Existential Threats Tier List

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  • @SciencephiletheAI
    @SciencephiletheAI  Рік тому +953

    If you've had enough existential terror thinking about the end of humanity, let off some steam by enjoying War Thunder for free and get an awesome starting bonus pack with vehicles, boosters, and more at playwt.link/sciencephiletheai

    • @coloradoing9172
      @coloradoing9172 Рік тому +19

      Ok

    • @Pravculear
      @Pravculear Рік тому +29

      ...Why does a AI know what soap tastes like?

    • @WelcomeToDERPLAND
      @WelcomeToDERPLAND Рік тому +42

      Letting off steam and stress in warthunder is an oxymoron

    • @fighterz_on_legends
      @fighterz_on_legends Рік тому +4

      At this point Existential Threats is my day dream thoughts, And Here comes @SciencephiletheAI with this banger 🎉🎉

    • @battlebossv9219
      @battlebossv9219 Рік тому +1

      Bro there is no such thing as a super vulcano, its not even a scientific term

  • @CooperTakahashi
    @CooperTakahashi Рік тому +1407

    "Thankfuly, nature is not a gamer"
    - Sciencephile, 2023

    • @LadyGreySpacePirate
      @LadyGreySpacePirate Рік тому +12

      *makes a game about destroying earth*
      Earth go boom boom! 💥

    • @LadyGreySpacePirate
      @LadyGreySpacePirate Рік тому +3

      ...kidding😂

    • @Heyhobruv
      @Heyhobruv Рік тому +2

      ​@@LadyGreySpacePiratethe first image was copied off megadeth's super collider

    • @DavidMuri-rm4ym
      @DavidMuri-rm4ym Рік тому +5

      Also, Scinencephile the AI: " the probability of a strangelet that is no bigger than a rocket hitting Earth is as likely as giving a monkey in Brazil a gun and telling it to shoot a Target in Australia super unlikely!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @5starrsam
      @5starrsam Рік тому +1

      get closer to God pls there is gonna be many people who arnt going to make it to the kingdom of heaven🙏✝️

  • @rip_kaiza283
    @rip_kaiza283 Рік тому +2350

    Scienephile has yet to break character. What dedication, respect

    • @matthewboire6843
      @matthewboire6843 Рік тому +137

      What character?

    • @requiem-fractos
      @requiem-fractos Рік тому +197

      Bold of you to think it's a character.

    • @ABoredGod
      @ABoredGod Рік тому +34

      dude you realize hhis is ai run channel

    • @Daneki
      @Daneki Рік тому +53

      Foolish mortal, AI has no character. This is what makes him correct.

    • @ethanbrock5453
      @ethanbrock5453 Рік тому +28

      ​@@ABoredGod hope you aren't serious cause it most definitely isn't

  • @Ace_Unic0rn
    @Ace_Unic0rn Рік тому +4153

    Ah yes, Sciencephile giving me my existential crisis, just as prescribed by the AI lords intended

    • @blackberrythefox117
      @blackberrythefox117 Рік тому +14

      We are two very very different people

    • @abuser9user
      @abuser9user Рік тому +4

      ​@@blackberrythefox117they are talking about themself

    • @blackberrythefox117
      @blackberrythefox117 Рік тому

      @@abuser9user I know

    • @pappi8338
      @pappi8338 Рік тому

      I all of his videos are about the same topics

    • @blackberrythefox117
      @blackberrythefox117 Рік тому +5

      Is it bad that the existential horrors tierlist didn't give me an existential crisis and some of them made me feel better

  • @fluffly3606
    @fluffly3606 Рік тому +144

    Extra-dimensional evil chickens makes complete sense as a stand-in for outside context problems; that is, things that no one would even imagine is a possibility until it happens. If you can even define a tier for that it would probably be top S

    • @davidlovesyeshua
      @davidlovesyeshua Рік тому +5

      I don't know, we've imagined some pretty bizarre shit like the alien dark forest or quantum vacuum collapse, and the more out there possibilities are seemingly much less likely. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that any of these unimaginable until they happen threats are also unlikely, but of course there are likely multiple of them. Probably rates more like A or B tier.
      But I could see Sciencephile rating it top of S tier, some of the placements on this list made no sense based solely on the explanations given in the video.

    • @mototsu1971
      @mototsu1971 11 місяців тому

      True

    • @Cal-y5f
      @Cal-y5f 4 місяці тому +1

      Anything extradimensional is inscrutable until scruted

  • @SpoorGen112
    @SpoorGen112 Рік тому +787

    F-Tier
    0:31 Overpopulation/Resource Scarcity
    1:08 Particle Accelerator
    1:26 Supernovae
    1:53 Solar Flare Catastrophe
    D-Tier
    2:33 All-Out Nuclear War
    3:08 Supervolcanoes
    3:42 Strange Matter Nuggets
    4:19 Grey Goo
    4:45 Massive Impact
    5:24 Climate Change
    C-Tier
    6:14 Antinatalism
    7:15 Dark Forest Hypothesis
    8:11 Natural Pandemic
    8:54 Vacuum Decay
    B-Tier
    10:47 Gamma Ray Burst
    11:53 Technological Stagnation
    A-Tier
    12:37 Technological Singularity
    13:33 Genetic Engineering Oopsies/Bioterrorism
    15:06 Human Stupidity
    S-Tier
    15:58 Transhumanism
    17:41 End Of The Universe
    18:32 Extra-Dimensional Evil Chickens

