Bingo on "feeding the trolls". I'm always being told not to bother talking to people who disagree, but as you say, there are occasionally those that will change their minds - or at least have discussions with an open mind. It's usually fairly clear within a few replies which people are open to discussion and which aren't even properly reading your responses, so best to concentrate on the former. You can spread a message or an idea, but you can't make everyone listen to or accept it. I think it's best to focus on those that will at least discuss things WITH you (regardless of whether they agree or not) rather than simply talk AT you.
Im sorry to go completely off topic for a second, but what city is this? Looks really lively and nice!. But yeah i often find myself not daring to be hated enough, quietly surrendering to the other opinion, no matter how wrong. I want to change that.
Fresh & Squeezy I'd never said better to be hated by everyone, it's a phrase used to say be happy with yourself and don't lie to yourself and others just to get them to like you.
+Daniel Lelievre probably like all the other smart kids that grew up with strong morals. He ain't gon be on a yacht or a private jet, thats for sure. No rotation of supermodels either.
@@Ahmed_Elhaddad Because it is not wise to spend your life-earned fortune to impress people that hate you, especially if you've already admitted that hate and have made the wise decision to move past that.
I run a gym in Ensenada, Baja California. I watch your channel often. Your content is beyond interesting and I find myself relaxed after a couple of episodes. "Therapeutic" is the appropriate word. Whether you ever read this comment, I just needed to inform you and anyone else that may read my comment that your message is just what I needed to hear at just the right time. Thank you.
I wish someone had explained this to me when I was 5 years old; I've denied myself countless opportunities just to avoid the risk of upsetting anyone in the slightest.
I was one of the folks who asked about volcanoes and I don't claim to be dull or ignorant. Luckily there were many people who took the time to have a conversation about it in the comments, and I learned something (many something). So, there... it was of benefit to me and I didn't unsubscribe...
Honestly, dude, you are such a positive person. You always smile even talking about trolls and the smile seems genuine. Keep up the good work, love your videos and science FTW.
Totally agree with this opinion, as a UA-camr myself I was first saddened to realize that positive comments were so common they had no more positive effects on me, and haters / troll comments started to appear. All new and unseen, they really hurt me at first, and I tried several things (as a good scientist would :P): - Responding violently: consolidated their thoughts and hate on me -> vicious circle. - Asking for reasons / justifications: proved that MOST of the haters/trolls have no idea of what your work is about, and thus can't respect it -> their opinion is totally not relevant and does not express truth about you. - Ignoring: other people would tend to start a conflict and enter the vicious circle -> delete / keep letting go. Their opinion does NOT reflect the reality of things and you should really take them like that. Justified criticism needs to be listened to, your viewers have a different point of view from yours and maybe expect something different, always question yourself, that's humility :) When I make a purely scientific video: people call it boring. When I make a fun video: people call it stupid. When I try to mix both: most people are pleased, but still guys arguing that they would like it to be more scientific, or more entertaining. In short terms: Remember that for each person that hates you, 1000 more love you. You will never please and agree with everybody, do what you love for whoever loves what you do. You're not doing it for the haters, they're not to be given importance to ;) Love your work Derek, keep sharing it! For Science!
Unfortunately, it only applies if you're having conversations with people who are ALSO willing to have uncomfortable conversations. I am now 100% 'digital' and entirely alone. Possibly 'the very first all-digital human' (prior to being ACTUALLY digital). 2020 & 2021 have marked the beginnings and ends of me no longer physically interacting with other human beings, face to face. From this point forward, I don't physically exist, and I am merely 'what digital videos verified his actions'. Everything else about me is now lost forever.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat I think online conversations can be quite uncomfortable as well. In fact, message-based conversations can allow for much more discomfort than face-to-face because you can answer in your own time, rather than being on the spot and reacting in a way that derails the conversation. (That being said, it sounds like you should get out more ;)
This video is one of my favorites pieces of advice. Still to this date relevant and I come back here from time to time to remember those wise words you said. Thanks!
I have never forgotten this video. The question of finding the balance between "be on good terms with all persons" and "be hated" feels eternal. It also feels more relevant today then ever.
Making it easier to admit you're wrong is a corner stone to informing people. It's tricky, and it essentially means you get no intellectual pride for being correct, but none of that matters if you're educating. Being right doesn't feel nearly as good as gaining an ally in information ;)
ignorant is not an insult it does not mean stupid and people who take it as an insult are stupid. Someone who is trying to educate someone who is lacking information on a topic and tells them that they are ignorant is literally telling them that they lack information. I know only one persuasion of people who view ignorant as an insult.
Brandon Ottinger If you're talking to someone and you come to the conclusion that they don't know something and you want to educate them about it. How will telling them that they are ignorant, help you in educating them?
Jaqen H'Ghar Unfortunately due to the way it has been used in day to day language it has changed its meaning in informal discussions to be a more snarky way of saying your stupid and below me intelectually.
Well said! To quote a much hated person; "You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say". Martin Luther. A single lighted candle in an otherwise dark universe, makes all the difference - and of course as we know there are actually many lighted candles. Ignorance has no interest in rationality, evidence, goodness or truth, but seeks only to have its prejudice confirmed. Speak your truth, you will be loved for it as well
It's because of videos like these that Derek is by far my favorite producer of educational content on UA-cam. I don't know many other scientific communicator youtubers that produce content of such a high standard, but are still not afraid to voice their own opinions, regardless of whether or not they is contentious. Keep up the good work Derek, I'm sure it won't be long before the climate change deniers start giving in.
I'm so glad you've reached out and tried to engage those whose limited scope leads them to scorn before internal reflection. I think it shows that the biggest problems we can have in science is simply understanding each other without disliking each other because of our views. Please keep up the brilliant videos :)
I really don't understand why there is such a big section of the public that don't believe in man made climate change. Why are people so emotive and opinionated about this one particular scientific fact? Popular opinion does not change reality. Leave the science to the scientists and not us lot (the public).
It's why the infamous Al Gore movie was called 'the inconvenient truth', it's an issue of convenience. Notice no one has problems with science or scientific theories until something like climate change or evolution. Why? Because suddenly it's inconvenient. Suddenly it's against your religious beliefs, or with global warming it's going to increase the price of gas for your car. As soon as there's a 'cost' introduced, there's backlash and folks in general don't want to pay or change. No one questions the scientific process or it's conclusions, until somehow it might effect them in a negative way (HD TVs, better smaller phones great, expensive gas bad) even if the scientists and the process are the same.
12tman12 Let us not forget that according to most mainstream religious beliefs in the western world, the end of civilization hails the second coming, so is it not something to be desired rather than fought against? On a (sometimes) subconscious level any religious person would see a silver lining to an extinction event befalling the world. Calling a spade a spade instigates a "righteous" bout of self delusion, on those who have been taught to call a spade "redemption" through the power of authority and/or revelation.
Many people used global warming in their politics, and they had an agenda. Global warming is real, but remember how Al Gore said the ice caps would be melted (don't remember if he said completely) by 2014? Yeah that didn't happen lol. It's kind of easy to see why some people still think it's all bs. So many lies and/or false predictions.
Both your channels are great. You are a really good talker, I always learn something new about science or life in general when I watch your videos. Diverse content but relative to us all in some way. Happy holidays and keep posting these videos!!
Luke Vanden Bosch (not a troll at all, but I have to mention) hm.. maybe you are not familiar with the "statics" behind that. i guess that's a baseline (or intercept) model, which is the simplest model to describe a responsevariable. I guess you were expecting a (linear) regression model, that has an actual "trend" (a normal baseline model also can have a trend, but not in the way you normally use the term trend). to explain it quick: if you have y (=temp) and want a linear model you use something like: y = b0 + b1 * x x stands for the years. if you don´t use any x you have something like y = b0 and b0 is a constant, thats why you have that line. there a many ways to get your b0, and i guess they used a very simple model there, that just takes the latest output and set it to b0. maybe they did that on purpose (I guess) or maybe that was just the best fitting model. we would have to check the data to find out. ;)
MrVinca I am actually a bit familiar with statistics, bell curves, normal distributions, error bars, error analysis, and such, but the way that it was described was quite funny. Being that It was labelled as The 19 year 'pause' which clearly not the case, I believe that you yourself are either trolling or did not get the joke in the video.
Luke Vanden Bosch I found the graph confusing and amusing at the same time, had very little information, and can with no doubt be missused (like they did in that article). But the topic of forcing stats and graphs to fit an opinion into someones mind, is another thing I don´t want to go into... I am too familiar with statistics, as a student of it, but you said the "trend line on the graph", which if they made a correct model, was ture.
I hate that i agree with you almost all the time. And i hate that you're gorgeous and brilliant and kinder than me. And l love that youre online sharing your wisdom with the world. Keep being you.
Accepting disagreement and hatred by some is by far the best way to reach out to people. If we’re going to be agreeable and accept all opinions around us without ours that might go against other people’s opinions then who are we? As Gotye said in “with our eyes wide open” “Well, why would I’d make a change if you won’t?” If we are being disagreed with and be hated sometimes, we change as we try changing other people’s opinions by mature and thoughtful discussions and accept discomfort of disagreement and even strong feeling of hatred. And even the strong emotional toll of trying to change for the better as we grow old and feel more tired by time.
The problem is what's cherished by most of us : individuality. We don't think as a race but as individual cells wanting to become a full fledged organism for themselves. Once we acknowledge that the way forward is to see every specimen of us as another cell in a larger organism trying to achieve a common goal, humanity's saved. When commenting people always take everything personal. Someone else's views don't align with yours? Then they must be wrong and either group forming starts (which is never good) or people are driven into solitary with their opinions pinned on them as individual burdens. We're way more than that. Alas, you cannot blame someone for speaking their mind, getting burned and never try again, leaving the rest in blissful ignorance.
***** : Plus, ofcourse, everything every living organism is made out of. We tend to forget that cooperation of individual cells is what allows us to be organisms. Somehow we cannot surpass the logical cooperation of the building blocks we're made from.
