveness about the future. It makes your content that much more valuable because it is deeper, and also not stereotypically naive. I enjoy taking what you’ve put out and filling in the details to argue for my specifically Christian worldview on these topics (eg your Fermi paradox series make good supplementary arguments for the nonexistence of aliens). I am clear on what you believe and wouldn’t/don’t put words in your mouth. I know from before that your basic position is that re mind uploading, the copy of Gary that gets to the sleeper ship is “really him,” by any meaningful measurement. Whereas regarding continuity of consciousness, I think both in a purely materialistic universe and in a standard dualistic universe (unless one envisions that souls are entangled with the brain and can follow the matter stream), the Gary back at Sol would have biologically died and not wake up 60+ years later on the sleeper ship. This is the kind of interesting stuff that I think you could still get away with talking about without offending people: how souls would interplay with matter, regarding uploading and consciousness. Granting for the sake of argument their existence. Your discussion about the ship of Theseus (perhaps not by name) regarding changing your brain into nanites is a persuasive argument, and it raises the question of whether or not people WOULD, in fact, maintain continuity of consciousness if they did a gradual conversion method. What if they began to show cognitive decline the greater the percentage of their brain was nanites, or specifically some portions of it resisted conversion? It would represent a possible empirical test for the existence of the soul, since if mind uploading, brain replacement with nanites, or thawing frozen people never resulted in a functioning person, one might have an inductive argument, that it’s because there is now no soul present. If teleportation Star Trek style only produced lifeless corpses, otherwise identical to the original, that would also do it, but that’s nigh impossible technologically as you’ve discussed, but freezing and thawing isn’t and synthetic brains aren’t. So it raises interesting metaphysical questions. If these things DID work, it would represent either that the universe is purely material, or, less likely but presumably possible (in light of Christian resurrection necessarily involving separating the conscious mind from the body and reuniting it at a later date, well after physical death), perhaps immaterial souls are mysteriously entangled with the body and if the body is reactivated or copied, the soul moves with it. Anyway, I didn’t think you were writing it as a horror story, that is my personal interpretation but I think it’s a valid one worth offering others for consideration, just like you say that the goal is to provoke thought. Definitely weren’t impugning you so if it sounded very negative, I’ll just point out that I wasn’t being emotional 🙂. Thanks for always being very thoughtful in your approach to the subjects you talk about. Regarding faith (it’s not contrary to reason), I don’t know if you are aware of the Christian astrophysicists Jason Lisle, Russel Humphreys, or Danny Faulkner, but I’d encourage you to look them up. Faulkner’s passionate argumentation against flat earthism, being a creationist, is very interesting. Lisle and Humphreys each have developed relativity-based technical proposals for distant starlight in a young universe. I think if you reached out just in your private capacity for discussion, Jason would be the most eager to talk to you. The guy is brilliant but also a lecturer. Even if you remain unconvinced of either their cosmology or theology, it would be really great to know that you’d done your research. This is my effort to give you something, since you’ve given so much. 😊

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Dang it noticed a typo but editing comments removes hearts. It will have to be 🙄🤪

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

@@cosmictreason2242 Continuity of Consciousness is one of those tricky ones that I intentionally avoid having an official opinion on, I don't feel a compelling case can be made for any of the major camps even if I tend to default to John Locke's. We've discussed the Ship of Theseus argument more and explicitly elsewhere, a lot of those are good points and some maybe should have been raised in the episode too but time constraints often limit these things. I'm familiar with Faulkner's commentary on flat earth, which was quite interesting, and Humphreys of course, I find his starlight age speculations uncompelling, and will leave it at that.

Congratulations for 400 episodes I find this a fitting theme for the anniversary episode

That's quite the optimistic outlook... feels to me like, given our current path, 100 years from now will see the last years of our species. Just feels like the last remnants of our species will be in their final struggles, than it does that we will be well on our way to a better, more prosperous society.

I think this was my favorite video from you. Very well done and thought provoking.

Loved this episode. Great job Isaac and team! Love the animation too.

144 was also the combined age of Bilbo and Frodo at the birthday party at the beginning of LotR. Knowing IA it's a deliberate easteregg.

@HuplesCat

11 ай бұрын

Yup. Well spotted

If I were that last guy, I would have left a copy, and instructions to "revive" if a reply was not received, vis-à-vis my safe arrival and run on the colony ship, by a certain date. Not leaving a copy behind is one thing, but jumping without a safety line seems foolhardy to me.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Sounded like the scanning process killed your

Episode 400 already, congrats and eagerly awaiting the many next videos to come 🎉

Congrats on the milestone! You're not wrong about the challenges when it comes to contemplating life that far out. Whenever I'm doing stories on the subject I swear I spend easily as much time researching and planning as I do getting words down, if not more.

