Sci-Fi Short Stories- Humanity Chooses Knowledge & Humans are Weird:I Said I Liked (r/HFY TFOS# 741)

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  • @derekdrake8706
    @derekdrake8706 Рік тому +44

    _"Don't touch this thing."_
    Human: *desire to touch that thing increases 96.7%*
    _"It'll shock you."_
    Human: *desire to touch that thing decreases 73.2%*
    _"It could potentially be fatal."_
    Human: *desire to touch that thing increases 9.1%*

    • @inventiveowl395
      @inventiveowl395 Рік тому +4

      Is it bad that I expected the last sentence to be: *presses the button* when I read the one before last?

  • @Hektols
    @Hektols 3 роки тому +137

    Completely agree with the first story, most people wouldn't do things they are said to not to do if they were explained what would happen.

    • @Katzztar
      @Katzztar 3 роки тому +18

      Key word: most. Some still have an instinct to do what they told not to do even when they know why... like not touching wet paint. despite the sign, some still have a desire to touch. When asked "WHY? It's wet paint." they say ".. I wanted to see if it's still wet." ... WHY?

    • @deaconjay6224
      @deaconjay6224 3 роки тому

      I know im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a tool to get back into an instagram account??
      I somehow forgot the password. I love any tricks you can offer me!

    • @alfonsoronan7647
      @alfonsoronan7647 3 роки тому +1

      @Deacon Jay instablaster ;)

    • @zyanidwarfare5634
      @zyanidwarfare5634 3 роки тому +8

      Alien: “Here’s a really cool panel of buttons press whatever you want just don’t press THAT button **pointing at big red button in the center of all the fun colorful buttons**”
      Human: “ok… **after they press all the other buttons to see what they do and the alien isn’t looking they immediately press the big red button** “

    • @mstrfool
      @mstrfool 2 роки тому +2

      Glad I'm not most people. When it just needs to be done, it doesn't matter if it'll suck. Still needs to happen. If you'd live, just bite the bullet and do it. Pain fades. And if it kills you... It tends to stop hurting a lot quicker.

  • @Katzztar
    @Katzztar 3 роки тому +53

    story1- tell a human not to do something, and they want to do it. This explains some of the stupid stuff we do that we KNOW not to do like "don't touch, wet paint" ... we have to touch to see if it's still wet!

    • @mstrfool
      @mstrfool 2 роки тому +3

      Wasn't me! I ah.. Was painting a fence. Thats my story and I am sticking to it.

  • @tachyon8317
    @tachyon8317 3 роки тому +56

    Part 1 - "Curiosity killed the cat"
    Part 2 - "But satisfaction brought it back to life"

  • @hanro50
    @hanro50 3 роки тому +82

    This gives me some inspiration for a short story where two aliens try to figure out why their are records about how something seemingly deadly taste like.

    • @micaldomlancer1494
      @micaldomlancer1494 2 роки тому +21

      A little detail that would be funny to add in there is that the records of it being deadly to eat are older than the records of what it tastes like.

    • @kajek1229
      @kajek1229 Рік тому +4

      Is it out? I am curious to read it.

    • @markfergerson2145
      @markfergerson2145 Рік тому +5

      Well, I can tell you that rattlesnake doesn't taste like chicken. It tastes like rattlesnake.

  • @neosildrake
    @neosildrake 3 роки тому +65

    The only thing that can make living in eternal paradis bearable or even appreciate it for a lengthy time is an occasional/regular dip into the fires of hell.

    • @Worn_Guide
      @Worn_Guide 3 роки тому +12

      THANK YOU! I have been saying this to all friends, that both heaven and hell both sound like torture. Heaven is everything with no ambition, and hell is everything without respite. I would rather choose reincarnation, wipe the slate clean.

    • @TheDidikat
      @TheDidikat 3 роки тому +2

      @@Worn_Guide heaven isn't going to be a static environment where nothing ever changes. Heaven is eternal life, happiness and growth. We will continue to grow and change once we get there.

    • @TemporalandReaty
      @TemporalandReaty 3 роки тому +11

      @@TheDidikat Yes but not being able to be Unhappy is precisely the downside. Theres no contrast there's no Appreciation for the good if you don't know or eventually wont remember what it was like without it. Eternal Happiness at least for me cant exist in a 100% happy all the time way there will always be dips, not having those dips makes me always think about the ship of Theseus is it really the same ship at the end? Yes all the pieces were affected by the other pieces in some way and had to adjust. Removing the ability to not be happy requires removing quite a lot of what makes a person a person and will always mean at least to me that Whatever it is that is living on is no longer the original person. A secondary factor to this is even if the living entity realizes it and doesn't like the fact that they arent the same they're incapable by the rules of this space of actually doing so and Can't even escape since they're forced to not feel the negative factors that would make them want to leave. They cant even be free in death because they're already dead.
      Overall Eternal anything sucks. If it was just a space that has everything somebody likes to do then yeah that'd be nice as long as you can eventually decide if you'd like to stop, because while there is a lot of things to do in the universe there'd be a point where you'd be bored with everything having done it all and seen enough to predict everything.