What have you got to hide? You feel what you feel, you think what you think, you know what you know. Why do you want friends that don't like you for being yourself? Surely there's more to life than that.
Just found this vlog channel, and it's AWESOME. I empathized a lot with your intentions of hearing and answering everyone, even if it's the internet. It's easy to falter and hard to believe in it again afterwards. I hope you can go back to that path if you ever drift away from it. The world needs as many people like you with that mindset as possible.
@0:31 "there are many bad people out there, and if you're not pissing some of them off, you're doing something wrong." Which is why I still use Fahrenheit
Your data, and interpretation thereof, may offend me. But, that is my issue. If what you present is the truth, and I have believed a lie, then that offense could correct my path. If what you present is incorrect, and the challenge gets me interested in the data enough to defend my interpretation, then that offense refines my belief. I learn something (often many things) from every video you post to 1veritasium. Thank you for sticking to the data, and the unflinching way you share your take on the data. If that offends, then keep right on offending. :)
Dude, great video. I learn something new every day whit your uploads. Do not stop because if you reach one out of a 100 people it is still a winning situation. I got my girlfriend to see some of your videos and made her more curious about things and maybe we need to be more curious about everything in this world and universe. Thx again.
Always great to see a fellow Desiderata lover. It's something I hold very near and dear to my heart, though I see where you're coming from with your video's message. Keep up the great work!
I strongly resonate with every word of this video. Sorry for not hating you :) But now I want to advocate the other side of the story. As you mentioned: "as far as possible, without surrender, be in good terms with all persons". This is incredibly important because it helps you enormously in getting your message across, as long as you are sincere and intellectually honest. I am deliberately engaging in conversations on climate change in channels run by deniers. When replying to angry, inaccurate messages, if you stay factual, objective, sincere, diplomatic, even kind if possible, you interrupt the chain of mutual insults, and you create the best conditions for the truth to emerge. People, try to do the same. It feels great!! Sometimes it is hard not to judge people who deny climate change, because they look so determined to confuse the facts in order to better trash the planet. In my case, it is easy to regain some trust in humans, I just remember of the many times in the past in which I was so passionate about stupid and dangerous theories. I was not a worse person than I am now. I just lacked the skills that I think I developed later, that allow me to think more lucidly, express myself more effectively, and avoid strong opinions on things I do not know enough.
Giancarlo Pace, that's great! The last thing you mentioned especially. In my experience, people could really use the advise to not form very strong opinions on things they don't know enough about. Also, the first thing I learned in my philosophy class was to always hear your argumentative opponent out, explain your arguments clearly and respectfully (don't start attacking the person), and always be ready to change sides if the other persons arguments are better than yours. It sounds like you possess those skills. Awesome work, have a great day ;)
Zohan Bozz , that's the single most important skill that school should teach. Shame it's not even in the curriculum of any school, at least as far as I know. However, for a constructive dialog to take place, it is necessary that both sides have the same attitude. I changed my mind about debating climate deniers on their own channel. Probably you get some results, even if you don't see it, but the effort is massive and could be spent better, for instance talking to people who are skeptical of climate change but are open to learn something. If people repeat over and over again arguments that were already rebutted effectively, chances are that they will keep doing it forever.
Zohan Bozz , that's the single most important skill that school should teach. Shame it's not even in the curriculum of any school, at least as far as I know. However, for a constructive dialog to take place, it is necessary that both sides have the same attitude. I changed my mind about debating climate deniers on their own channel. Probably you get some results, even if you don't see it, but the effort is massive and could be spent better, for instance talking to people who are skeptical of climate change but are open to learn something. If people repeat over and over again arguments that were already rebutted effectively, chances are that they will keep doing it forever.
Giancarlo Pace, it's interesting that you changed your mind about who to get into an argument with, because I recently came to the same conclusion as you (don't get into arguments with people determined not to change sides). There was a guy in the comment section of another youtube video who thought that space is actually water, that the earth is flat, and that the media is lying to us all, a real nut bag. I spent a good three hours writing a respectful response, explaining my view on the matter, and he ended up just reading the first few rows and laughing at them. I don't think it's a complete waste of time though. I recently also had a conversation with my friend about immigration. It was a long discussion, but I ended up changing his mind completely, despite him being so sure he was right before. He said he realized how stupid he'd been, believing what his old racist teacher had taught him. Now, he might not have been completely locked into his his side of the argument, but he was at the very least moderately resilient to changing sides. Changing his mind really gave me hope that peoples minds actually can be changed. The point I'm trying to make is that even though it might sometimes be a waste of energy to get into an argument with someone that has already decided what they believe, when you hit the jackpot and change their mind completely it feels really great, as I'm sure you've experienced. So don't give up completely on changing ignorant people's minds :)
"The success of an individual is directly proportional to the number of uncomfortable conversations they're willing to have." If there was one thing to remember from this video, I think that's it.
+Lord Vetinari I'm very skeptical about The School of Life's videos on love and relationships. They often seem biased and motivated by people who haven't been successful at it.
Adelar Scheidt What those vids speak to me is that it is not mandatory for a relationship to go perfectly according to plan for it to work, and also that there is always the real possibility you can end up alone. That makes me value my relationship more and it also eases my anxiety on whether it will work. I just enjoy it more and give it my best.
Well said. A lot of us look for the approval of others that aren’t necessarily in match with our beliefs and thoughts. It’s important then to express your opinions rather than just not talking cause you’re worried of arguing. Live your truth and accept hatred from bad people
2veritasium used to get weird stares when he talked to just a camera in public. He solved this issue by starting to where a shirt that says "UA-cam". That is the true sign of a physicist.
Very well said. I realize (and I'm sure you more than realize too) that the moment you comment or respond to someone in the UA-cam comments or real life... you make waves. Those waves are always volatile, because there will be people who will even respond negatively about THIS non-science video which I thought was very respectful and thought out. Some people genuinely disagree while keeping an open mind, some people already have the answer before even understanding the question, some people are just always argumentative, and a few are "trolls" that doesn't realize their jokes don't come off as anti-humor or funny, but rather hurtful to the human reading on the other end, especially when the creator of content is reading the responses to something they put hours and lots of thought into creating. The anonymity the internet provides, allows people to state their opinion in a polarizing manner without a filter. It's admirable to engage your users in the comments... just don't let the raw hate tear you down.
Dangerous topic dude. Make sure you don't give your viewers the potential to develop bad ideas. Here's my opinion: If you're hated by people who are seeking power and money, because you exposed them and/or dismantled their criminal enterprise. Then yeah, be hated. But if you're hated because YOU want power and money and you're destroying other people's lives because of your greed. Then YOU are the problem in the world. Understand the difference.
As a university professor, allow me to thank you for the tremendous effort you put in illustrating science's most difficult concepts. I often turn to you (and a few other bloggers _ or vloggers, your call) when I have a concept to convey to my class, but fail to find the appropriate conduit. Therefore, THANK YOU for making my job easier (without taking any of my pay ! :) ). And above all: KEEP BEING HATED. Someone who has crossed a whole life without making a few powerful enemies has done nothing grand.
"Be hated" is really more of a cop out. It is one way of dealing with the fact that your attempt at communication and/or persuasion has failed. Those who will not be assimilated, or at least remain docile, are beyond the pale and are evil and good to be hated by. That's why so much of this video monologue is about "those people" and "them", the people that "be hated" invites you to dismiss with your own brand of contempt. This reaction is very natural, but it isn't very mature. "Being hated" is most definitely a sign of actual failure and it is not a cause for joy. On the other hand, it's a failure you simply have to accept as the relative limits of the two minds involved. No effort at mass communication is ever going to be completely successful. So you accept "being hated" as a lamentable consequence of trying and failing, not as a badge of being so convinced you are right while so many others are so wrong. And I think you did a very good job of trying to get your ideas across in the GW video, especially give what a noisy issue it is.
Nix Clashing Well, no one hates your comment either. Still, if we both ramp up our righteousness, we may yet be able to bask in the glow of some well-earned hate.
a lot of the opinions he expresses and even quotes he proclaims i have heard and used, though because of this, the respect I have for him gives me great happiness. thank you Veritasium, its good not to be alone in thinking the quantity of the ignorant does not lessen the benefits of helping them understand.
Remember Darek, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Your treading a thin line between belief and opinion. Opinions can change in the 'blink of an eye' but it takes years to form a belief and longer to dislodge one. My best advice to you is show the proof again and again and again, quit telling people about it, they won't listen. For example, you can tell a child time after time to not touch something because its hot or sharp or anything and they will always have to touch it. Direct evidence will influence a mind far faster then hear-say! Good luck to you.
Pecker Wood I completely agree with what you said but your solution sadly doesn't help in the context of climate change. You're right that people need a proof to maybe change their believes but what makes touching a hot plate so effective is not that it's just a proof but that it's a very unpleasant and painful proof. In the case of climate change we have proofs but none that will have any major effect on anyone until it's too late to change. As Derek said in one of his videos, people are very bad at thinking globally and there just is no proof that plays on our primitive fears like pain. The only thing that could help is getting more educated people in positions in which they could actually change something but then again, the people in those positions are already very educated but mostly use their knowledge just for their own benefit..
***** There is tons of proof out there on climate change, just show them pictures, lots and lots of pictures, cartoons would probably be more effective but what ever you do, DO NOT show them page after page of empirical proof on the subject, it even makes me go to sleep reading those papers.
Pecker Wood I get what you mean and to my knowledge graphs are the best way to convincingly show proofs (dunno if that too was in one of dereks videos). However, everything you wrote just corroborates my statements.
The average idiot isn't scientifically literate enough to be swayed by proof or evidence though. That's the problem we currently have. Everyone is showing them the evidence that climate change is man made and they still don't believe it.
Is there any evidence that a large increase in CO2 over 100 years vs 5000 years is somehow more harmful? In what way would it be more harmful? You implied that the earth can adjust if the change is over time? How does the earth adjust? Do Ice caps and glaciers prepare for the CO2? Do they brace themselves so they won't melt? I am not a climatologist but I do work in economics so I know how devastating to living standards the proposed fixes will be. You are looking at millions of people in 3rd world countries who manged to overcome destitution through development in recent years who are going to be forced right back into extreme poverty by these proposed measures to solve climate change.