While I'm not generally a fan of 'shorts' the way the channel has been doing them I see it as a positive contribution. Give potential new members a little glimpse at something impressive or fascinating and hope they decide to check out a full episode. Given the weight they have in the algo at the moment, its at worse a necessary evil, but I think its being used in a constructive way.

That story was amazing - please do more! Connecting your knowledge of science to a human experience of it is very powerful

Great job, as always. Really, inspirational content for me to think and write about.

Thanks for your work, man! I'm watching for a long time, but recently, your series are very helpful while imagining a dystopia for a project.

Considering that people probably don't have to work in 300 years, I think looking to entertainment would be a good guide to predict what people would be doing. There probably would be loads of competitions on all kinds of things. Like MMA with artificial bodies like in Love Death & Robots, or natural body only olympics and then there's the cyber olypics. Literal body building competitions. And also cake baking competitions, races, genetically modfied gardening, etc.. Everything, really. Probably lots of fake wars, like mixed reality FPS games. Perhaps the cities are giant parkour parks. Extreme sports in general. Someone wingsuiting past your window might be a common sight. There's probably people that live entirely fake and scripted lives, like the Truman show, but staffed by robots. I'm pretty sure many people will chose to live that way over normal life. Lots of LARPing, like living in the Soviet Union or something. Most people would be preoccupied for decades, just building their perfect dream home. Not just homes, but more like whole worlds, like playing Minecraft creative mode irl. Then there's psychonauts, exploring different interesting ways to rewire their brains. Not just tripping, but tuning the brain to be the perfect amount of creative or boosting the enjoyment of nature etc..They would probably be pretty important, since many people will copy their brain templates to live more fulfilling lives. Like changing your brain, so repetition doesn't get boring, which is probably a big problem when you live for hundreds of years. Or making it so they aren't addicted to entertainment, prefering real life. And I'm pretty sure people will have the option to know literally everything there is to know, like these modern AI models, including mastery of all skills. Because the journey is the destination, I think many people would choose to selectively forget things, so they can learn them all over again. If only for the duration of the activity. Lots of people would probably live a perpetual high school/college life or entering some gamified academy. Like a cooking school like Food Wars. Or a wizards academy like Harry Potter and it's really some mixed reality game. There probably would be many people living like in the Garden of Eden. Just frolicking around the woods, making art, building things with their hands or something. And of course many people will just do old school jobs, even though nothing they could ever produce could be better than the AI crafted stuff. I could see an extensive human-only economy developing of people who just buy from other people.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Work by another name. We already don’t work, if you wind the clock back and consider work to be plowing fields by hand, milking the cow every day, sewing your own clothes and washing them by hand, etc etc.

@gydase

11 ай бұрын

I like this vision of the future! Hope it comes true!😊

@whoisray1680

11 ай бұрын

I hope this is what comes to pass! I really hope people of the future don't have to struggle and suffer like we do and live how they're truly meant to: by enjoying every moment with no anxiety.

@DG-mk7kd

11 ай бұрын

Once an orbital ring is up and running that opens up the solar system and galaxy as a frontier. Full of opportunities to expand. Many will descend into virtual lotus eating, but the growing population will be working harder than ever to carve out civilization from barren rocks and empty void. There is just so much to do.

@squirlmy

11 ай бұрын

I think much of your prediction will be for 1% of 1% of the population. Many billions will live in near-slavery conditions. Identured servitude, perhaps. There will be many people doing jobs that AI robots could do, but are kept employed so that the wealthy can affirm their high social status in comparison, nearly every minute of their day. Actually I quite like HG Wells' horrific vision of the future in The Time Machine. I think it a lot more realistic than your vision.

Thank You Professor Arthur!!! Job Well Done. Please carry on.