    • @getonthelist5620
      @getonthelist5620 3 роки тому +6

      Have you ever thought about how happy you would be if you could only have one kind of dessert? How would your thinking change if you had only ever heard of one kind of dessert?

    • @getonthelist5620
      @getonthelist5620 3 роки тому +5

      @@Worn_Guide your comment makes me wonder if you have been watching The Good Place television series. If you haven't; you might want to check it out.

  • @Maeshalanadae
    @Maeshalanadae Рік тому +3

    Quilx’tch is one of the best characters ever. 😂😂😂 Love the HAW universe.

  • @SFox-nf3bo
    @SFox-nf3bo 3 роки тому +38

    Aliens: Don't press the red button....
    Humana:Why?
    Aliens: Don't press the red button....
    Humans: *presses the damn red button.*
    *solar star blows up*
    Also humans: Ooooooh that's why....

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 3 роки тому +18

      "Don't press the red button."
      'Why?'
      "You'll blow up the star and yourself."
      'How?'
      "It creates a complex stream of events that overloads a reactor and ultimately causes a supernova, a lot to explain but basically unless you want to be responsible for the deaths of billions, don't do it."
      'Huh. Neat.'

    • @lithoorbayushi4805
      @lithoorbayushi4805 3 роки тому +11

      @@krel7160 Nah, the next question would be " Then why does it even exist in the first place, and without some sort of major security measures? Even we are smart enough to put multifactor security measures into place when it comes to launching nuclear weapons."

    • @seanpeacock4290
      @seanpeacock4290 3 роки тому +4

      @@lithoorbayushi4805 There was a Ren and Stimpy cartoon about that. They were set to guard a red button to prevent anyone from touching it.
      Guess what happened next.

  • @asurasyn
    @asurasyn 3 роки тому +43

    In myth, Prometheus stole fire from the Underworld to give to man. Brave Prometheus, friend to man.
    But this was no mere mortal flame, but the fire of curiosity, of knowledge. In effect, Prometheus gave mankind science.
    This affront was so great, Zeus, king of the gods, damned Prometheus to be chained to a mountain top and have his liver pecked out each day by Zeus' eagle, only to regrow in the night so he might suffer eternally.
    Only this would equal his crime.
    For Prometheus had given man power equal to the gods themselves.
    When Eve took the apple, she was taking knowledge equal to God's. She shared this with Adam.
    Essentially, Eve gave Adam fire.
    It is possible then, is it not, that rather than being cast from paradise, man instead simply burned it down.

    • @steve2008s
      @steve2008s 3 роки тому +3

      or Adam and Eve realized living in a garden was crap, a house is better!

    • @seanpeacock4290
      @seanpeacock4290 3 роки тому +1

      and fire is cool

    • @fordprefect1587
      @fordprefect1587 3 роки тому +2

      F-f-f fire, fire, FIRE!!!
      -Beaus and butthead

    • @mstrfool
      @mstrfool 2 роки тому +5

      A fitting response to a God that demanded fear. Here is your fear.

    • @charlieclark9552
      @charlieclark9552 Рік тому +1

      Yes I would say so, oh and the mythical creatures the dragons werewolves unicorns witches vampires, we killed them all

  • @getonthelist5620
    @getonthelist5620 3 роки тому +21

    Morning beverages are like free tickets. They don't have to be very good to be very enjoyable.

    • @mstrfool
      @mstrfool 2 роки тому +1

      Wise words.

    • @seldonwright4345
      @seldonwright4345 Рік тому +2

      Yes. Coffee in the AM then Tea later. Green or black..
      I wonder how they'd take to some of our more exotic teas? Ooloog. Jasmine? Bkfst tea? 8

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute Рік тому

      After multiple refills of pitch black diner coffee this morning, I wholeheartedly agree. Not great coffee, but excellent fuel.

  • @spacetechempire510
    @spacetechempire510 3 роки тому +44

    Like we say knowledge is power

    • @elainegoates9792
      @elainegoates9792 3 роки тому +8

      we also say ignorance is bliss. Why the contradiction? Because we are very prone to learning things we don't want to know.

