The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text - even Vanilla Ice lyrics? PatrickJMT describes the Ramsey theory, which states that given enough elements in a set or structure, some interesting pattern among them is guaranteed to emerge.
Lesson by PatrickJMT, animation by Aaron, Sean & Mathias Studios.
Reminds me of a quote, who I can't remember who it's from, "If you look for something hard enough, you're guaranteed to find it, whether it's actually there or not."
Like Pluto, or Higgs Boson
As a paranoid, I can attest to the truth of that statement.
@@christopherstoney4154 Bro... both of them exist
@@commenturthegreat2915 Indeed Pluto does exist, along with all the other objects in the Kuyper Belt that we weren't looking for at the time. And I would conjecture that while Higgs Boson has been shown to exist, there may be many other particles at that scale which we haven't found yet because we weren't looking for them to complete our theories. My point is more that our understanding of the universe is influenced by what we find, and what we find is influenced by what we're looking for, which is influenced by our understanding of the universe. This creates a feedback loop which could be blinding us to significant parts of reality.
@@christopherstoney4154 Well, there isn't really a way around it. That's just how science works - the more answers we find, the more questions we ask. If you know the next question, you have already solved the first. The knowledge may be blinding us, but it's the only option when the rest is in the dark.
Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar...
YOU CAN'T TELL ME THAT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE!
you’re a genius 😭😭😂😂
Purely special
I'll write a joke now. The Marlboro man walks into a bar and starts smoking. A lady coughs and says shes pregnant. The Marlboro man puts out his cigarette and then pulls out the baby right then and there. He lights up his cigarette again and says 'bartender, two big beers and one little beer'
@@andrewrogers5962 when I go to the bar people laugh out of respect, not cause I'm funny! Its cause I'm 40 and I've learned me a thing or too, I passed masons initiation and through my fez right back in thir face. Of course my initiation was to steal a bear cub so I was angry
@@erik878 I dont get it
Not to be confused with Ramsay Theory, where your meat is raw because you forgot the Lamb Sauce.
ROFL
and that theory causes the ramsay fury
@@denesedenice lol
Its also worth mentioning that it took math professors at MIT three years to make a program that can truly create "random" numbers. Because after a number gets high enough, a pattern will always emerge.
But surely the point is that patterns - even big, complicated, apparently 'organised' ones - will appear even in truly random numbers?
Why didn't they just tell it to calculate Pi?
Actually creating truly random numbers is impossible for us down here.
The Riff Writer wrote: 'Its also worth mentioning that it took math professors at MIT three years to make a program that can truly create "random" numbers. Because after a number gets high enough, a pattern will always emerge.'
Sorry, but I don't think they did. Algorithms can only create pseudo-random numbers. That's why we move our mouse or finger around when creating cryptographic keys or why people still make physical devices with optical readers for casinos.
Unless a computer has an input from a physical source (falling balls, decomposing isotope, etc.), it cannot produce truly random numbers.
@@GregConquest you know you don't have to copy someone's whole comment? If you simply disagree they'll figure it out.
So basically: Coincidences.
+Bla Blah Yep and we humans with our smarter than the average lizard brains can see them.
+Nicki Nacchia I see what you did there
Bankbehauser Did you? I am sure you didn't
+VOODOO CHILD i loled
+Bla Blah There are no coincidences. Physical causality is not absolute
I want to write a book: a best of conspiracy theories. At the end, on the last page, I'm going to write a note that says "circle every first letter and find the hidden message" and the message would be the Ramsey Theory.
That's a good idea
If this is real, i will probably buy it haha
Can i buy it?
Go for it!
I'll be rooting for you
THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!!
+oldcowbb Or do they?
Or maybe this is a dragon hipster's left nipple, see I can make nonsense too!
+Rowan Hodges?.. You're off topic.
+Rowan Hodges Asking the question that people always get asked when they go see a shrink...Answering a question with a question.
+Rowan Hodges lmao
The Ramsey Theory is a conspiracy to discount conspiracy theories.
soslothful conspiracy theories have no credit to begin with
@@ryguy1314 Better than that, the Ramsey Theory _predicts_ that many groups have conspired, it's only mathematically determined!
How is the Ramsey Theory a conspiracy?
@@laurent1144 The suggestion of the joke is that the intention behind the theory is not what it appears, but is really conspiring against people's best interest.