2323 is more than 2323 years from now but AD gets there sooner. This is exceptional Sci-Fi for MTV! These would be the best animated series on MTV!

it is nice to see a story where multiple future options exist at the same time in the same place, it's more organic than the monolithic cultures I see in SciFi so often. Also as I mentioned in the past, I highly doubt everyone would want the same exact future whatever-tech, some would opt for it while others would want to wait it out a bit, and others would nope-out of it. just look at what we have today, does everyone use earbuds, no, some use headphones while others chose not to listen to music when away from the home/office speakers. I suspect eye and ear implants will be the same way for a long while (especially so long as re-growing amputated nerve endings isn't reliably a thing). you can't take some skin from your elbow and implant it into your retina and expect the touch and temperature nerve endings to morph into rod and cone cells, it doesn't work like that, not to say sensitivity and resolution of the implant while getting heat/pressure/pain/etc connections to line up correctly when just mashing nerve bundle ends together. it will take a lot of work, and for some "good enough" may not be good enough. anyway, it's nice to see a mixed variety of augmentation/uplifting in a story.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.

@Zarcondeegrissom

11 ай бұрын

@@cosmictreason2242 I think Issac got as close as he is willing to without getting into specific theologies with that last asteroid colony episode or a few back (artificial afterlives), they will find out at the end of time the natural way when the computers stop and they pass on. asking if an uplifted mind has a spirit instead of just the organic body it was copied from isn't that removed from asking if an artificial sentient being has a spirit if they never had an organic body. everyone will have their own individual beliefs and they likely will not be the same. maybe in the end, it matters not what happens at the end, it's the improvements and efforts made here and now that matter anyway.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@Zarcondeegrissom I think it’s impact on as ixuety society is overlooked and I you toy with the idea of making a story in such a setting

When I saw you mention Fido at the start of the episode, I thought you were gonna talk about furries. Most sci-fi writers and thinkers focus on improvements to math and engineering, while ignoring biology Those which do consider bioscience only do so to say medicine has gotten better and maybe people will live longer (though a surprising amount of space opera still features the classic 80-year expiration date). But let's be real. When you get the kind of technology that lets you sculpt yourself like a greek god, you'll also be able to deck yourself out in a winter coat, complete with ears and tail. A lot of people would, too! Maybe not most, but a few million which will grow with the fashion. We probably could already do it by dissolving the cells out of donor tissue to collect the extracellular scaffold, and then reseeding it with animal cells that had been genetically modified with the MHC alleles of the recipient. Congrats on your 400th episode, man. Reruns of your show are my favorite listening material for late night gaming

@rommdan2716

11 ай бұрын

The amount of ways we can make furries real is terrifying hahaha XD

Such a great video! One of the best you ever made! I really like the "day in the life of..." videos you make.

Amazing. 🎉congratulations. Find your shows captivating. Thank you.

this would be horrible. virtually all of this stuff would result in conflict or be abused by a centralized authority

@sharonbraselton3135

5 ай бұрын

Wrobg

@007kingifrit

5 ай бұрын

@@sharonbraselton3135 you drunk there buddy?

please consider making a video on how life could look like in the year 2200

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Co-signed

congrats on episode 400 !!! i havent been watching ur content for long but i truly do enjoy it 6_6 !!!

Fantastic work - Thank you for all you do!

Okay. This episode was straight fire.

I have been looking forward to this video for a while! I found it interesting how much the video dealt with transhumanism. Individuals being for, against or adapting certain changes or being against some.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

He left some discussion out. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.

@MrChristianDT

11 ай бұрын

We're kind of just about on the forefront of that, now, with mind reading tech. And one of the biggest hindrances to that is going to be the concept of privacy, which gets completely ignored, here. Also, vice versa to the AI taking over a person- the people uploading themselves into computers. Does that hinder their ability to function mentally or emotionally? Are those technically just copies of people, or actual people? Is the energy consumption worth keeping those individuals running? How often to they need to be re-copied to new hardware in order to continue to survive?

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

@@MrChristianDT if you can find the thread where Isaac replied to my comment of the above, there is more treatment of TBD subject like what you’re bringing up

Isaac, I think you are the best at this.

2323 my 1st episode Really intriguing Beautiful artwork Nice connection between ...beings. Am looking forward to 2, 3, 4 ...and beyond! Thanx Enjoyed every minute of it.

I know you previously said, answering to people asking you write novels, that you weren't sure if you knew how to create good stories. Hearing this episode, I think you should reconsider that opinion about yourself. You just wrote the synopsis of not one but seven very interesting story concepts, and I would pay money to read those in a full fledge novel or compilation of short stories. Then again, you do what you want to do dear sir! Thank you for this video.

No matter how the future is spun, no matter how many years we look out, no matter how different isolated populations may be, we’ll still be, no matter when or where, ‘only human after all’.

That was amazing. Thank you and congratulations on everything.

Beautiful tale and as awe inspiring as ever, thanks Isaac!

I don't think I'll be alive in 2061, let alone in 2323. I was born in 1981, and unless my conscience is transferred to a computer or robot, I won't make it.