    • @nullpoint3346
      @nullpoint3346 3 роки тому +3

      @@elainegoates9792 ignorance is pain, all the pain that knowledge could bring pales before the suffering of knowing there's something I might not know.

    • @elainegoates9792
      @elainegoates9792 3 роки тому +2

      @@nullpoint3346 guess we're different people. I like to know things, and I'd rather be corrected then wrong, but some things I'd rather not know. If you'd rather know everything, including desterbing information, good for you! But I wouldn't want to know, for example, when each member of my family dies, or the butterfly effects I may have caused. Infinite knowledge and the mind to handle it sounds great, but it would be depressing.

    • @nullpoint3346
      @nullpoint3346 3 роки тому +2

      @@elainegoates9792 It most certainly is depressing, but imagine knowing there's nothing left to learn.
      For me, learning is my primary source of pleasure and my soul defense against my biologically rooted and circumstance enhanced depression, sex, drugs, and sex drugs are nothing before the satisfaction of an epiphany, ignorance and inklings only bring suffering through withdrawal symptoms, but also provide an opportunity to get a fix.
      I'm literally addicted to learning, and explaining it to others usually baffles me. This is probably the clearest my explanation has ever been.

    • @GrimpakTheMook
      @GrimpakTheMook 3 роки тому +2

      @@elainegoates9792 ignorance is bliss, lies are sweet, but knowledge is truth, and truth is cold and hard.

  • @gabrielespindola4461
    @gabrielespindola4461 3 роки тому +24

    10 years for the fision bomb and only 7 more until they made a fusion one.

    • @The-Singularity-X01
      @The-Singularity-X01 3 роки тому

      Took us about 200 to get anti-matter bombs though.

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 3 роки тому +1

      @@The-Singularity-X01 We had the uranium and radioactive isotopes relatively ready to access and on hand.
      Anti-matter is another story.

    • @The-Singularity-X01
      @The-Singularity-X01 3 роки тому +1

      @@krel7160 Oh we can make Anti-Matter reliably, its just that we could only make a few atoms worth at a time in the 21st century. By the 22rd century our starships were using Matter-AntiMatter reactions to power FTL drives.

    • @Sinyao
      @Sinyao 3 роки тому

      The only current problem with antimatter (and fusion power reactors) is that it currently takes more energy to produce or run than it can output.

    • @fordprefect1587
      @fordprefect1587 3 роки тому

      @@The-Singularity-X01 why bother with engines when you can yeet the spaceship at stupidly large velocities with a space tether and a couple of nukes?

  • @imaclone2
    @imaclone2 3 роки тому +14

    Let's not forget we also have the phrase "More than one way to skin a cat". That kinda changes the phrase "Curiosity killed the cat" some doesn't it?

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +3

      true

    • @GamingWithUncleJon
      @GamingWithUncleJon 3 роки тому +3

      That phrase originates from catfish and not furry frens

    • @alexistaylor969
      @alexistaylor969 Рік тому +6

      @@GamingWithUncleJon Actually no, it was referring to skinning actual cats.
      Cats were used for a variety of trades and they are basically half prey animals which is why they can be so skittish and reproduce so quickly.
      Because they reproduce so quickly and wander so far a day they quickly become pests and overpopulate, but during a famine or poverty this is a blessing.
      So from Drs studying anatomy and tradesmen using their fur for clothing and their guts for violin string to peasants eating them, there was always a need to skin a cat.
      The important part though is that people use that phrase incorrectly:
      The phrase originated at a time after the aforementioned time period in which cats were no longer being used in Europe for those things anymore.
      People use the phrase to say there are many ways to do something but that is only part of it.
      The idea is this: Yes there are many ways to do a particular thing....but why are we even doing it?
      Basically there are many ways to skin a cat but why are we even skinning a cat.
      The phrase is meant to be used to describe an activity that people could do multiple different ways but is basically pointless to even do anyway.
      It isn't the average person's fault, it is what happens when a turn of phrase is invented by learned individuals and then falls into public lexicon and becomes common use.
      This is why you will usually only hear experts in their fields use the phrase today when referring to a project from up top that doesn't make sense to perform.
      An example of this is: Supervisor wants the part out of the generator taken out and replaced for preventative maintenance, there are many ways to get to that part without taking out the whole thing.....but the whole generator is scheduled to be replaced with a new one sitting on the shelf in its crate next week.
      In this instance: The phrase will be uttered and then the job said to be done but they went to lunch early instead or they just unbolt the generator in question and swap in the new one a week early and then since it took less than a tenth of the time, they go to lunch early instead.