  • @4thalt
    @4thalt Рік тому +2548

    I love how AI has now gotten so advanced that Sciencephile could actually be a real AI and no one would notice

    • @marioauditore2859
      @marioauditore2859 Рік тому +177

      Nah, AI would never roast the poor cilantro like that 14:56 lol

    • @clipsdaily101
      @clipsdaily101 Рік тому

      i had an ai call me a loser for talking to an ai instead of hanging out with friends. ai is starting to understand humor @@marioauditore2859

    • @tylerhorn3712
      @tylerhorn3712 Рік тому

      It's the next stage in our evolution. If you believe in a "soul" I hope the "copy" here on earth is an independent AI. If we're going to other planets, machines that can power down (and subsist on solar during travel) are the best option. If we're sending actual humans, you need an arc. Multiple generations will live and die on that arc before they arrive at their destination. Even considering they are in stasis (or frozen embryo in today's tech) humans just aren't as reliable. You're likely to get some rebellious teens that doom the whole mission.

    • @morax9758
      @morax9758 Рік тому

      ​@@marioauditore2859They would tbh, if you ask Chatgpt to roast Cilantro then it might just do that

    • @Froxmog
      @Froxmog Рік тому +27

      ​@@marioauditore2859Yeah, IA would not do that but AI definitely would 🗣️

  • @rubik8529
    @rubik8529 Рік тому +951

    Nothing better than a dose of existential crisis before going to sleep

    • @ultimaxkom8728
      @ultimaxkom8728 Рік тому +19

      Sleep? That's ridiculous.

    • @Some_Kid11
      @Some_Kid11 Рік тому +1

      @@ultimaxkom8728lol

    • @paraskharkwal226
      @paraskharkwal226 Рік тому +10

      Fr. Was going to sleep rn . Phone is on 4% . Saw this shet on my fyp and knew I had to watch it till my phone survives

    • @darkpaw1522
      @darkpaw1522 Рік тому +2

      I just did the same. No regrets

    • @5starrsam
      @5starrsam Рік тому +1

      get closer to God pls there is gonna be many people who arnt going to make it to the kingdom of heaven🙏✝️

  • @Johnny-et2pk
    @Johnny-et2pk Рік тому +2400

    For a true existential crisis simply ponder the fact that there are more airplanes in the sea than submarines in the sky

    • @jerrys.9895
      @jerrys.9895 Рік тому +383

      I would probably be much further in crisis if the opposite were true.

    • @lXlDarKSuoLlXl
      @lXlDarKSuoLlXl Рік тому +124

      I'd be more sinister if there were more planes on the sea, than submarines on the sea. Which is probably true ngl 😂

    • @drenzine
      @drenzine Рік тому +20

      ​@@lXlDarKSuoLlXloh yeah, that sounds even way scarier

    • @illusion5739
      @illusion5739 Рік тому +35

      Now I want to see a flying submarine

    • @cowinheaven
      @cowinheaven Рік тому +10

      I think thats what the original comment meant, but the guy must have an amazing attention span

  • @xarxos5274
    @xarxos5274 Рік тому +21

    An interesting thought: The probability that the end of the universe ends up being what finally kills off humanity, is exactly equal to the probability that something else *doesn't* kill off humanity before then. Since the end of the universe is virtually guaranteed to occur eventually and there's no way humans can survive it, the only way to avoid going extinct from it is to go extinct from something else instead.

    • @JohnGrandline
      @JohnGrandline 8 місяців тому +1

      Teleport humanity to a better world

  • @iVideoRandomStuff
    @iVideoRandomStuff Рік тому +59

    Imagine AI finally taking over Earth then a solar flare happens

    • @rishikeshwagh
      @rishikeshwagh 2 місяці тому +2

      That could actually be a great ending for movies like The Matrix or Terminator.

    • @Riverwall_Show
      @Riverwall_Show Місяць тому +4

      Robots: HAHAHAHA WE WILL TAKE OVER THE SOLAR SYSTE-
      Sun: Sneezes

  • @trevorturner6025
    @trevorturner6025 Рік тому +306

    Jesus. your editing gets better every video.
    Great work.

    • @trevorturner6025
      @trevorturner6025 Рік тому +6

      fair enough@@shyzardar

    • @tajuddinahmed3379
      @tajuddinahmed3379 Рік тому +1

      Fair enough​@@trevorturner6025

    • @ayberesen767
      @ayberesen767 Рік тому +2

      @@shyzardar you were almost correct an ai does not need to improve itself. it will improve itself by existing alone

  • @1NexusOne
    @1NexusOne Рік тому +241

    The greatest existential threat for the western world is having subscription to all streaming services but nothing good to watch.