@@kaship98 No, they're saying that conspiracy theories (as opposed to actual conspiracies) are paranoid fairy-tales that people come up with because they either want to play detective (IE 9/11 "truthers," moon landing/climate change deniers, etc.) or rationalize superstition (IE creationists, anti-vaxxers, flat-Earthers, etc.)
Man I love this channel, I wish my school was this interesting.
Vsauce has done a vid on this topic I think, but I still like it tho.
+Ib2J Gaming True
+Ib2J Gaming
Schools give you the material to discover and understand interesting things, yet they don't show us. I'm reading "How to not be Wrong" by Jordan Ellenberg who actually uses school level math to make profound things come to live.
It's a must-read if you're into such things.
so true
Same😫😫
So in short: If pi has my phone number in it, it's either a coincidence or William Jones was a prophet. I think it's the latter
no... Jesus is real.
+ᅚᅚ xD
+ᅚᅚ You get that there can be more than one prophets, right? Prophet means someone with a message beyond present, a prediction. I never brought disproving religious beliefs into this, this is not the place for that.
Cambridge says this:
1) a person who is believed to have a special power that allows them to say what a god wishes to tell people, especially about things that will happen in the future
+Krisztián Szirtes π *does* have your phone number in it. Mine too.
Krisztián Szirtes ok then? XD
that is why when you play music on shuffle it can sometimes seem that it's not shuffling well and some songs seem to line up in weird ways
that is a good way of explaining it in a simpler form
Atif Hassan although, most music shuffle algorithms are weighted against certain song orders, made less random to seem more random.
Man! I think that our office cook hasn't been shuffling the menu good enough
i thought i remember hearing somewhere that it is not actually random because people kept on complaining that songs by the same artist kept on playing
Spotify have a big issue with their shuffle, sometimes no matter how much you pause, try it again, chance song manually, etc eventually it goes to the same “random” selection.
Because of this man, I scored an A+ in Calculus 1, 2, and 3. This dude's a legend!
I thought Ramsey theory was that by filleting your enemies they would no longer have secrets.
+Corrupted Archangel No, Ramsey theory is that yelling "IT´S RAW YOU FUCKING DONKEY" at people will improve their cooking-skills.
What the fuck is going on here?
Naked man have no secrets.
Have you seen chef?
+T. Due a naked man as a few secrets, a flayed man none
Obviously two bald people in London will have the same number of hairs on their head. Not impressed, TED-Ed.
deserves a like
+Corey Lando actually this has to do with something known as the pigeonhole principle and although it seems obvious, its generalizations lead to Ramsey Theory and many interesting and deep results.
+patrickJMT Bush did 7-11
+TheWormzerjr god is dead
+Corey Lando Depends on how you define baldness, obviously. Probably only applies when two people have received such intrusive cancer treatment that there is not even a single hair left. You won't get a like from me, then.
Conspiracy theories also serve a deep emotional need to be special, to be right about something, or to explain why one's life isn't going the way they want. When you show insufficient enthusiasm for someone's conspiracy claims, they interpret that as a *very* personal and violent attack against them, and may launch into an aggressive counterattack. I avoid conversations with (or even proximity to) certain family members because of this. :/
That is an 'ad hominem' argument. (The second lowest form of argument. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Can't argue with you there cause you described me perfectly, haha
@@jacknovember8027 It's a broad observation on human behavior in general. No, you can't rigorously challenge one particular theory with them, but autonomy and the lack-thereof are useful to consider.
SAME omg it feels so lonely not being the only conspiracist in my family 😭😭 sometimes I truly think that I’m crazy 😕
But the phrase has become synonymous with survival of interest in getting one's people governed less badly over time, during an extreme cosmic crisis that makes this more necessary than ever, if that's even possible. Are you from the Ashtar Galactic Command?!
A sceptic will disagree with a position but they will respect the evidence. A conspiracy theorist will disagree with a position and ignore the evidence.
+Brandon Hall Funny how "Skeptics" never apply their skepticism to the official story though isn't it
+Axe Man
Apparently, at least one skeptic does somewhere, every time.
But, just like religion, you can be skeptical for good reasons or bad reasons.
+Axe Man Funny how you corrected Brandon's spelling of "skeptic" but fail to realize that "sceptic" is the original British spelling
Why Americans change the spelling of words to make the English language even more confusing, and then have the nerve to correct the original British spelling of a word, I'll never know.