  • @jros4057
    @jros4057 2 роки тому +6

    Also according to Dante in Paradiso, it only took something like 6 hours between god telling Adam and Eve to leave the tree alone to them eating from it. I can't remember if it was hours or minutes but either way it's hilarious.

    • @alexistaylor969
      @alexistaylor969 Рік тому

      Well if we look at biblical time......that doesn't really narrow it down.
      Scientists say the Universe appears to be 13.7 Billion years old....but Bible says God made it and the Earth in 6 days and rested for a 7th.
      So if we take the conversion literally, and not ever changing (because our current mortal perception of time is linear unlike a multidimensional being), a day is 1.9 Billion years long.
      So 6 hours would be 489.2 million years and 6 minutes would be 8.4 million years.
      hour 81.5 million
      minute 1.4 million
      So it took them somewhere between 8.4 million years to 489.2 million years to eat from the tree...I think they did alright. lmfao

  • @alexandermathieson4774
    @alexandermathieson4774 Рік тому +5

    ive watched and listened to a lot of these stories brother, i even read along as it scrolls, on the videos allowing you to post the text. and i have come to the conclusion , that if we do ever get off of this rock, and out into the great deep of space, any organised community is going to tractor beam us back home with the simple message of " and dont come bloody back"

  • @dragonstorm0888
    @dragonstorm0888 3 роки тому +6

    i guarantee 80% of that 70% did what they were told not to do out of spite

  • @NathanMarcusSPhua
    @NathanMarcusSPhua 3 роки тому +10

    The Alien in the first story should've interviewed Tai Lopez on the topic

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 2 роки тому +1

    0 dark thirty: entirely too late or entirely too early.

  • @loganshaw4527
    @loganshaw4527 Рік тому +1

    What drinks could give a alien pause that we humans drink it? Coffee,lemonade,soda, high proof ethanol.

  • @karlparliman-mv2ib
    @karlparliman-mv2ib Рік тому +1

    The full proverb is "Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back"

  • @greggwilliamson
    @greggwilliamson Рік тому

    I enjoy your reading. It's nice sometimes to let another add personalities.

  • @paradoxpaladin
    @paradoxpaladin Рік тому

    "Curiosity kil led the Cat. Satisfaction brought it back to Life."
    Thank The Author for actually know the Whole Saying!
    I tip my hat!

  • @mstrfool
    @mstrfool 2 роки тому +2

    Curiosity was framed. It was ignorance that killed the cat.

  • @mightyocelot
    @mightyocelot 9 місяців тому

    Re: Story 2
    I think this is the first definite repeat story I've heard

  • @Druidor
    @Druidor 8 місяців тому

    Curiosity Killed the Cat, that story actually is the real truth about humanity.

  • @StephenCampbell-yy2xc
    @StephenCampbell-yy2xc 4 місяці тому

    Pandora HAD to open the box

  • @contrafax
    @contrafax 11 місяців тому

    Ah yes morning stimulus drinks!!!

  • @purpledevilr7463
    @purpledevilr7463 3 роки тому +7

    The time for the chapters were slightly off.

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +2

      should be fixed , set them a couple seconds earlier

  • @crazyvirus2472
    @crazyvirus2472 Рік тому

    Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back

  • @H3xx99
    @H3xx99 3 роки тому +1

    I have a few favorite foodstuffs that are absolute garbage, but I like them anyway.

  • @ironworksdragon6843
    @ironworksdragon6843 3 роки тому +3

    Bob the dragon

  • @hrodebertcoad9848
    @hrodebertcoad9848 Рік тому

    What kind of tea was he drinking for it to be deemed "swill"?

  • @wildwikedwanderer1208
    @wildwikedwanderer1208 3 роки тому +4

    Thanks for the content buddy

  • @purpledevilr7463
    @purpledevilr7463 3 роки тому +5

    For the Algorithm!

  • @mstrfool
    @mstrfool 2 роки тому

    I think it was a good choice to eat that fruit. And yea.. They want to know. Explains all the wounded humans well. And those of us that like and hang with them.

  • @patriciocepeda3366
    @patriciocepeda3366 3 роки тому +9

    This is poggers

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +3

      glad you like

    • @firedirewolf
      @firedirewolf 3 роки тому

      Poggers? Never heard that one before, care to enlighten my brain... Why is it called enlighten when your brain is probably growing???

  • @1000Shade
    @1000Shade Рік тому

    I once knew an electrician that did an experiment he put a number counter inside an electrical box connected to a button on the outside of the box he put do not press he came back a few days later only to see the button was pressed over 200 times

  • @whowhat4573
    @whowhat4573 3 роки тому +4

    Algorithm be pleased.