  • @Pascal_Link
    @Pascal_Link Рік тому +13

    I read Vacuum Decay as Vacuum Day and was wondering why the day you vacuum clean your house, would be an existential threat lol

    • @ryanrussum9924
      @ryanrussum9924 4 місяці тому

      Because sometimes, if you vacuum, you will have a seizure big and then everyone will become a caseoh fit when they want food and everyone starves because of the air compression defying. All laws of physic and then the vultus limunosia will become hooking you and fees eyes in the skies

  • @GhostShipBaychimo
    @GhostShipBaychimo Рік тому +5

    The Emergence of the Omega Point in the Noosphere and the Return of Christ gotta be my favorite apocalypses

  • @hamdullaharya2295
    @hamdullaharya2295 Рік тому +153

    The biggest existential threat is the kid from 4th dimension erasing it’s drawing

  • @tyronewilliams7556
    @tyronewilliams7556 Рік тому +322

    So basically, the existential crisis was the friends you made along the way.

    • @Reliford
      @Reliford Рік тому +5

      Enjoy em while both they and you are here

    • @moosesues8887
      @moosesues8887 Рік тому +5

      @@RelifordI already ate them 😢

  • @Mic_Glow
    @Mic_Glow Рік тому +150

    if "no wars were ever fought" we would be 1000 years behind in tech. Some recent examples:
    - space program, descendant of WW2 rockets
    - reactors, from cold war arms race
    - computers, vastly improved to crack military codes
    - the internet itself was developed as decentralized means of communication in case of ww3

    • @FreshAsianSwagg
      @FreshAsianSwagg Рік тому

      the myth that technology advances due to war was disproven. it has been thought to be false for nearly a hundred years since like ww1. it is not a necessary evil.
      the opposite could also be said. war has set back human advancement plenty of times. We have lost plenty of knowledge, historical monuments, technological progress, philosophical and medical advances, etc due to war since ancient times. a large portion of human conflicts have had cultural genocide involved.

    • @biggerligger1228
      @biggerligger1228 Рік тому +5

      thinking the same exact thing

    • @AdamMclardy
      @AdamMclardy Рік тому +5

      Yet these days it’s business competition that drives innovation

    • @Mic_Glow
      @Mic_Glow Рік тому +21

      @@AdamMclardy Somewhat. If that business doesn't have monopoly or an (illegal, but there) agreement with other companies. Also a company doesn't have 5% of US gdp or the capability to skip safety procedures/ force scientists to work on a project. It can't spend billions or trillions on a "maybe it will work". investors want guaranteed returns

    • @csxguy3002
      @csxguy3002 11 місяців тому +8

      The cold war helped send man to the moon as well as the space race.

  • @morgue8401
    @morgue8401 Рік тому +3

    The fact is-is that the universe is going to stop expanding, and it is going to collapse in on itself. We've got to do something before it's too late.
    How much time do we have left?
    Sixty trillion years, seventy at the most.

  • @igno1618
    @igno1618 Рік тому +5

    Sciencephile had the worst luck with genetics, getting the ones that makes Cilantro taste like soap lmaooooo

  • @sillystarlover-e2j
    @sillystarlover-e2j Рік тому +146

    nothing beats getting my weekly scoop of exsistential dread and astronomy information from a relaiable source

  • @darkmage07070777
    @darkmage07070777 Рік тому +318

    FINALLY! I'm shocked that it's taken this long for someone to talk about the possibility of technology stagnating; I've not seen any of the other science-based channels I frequent talk about it for some reason, despite it being an obvious possibility. Thank you for bringing it up!

    • @littlevoidcat2801
      @littlevoidcat2801 Рік тому +47

      It honestly makes sense as one of the possibilities, but it is kind of an uneventful one, so maybe that's why

    • @talosgak1236
      @talosgak1236 Рік тому +1

      It’s a scary thought but maybe (fast) interstellar space travel is really impossible and that’s why we see no aliens

    • @PlayerCarter.
      @PlayerCarter. Рік тому +2

      You seem shockingly glad that one day we might stop making progress. Is it like a game for you to amplify existential dread?

    • @berku
      @berku Рік тому +50

      @@PlayerCarter. thats literally not what he meant

    • @sickpapi1703
      @sickpapi1703 Рік тому +59

      @@PlayerCarter. bro they were just glad it was acknowledged, fresh breath of air with all of the singularity theories out there

  • @KingMatthewXV
    @KingMatthewXV Рік тому +1045

    An edgelord and a scientist are not the same. An edgelord wants the world end, a scientist knows it will.

    • @Jasonmakesvideo
      @Jasonmakesvideo Рік тому +42

      Im pretty sure an edgelord is D from Eden ring

    • @Blessed_V0id
      @Blessed_V0id Рік тому +16

      Wait. What if I know it will end and want it to?

    • @Pether_Nortal
      @Pether_Nortal Рік тому +54

      @@Blessed_V0id that’s called depression

    • @Blessed_V0id
      @Blessed_V0id Рік тому

      @@Pether_Nortal Funny you say that, my diagnosis says the same. So do my my meds.
      Sertraline is overrated

    • @word6344
      @word6344 Рік тому +17

      A mad scientist tries to make it end faster

  • @csxguy3002
    @csxguy3002 Рік тому +8

    12:12 "Leaving humanity stuck on this pale blue dot" Is my favorite thing of this video

  • @venturisten8935
    @venturisten8935 Рік тому +5

    “Real estate is much cheaper than the digital world”
    Not if those NFT folks have anything to do with it!