STDrepository sry about that. UA-cam app bug. Humans are of limited power when it comes to controlling natural catastrophes. If all the volcanoes decided to erupt tomorrow, we are fucked. We should try and not be the ones to cause a global mega extinction of we can help it. The decision is still ours to make:embrace the chaos or resist and protect.
Berzerius Youre missing the point. He said an amount of CO2 over 5000 years is ok. But an amount of CO2 over 100 years is dangerous. I asked why? Why does the time frame matter, if its hot glaciers melt either way. Does it matter how long it takes? what is the danger?
Yes there is a lot of evidence, if you have access to academic papers just try using google scholar or science direct to search for the one that convince you the most within the literally thousands papers that you can find regarding the impact of a quick increase of Greenhouse Gases (Not just CO2)... I am not sure how many proposed fixes you have read about but in my line of work and studies (I am an environmental engineer) I have met and discuss with economists different solutions from the socio-economic perspective and they are some viable not "devastating" ones. The problem is that they imply big changes and the support of new systems and technologies that are not currently embedded in the system yet... Another recurrent problem is that most of the "Developed" countries actually need a "developing" country to do the cheap, non-responsible work for them so that they can keep their current unsustainable way of living. Anyway... there are a lot of problems but a lot of proposed solutions as well, some of them really complex but not impossible, and I mean climate change is happening, and we will have to deal with it and adapt sooner or later, better to be prepared and try to mitigate it as much as we can... Actually some countries are already dealing with it and trying to adapt, just ask anyone from an island in the Pacific region; Kiribati, Tuvalu, Palau, they surely not appreciate people calling climate change a hoax...
STDrepository There´s a carbon cycle and CO2 sinks trough carbon sequestration (which you seem to be ignorant of, since than you would have asked about them, not glaciers bracing themselves lol). If you release more into the cycle faster of course it gets out of balance since the natural cycle won´t keep up. What happens if I pour 250 liter in you in 1 hour instead over 50 days? The difference will also be you will be out of balance, aka dead, while the 2. would be perfectly fine with your organism and appease your thirst. :p
Martin Elizalde Lecuona In my opinion the entire crux of climate change hinges on whether a rapid change is more dangerous than a gradual one. I'm sure you've read about how the cretaceous period had around 6 times as much CO2 as now and it was one of the most biodiverse times in earth's history. So CO2 itself is not bad for life (assuming life is what we care about). Its the rapid change that is supposedly dangerous. I can see some species being unable to evolve to cope with a rapid change and that would be a fair point. What I don't see is any threat at all to humans. Coastal dwelling people may have to move inland over the coming century but thats not a threat to their lives. So i'm not at all seeing the justification for this kind of economic damage (and there will be) if the goal is only to attempt to save a few species. You have to remember that economic harm is often magnified when it reaches the 3rd world. For example a few businesses that shut down in Canada might magnify into 10's of thousands of lost jobs in Indonesia where they had their factories. Not only do the factory workers go back to sustenance farming but the farmers that sold vegetables to those factory workers now also have to go back to sustenance farming. The local Indonesian banks lose the deposits because sustenance farmers don't have bank accounts, and that means those banks can no longer invest in the Indonesian economy to generate more jobs.
with out war there is no peace and with out hate there is actually no true love nor no true understanding of life cause if you know hate you will know what how to truly understand someone. great video
Because I must be hated I won't be afraid to be hated but I won't use a general awareness of this hatred that must exist as proof of my success. My favorite bits of the Desiderata: "Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. . . If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. . . You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
However, many people with strong opinions that have constructive criticism are unfairly labeled as trolls. Yes there are the obvious trolls with shitty one liners and obvious flame bait and for those people ignore them or ban them if they are clearly breaking the rules of the forum but other people who are being civil and just discussing their opinion on the matter? Well if you want to listen than listen and if not go do something else, it really is that easy.
And many trolls are smart enough to start off small and lead into something larger. Troll tends to be witty sociopaths, they often aren't dumb. Still, they have no rebuttal to logic. Use logic until they use rhetoric or a fallacy, challenge them on this, then if they refuse to acknowledge, then disengage.
That comforts me a little bit. I'm a teacher, so I am hated a lot. Mostely because I don't let them do what they want *right now* (e.g. chilling, damaging things, burning rubber instead of heating the given chemicals...); but I do that so they can get what they want *later in life* (e.g. a job, money, a good social environment,...)
i disagree with your opinion about global WARMING. please do not confuse with pollution, co2 release and etc. BUT i still think your videos are worth viewing and i would never unsubscribe a channel from which i have learned so much and still have much to learn because of one desagreement (even though is a big topic). those people who unsubscribed from you are those whose opinions are weak. I really enjoy those reflective videos of yours. keep on the good work.
Thanks Bruno. CO2 in small amounts is not pollution. But unfortunately in large quantities it makes the ocean acidic, so it is a pollutant in that way (plus the whole warming the Earth thing).
Veritasium CO2 in any amount is NOT pollution, it is a gas which is vital for life on Earth. CO2 doesn't make the ocean more acidic, it makes it less alkaline as the current pH is ~8.
savery1967 Virtually everything, even things vital for life, can have negative effects in high amounts. Iron for example is a absolutely vital to the production of red blood cells, something you can't live without, but that doesn't mean you should eat a bowl of iron filings for breakfast. In the case of CO2 the same concept applies, no CO2 in our atmosphere would certainly leave earth a desolate frozen wasteland. However an increase in CO2 concentrations will trap more heat from the sun, causing average global temperatures to increase, which in turn melts the polar ice caps, screws up weather patterns, and causes sea levels to rise. While it's improbable we'd ever get to a scenario like what happened to Venus (where a runaway greenhouse effect has resulted in the second planet from the sun being the hottest in the solar system), bad things would happen nonetheless. Should the polar icecaps melt entirely, many coastal cities and low lying areas (including virtually the entire state of Florida) will find themselves under water. Also decreasing alkalinity by definition is an increase in acidity, and there's a lot of lifeforms (particularly coral) that can't tolerate such significant changes to water chemistry in either direction..
savery1967 Less alkaline is more acidic.. and small organisms in the ocean need a steady pH to survive, so any change beyond a point is detrimental to many different food webs.
I watch your shows not for what you think, but for what you demonstrate scientifically. The problem with theories behind 'significant human induced climate change' is that they are not based in science, but in extreme speculation. Don't get me wrong, science requires extreme speculation as a starting point, yet when a particular point is thoroughly disproved, that point needs to be thrown-out. Many of the extremely speculative and foundational points of such climate change have been redundantly disproved. I was upset about your Climate Change video because you failed to provide evidence while speaking as if you had.
My bet is you haven't looked at the science because there is a lot of evidence there. Just look at NASA's climate page for one: climate.nasa.gov I didn't present evidence in the climate change video because I thought it was well known and well accepted. Now I realize I do need to present the evidence. But I'm also asking you to do your part and seek it out. Sea levels are rising, land ice in Antartica and Greenland is melting, sea ice in the arctic is melting, glaciers are receding, the atmosphere is more moist, the warming is greater around the Earth than in the stratosphere, and CO2 and temperatures are rising.
Veritasium I think part of the problem lies in those people that you mentioned in the video (unsubscribers who failed to listen fairly to what you said) consider researching the topic a form of support. Some people are so set in their beliefs that they wouldn't think of researching climate change just as they wouldn't think of researching a correlation between a decrease in pirates and an increase in population. If changing their point of view wouldn't benefit them in any way and might make them seem less intelligent for even giving the other side some time to speak, then they're not gonna do it. That, I think, is a good enough reason to provide a video that will (hopefully fairly) represent the evidence in a sit back and listen format, instead of active research.
Veritasium -Arctic sea ice has actually grown both in volume and coverage since its low in 2012. nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ -Antarctic ice coverage hit a recorded high in Sept 2013. wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/22/nasa-announces-new-record-growth-of-antarctic-sea-ice-extent/ -Greenland ice actually was growing in volume during the NASA listed time frame of 1996-2005. www.sciencemag.org/content/310/5750/1013.full I realize that there are extensive arguments for and against all of these sources (including yours, and I've read many on both sides). I don't want someone to read these articles for me and give their interpretation or understanding. I suspect that I am not alone in this. Regardless, I do believe that the climate is changing. It always is since the earth, sun and moon are a non-static system. I have yet to see any convincing evidence that humans have a significant effect on the earth's climate.
allen mathew My Google search was actually quite neutral. "Antarctic ice sheet decrease or increase" replacing antarctic as appropriate. Though, since I was trying to provide evidence of credible disagreement, I did appropriately cherry-pick the articles I referenced.
***** You are not allowed to have a contrary opinion. You must not analyze critically what they are claiming. You must accept their opinion as the dogma it is. You will find, as I have, that you will never have an honest conversation with "true believers".
2veritasium, I never thought I would agree with you but your background, it makes sense and you're right: It is better to be hated. I like to call it catching fire or taking fire on. There are things which are worth standing even and especially when no one is looking. Another way I look at it is, if its easier for people to hate, which is sad, then go with the flow; I'd let people hate me. To always want to be right or be proven right is a mark of dark tendencies. You're not a wimp for saying sorry either. It's called manners. Because when you don't say sorry or try to meet them in some middle ground, it can cause damage and be really hurtful. How can you expect others to be kind if you're not?
Hi, I'm working on a project right now and i sincerely wanted to thank you. I found your channel few months ago and it's just amazing, you and your videos helped me to develop a really complicated project. What you give to your subscribers is not just knowledge, but also inspiration. So thank you! Really! All the best, a guy from Italy :-)
This is whole premise shady. The implication is that people who disagree "hate" you is suspicious at best. More likely you are seeing heterogeneous [fixed] response; some effects of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, some sycophants, some strong disagreement. But this makes it sound like anyone who disagrees is hateful, and by extension, irrational.