Crystal Nguyen 'Murica is still a Brittish colony . Loominarty confirmed.
Yes it is good to be skeptically optimistic
A Ramsay I can respect
+Fernando Franco Félix whoaaaaa
But does Ramsey theory confirm R+L=J?
😂😂😂
I don't get it...I should probably just google it instead of writing this comment...why am I still typing I just watched a 6 min video about it...what a waste of time this comment is.
biscoole It's a popular Game of Thrones fan theory.
+biscoole p8g b ki
I'm so glad PatrickJMT did this! His math tutorials got me through high school!
I'm not sure if the 6 people at a party bit was poorly explained or I'm just being dense.
+St3v3z
Bit of both, draw it out for yourself if you want a clear understanding
Yeah having thought it out a few times it makes perfect sense, but after actually thinking about it its not actually very interesting or odd. Makes perfect sense. I guess that's what this channel is about though, discussing things that seem weird and complex on the surface that aren't once you delve a little deeper.
Do think it could have been explained slightly better, though.
+St3v3z but what about anybody knows eachother?
My understanding is there's 6 people and two possibilities, meaning since 3 is half it has to be so that one of the two possibilities happened at least 3 times. Id you flip a coin 6 times for instance, it's garunteed to land on either heads or tails 3 times.
+St3v3z
Dense.
Glad to see Patrick getting recognition outside his channel.
TLDR: We have evolved to notice patterns where there are none.
+UchihaDualStorm Because the first priority is survival, not getting the truth.
+UchihaDualStorm
Yes, we have evolved to notice patterns, because that has been very beneficial to our survival. The problem is that foolish / religious / naive people see patterns even where there are none.
Sven Ekeberg Why are you guys telling me an explanation of the tldr? :D
UchihaDualStorm
Because we have newer heard of "TLDR" or "tldr".
+UchihaDualStorm TLDR: no patterns, bitch
This goes really well with Abraham Lincoln's quote. I can't seem to find it's exact wording, but it went something like...
_"If you look for anything in anyone, you'll always find it."_
Coming after me on my computer now are you?! I'll make a tin hat for my computer too!
+SuperStrong Argh, we have to clad all our computer cables in tin foil because we have a cat who likes to chew them. We look like we're expecting an alien invasion...
Ha, tin foil won't stop them...
+Jared Theurer True. Cats are able to defeat foil.
LOOOOOL😂😂😂
+Joseph Teller Who said I was talking about the cats...😉
PatrickJMT
Thank you for this lesson and thank you for all the maths lessons you have shared on UA-cam.
Cannot thank you enough
I wish I had this 6 months ago for that one argument
"You had me at hello", but lost me at "Party Problem"! Steven Hawkins' editor once told him, "For every equation you use in your book, you'll lose half your readership!"
@Paul Marshall 😂😂😂😂
So with this information we can garantee that life similar to ours does in fact exist elsewhere
so Canadians
+Bonifilio Soto That wouldn't be a fair deduction. Partly because it would be very difficult to discretize the number of possible arrangements of molecules and environmental conditions necessary for human beings to evolve.
+Bonifilio Soto That would be a completely illogical conclusion based on this particular video. It is only talking about how people perceive patterns in random information, not that these things actually become ordered. As it says at the end, the pattern is only in our minds.
+Bonifilio Soto , so with this information we can guarantee life similar to us exist elsewhere... in our imagination...
its true, go crunch the numbers and comeback
I personally find the "principle of the drawers" simpler to understand than the party one.
"If you have more socks than drawers to put them in, then at least one drawer must have more than one sock in it!"
The same logic used there is the reason why they know the claim about hairs in London :)
My socks never go into drawers. They stay on the floor where they belong.
PatrickJMT is my hero! His math videos got me through 1st year engineering maths :)
The variety in art style really keeps me coming back.
Shout out to PatrickJMT! that guy got me through remedial algebra all the way up to differential equations. He is the best!
THAT LOST REFERENCE! Oh my god it's amazing.
where
+FiVorT98 You lost it?
+Double D dat pun
+Tvde1
Where? I didn't catch it
where?
"The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist…" ―R. Lutece
When billions of things are happening, you are guaranteed a handful of one in a billion events
PatrickJMT's channel taught me both Calculus 1, 2, and 3.