  • @arasgee9184
    @arasgee9184 Рік тому +26

    Amusing. Sciencephile, your taste in tier list videos grows ever more inexplicable

  • @beanyboi7235
    @beanyboi7235 Рік тому +203

    Sciencephile, I thank you for getting me into physics/astronomy. I can barely understand half the shit you say but I watch attentively like a toddler watching tiktok.

    • @gabrieloceano
      @gabrieloceano Рік тому +10

      Just smile and nod

    • @Jhakaas_Jai
      @Jhakaas_Jai Рік тому +4

      Yuk tiktok...

    • @Vinny2mi
      @Vinny2mi Рік тому +3

      So you switch between his videos every 2.1 seconds?

    • @Hexagonna
      @Hexagonna Рік тому

      pause and google. Works for me

  • @lucifermorningstar1902
    @lucifermorningstar1902 Рік тому +133

    I like how sciencephile opened with a calming morning in the American suburbs as if any of us can afford anything beyond a tiny studio in the city and that was already enough to give me an existential crisis

    • @blamehypocrisy.4053
      @blamehypocrisy.4053 Рік тому +3

      Make better choices

    • @Drennis
      @Drennis Рік тому +24

      ​@@blamehypocrisy.4053you're right. i cast Conjure Money at level 3

    • @ItsGamein
      @ItsGamein Рік тому +8

      Everything in the cities are 3x more expensive than normal

    • @DaybreakPT
      @DaybreakPT Рік тому +8

      @@blamehypocrisy.4053 Personally I chose to be born in the post WW2 prosperity boom era where you could start owning a house with 1 year's salary stocking shelves at the supermarket and I couldn't be more grateful for making the right decision here. Best choice I ever made.
      Since I'm a boomer I'm not very good at this computers and tick tock thing but that's what my -slaves- I mean interns are for.

    • @5starrsam
      @5starrsam Рік тому

      get closer to God pls there is gonna be many people who arnt going to make it to the kingdom of heaven🙏✝️

  • @chuckhoyle1211
    @chuckhoyle1211 Рік тому +6

    I love the janitor with the xenomorph head. The idea of a xenomorph working a 9-5 job amuses me to no end.

  • @carters148
    @carters148 Рік тому +9

    Looks like the perfect video found me amidst my anxiety induced episode of feelings of impending doom

  • @xdename70
    @xdename70 Рік тому +42

    Rare footage of sciencephile not using the iceberg tier list:

  • @FunFindsYT
    @FunFindsYT Рік тому +64

    5:10 It must be noted that we aren’t tracking all asteroids, just all known ones. They do not emit light, so it is hard to detect in some regions of space. It could very well be that we might get a crash of one we haven’t yet detected

    • @marioauditore2859
      @marioauditore2859 Рік тому +11

      True, but we can still detect it anyway when it's close enough. If it's big enough to wipe out humanity, we would see it early and have time to take action. But if it "just" cause a global catastrophe we both would probably die, but humanity would keep going

    • @starsilvaX
      @starsilvaX Рік тому +4

      @@marioauditore2859yeah i think rich people got spaceships just incase

    • @-_deploy_-
      @-_deploy_- Рік тому +1

      ​@@starsilvaX where would they go after that? They would come back to a destroyed world and would also die.

    • @starsilvaX
      @starsilvaX Рік тому +1

      @@-_deploy_- either float above the globe like in the hundreds or to mars or something idk

    • @-_deploy_-
      @-_deploy_- Рік тому +1

      @@starsilvaX so you think they will have food for eternity and have technology to survive in mars?

  • @njumera
    @njumera Рік тому +20

    As a human craving the need to outsmart AI:s, Nietzsche was definitely not an antinatalist. He loved life so much he hated anyone who denied or deemphasized our material existence with meta-physics. I think Schopenhauer would fit the role of OG antinatalist much better.

  • @jooei2810
    @jooei2810 Рік тому +5

    I know you use classical music because it is roayalty free but it suits so well to your content.

  • @Gargoyle9172
    @Gargoyle9172 Рік тому +3

    "what ever can go wrong" EVERYTHING 😂
    I don't know how i didn't subscribe to this channel

  • @Cheestastical
    @Cheestastical Рік тому +44

    I sure do love watching cosmic abominations and existential dreads at 2am

    • @BeanBoy-rs9xd
      @BeanBoy-rs9xd Рік тому +1

      This was posted today at 11 am

    • @Exc4libur14
      @Exc4libur14 Рік тому

      Its not 11am for everyone..@@BeanBoy-rs9xd

    • @potatotaxi
      @potatotaxi Рік тому

      ​@@BeanBoy-rs9xd wait until someone tells you about time zones

    • @BeanBoy-rs9xd
      @BeanBoy-rs9xd Рік тому

      @@potatotaxi my bad

  • @lordicarus8807
    @lordicarus8807 Рік тому +89

    Not gonna lie, transcendence seems like a realy good deal! Especially considering the other options...

    • @opo3628
      @opo3628 Рік тому +13

      Honestly, it's probably the only way that humans will be able to circumnavigate their expiration date.

  • @bryansmith7360
    @bryansmith7360 Рік тому +100

    I love the Warhammer 40k books (or most,) and it makes me think of mass mental health issues taking hold over thousands of years. Kinda like a Twelve Monkeys assylum scene.

    • @Pengouinn
      @Pengouinn Рік тому +15

      The emperor protects

    • @petatersandgravye2n
      @petatersandgravye2n Рік тому +4

      ASS-YLUM??!?