Veritasium Yes, and yes. My phone likes to second guess me. I read some (not all) of the comments, and saw a lot of disagreement, mostly rational. The galactic interwebz is a locus for vitriol and hyperbole. People overstate constantly, and some go straight for the gutter. I think it's safe to say that anyone who simply spews invective doesn't hate you, they hate themselves. People who were trying to make serious points weren't hateful; just passionate. I have no doubt that you could quote some vicious language that was used, but from what I read it was the typical level of angry discourse that arises from politicized science.
I read many of the comments in the other video and it was generally a very rational discussion. I think the hateful things he is referring to are the comments that marked him as being political in the video. They said that they came here for the science and proceeded to say that they didn't like the content of the video and went on to unsubscribe.
cponce7 Of course, that doesn't denote hate per se. I tune out when the topic is political as well. It's not that I am not political, but that politicized science gives me gas, and there are few aspects of science more politicized than climate.
It's pretty obvious that you're just trying to convince yourself that you're right with this video. Well, truth does not stem from being hated or from others agreeing with you.
It stems from you producing facts and having those facts validated by evidence rather than opinion. Whatever anyone's opinions may be does not matter. This is objective, not subjective.
Derek, well put and you quote one of my favourite pieces of writing. The ozone layer is a problem, we banned CFCs as aerosol propellant etc. with little impact. No one has repealed efforts to effect this problem. But no one wants to give up the lifestyle that makes them reliant on lots of hydrocarbons becoming carbon dioxide. Novel energy generation and the hope for fusion are the step changes we need to move opinion and create meaningful action.
Derek, I agree with you. Some people are narrow minded, their minds are closed to new ideas and information. Since not one person can please everyone in the planet, it's better to be hated. Rudyard Kipling on his masterpiece of a poem titled, "IF," wrote on the first verse, "If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. But make allowance for their doubting too." But that same verse also states not to deal with being lied to, hated and not to give way to hating. What I can take away from this, as you've said, is that not all humans necessarily have to agree. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions no matter how stupid or how intelligent. We just need to find a common ground to respect whichever way of thinking our friends or other people have.
What a great video Derek. One that inspires me regularly. Weirdly, I find that I repeatedly have to listen to this one. I have also been moved to read Adrian Tan's address.
Thank you I needed that. You reached me and like in another video 5 separation etc. That one can become exponentially realized. Keep jammin it up cause life is worth much more than gold.
So, I'm here... I've watched this video and read comments...I've never felt such emotion And i have saw a lot of like-minded people and I understood I'm not so alone. I am for the first time have seen such big amount of thinking, looking people and this fact made my day. There are more of them than I imagined. I haven't ever been so happy. So, thank you, Derek, for your job, for your videos, which can really teach something, make us think, thank, for your ability to speak or listen when other would shout in emotions, and thank to the people who watch these videos
As N. N. Taleb puts it: "I never trust a man who doesn't have enemies." and "Have enemies; but make sure that they think about you much, much more than you think about them".
The message is great and I completely agree. For one, you need to have a worldview that isn't so dependent on others that you would change it just because of one public reaction. Large companies can weather storms by ignoring controversy until it goes away (and it usually does). This is a specifically poor example just to illuminate the point that it can also be a bad thing when in the hands of the wrong people. The asterisk that I would add to the argument is that an expression of one's opinion must be subject to "impact". It is necessary to consider the impact of your words as a function of the goal that you're trying to achieve. What is that goal? Spending 5 years of your life to change the minds of 5 people is wasteful, unless those people themselves have the capacity to influence huge masses. General principles are extremely important to have, but due to the temporal nature of our existence, one must pick and choose their best application and a graceful exit may be necessary at times. If humans lived indefinitely then this would not apply, perhaps. "Be hated" though, is a different story entirely. I would again amend that with another asterisk, being that the hatred received should be strictly disproportional. In simple words, let crazy people hate you all they want. People who are passionate when it comes to defending their side, but who are also equally logical as you are - should not feel that they need to hate you in order to get their way. If you are inciting feelings of hatred in otherwise rational and emotionally stable people, then there is something wrong with your approach that is unrelated to your argument. Even though the "civil" in "civilization" is a characteristic that is not met in reality as often as would be expected, it's still an important beacon to guide yourself by. Once your audience is infuriated at you - your words will fall on deaf ears. That is the nail in the coffin for arguing. Finally, that is some fantastic image quality. I was going to ask if you were using the new king of low light - the Sony A7S, but it seems that the 5D MK3 is still a strong performer. :) Thanks for posting!
I remember that Feynman told the same in his anecdote book. He told that the the desire to be nice ('be nice' is the magic word to which means that you need to eat whatever crap they feed you at stackoverflow) and Faynman told that this means that you need to lie, which undermines the moral fiber of the society and he was famous young jerk daring to dispute with prominent authorities.
I agree with everything you say about being hated, btw. Gen Patton said, “If everyone is thinking the same thing, then nobody is thinking.” (not exact quote)
This is the single best "response" video I have ever seen. I actually I think you articulated your point beautifully, and (in a literal sense) poetically. If I could subscribe to you harder I totally hold. Maybe if I hold the button down? You're never going to convince the masses that believe something with a fanatical fever, but even if your video reaches just one person willing to reassess their own views, and you change a single mind, then it's worth nearly drowning in the sea of willful ignorance. Keep the science videos coming! Love learning new things from you.
"Be hated" like many quotes, there are a lot of exceptions to it. Don't get yourself hated just for the sake of being hated, only do it if its necessary to keep your integrity. The best advice to follow really, is to keep integrity, stay logical, and consider the arguments of others. Most other advice simply stems from this as "keep your integrity even if it means that..." in this case "even if it will cause you to be hated" even to this rule, there are exceptions. As an example, you wouldn't be honest to a murderer when he asks "where's your kids?".
Thank you for producing this video, I just discovered your channel and the "distraction economy" video which is also very insightful, I'm based in the UK but I lived in Spain for three years and a lot of my friends in London are from European countries and so when I got into the Brexit debate I got a LOT of criticism from a LOT of people for my views, but I really thought it was very important to say what I believed, and why I believed it, and of course some people agreed with me, other people didn't agree with me but still appreciated that I took the time to articulate my views on my facebook profile. Now I am thinking of getting more involved in politics generally because of how my country has been affected by the referendum and the debate, but I am still worried that I might not be strong enough to stand up to the criticism I know I will face from my friends and family. This has just made that a little bit easier to face. So thank you for that and even when we don't agree on everything, let's each and all of us try to make the world a better place!
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Be hated not just for the sake of it but because there are people worth disagreeing with. If you're not upsetting them, you're doing it wrong.
Hate is a strong word...
Bingo on "feeding the trolls". I'm always being told not to bother talking to people who disagree, but as you say, there are occasionally those that will change their minds - or at least have discussions with an open mind. It's usually fairly clear within a few replies which people are open to discussion and which aren't even properly reading your responses, so best to concentrate on the former.
You can spread a message or an idea, but you can't make everyone listen to or accept it. I think it's best to focus on those that will at least discuss things WITH you (regardless of whether they agree or not) rather than simply talk AT you.
Im sorry to go completely off topic for a second, but what city is this? Looks really lively and nice!. But yeah i often find myself not daring to be hated enough, quietly surrendering to the other opinion, no matter how wrong. I want to change that.
i agree...
Joseph van der Harst I don't think that's what he was quite trying to say, but I guess I do see where coming from.
This video is literally whack - the url I mean - lol
lol
LOL
I see what you did there.
I see whack you did there.
I see you pay attention to the important stuff :P
Better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you're not.
3edgy5me
-one of the bazillion wise words on the internet.
_We got tired, but we still read them for some reason..._
Chris Gough but no it's not, being hated by everyone would slip you into depression and severe loneliness until you eventually take your own life
and being hated ruins your reputation, an important thing if you want to have power over anything
Fresh & Squeezy
I'd never said better to be hated by everyone, it's a phrase used to say be happy with yourself and don't lie to yourself and others just to get them to like you.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life~ Winston Churchill
Wish he had taken one more in order to feed India during ww2
Yay propaganda!
@@Gallzatron How is that propaganda?
such wisdom so young.. whats it gonna be like when you are old and look like Gandalf ?
He'd be like "300 lives of men I've walked this earth but now I have no time for youtube".
+Daniel Lelievre probably like all the other smart kids that grew up with strong morals. He ain't gon be on a yacht or a private jet, thats for sure. No rotation of supermodels either.
@@awfulaim912 why wouldnt he be on a yact or a private jet
@@Ahmed_Elhaddad Because it is not wise to spend your life-earned fortune to impress people that hate you,
especially if you've already admitted that hate and have made the wise decision to move past that.
maybe a midlife crisis half way
Nice video :)
Thanks Physics Girl!
Veritasium Looks like you pulled. ;-)
are you ever coming to singapore?
wut a gurl who dus physucs? ---no way
***** Could get physical.
I run a gym in Ensenada, Baja California. I watch your channel often. Your content is beyond interesting and I find myself relaxed after a couple of episodes. "Therapeutic" is the appropriate word.
Whether you ever read this comment, I just needed to inform you and anyone else that may read my comment that your message is just what I needed to hear at just the right time.
Thank you.
I wish someone had explained this to me when I was 5 years old; I've denied myself countless opportunities just to avoid the risk of upsetting anyone in the slightest.
I was one of the folks who asked about volcanoes and I don't claim to be dull or ignorant. Luckily there were many people who took the time to have a conversation about it in the comments, and I learned something (many something). So, there... it was of benefit to me and I didn't unsubscribe...
Honestly, dude, you are such a positive person. You always smile even talking about trolls and the smile seems genuine. Keep up the good work, love your videos and science FTW.
Totally agree with this opinion, as a UA-camr myself I was first saddened to realize that positive comments were so common they had no more positive effects on me, and haters / troll comments started to appear. All new and unseen, they really hurt me at first, and I tried several things (as a good scientist would :P):
- Responding violently: consolidated their thoughts and hate on me -> vicious circle.