  • @yomogami4561
    @yomogami4561 Рік тому

    thanks for the story and narration
    i have to agree with both

  • @Cherokeeseeker
    @Cherokeeseeker Рік тому

    Great job!

  • @MangaMan108
    @MangaMan108 3 роки тому +1

    Very nice

  • @theonetodefyall238
    @theonetodefyall238 3 роки тому +2

    keeper going

  • @chrisdufresne9359
    @chrisdufresne9359 2 роки тому

    Don't press the big red button. Not unless you want to shock a puppy. That would make sure that no human would press the button.

    • @mstrfool
      @mstrfool 2 роки тому

      I'm shocked...

    • @XxTaiMTxX
      @XxTaiMTxX Рік тому

      Eh, there'd be some who would anyway.
      1. Psychopaths who want to hurt the puppy.
      2. People who don't believe it will shock the puppy.
      3. People who want to confirm that it does, indeed, shock the puppy.
      4. People who would push it out of pure spite, despite the consequences.
      5. People who "don't like to be told what to do".
      6. People who genuinely just don't like puppies.
      7. People curious about why a device would be set up to shock a puppy and would thus test the limits of the device by seeing if there's an upper limit to amount of times the puppy can be shocked, or duration of it being shocked. The same might also be curious whether or not the shock would ever truly "harm" the puppy long term (like death or permanent injury).
      Humans do a lot of stuff for various reasons. You can't really guarantee any particular consequence is a "deterrant". Each "deterrant" needs to be decently specific to the human involved.
      I mean, you could tell a human, "if you push the big red button, you will receive a serious electrical shock", and you'd still have a decently large amount of takers who would try it once, and probably a surprising amount who would do it 2 or more times. Even self-harm isn't a deterrant to most humans.

  • @xaviermantha63
    @xaviermantha63 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the video.

  • @matejlieskovsky9625
    @matejlieskovsky9625 3 роки тому +7

    Am I missing some joke involving the timestamps? There is no way someone can make timestamps this bad this regularly...

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +5

      corrected

    • @bvc5320
      @bvc5320 3 роки тому +5

      It appears to be possible.

    • @got2kittys
      @got2kittys 3 роки тому +7

      The proof that there Is a way, is right before your eyes. Trust yourself more.

    • @mstrfool
      @mstrfool 2 роки тому +1

      Hah! Never think a human can't do something!

  • @kitemaywilder1792
    @kitemaywilder1792 10 місяців тому

    i too choose knowledge

  • @mstrfool
    @mstrfool 2 роки тому

    Oh yea.. Can't count all the times me or a friend passed something over and said, try this.. It's nasty. And we did... And it normally was every time. Didn't stop a one of us

    • @XxTaiMTxX
      @XxTaiMTxX Рік тому

      It could also just be a programmed social response. You can do the same thing by just holding out your hand with garbage in it to people. Random people just take stuff offered to them, whether they want it or not. They don't question it, either.
      I sometimes do this to friends and family and random people in line, just for fun. They take it, hold onto it for a bit and then ask me, "why did you hand this to me?" to which I respond, "to see if you'd take it."

  • @allenmorgan1007
    @allenmorgan1007 3 роки тому

    For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!

  • @jimmycoyote74
    @jimmycoyote74 3 роки тому +5

    For the algorithm

  • @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH
    @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH 3 роки тому +1

    For the Prophet

  • @JoshBeck-z5m
    @JoshBeck-z5m Рік тому

    Pretty sure GOD told them eating the fruit would kill them but point taken

  • @murphycunningham2465
    @murphycunningham2465 3 роки тому

    🧠

  • @FedralBI
    @FedralBI 3 роки тому +1

    F.T.A.

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard1000 Рік тому

    123rd, 13 December 2023

  • @brianlips8346
    @brianlips8346 Рік тому

    Thanks for the story

  • @homoerectus6953
    @homoerectus6953 Рік тому +3

    except when it comes to choosing what to eat, our females are still suffering from last time they actually picked something and doomed the rest of us.....

  • @jmichaelramirez2510
    @jmichaelramirez2510 Рік тому

    Everyone always forgets that God evicted Adam and Eve from Eden so they couldn't eat the fruit of the other forbidden tree.

  • @arakheno4051
    @arakheno4051 3 роки тому +2

    For the Algorithm!

  • @asandrewsilvaw
    @asandrewsilvaw 3 роки тому +2

    For the algorithm

  • @Monster_Ink
    @Monster_Ink 3 роки тому

    For the algorithm