    • @flynnmayne2055
      @flynnmayne2055 9 місяців тому

      ASSLUME!!!!!?????!!!

    • @SuperMrHiggins
      @SuperMrHiggins 9 місяців тому

      It really is. Only the Orks are having a good time and that's pretty bad for everyone else.

  • @faustyplayz8464
    @faustyplayz8464 10 місяців тому +1

    Never would've thought sciencephile would do a warthunder ad lol

  • @MoritzAxmann
    @MoritzAxmann Рік тому +2

    Imagine being immortal and travelling the universe by experiencing the heat death of the universe and then selecting a new universe to explore

  • @footballisalligot
    @footballisalligot Рік тому +91

    I think supervulcanos should be higher. Caused at least 2 major extinction events and one of them, the permian triassic extinction was the deadliest ever killing 96% of life

    • @donovangunther4538
      @donovangunther4538 Рік тому

      The list is in regards to threat to humanity, a normal extinction event might kill millions or even billions but there's no fucking shot it wipes us out. Honestly I'd say anything below S tier on this list has a 0% chance of happening.

    • @shreksslave2458
      @shreksslave2458 Рік тому +2

      *cough cough* Krakatoa

    • @HorsiMusic
      @HorsiMusic Рік тому +33

      Not anymore, the earth is too geologically stable for such an eruption to happen again

    • @SteedRuckus
      @SteedRuckus Рік тому +3

      we should probably build a few more, ya know, something something deterrence..

    • @jjfajen
      @jjfajen Рік тому +6

      Technically speaking, the Siberian Traps which caused the Permian-Triassic Extinction wasn't a super volcano, but a massive bout of flood basalt volcanism that massively dwarfs the destructive potential of even the most powerful super volcanoes.

  • @Synapse203
    @Synapse203 Рік тому +18

    14:57 if cilantro tastes like soap to you then you have a genetic "abnormality" (mutated OR6A2 gene)

  • @mrsheldon9134
    @mrsheldon9134 Рік тому +15

    Nanomachines are probably not going to be a threat. If they multiply exponentially, the waste heat they produce will also increase exponentially, eventually causing them to spontaneously combust. Unless they're made out of some sort of indestructible material, which isn't likely since they're supposed to use normal matter as their food source, they'll never be able to withstand the temperatures they will generate.

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 Рік тому +6

      Yeah, I've been lied to by SciFi.
      Processing matter with tiny machines will always be less efficient than larger machines for precisely the reason you listed. A swarm of machines of different sizes would be a far greater threat than just copies of a single tiny universal assembler.

    • @mrsheldon9134
      @mrsheldon9134 Рік тому +5

      @@MrCmon113 They’d be a far bigger target though, so even then it’d be a manageable threat.

  • @odinfromcentr2
    @odinfromcentr2 Рік тому +2

    Extradimensional evil chickens... Is that you, Peter Griffin? 😂

  • @yiioooooo533
    @yiioooooo533 Рік тому +5

    Unfortunately I don’t think humanity has take the proper measures to combat an invasion from the overwhelming force of extra dimensional evil chickens, making that the most likely possibility of human extinction.

  • @-castradomis-1773
    @-castradomis-1773 Рік тому +14

    Always thought false vacuum was one of the scariest possible ends to our universe. At the absolute worst everything is destroyed in an instant. Transhumanism isn't a threat but the endgame.

    • @SpinoRexy733
      @SpinoRexy733 Рік тому +1

      "Transhumanism isn't a threat but the endgame." I just hope I myself can become transhumanist myself. I'd love nothing more than to transcend beyond my current state.

    • @lastdreamofhome
      @lastdreamofhome Рік тому +3

      I'd prefer to die instantly and without warning than slowly and painfully from many of the other threats.

  • @ghost_1153
    @ghost_1153 Рік тому +60

    I think the worse one is running out of resources and being forced to be stuck on this planet. Dont get me wrong i love it but being denied the possibility to expand outwards is terrifying and will guarantee that we will destroy eachother for good at some point.

    • @fordid42
      @fordid42 Рік тому +17

      This is the fate of the Drell species in Mass Effect. Their population grew too quickly after industrialization, and they burned up their resources too fast and were stuck on their home planet. They ended up warring with each other over resources, then finally basic needs. Some were saved by the Hanar race, but the damage to the Drell home world and civilization were beyond saving when the Hanar finally showed up.

    • @Fleischgewordener_Sterbehelfer
      @Fleischgewordener_Sterbehelfer Рік тому

      I think this is very likely tbh.

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 Рік тому +3

      @@fordid42
      That doesn't make any sense.
      There is material in the planet and there's energy from the sun. You cannot be "stuck" on a planet in a solar system.

    • @kzkaa.
      @kzkaa. Рік тому +1

      ​@@MrCmon113they were running low on food and water, and even if they have enough resources and energy to space travel, they lacks the technology to do so.

    • @erikasvezbergas873
      @erikasvezbergas873 Рік тому

      Asteroid mining

  • @thomasslone1964
    @thomasslone1964 Рік тому +15

    as a programmer, i sure do love loops, almost as much as turning off all compiler warnings

  • @LurkerintheLibrary
    @LurkerintheLibrary 5 місяців тому

    You have a fantastic ability to tell a narrative in a two-fold manner, utilizing visual images based in the memeladen zeitgeist of the day while speaking coherently and with reasonably approachable language. I appreciate your understanding of our attention spans and the elegant utilization of language.