- Asking for reasons / justifications: proved that MOST of the haters/trolls have no idea of what your work is about, and thus can't respect it -> their opinion is totally not relevant and does not express truth about you.
- Ignoring: other people would tend to start a conflict and enter the vicious circle -> delete / keep letting go. Their opinion does NOT reflect the reality of things and you should really take them like that.
Justified criticism needs to be listened to, your viewers have a different point of view from yours and maybe expect something different, always question yourself, that's humility :)
When I make a purely scientific video: people call it boring.
When I make a fun video: people call it stupid.
When I try to mix both: most people are pleased, but still guys arguing that they would like it to be more scientific, or more entertaining.
In short terms:
Remember that for each person that hates you, 1000 more love you.
You will never please and agree with everybody, do what you love for whoever loves what you do.
You're not doing it for the haters, they're not to be given importance to ;)
Love your work Derek, keep sharing it!
For Science!
You m@d bro?! No one asked u.
1:02 "the success of an individual is directly proportional to the number of uncomfortable conversations they're willing to have"
Unfortunately, it only applies if you're having conversations with people who are ALSO willing to have uncomfortable conversations.
I am now 100% 'digital' and entirely alone. Possibly 'the very first all-digital human' (prior to being ACTUALLY digital).
2020 & 2021 have marked the beginnings and ends of me no longer physically interacting with other human beings, face to face.
From this point forward, I don't physically exist, and I am merely 'what digital videos verified his actions'.
Everything else about me is now lost forever.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat I think online conversations can be quite uncomfortable as well. In fact, message-based conversations can allow for much more discomfort than face-to-face because you can answer in your own time, rather than being on the spot and reacting in a way that derails the conversation. (That being said, it sounds like you should get out more ;)
This video is one of my favorites pieces of advice. Still to this date relevant and I come back here from time to time to remember those wise words you said. Thanks!
I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD A SECOND CHANNEL AND I'M SO MAD I HADN'T FOUND IT UNTIL NOW!!!
+Mike Black Welcome. Hahaha
+Mike Black I found this channel first and it took me a while to realize he had a main channel that was way bigger. Haha.
Imagine how I feel... having just discovered the second channel now...
just today
I have never forgotten this video. The question of finding the balance between "be on good terms with all persons" and "be hated" feels eternal. It also feels more relevant today then ever.
as Hachiman has said "pleasing everyone is impossible,but pissing everyone off is easy and fun as hell"
+Yukino Takada 雪乃 鷹だ praise the 8man.
Ik am replying to a damn old comment but oregairu s3 released,yay!
@@sashishekhar8266 it's ended now 😔
The truth does not change based on people’s opinions. Unfortunately, it would seem the peoples opinions do not change based on the truth, either.
Making it easier to admit you're wrong is a corner stone to informing people. It's tricky, and it essentially means you get no intellectual pride for being correct, but none of that matters if you're educating. Being right doesn't feel nearly as good as gaining an ally in information ;)
ignorant is not an insult it does not mean stupid and people who take it as an insult are stupid. Someone who is trying to educate someone who is lacking information on a topic and tells them that they are ignorant is literally telling them that they lack information. I know only one persuasion of people who view ignorant as an insult.
Brandon Ottinger If you're talking to someone and you come to the conclusion that they don't know something and you want to educate them about it. How will telling them that they are ignorant, help you in educating them?
Jaqen H'Ghar Unfortunately due to the way it has been used in day to day language it has changed its meaning in informal discussions to be a more snarky way of saying your stupid and below me intelectually.
Ignorant just means lacking knowledge of something.
I'm an expert in computer science but ignorant in climate change.
Intelligent, well thought out arguments, as always. I agree with his sentiment
Well said! To quote a much hated person; "You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say". Martin Luther. A single lighted candle in an otherwise dark universe, makes all the difference - and of course as we know there are actually many lighted candles. Ignorance has no interest in rationality, evidence, goodness or truth, but seeks only to have its prejudice confirmed. Speak your truth, you will be loved for it as well
"A man with no enemies is a man with no character" -- Paul Newman
It's because of videos like these that Derek is by far my favorite producer of educational content on UA-cam. I don't know many other scientific communicator youtubers that produce content of such a high standard, but are still not afraid to voice their own opinions, regardless of whether or not they is contentious. Keep up the good work Derek, I'm sure it won't be long before the climate change deniers start giving in.
*they are
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood for something in your life."
-Winston Churchil
Melbourne! I love my city
Was that city built on rock and roll? ;)
me too! Thanks for sparing me the effort of me writing a comment to ask what gear he's using!
HungryTacoBoy No, but it was built by Batman.
Seriously: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman
Neil Creek That's awesome.
Neil Creek Batman, the export boom of the gold rush, and functional sewers.
I'm so glad you've reached out and tried to engage those whose limited scope leads them to scorn before internal reflection. I think it shows that the biggest problems we can have in science is simply understanding each other without disliking each other because of our views. Please keep up the brilliant videos :)
Not sure how I got to this 8 years old video, but the words you are saying are very resonating. Thank you!
I really don't understand why there is such a big section of the public that don't believe in man made climate change. Why are people so emotive and opinionated about this one particular scientific fact? Popular opinion does not change reality. Leave the science to the scientists and not us lot (the public).
It's why the infamous Al Gore movie was called 'the inconvenient truth', it's an issue of convenience. Notice no one has problems with science or scientific theories until something like climate change or evolution. Why? Because suddenly it's inconvenient. Suddenly it's against your religious beliefs, or with global warming it's going to increase the price of gas for your car. As soon as there's a 'cost' introduced, there's backlash and folks in general don't want to pay or change. No one questions the scientific process or it's conclusions, until somehow it might effect them in a negative way (HD TVs, better smaller phones great, expensive gas bad) even if the scientists and the process are the same.
mostly they are lied too, or would rather hate than feel guilt. i just came from that position.
12tman12 Let us not forget that according to most mainstream religious beliefs in the western world, the end of civilization hails the second coming, so is it not something to be desired rather than fought against? On a (sometimes) subconscious level any religious person would see a silver lining to an extinction event befalling the world. Calling a spade a spade instigates a "righteous" bout of self delusion, on those who have been taught to call a spade "redemption" through the power of authority and/or revelation.
Many people used global warming in their politics, and they had an agenda. Global warming is real, but remember how Al Gore said the ice caps would be melted (don't remember if he said completely) by 2014? Yeah that didn't happen lol.
It's kind of easy to see why some people still think it's all bs. So many lies and/or false predictions.
Because the few that spread this misinformation have other intere$t$ and rather have the people tamed like sheep.
Both your channels are great. You are a really good talker, I always learn something new about science or life in general when I watch your videos. Diverse content but relative to us all in some way. Happy holidays and keep posting these videos!!
I laughed so hard at the graph
Or rather the trend line on the graph
Same here, liked, shared, told my mom about it.
Luke Vanden Bosch
(not a troll at all, but I have to mention)
hm.. maybe you are not familiar with the "statics" behind that. i guess that's a baseline (or intercept) model, which is the simplest model to describe a responsevariable. I guess you were expecting a (linear) regression model, that has an actual "trend" (a normal baseline model also can have a trend, but not in the way you normally use the term trend).
to explain it quick:
if you have y (=temp) and want a linear model you use something like:
y = b0 + b1 * x
x stands for the years. if you don´t use any x you have something like
y = b0
and b0 is a constant, thats why you have that line.
there a many ways to get your b0, and i guess they used a very simple model there, that just takes the latest output and set it to b0.
maybe they did that on purpose (I guess) or maybe that was just the best fitting model. we would have to check the data to find out. ;)
MrVinca I am actually a bit familiar with statistics, bell curves, normal distributions, error bars, error analysis, and such, but the way that it was described was quite funny. Being that It was labelled as The 19 year 'pause' which clearly not the case, I believe that you yourself are either trolling or did not get the joke in the video.
Luke Vanden Bosch
I found the graph confusing and amusing at the same time, had very little information, and can with no doubt be missused (like they did in that article). But the topic of forcing stats and graphs to fit an opinion into someones mind, is another thing I don´t want to go into...
I am too familiar with statistics, as a student of it, but you said the "trend line on the graph", which if they made a correct model, was ture.
I hate that i agree with you almost all the time. And i hate that you're gorgeous and brilliant and kinder than me.
And l love that youre online sharing your wisdom with the world.
Keep being you.
Accepting disagreement and hatred by some is by far the best way to reach out to people.
If we’re going to be agreeable and accept all opinions around us without ours that might go against other people’s opinions then who are we?
As Gotye said in “with our eyes wide open”
“Well, why would I’d make a change if you won’t?”
If we are being disagreed with and be hated sometimes, we change as we try changing other people’s opinions by mature and thoughtful discussions and accept discomfort of disagreement and even strong feeling of hatred. And even the strong emotional toll of trying to change for the better as we grow old and feel more tired by time.
PS: Loved the irony that the URL contains "whack".
The problem is what's cherished by most of us : individuality. We don't think as a race but as individual cells wanting to become a full fledged organism for themselves. Once we acknowledge that the way forward is to see every specimen of us as another cell in a larger organism trying to achieve a common goal, humanity's saved.
When commenting people always take everything personal. Someone else's views don't align with yours? Then they must be wrong and either group forming starts (which is never good) or people are driven into solitary with their opinions pinned on them as individual burdens. We're way more than that. Alas, you cannot blame someone for speaking their mind, getting burned and never try again, leaving the rest in blissful ignorance.
***** : Plus, ofcourse, everything every living organism is made out of. We tend to forget that cooperation of individual cells is what allows us to be organisms. Somehow we cannot surpass the logical cooperation of the building blocks we're made from.
Derek,
That was the single best thing I have ever heard on UA-cam. Thank you for your reflections, and thank you for all the videos you post!
~Dominic
What have you got to hide?
You feel what you feel, you think what you think, you know what you know.
Why do you want friends that don't like you for being yourself?
Surely there's more to life than that.
Just found this vlog channel, and it's AWESOME.
I empathized a lot with your intentions of hearing and answering everyone, even if it's the internet. It's easy to falter and hard to believe in it again afterwards. I hope you can go back to that path if you ever drift away from it. The world needs as many people like you with that mindset as possible.