@archysimpson2273

5 ай бұрын

Freezing your body after death to be partially brought back to life is still better than nothing

I wonder if loneliness and poverty would still be an issue in 24th century

@Soupy_loopy

11 ай бұрын

Yes, more so.

@virutech32

11 ай бұрын

One would hope not. The goal is post-scarcity

@MrNote-lz7lh

11 ай бұрын

Poverty is relative. There will likely still be the divide between the rich and the poor, but the rich of today would happily give up everything to be the poverty stricken of the future.

@vladimirlenin843

11 ай бұрын

@@MrNote-lz7lh modern slum is generally worse than medieval village tho Imagine what kinda industrial polutant future human can make Imagine ultra cancer aids

Great way to celebrate this milestone, Mr. Arthur! Here's to another 400 episodes of wonderful, insightful videos. 😊

Wow! Another amazing episode! Happy 400th! Ive been since the beginning and will be here until the end, and thanks for all the hope!

400 episodes.... Wow. That's a lot of content reminding me I was born WAY too early. Let's hope reincarnation is real, or that cryogenics make some huge leaps forward real quick.

@cdemr

11 ай бұрын

I am currently 18, if I don't die from something random in the next 50-60 years, what exactly are my chances to extend my lifespan using technology from the 2070s?

@SubtleHawk

11 ай бұрын

De-aging tech might be just around the corner. We've made lots of advances in that field.

@thorvaldspear

11 ай бұрын

@@cdemr Just look at how fast AI is moving these days. Some people say we'll have AGI in 18 months (I think it's more like 5 years away). Naturally, once you have AGI a lot of impossible problems suddenly become very possible, including life extension. Simply spin up 1000 instances of GPT-7, give them a lab and tell them to conquer death. Then just sit back and enjoy the show.

@ontoya1

11 ай бұрын

Its crazy to think that all of use even our Parents (im 26 Parents are 59 and 57) and children will be considered the oldest of old farts by then. Maybe will ee bunch into century generations by that point onto of everything. "We're apart of the same Century" i think that hits

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Reincarnation is not, resurrection is, but you have to make a timely appeal to the Supplier and make sure to meet his qualifications. For example, He frowns upon bribery. To receive eternal life, you must publicly and in a binding contractual agreement admit your own inability to save yourself and that you don’t deserve what he offers you. In a way, it’s the easiest thing in the world. But for prideful men, it’s the hardest thing in the world

Been here for years, been watching your videos since high school and am now working in the field of nuclear energy, thank you Isaac for all you've done.

Congrats Isaac! I've been here since the very beginning. Thank you ever so much for years of falling asleep to your lovely voice

Congratulations on 400 Episodes Isaac! You have expanded the minds and the mental horizons of many, including mine. Thank you for daring to dream. Here's to your next 400 episodes!

How do you come up with all this? Just mind blowing the consistency and quantity of ideas you put out

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

Years of discussing and pondering i supposr.usually just sit down and start typing, and a few hours later the draft is ready, sometimes I outline or restart

@JoshSmith-fr6fx

11 ай бұрын

I would love to watch it if you didn't sound like Elmer fud when you talk

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

@@JoshSmith-fr6fx I think the usual advice everyone gives is if the voice bugs you turn it down a bit and flip on the captions, and after a few episodes you won't even notice it anymore.

This is not a criticism - far from it. But I am beginning to spot the difference between human and A.I. generated art. A.I. art is TOO perfect. Flawless, unique and all round - just TOO pretty.

@Lady_Flashheart40

11 ай бұрын

Once you work out the kinks, anyway. The uncanny valley look of no less than seven fingers on each hand and facial feature proportions can be a bit off-putting.

@marcusrauch4223

11 ай бұрын

I would disagree with the too good statement. The hands look mangled, proportions looks a little off, transitions between foreground objects and background, that aren’t harsh lines (like hair) are washed out or look like bad photoshop, and coloring doesn’t look like it was made with tools at all. And using AI generated images is something I would actually criticize, considering how much it screws over actual artists.

@sharonbraselton3135

5 ай бұрын

Nope neither ing oerft took perfect ai godess cirtana

This episode was great! I love how the future concepts were laid out. It made way more sense than it could've.

Than you for your amzing work. I am very interested in watching your episodes.

Imagine waking up in 2323 after being "frozen" for centuries to a wonderland of technology, run by a repressive totalitarian authoritarian government that none can escape. Time travel can suck after all.