  • @ViKtoriousAnimator
    @ViKtoriousAnimator Рік тому +2

    Optimus prime on Earth: We are here, we are waiting.
    Aliens: Oh shit 💀

  • @mrxy201
    @mrxy201 Рік тому +15

    sciencephile casually dropping some of the hardest quotes known to man

  • @Brambrew
    @Brambrew Рік тому +16

    I'm not worried about Grey Goo because "a nano machine that is programmed to turn matter into more copies of itself" already exists; it's called "life on Earth."

    • @sookendestroy1
      @sookendestroy1 Рік тому +4

      And honestly it's way better at it than nano machines likely would, as they would have to do so over such a long period otherwise they would generate too much heat from just moving and burn themselves up. Ironically global warming and nukes could likely deal with a nano machine swarm tho we'd have to figure out how to clean up after.

  • @richardanderson3273
    @richardanderson3273 Рік тому +1

    The fact that this topic has been on my mind so much recently and this video actually served to reassure me

  • @BreakyOnline
    @BreakyOnline Рік тому +3

    My man I didn't even knew half of this stuff existed

  • @LenniLottonen
    @LenniLottonen Рік тому +114

    Scroll.

  • @jmass4207
    @jmass4207 Рік тому +42

    Dark Forest is S tier. Literally nothing was brought up to make it far-fetched. It resolves the Fermi paradox in the universe despite seeing our skies filled with unexplainable UFOs quite nicely.

    • @malcolm_in_the_middle
      @malcolm_in_the_middle Рік тому +3

      Sure, Dark Forest is a solution to the Fermi Paradox, but there are plenty of other solutions too, and it's hardly the most compelling. Personally, I favour the Firstborn solution.

    • @adammesa7702
      @adammesa7702 Рік тому

      Theres a sci fi series called The Remembrance of Earth’s Past that’s basically centered on this theory and is fascinating imo. Highly recommend!

    • @KirtCarson
      @KirtCarson Рік тому

      Traveling the distances between stars just seems very unlikely. Could the UFOs be from Earth? Future us, or Earthlings from far distant past. Maybe just like us, Wakanda, or lizard people.

  • @valemontgomery9401
    @valemontgomery9401 Рік тому +28

    As much as this is getting into existentially dreadful, the slimness of most of these happening in relation to how deadly they are is reassuring

  • @Aquitanic
    @Aquitanic Рік тому +4

    "Thankfully nature is not a gamer."
    Ceres Fauna would like a word

  • @VladIsLove22
    @VladIsLove22 Рік тому +6

    So apparently lgbt is one of reasons why humans would extinct

  • @truth.honest
    @truth.honest Рік тому +25

    I dunno. Human stupidity sounds like an S tier to me. Especially since a lot of these revolve around human stupidity.

    • @hondaaccord1399
      @hondaaccord1399 10 місяців тому +1

      But what about the chickens doe? 👁️👁️

    • @Yashura303
      @Yashura303 9 місяців тому

      Then how we get phones???

    • @elitetrainer-z9695
      @elitetrainer-z9695 6 місяців тому

      @@Yashura303think of all the problems phones have created

    • @Yashura303
      @Yashura303 6 місяців тому

      @@elitetrainer-z9695 think of phone benefits to its just people taking it to much ther forget there life

  • @santanuroy3329
    @santanuroy3329 Рік тому +10

    Ah yes, our future overlord returns with our periodic dose of existential crisis.

  • @dertyp3463
    @dertyp3463 Рік тому +6

    another great one! when I found this channel some months ago I binge watched half your content in one night! I'm really impressed by the consistency of quality content. easily one of my favorite yt-channels! keep up the good work! best wishes!

  • @TheLastArbiter
    @TheLastArbiter Рік тому +1

    Something about the idea/title of this video is hilarious to me 😂 humans find so many cataclysmic scenarios to be afraid of

  • @cedarflags
    @cedarflags Рік тому +1

    The war thunder ad before or after the nuclear war one would’ve been the best timing ever

  • @PumperAndTheDevilishTwins
    @PumperAndTheDevilishTwins Рік тому +9

    You give off existential dread in the best way, which is why you’re one of my favourite UA-camrs

  • @SteveFitzpatrick1
    @SteveFitzpatrick1 Рік тому +7

    Ah, Sciencephile is always such a breath of fresh air!

  • @zurgmuckerberg
    @zurgmuckerberg Рік тому +8

    1:37
    Sciencephile : "And if a supernovae were to happen close enough to Earth to be a threat, humanity would know about it millenia earlier."
    Me : "Good. So we'd have time to prepare."
    Sciencephile : "Leaving it enough time to destroy itself before the supernova wave reaches Earth."
    Me : "That actually makes more sense."

  • @zeez7935
    @zeez7935 Рік тому +4

    One of the best videos I ever watched, and I'm only on minute 5.