@0:31 "there are many bad people out there, and if you're not pissing some of them off, you're doing something wrong."
Which is why I still use Fahrenheit
I don't think that pisses anyone off.
My right eye twitched.
@@David-ud9ju it does
Great video! Definitely a truth to live by! Great stuff, man!
Your data, and interpretation thereof, may offend me. But, that is my issue.
If what you present is the truth, and I have believed a lie, then that offense could correct my path.
If what you present is incorrect, and the challenge gets me interested in the data enough to defend my interpretation, then that offense refines my belief.
I learn something (often many things) from every video you post to 1veritasium. Thank you for sticking to the data, and the unflinching way you share your take on the data. If that offends, then keep right on offending. :)
Well said!
Dude, great video.
I learn something new every day whit your uploads.
Do not stop because if you reach one out of a 100 people it is still a winning situation.
I got my girlfriend to see some of your videos and made her more curious about things and maybe we need to be more curious about everything in this world and universe.
Thx again.
Always great to see a fellow Desiderata lover. It's something I hold very near and dear to my heart, though I see where you're coming from with your video's message. Keep up the great work!
You and Vsause make some of the best and most educated videos on youtube. Heres A BIG THANK YOU for being so awesome!
I strongly resonate with every word of this video. Sorry for not hating you :) But now I want to advocate the other side of the story. As you mentioned: "as far as possible, without surrender, be in good terms with all persons". This is incredibly important because it helps you enormously in getting your message across, as long as you are sincere and intellectually honest. I am deliberately engaging in conversations on climate change in channels run by deniers. When replying to angry, inaccurate messages, if you stay factual, objective, sincere, diplomatic, even kind if possible, you interrupt the chain of mutual insults, and you create the best conditions for the truth to emerge. People, try to do the same. It feels great!! Sometimes it is hard not to judge people who deny climate change, because they look so determined to confuse the facts in order to better trash the planet. In my case, it is easy to regain some trust in humans, I just remember of the many times in the past in which I was so passionate about stupid and dangerous theories. I was not a worse person than I am now. I just lacked the skills that I think I developed later, that allow me to think more lucidly, express myself more effectively, and avoid strong opinions on things I do not know enough.
Giancarlo Pace, that's great! The last thing you mentioned especially. In my experience, people could really use the advise to not form very strong opinions on things they don't know enough about.
Also, the first thing I learned in my philosophy class was to always hear your argumentative opponent out, explain your arguments clearly and respectfully (don't start attacking the person), and always be ready to change sides if the other persons arguments are better than yours. It sounds like you possess those skills. Awesome work, have a great day ;)
more people should take philosophy xD
Zohan Bozz , that's the single most important skill that school should teach. Shame it's not even in the curriculum of any school, at least as far as I know. However, for a constructive dialog to take place, it is necessary that both sides have the same attitude. I changed my mind about debating climate deniers on their own channel. Probably you get some results, even if you don't see it, but the effort is massive and could be spent better, for instance talking to people who are skeptical of climate change but are open to learn something. If people repeat over and over again arguments that were already rebutted effectively, chances are that they will keep doing it forever.
Zohan Bozz , that's the single most important skill that school should teach. Shame it's not even in the curriculum of any school, at least as far as I know. However, for a constructive dialog to take place, it is necessary that both sides have the same attitude. I changed my mind about debating climate deniers on their own channel. Probably you get some results, even if you don't see it, but the effort is massive and could be spent better, for instance talking to people who are skeptical of climate change but are open to learn something. If people repeat over and over again arguments that were already rebutted effectively, chances are that they will keep doing it forever.
Giancarlo Pace, it's interesting that you changed your mind about who to get into an argument with, because I recently came to the same conclusion as you (don't get into arguments with people determined not to change sides). There was a guy in the comment section of another youtube video who thought that space is actually water, that the earth is flat, and that the media is lying to us all, a real nut bag. I spent a good three hours writing a respectful response, explaining my view on the matter, and he ended up just reading the first few rows and laughing at them.
I don't think it's a complete waste of time though. I recently also had a conversation with my friend about immigration. It was a long discussion, but I ended up changing his mind completely, despite him being so sure he was right before. He said he realized how stupid he'd been, believing what his old racist teacher had taught him. Now, he might not have been completely locked into his his side of the argument, but he was at the very least moderately resilient to changing sides. Changing his mind really gave me hope that peoples minds actually can be changed.
The point I'm trying to make is that even though it might sometimes be a waste of energy to get into an argument with someone that has already decided what they believe, when you hit the jackpot and change their mind completely it feels really great, as I'm sure you've experienced. So don't give up completely on changing ignorant people's minds :)
Having haters means you're doing something right. 100% agree with this video!
Bloodbath and Beyond Or that you're doing something wrong...
^ See?
"And if I am doing something that makes me hated by these people... then I am doing something right"
love the last sentence!!! Really love it
"The success of an individual is directly proportional to the number of uncomfortable conversations they're willing to have."
If there was one thing to remember from this video, I think that's it.
The School of Life, Vsauce, and Veritasium - probably the most valuable channels on this site.
+Lord Vetinari I'm very skeptical about The School of Life's videos on love and relationships. They often seem biased and motivated by people who haven't been successful at it.
+Adelar Scheidt Agreed. The Relationship videos usually come to a somewhat negative conclusion.
Adelar Scheidt What those vids speak to me is that it is not mandatory for a relationship to go perfectly according to plan for it to work, and also that there is always the real possibility you can end up alone. That makes me value my relationship more and it also eases my anxiety on whether it will work. I just enjoy it more and give it my best.
The School of life? I haven't ever heard of this channel, but if it is anywhere near being as good as Veritasium and Vsauce I'm going to check it out.
It's their equivalent in terms of personal development!
Climate change? Just plant a shitload of trees, job done.
Yeah. But have you ever tried to get people to plant millions of trees all the time?
Wafflical Don't need people to do it, just governments.
If you buy the land, I'll come plant trees on it.
This guy is the future !
We should just kill all of the cows. In the world. That would help. Just make cows extict.
I like it how you wear a youtube sweater to not watch like a public stalker with a camera
Well said. A lot of us look for the approval of others that aren’t necessarily in match with our beliefs and thoughts. It’s important then to express your opinions rather than just not talking cause you’re worried of arguing. Live your truth and accept hatred from bad people
2veritasium used to get weird stares when he talked to just a camera in public. He solved this issue by starting to where a shirt that says "UA-cam". That is the true sign of a physicist.
Very well said. I realize (and I'm sure you more than realize too) that the moment you comment or respond to someone in the UA-cam comments or real life... you make waves. Those waves are always volatile, because there will be people who will even respond negatively about THIS non-science video which I thought was very respectful and thought out.
Some people genuinely disagree while keeping an open mind, some people already have the answer before even understanding the question, some people are just always argumentative, and a few are "trolls" that doesn't realize their jokes don't come off as anti-humor or funny, but rather hurtful to the human reading on the other end, especially when the creator of content is reading the responses to something they put hours and lots of thought into creating. The anonymity the internet provides, allows people to state their opinion in a polarizing manner without a filter. It's admirable to engage your users in the comments... just don't let the raw hate tear you down.
Well said *****
The videos on this channel are getting kinda better than the original channel hahaha
I personally like that they are more casual, conversational.
Veritasium Exactly. While I love the planning that goes behind the main videos, this one feels "just right" for telling a short insightful message!
Dangerous topic dude. Make sure you don't give your viewers the potential to develop bad ideas.
Here's my opinion:
If you're hated by people who are seeking power and money, because you exposed them and/or dismantled their criminal enterprise. Then yeah, be hated.
But if you're hated because YOU want power and money and you're destroying other people's lives because of your greed. Then YOU are the problem in the world.
Understand the difference.
Vision wise
I thank you for your example of transparecy and your real effort of fidelity in comunication. You helped me reach a tipping point of accion.
As a university professor, allow me to thank you for the tremendous effort you put in illustrating science's most difficult concepts. I often turn to you (and a few other bloggers _ or vloggers, your call) when I have a concept to convey to my class, but fail to find the appropriate conduit. Therefore, THANK YOU for making my job easier (without taking any of my pay ! :) ).
And above all: KEEP BEING HATED.
Someone who has crossed a whole life without making a few powerful enemies has done nothing grand.
this is gold!
Anyone here after he mentioned this video during his interview with Bill gates
Yup
Me too
yep! Wanted to rewatch this :)
"Be hated" is really more of a cop out. It is one way of dealing with the fact that your attempt at communication and/or persuasion has failed. Those who will not be assimilated, or at least remain docile, are beyond the pale and are evil and good to be hated by. That's why so much of this video monologue is about "those people" and "them", the people that "be hated" invites you to dismiss with your own brand of contempt. This reaction is very natural, but it isn't very mature. "Being hated" is most definitely a sign of actual failure and it is not a cause for joy. On the other hand, it's a failure you simply have to accept as the relative limits of the two minds involved. No effort at mass communication is ever going to be completely successful. So you accept "being hated" as a lamentable consequence of trying and failing, not as a badge of being so convinced you are right while so many others are so wrong.
And I think you did a very good job of trying to get your ideas across in the GW video, especially give what a noisy issue it is.
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People get hated for a lot of things, but being right is probably the most prominent. Your comment is not hated, because it simply isn't right.
Nix Clashing Well, no one hates your comment either. Still, if we both ramp up our righteousness, we may yet be able to bask in the glow of some well-earned hate.
Oh, dude! I'm having a really natural talent to piece people off just by being in the room. And really nice to hear your words! Thanks mate!
a lot of the opinions he expresses and even quotes he proclaims i have heard and used, though because of this, the respect I have for him gives me great happiness. thank you Veritasium,
its good not to be alone in thinking the quantity of the ignorant does not lessen the benefits of helping them understand.