@PedroOrtega1993

11 ай бұрын

_"Everyone loves the sausage until they find out where the sausage came from..."_ And at the end of the day, be it 250,000 BC or 2500 AD, humans will still be humans.

I am aware it is wishful thinking on my part but I cannot overstate how much of a blessing it would be to know technology could see me witness the amazing future humanity could build Even a hard-cap of 500 years would be great, assuming we don't nuke ourselves we could get up to a whole lot and even augmented i'd have trouble seeing it all, spreading life to the stars in a much more official way would be something great to be a part of

@user-qi6pv9jh7o

11 ай бұрын

It will be way more painful than we could think, and we'll become unable to imagine today's way of thinking without disgust because of all the changes But life will be worth itself, because nothing else is.

@AmariFukui

11 ай бұрын

@@user-qi6pv9jh7o To be honest I already can't stand todays way of thinking so not much changes for me there But definitely it will be a painful transition for many, many reasons.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Nuking would probably accelerate us in the long term because it would present a real problem so we don’t invent ones like beer bugs and ESG. If we experienced a global Marxist takeover it would probably retard our development by 1500 years but we’d get into space eventually regardless, because the efficient people working in the margins would still be making progress

@mEmory______

11 ай бұрын

I would sell my soul to Satan himself to see the future

@Lady_Flashheart40

11 ай бұрын

​@@AmariFukuiWhat specifically about "today's way of thinking"?

I have been your subscriber for a long time and your videos give me mental peace. Never stop this! Much love from India :)

Fantastic episode. Really enjoy the narrative - especially how everyone's stories are connected in one way or another, even by several degees of separation.

@isaacarthurSFIA

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I like that suburban communities still exist in this scenario, as most people typically predict that the future will be one of vast megacities but in reality we're already seeing the early decline of cities. Technology is allowing more and more people to work from home and automation will further devalue living in a city. It makes much more sense that within the next 300 years instead of cyberpunk mega cities, a network of endless suburburban communities will stretch across the United States (I'm American so that's what I'm predicting.) I believe the 100 billion population number is completely ludicrous, instead population will fluctuate based upon factors we haven't even considered yet. Anyways. You can imagine that this vast interconnected suburban landscape is dotted by areas of dilapidation; entire neighborhoods, cities, and other once populated areas have given way to the natural world. During times of population growth they are redeveloped, but during times of population decrease more and more regions depopulate and are abandoned, and so the cycle repeats.

I was about to leave a snarky comment how our civilization won't even survive the Industrial Age Collapse but I have too much respect Isaac. In fact let his vision come through than whatever doom and gloom is taking over me.

@HuplesCat

11 ай бұрын

Truth is we don’t know so any alternative future is valid and only disproved by time getting there eventually. I think we are cooked but I enjoy what if speculative fuction

And I plan on continuing to support your content until they put me to bed with a shovel Issac. Never stop, I have been watching for so long I cannot imagine not getting excited for Thursdays with you.

Love your work Isaac! Congratulations on making 400 episodes!. Congrats on 400 episodes that’s damn impressive.

I wonder how the Internet would look by then. What form would it take? Our stored media right now, how much of them will remain? I wonder how the future generations would feel seeing videos we made.

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

It will be a graveyard full of dead people. Eerie

@cosmictreason2242

11 ай бұрын

Simultaneously, your mundane internet comments may potentially influence quadrillions of people over the next thousand years. So leave something you (or your descendants) can be proud of

@mawkernewek

11 ай бұрын

@@cosmictreason2242 surely someone has already put a QR code on their gravestone that people can scan and link to their website and social media profiles. youtube video saying "if you are watching this, then my biological phase of existence has ended". All you need to do is to pre-record a goodbye video and have some kind of automated method of noticing your death, and triggering the release of it.

@electroflame6188

11 ай бұрын

It would be a lot more fragmented than today, thanks to light lag. Also, incompatible experiences. The internet for a community of digital minds that live in a simulated 8D universe and have totally alien senses is basically a totally different internet from that of a human, even if it is connected to the rest.

So, SFIA Meet up in June 2323 of anyone still living? Assuming we remember with 300+ years of memories in our finite brains 😆

I very much appreciate the effort made to not have the outtro music be several times louder than the rest of the video! ❤ Genuinely, you have my heartfelt gratitude as some previous episodes were thoroughly jarring at the ends. Here's to another 400 wonderful episodes! 🎉🎉🎉

2:41 That's an Eagle Transporter. It was almost 50 years since the premier of the show and the design is still used.