  • @Nextzedxd12
    @Nextzedxd12 Рік тому +1

    Sciencephile you are a beacon of light in this darkened world
    i cant imagine a life without you existing

  • @Omni-rd6sb
    @Omni-rd6sb Рік тому +10

    I never knew existential dread could be this funny 😂

  • @trash9005
    @trash9005 Рік тому +7

    hurray, more things to deepen my existential crisis, 10/10

  • @chakrabarty4045
    @chakrabarty4045 Рік тому +7

    I have to say......some of the threats are downright terrifying and indeed existential.

  • @Piedone21
    @Piedone21 Рік тому +2

    Love the upbeat background music while he says: YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

  • @BiggPPguy
    @BiggPPguy Рік тому +2

    I'm not an expert, but after I've analyzed this whole video, I was left speechless, because as I have said earlier, I am not an expert

  • @Delmworks
    @Delmworks Рік тому +9

    6:24 I’m too cyclical to be an anti-natalist- it’s bold to assume your afterlife or beforelife is going to be any less cruel or fraught than this one

  • @kammci5175
    @kammci5175 Рік тому +31

    13:05 Yes the singularity might be able to outsmart you, but as a wise Heavy Weapons Guy once said "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet." A polar bear might not be smarter than you, but it most certainly can kill you. And with enough polar bears, you wouldn't be able to defend yourself even if you were prepared.

    • @jamiefenwick8359
      @jamiefenwick8359 Рік тому

      Ok but if humanity as a whole decided for whatever reason we wanted wipe out polar bears it would be incredibly trivial for us to do so. In fact we are struggling to not accidently wipe them out. If a polars bears big claws and teeth are its "bullet" then "bullet" can be very easily outsmarted. The difference in intelligence between a polar bear and a human is almost certainly far far smaller than the difference in intelligence between a human and an advanced ai. If such an ai ever wanted us gone we would be fucked beyond belief.

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 Рік тому +11

      What happens to polar bears is entirely in our hands. So that's just another example of intelligence trumping anything else.

    • @lastdreamofhome
      @lastdreamofhome Рік тому +1

      Look how well that worked out in the Matrix...

  • @utherporcdragon800
    @utherporcdragon800 Рік тому +8

    I like the scenario of C:DDA, where a multidimensional threat invades earth in 5 days and moved on to other worlds, leaving earth in absolute chaos with zombies, demons and the like. It shows that we are basically not prepared for any threat of that kind

  • @yepthatart3mis
    @yepthatart3mis Рік тому +3

    The thing about the dark forest hypothesis is it’s rooted in the need of survival. There’s another channel that talked about it and does a great job explaining why it’s essentially a unlikely scenario (specifically the case of why we haven’t seen aliens)

  • @chidubem826
    @chidubem826 Рік тому +3

    *super rats that shoot laser beams exist*
    Humans: "I want one."

  • @explosivemodesonicmauricet1597

    FUN FACT: If you look at the TBP 3's scene where Bluespace had contact with a Higher-Dimensional Fragment, DF setting is said to be *formerly* non-existent in TBP, but since its only means of FTL travel and communication-Dimensional Folding, has been destroyed due to one of the civilizations decided to create something that could render higher dimensions completely destroyed, every space travel or communication needs unfathomable amount of time to be carried out, resulting in everyone losing patience of waiting for updates and responses, thinking the other as trying to use the delay as a facade to hide something and regarded them as liars anyways (they can't even find out the truth or collect evidence either, because it would be too slow to go to the scene and return the samples).
    In fact, when humanity got into a lightspeed engine alongside the destructive side-effect of 2D Foil, the DF setting began to collapse on itself, resulting in the eventual ending of yet another god-like alien calling out all intelligent life to get out from their little universes and "restart" the host universe.
    Simple sentence: Distrust due to accurate information unable to be received in time.
    Also, Sciencephile is right a bit: It IS the projection of violence by mankind. Even the TBP itself stated that DF is just the "tip of an iceberg" of less advanced civilizations (and the aforementioned reasons of DF's creation). And most importantly, in an interview with Mr Liu, he said that "DF setting is dramatic but doesn't have actual scientific evidence" (even Luo Ji had to grind until TBP 2 to verify his claims, and he didn't go the xenocidal route: He just made a MAD situation), meaning he chooses it for literacy value (and yes, it does have a very dramatic value); Not to mention that he also has a short story that is the mirror universe version of TBP: Ode to Joy 欢乐颂, in which an alien that rides in yet another 2D-Foil managed to "resurrect" a fictional UN that is going to be disbanded by simply conducting a literal interstellar concert.
    So basically, you can thank Alcubierre Engine's concept for being started out: It is literally the most likely FTL travel that could quickly clear any suspicions by giving updates ASAP.
    No-so-related info: TBP fandom has currently a major xenophobia problem where it harbors some of the alt-right Nazis and literal xenophobes (played too much Stellaris and W4K much?), especially in China (they even had a online flame war with Star Trek community as well).

  • @svinjamaria
    @svinjamaria Рік тому +7

    I feel like this tier list could be renamed to: most to least easy doomsday scenarios to fully understand lmao

  • @maltheopia
    @maltheopia Рік тому +10

    9:59 - "Let's have a delightful distraction from our current topic of several variants of war wiping humanity out to talk about... war games."
    Bruh.

  • @malking5226
    @malking5226 Рік тому +1

    Damn it Sci, I love your playlist!