This video made me subscribe
Remember Darek, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Your treading a thin line between belief and opinion. Opinions can change in the 'blink of an eye' but it takes years to form a belief and longer to dislodge one. My best advice to you is show the proof again and again and again, quit telling people about it, they won't listen. For example, you can tell a child time after time to not touch something because its hot or sharp or anything and they will always have to touch it. Direct evidence will influence a mind far faster then hear-say! Good luck to you.
Pecker Wood I completely agree with what you said but your solution sadly doesn't help in the context of climate change. You're right that people need a proof to maybe change their believes but what makes touching a hot plate so effective is not that it's just a proof but that it's a very unpleasant and painful proof.
In the case of climate change we have proofs but none that will have any major effect on anyone until it's too late to change. As Derek said in one of his videos, people are very bad at thinking globally and there just is no proof that plays on our primitive fears like pain.
The only thing that could help is getting more educated people in positions in which they could actually change something but then again, the people in those positions are already very educated but mostly use their knowledge just for their own benefit..
***** There is tons of proof out there on climate change, just show them pictures, lots and lots of pictures, cartoons would probably be more effective but what ever you do, DO NOT show them page after page of empirical proof on the subject, it even makes me go to sleep reading those papers.
Pecker Wood I get what you mean and to my knowledge graphs are the best way to convincingly show proofs (dunno if that too was in one of dereks videos).
However, everything you wrote just corroborates my statements.
The average idiot isn't scientifically literate enough to be swayed by proof or evidence though. That's the problem we currently have. Everyone is showing them the evidence that climate change is man made and they still don't believe it.
Is there any evidence that a large increase in CO2 over 100 years vs 5000 years is somehow more harmful? In what way would it be more harmful? You implied that the earth can adjust if the change is over time? How does the earth adjust? Do Ice caps and glaciers prepare for the CO2? Do they brace themselves so they won't melt?
I am not a climatologist but I do work in economics so I know how devastating to living standards the proposed fixes will be. You are looking at millions of people in 3rd world countries who manged to overcome destitution through development in recent years who are going to be forced right back into extreme poverty by these proposed measures to solve climate change.
STDrepository sry about that. UA-cam app bug.
Humans are of limited power when it comes to controlling natural catastrophes. If all the volcanoes decided to erupt tomorrow, we are fucked. We should try and not be the ones to cause a global mega extinction of we can help it. The decision is still ours to make:embrace the chaos or resist and protect.
Berzerius Youre missing the point.
He said an amount of CO2 over 5000 years is ok. But an amount of CO2 over 100 years is dangerous. I asked why? Why does the time frame matter, if its hot glaciers melt either way. Does it matter how long it takes? what is the danger?
Yes there is a lot of evidence, if you have access to academic papers just try using google scholar or science direct to search for the one that convince you the most within the literally thousands papers that you can find regarding the impact of a quick increase of Greenhouse Gases (Not just CO2)...
I am not sure how many proposed fixes you have read about but in my line of work and studies (I am an environmental engineer) I have met and discuss with economists different solutions from the socio-economic perspective and they are some viable not "devastating" ones. The problem is that they imply big changes and the support of new systems and technologies that are not currently embedded in the system yet... Another recurrent problem is that most of the "Developed" countries actually need a "developing" country to do the cheap, non-responsible work for them so that they can keep their current unsustainable way of living.
Anyway... there are a lot of problems but a lot of proposed solutions as well, some of them really complex but not impossible, and I mean climate change is happening, and we will have to deal with it and adapt sooner or later, better to be prepared and try to mitigate it as much as we can... Actually some countries are already dealing with it and trying to adapt, just ask anyone from an island in the Pacific region; Kiribati, Tuvalu, Palau, they surely not appreciate people calling climate change a hoax...
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There´s a carbon cycle and CO2 sinks trough carbon sequestration (which you seem to be ignorant of, since than you would have asked about them, not glaciers bracing themselves lol). If you release more into the cycle faster of course it gets out of balance since the natural cycle won´t keep up.
What happens if I pour 250 liter in you in 1 hour instead over 50 days? The difference will also be you will be out of balance, aka dead, while the 2. would be perfectly fine with your organism and appease your thirst. :p
Martin Elizalde Lecuona In my opinion the entire crux of climate change hinges on whether a rapid change is more dangerous than a gradual one. I'm sure you've read about how the cretaceous period had around 6 times as much CO2 as now and it was one of the most biodiverse times in earth's history. So CO2 itself is not bad for life (assuming life is what we care about). Its the rapid change that is supposedly dangerous.
I can see some species being unable to evolve to cope with a rapid change and that would be a fair point. What I don't see is any threat at all to humans. Coastal dwelling people may have to move inland over the coming century but thats not a threat to their lives.
So i'm not at all seeing the justification for this kind of economic damage (and there will be) if the goal is only to attempt to save a few species.
You have to remember that economic harm is often magnified when it reaches the 3rd world. For example a few businesses that shut down in Canada might magnify into 10's of thousands of lost jobs in Indonesia where they had their factories. Not only do the factory workers go back to sustenance farming but the farmers that sold vegetables to those factory workers now also have to go back to sustenance farming. The local Indonesian banks lose the deposits because sustenance farmers don't have bank accounts, and that means those banks can no longer invest in the Indonesian economy to generate more jobs.
with out war there is no peace and with out hate there is actually no true love nor no true understanding of life cause if you know hate you will know what how to truly understand someone. great video
Because I must be hated I won't be afraid to be hated but I won't use a general awareness of this hatred that must exist as proof of my success.
My favorite bits of the Desiderata:
"Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. . .
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. . .
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
If your intelligent, then there are tons of idiots who will hate you anyway. You don't have to do much.
***** LIFE...an odd thing indeed
Aeroscience you're*
If I dislike this video, does that mean I'm a good person or a bad person? ;P
(Note I liked the video, just wondering)
It just means he's a good person.
***** Well we both kind of ruffled each other's feathers, so we're both good people? ;)
Thor K. But if I like his videos enough to dislike it to make him look slightly hated making him a good person, I could be considered good ;)
Conversations with trolls are not an effective tool to use to educate. Trolls thrive on the fight..not on learning.
However, many people with strong opinions that have constructive criticism are unfairly labeled as trolls. Yes there are the obvious trolls with shitty one liners and obvious flame bait and for those people ignore them or ban them if they are clearly breaking the rules of the forum but other people who are being civil and just discussing their opinion on the matter? Well if you want to listen than listen and if not go do something else, it really is that easy.
Not referring to people who simply disagree.
people who simply disagree are often mislabeled as trolls.
And many trolls are smart enough to start off small and lead into something larger. Troll tends to be witty sociopaths, they often aren't dumb.
Still, they have no rebuttal to logic. Use logic until they use rhetoric or a fallacy, challenge them on this, then if they refuse to acknowledge, then disengage.
fak u
All it takes for Evil to triumph is that the good people do nothing.
That comforts me a little bit. I'm a teacher, so I am hated a lot. Mostely because I don't let them do what they want *right now* (e.g. chilling, damaging things, burning rubber instead of heating the given chemicals...); but I do that so they can get what they want *later in life* (e.g. a job, money, a good social environment,...)
I love this video so much!!!
Hey, are you Aussie, cause it looks alot like your in Melbourne.
i disagree with your opinion about global WARMING. please do not confuse with pollution, co2 release and etc. BUT i still think your videos are worth viewing and i would never unsubscribe a channel from which i have learned so much and still have much to learn because of one desagreement (even though is a big topic). those people who unsubscribed from you are those whose opinions are weak.
I really enjoy those reflective videos of yours. keep on the good work.
Thanks Bruno. CO2 in small amounts is not pollution. But unfortunately in large quantities it makes the ocean acidic, so it is a pollutant in that way (plus the whole warming the Earth thing).
Veritasium CO2 in any amount is NOT pollution, it is a gas which is vital for life on Earth. CO2 doesn't make the ocean more acidic, it makes it less alkaline as the current pH is ~8.
savery1967
Virtually everything, even things vital for life, can have negative effects in high amounts. Iron for example is a absolutely vital to the production of red blood cells, something you can't live without, but that doesn't mean you should eat a bowl of iron filings for breakfast.
In the case of CO2 the same concept applies, no CO2 in our atmosphere would certainly leave earth a desolate frozen wasteland. However an increase in CO2 concentrations will trap more heat from the sun, causing average global temperatures to increase, which in turn melts the polar ice caps, screws up weather patterns, and causes sea levels to rise.
While it's improbable we'd ever get to a scenario like what happened to Venus (where a runaway greenhouse effect has resulted in the second planet from the sun being the hottest in the solar system), bad things would happen nonetheless. Should the polar icecaps melt entirely, many coastal cities and low lying areas (including virtually the entire state of Florida) will find themselves under water.
Also decreasing alkalinity by definition is an increase in acidity, and there's a lot of lifeforms (particularly coral) that can't tolerate such significant changes to water chemistry in either direction..
savery1967
Less alkaline is more acidic.. and small organisms in the ocean need a steady pH to survive, so any change beyond a point is detrimental to many different food webs.
savery1967
www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Carbon+Uptake
Hopefully this will answer your questions. And yes, it forms carbonic acid....
I could listen to your advice and watch your videos for hours, you have my upmost respect. Every word you say is golden! Keep it up
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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I watch your shows not for what you think, but for what you demonstrate scientifically. The problem with theories behind 'significant human induced climate change' is that they are not based in science, but in extreme speculation. Don't get me wrong, science requires extreme speculation as a starting point, yet when a particular point is thoroughly disproved, that point needs to be thrown-out. Many of the extremely speculative and foundational points of such climate change have been redundantly disproved. I was upset about your Climate Change video because you failed to provide evidence while speaking as if you had.
My bet is you haven't looked at the science because there is a lot of evidence there. Just look at NASA's climate page for one: climate.nasa.gov
I didn't present evidence in the climate change video because I thought it was well known and well accepted. Now I realize I do need to present the evidence. But I'm also asking you to do your part and seek it out. Sea levels are rising, land ice in Antartica and Greenland is melting, sea ice in the arctic is melting, glaciers are receding, the atmosphere is more moist, the warming is greater around the Earth than in the stratosphere, and CO2 and temperatures are rising.