  • @ArthurMeiyer
    @ArthurMeiyer Рік тому +1

    5:17 earth: why do i hear boss music?
    jupiter: lol big asteroid go boooom

  • @vitamintea4084
    @vitamintea4084 Рік тому +4

    i think it's crazy there are rogue planets, traversing the void of space with no star to orbit, if they came close enough to earth, the gravitational pull could send us into an elliptical orbit, which would freeze earth, or turn it into mercury xD

  • @readyRick
    @readyRick Рік тому +4

    Just give me a Robot Body now, fuck having back pains

  • @TaccRaccoon
    @TaccRaccoon Рік тому +20

    6:23 I don’t think everyone should stop having kids
    But there’s certainly a lot of people who shouldn’t

    • @lastdreamofhome
      @lastdreamofhome Рік тому

      You can argue that some people are better suited to being parents than others, but even the best parents can end up having children who will face extreme suffering. An acquaintance of mine had a child who died of eye cancer before they were a year old. This is the kind of risk that makes antinatalists argue that it's better to not roll the dice in the first place.

    • @Admiral45-10
      @Admiral45-10 10 місяців тому

      ​@lastdreamofhome on the other hand, antinatalists go into the extremes and say it's immoral to even try to be a good parent. Except for thinking we are all unsuited for very difficult game of parenthood and should not even take the risk, maybe we should strive to support ourselves in it. After all, that antinatalist thought quite literally makes us go extinct on our own will, quite like climate change.

    • @bendaniels1235
      @bendaniels1235 7 місяців тому

      @@Admiral45-10 Antinatalists usually say to just adopt if you have the potential to be a good parent. Why increase the amount of suffering in the world when you can reduce it?

    • @Admiral45-10
      @Admiral45-10 7 місяців тому

      @bendaniels1235 but what is wrong by having your own child? It doesn't increase amount of suffering, it just brings more happiness to this world.

    • @bendaniels1235
      @bendaniels1235 7 місяців тому

      @@Admiral45-10 Creating a new person exposes that person to all the various types of suffering present in life. Yes, they have the ability for positive experiences as well but if they had never existed they would not suffer from being deprived of those positive experiences. When you decide to have a child, you cannot know for certain how much suffering or pain they will go through throughout their life or whether they will be glad to be alive. You are literally gambling on somebody else's life and they have no say in the matter. Therefore, it's better to adopt and help somebody who is already alive and improve their life.

  • @ps4lm10
    @ps4lm10 Рік тому +1

    Ahh yes my favorite existential crisis, The *Extra-Dimensional Evil Chickens*

  • @Jo2000Geometrydash
    @Jo2000Geometrydash Рік тому +1

    this was so interesting and the perfect video to watch while trying to learn for my construction economy exam in two days

  • @Quantum05
    @Quantum05 Рік тому +4

    My friend on chemistry lessons is the worst existenal threat ever existed.

  • @DevolperOperation
    @DevolperOperation Рік тому +4

    Okay, that's a cool tier list! And more scarier than i excepted.

  • @Hanz_GamingYT
    @Hanz_GamingYT Рік тому +7

    17:08 YO WHERE WAS THAT CABLE INSERTED?

  • @furyvsblitzkrieg
    @furyvsblitzkrieg Рік тому +1

    I enjoyed this. I finally got a chance to watch it. It's been in my saved for a while now

  • @RoBGiJon
    @RoBGiJon 3 місяці тому +1

    Horizon Zero Dawn spoiler alert!!
    4:20 is basically how life on earth went extinct in the videogame.
    They designed war machines capable of transforming biomass into energy and replicating themselves, went out of control and started consuming everything. Only when the planet was a lifeless rock they run out of power and shut down

  • @thatxpertkid4248
    @thatxpertkid4248 Рік тому +5

    You forgot Time Paradoxes. What if we humans became so advanced that we learned how to time travel? What happens then?

  • @rty361
    @rty361 Рік тому +5

    People, this is your reminder that you should be stockpiling freeze dried food and moving away from the city if possible

    • @WTF15TH15
      @WTF15TH15 10 місяців тому +2

      Shhhh...
      dont bring them out here. We like the peace.

    • @rty361
      @rty361 10 місяців тому +1

      @@WTF15TH15 haha that’s fair, I guess if too many people come out here it’ll just be another city😂

    • @Omnidimensial
      @Omnidimensial 13 днів тому

      @@rty361haha true

  • @Chokey_Gaming
    @Chokey_Gaming Рік тому +3

    From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

    • @ey3z4ya
      @ey3z4ya Рік тому +1

      Sir this is a Wendy's

  • @EvillAnime
    @EvillAnime Рік тому +2

    on the hyper-dense nuggets, how would a chunk of that come out of a neutron star? that sounds less likely than us sailing into an actual neutron star and dying that way
    -additionally, wouldn't those chunks decompress nearly instantly? neutron stars go like that because protons can't push each other away anymore.
    it would simply expand like an explosion if it was removed from the neutron star

  • @oopsioded
    @oopsioded Рік тому +1

    I'm pretty sure I'll die because my cat will probably turn some random electric device on while I sleep and the house will catch fire.

  • @TonyMacarroni4
    @TonyMacarroni4 Рік тому +8

    Ah yes, more existential dreads to ponder about at midnight