Veritasium I think part of the problem lies in those people that you mentioned in the video (unsubscribers who failed to listen fairly to what you said) consider researching the topic a form of support. Some people are so set in their beliefs that they wouldn't think of researching climate change just as they wouldn't think of researching a correlation between a decrease in pirates and an increase in population. If changing their point of view wouldn't benefit them in any way and might make them seem less intelligent for even giving the other side some time to speak, then they're not gonna do it.
That, I think, is a good enough reason to provide a video that will (hopefully fairly) represent the evidence in a sit back and listen format, instead of active research.
Veritasium
-Arctic sea ice has actually grown both in volume and coverage since its low in 2012. nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
-Antarctic ice coverage hit a recorded high in Sept 2013. wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/22/nasa-announces-new-record-growth-of-antarctic-sea-ice-extent/
-Greenland ice actually was growing in volume during the NASA listed time frame of 1996-2005. www.sciencemag.org/content/310/5750/1013.full
I realize that there are extensive arguments for and against all of these sources (including yours, and I've read many on both sides).
I don't want someone to read these articles for me and give their interpretation or understanding. I suspect that I am not alone in this.
Regardless, I do believe that the climate is changing. It always is since the earth, sun and moon are a non-static system.
I have yet to see any convincing evidence that humans have a significant effect on the earth's climate.
allen mathew
My Google search was actually quite neutral. "Antarctic ice sheet decrease or increase" replacing antarctic as appropriate. Though, since I was trying to provide evidence of credible disagreement, I did appropriately cherry-pick the articles I referenced.
*****
You are not allowed to have a contrary opinion. You must not analyze critically what they are claiming. You must accept their opinion as the dogma it is. You will find, as I have, that you will never have an honest conversation with "true believers".
WAS THIS FILMED IN MELBOURNE?
Yep
2veritasium, I never thought I would agree with you but your background, it makes sense and you're right: It is better to be hated.
I like to call it catching fire or taking fire on. There are things which are worth standing even and especially when no one is looking. Another way I look at it is, if its easier for people to hate, which is sad, then go with the flow; I'd let people hate me. To always want to be right or be proven right is a mark of dark tendencies.
You're not a wimp for saying sorry either. It's called manners. Because when you don't say sorry or try to meet them in some middle ground, it can cause damage and be really hurtful. How can you expect others to be kind if you're not?
Hi, I'm working on a project right now and i sincerely wanted to thank you.
I found your channel few months ago and it's just amazing, you and your videos helped me to develop a really complicated project.
What you give to your subscribers is not just knowledge, but also inspiration.
So thank you! Really!
All the best,
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This is whole premise shady. The implication is that people who disagree "hate" you is suspicious at best. More likely you are seeing heterogeneous [fixed] response; some effects of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, some sycophants, some strong disagreement.
But this makes it sound like anyone who disagrees is hateful, and by extension, irrational.
Did you read the comments on the other video? There were some hateful things said. Did you mean heterogenous response?
Veritasium Yes, and yes. My phone likes to second guess me.
I read some (not all) of the comments, and saw a lot of disagreement, mostly rational.
The galactic interwebz is a locus for vitriol and hyperbole. People overstate constantly, and some go straight for the gutter. I think it's safe to say that anyone who simply spews invective doesn't hate you, they hate themselves. People who were trying to make serious points weren't hateful; just passionate.
I have no doubt that you could quote some vicious language that was used, but from what I read it was the typical level of angry discourse that arises from politicized science.
I read many of the comments in the other video and it was generally a very rational discussion. I think the hateful things he is referring to are the comments that marked him as being political in the video. They said that they came here for the science and proceeded to say that they didn't like the content of the video and went on to unsubscribe.
cponce7 Of course, that doesn't denote hate per se. I tune out when the topic is political as well. It's not that I am not political, but that politicized science gives me gas, and there are few aspects of science more politicized than climate.
Word.
It's pretty obvious that you're just trying to convince yourself that you're right with this video. Well, truth does not stem from being hated or from others agreeing with you.
It stems from you producing facts and having those facts validated by evidence rather than opinion. Whatever anyone's opinions may be does not matter. This is objective, not subjective.
Nice to see a fellow Voluntaryist on here!
Derek, well put and you quote one of my favourite pieces of writing.
The ozone layer is a problem, we banned CFCs as aerosol propellant etc. with little impact. No one has repealed efforts to effect this problem.
But no one wants to give up the lifestyle that makes them reliant on lots of hydrocarbons becoming carbon dioxide.
Novel energy generation and the hope for fusion are the step changes we need to move opinion and create meaningful action.
Your openness always amazes me.You're undoubtedly one of the best person I have seen on the Internet..
The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. To hate you have to care.
Derek, I agree with you. Some people are narrow minded, their minds are closed to new ideas and information.
Since not one person can please everyone in the planet, it's better to be hated.
Rudyard Kipling on his masterpiece of a poem titled, "IF," wrote on the first verse,
"If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you.
But make allowance for their doubting too."
But that same verse also states not to deal with being lied to, hated and not to give way to hating.
What I can take away from this, as you've said, is that not all humans necessarily have to agree.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions no matter how stupid or how intelligent.
We just need to find a common ground to respect whichever way of thinking our friends or other people have.
What a great video Derek. One that inspires me regularly. Weirdly, I find that I repeatedly have to listen to this one. I have also been moved to read Adrian Tan's address.
Thank you I needed that. You reached me and like in another video 5 separation etc. That one can become exponentially realized. Keep jammin it up cause life is worth much more than gold.
So, I'm here... I've watched this video and read comments...I've never felt such emotion
And i have saw a lot of like-minded people and I understood I'm not so alone. I am for the first time have seen such big amount of thinking, looking people and this fact made my day. There are more of them than I imagined. I haven't ever been so happy. So, thank you, Derek, for your job, for your videos, which can really teach something, make us think, thank, for your ability to speak or listen when other would shout in emotions, and thank to the people who watch these videos
Amen! Keep responding, that is how we grow, learn and find greater truths...even from the haters. The haters deepen our truths. Great video!
As N. N. Taleb puts it: "I never trust a man who doesn't have enemies." and "Have enemies; but make sure that they think about you much, much more than you think about them".
The message is great and I completely agree. For one, you need to have a worldview that isn't so dependent on others that you would change it just because of one public reaction. Large companies can weather storms by ignoring controversy until it goes away (and it usually does). This is a specifically poor example just to illuminate the point that it can also be a bad thing when in the hands of the wrong people.
The asterisk that I would add to the argument is that an expression of one's opinion must be subject to "impact". It is necessary to consider the impact of your words as a function of the goal that you're trying to achieve. What is that goal? Spending 5 years of your life to change the minds of 5 people is wasteful, unless those people themselves have the capacity to influence huge masses. General principles are extremely important to have, but due to the temporal nature of our existence, one must pick and choose their best application and a graceful exit may be necessary at times. If humans lived indefinitely then this would not apply, perhaps.
"Be hated" though, is a different story entirely. I would again amend that with another asterisk, being that the hatred received should be strictly disproportional. In simple words, let crazy people hate you all they want. People who are passionate when it comes to defending their side, but who are also equally logical as you are - should not feel that they need to hate you in order to get their way. If you are inciting feelings of hatred in otherwise rational and emotionally stable people, then there is something wrong with your approach that is unrelated to your argument. Even though the "civil" in "civilization" is a characteristic that is not met in reality as often as would be expected, it's still an important beacon to guide yourself by. Once your audience is infuriated at you - your words will fall on deaf ears. That is the nail in the coffin for arguing.
Finally, that is some fantastic image quality. I was going to ask if you were using the new king of low light - the Sony A7S, but it seems that the 5D MK3 is still a strong performer. :) Thanks for posting!
This is so impressiv..Derek is just walking and talking and it is sooo thrilling
I remember that Feynman told the same in his anecdote book. He told that the the desire to be nice ('be nice' is the magic word to which means that you need to eat whatever crap they feed you at stackoverflow) and Faynman told that this means that you need to lie, which undermines the moral fiber of the society and he was famous young jerk daring to dispute with prominent authorities.
I agree with everything you say about being hated, btw. Gen Patton said, “If everyone is thinking the same thing, then nobody is thinking.” (not exact quote)
This is the single best "response" video I have ever seen. I actually I think you articulated your point beautifully, and (in a literal sense) poetically. If I could subscribe to you harder I totally hold. Maybe if I hold the button down? You're never going to convince the masses that believe something with a fanatical fever, but even if your video reaches just one person willing to reassess their own views, and you change a single mind, then it's worth nearly drowning in the sea of willful ignorance.
Keep the science videos coming! Love learning new things from you.
"Be hated"
like many quotes, there are a lot of exceptions to it. Don't get yourself hated just for the sake of being hated, only do it if its necessary to keep your integrity.
The best advice to follow really, is to keep integrity, stay logical, and consider the arguments of others. Most other advice simply stems from this as "keep your integrity even if it means that..." in this case "even if it will cause you to be hated"
even to this rule, there are exceptions. As an example, you wouldn't be honest to a murderer when he asks "where's your kids?".
MAN i just want to meet you so we could talk for hours straight about stuff like this you're doing a great job hats off
Just watched a ton of your videos, it was this one that made me like and subscribe! (physics and maths grad here, loving your way of thinking)
Thank you for producing this video, I just discovered your channel and the "distraction economy" video which is also very insightful, I'm based in the UK but I lived in Spain for three years and a lot of my friends in London are from European countries and so when I got into the Brexit debate I got a LOT of criticism from a LOT of people for my views, but I really thought it was very important to say what I believed, and why I believed it, and of course some people agreed with me, other people didn't agree with me but still appreciated that I took the time to articulate my views on my facebook profile. Now I am thinking of getting more involved in politics generally because of how my country has been affected by the referendum and the debate, but I am still worried that I might not be strong enough to stand up to the criticism I know I will face from my friends and family. This has just made that a little bit easier to face. So thank you for that and even when we don't agree on everything, let's each and all of us try to make the world a better place!