1:40 flashbacks to the time travel riddle
Hold up, patrickJMT is that guy who uploaded math videos that helped me until this day
oh my god, pi is the oracle of delphi: if you search long enough in its endless string of numbers, you WILL eventually find the answer to any question you could ever ask, converted into the letters' corresponding numbers when numbering through the alphabet.
Saw PatrickJMT and automatically liked the video before watching. The guy saved my math grade in high school!
Facebook told a few years ago that you're at max 12 friends away from anyone else on the planet.
I found that mind blowing !
But what if there is someone without friends?
Since I have absolutely no presence on Facebook, Twitter, or any of the other online social media, how is it possible for anyone to be within "12 friends" of me? Since I am "on the planet", isn't that a counter-example to the assertion?
The fascinating thing is that this also applies to scientific theories as well as conspiracy theories. We are just spotting patterns in a large set of random input, so our preconceptions naturally shape our observations. Take pi: 3.14...but only if the preconception is that a perfect circle is capable of existing. In actuality, circles are limited physically to x approaching infinity but are always in real experiences they have specific dimensions which can be calculated in every case and never give this mystical endlessly unrepeating number train to infinity so many mathematicians have long glorified and tried to calculate. It’s endless and endlessly unpatterned but only because we declared it to be by using the dimensions of a literally impossible circle as the starting point. It doesn’t exist and can’t exist as such in nature because infinite numbers of sides are impossible. But we saw what we wanted to see and pursued it. We have carefully constructed houses of cards in which the fact of a perceived pattern often influences research and data interpretation. Scarier this reality than any conspiracy theory.
patrickjmt is an awesome channel for doing math. personally, it helped me get though math class. pretty cool how he made a Ted video too
Think of all the times people encounter each other by accident. Now consider all the times they missed each other by minutes or hours, or were in the same neighborhood at the same time. But they wouldn't have noticed because they didn't see each other. So those coincidences are quite common.
Nice going, PatrickJMT!!!
3:56
That is a perfect description of my literature teacher.
Bip901 literally smh
This doesn't explain why jet fuel can't melt steel beams!
+beayn This is a channel that talked about sugar being bad for us (junk food), but did not mention mother natures healthy fruit.. So most people went away being scared of sweet foods. ...junk info.
niga shut the fuck up .. processed sugar is different from natural. Specially in great quantities (as you can get from in any package in the supermarkets). Sugar in fruits come in very small quantities, so why don't you get comprenhension before you talk shit niga
So the origin of the meaning of this video is my own mind.
I don't know what to believe anymore.
People in general have a need to feel in control of things. Even if they have to invent something to control. They most often simplify an existing problem and give it a simple solution.
This is an excellent description of ideology. Ideology is an (often useful) simplification of the world in order to let us grasp phenomena and make predictions. But if you lose the ability to honestly and thoroughly test your ideas against the real world, it becomes a problem and you end up believing that JFK is alive and nothing can prove otherwise.
I’m just so happy that no one here is referring to a conspiracy theory as “a conspiracy”. Drives me nuts!
This analysis regarding the inevitability of certain patterns in a large enough pool, can apply as proof of the inevitable existence of life in other planets. Just a theory. No conspiracy here. ;)
Patrick...you've saved me countless times brah. I'm sending you my first paycheck once I finish my BSE in ME degree.
Ramsey theory sounds like a conspiracy theory.
🤭
This reminded me of *pareidolia* which in turn made me learn about _*apophenia*_.
It's like how the brain makes inferences from your own past knowledge and experiences to make sense of the stimulus.
This is how it's possible to draw patterns from something that has no inherent pattern.
Maybe even, if two different people look at the same set of rectangular text they could draw different patterns because they had different knowledge or experiences.
This also relates to bias.
Proud of you if you stuck through my semi ramblings haha 👍👍 ;hopefully made you think things through a different perspective. Okay I'm done
You wrote my comment. #DerrenBrownFan4Life
is it just me or whenever i hear something about a conspiracy theory...
i get goosebumps and freak out
guys if you put the letters on the left of the end screen in a 8 by 12 grid you can spell "moon" and "by man"
it's a huge conspiracy
So anyway, what was the video about?
What is the minimum number of conspiracy theories necessary to guarantee that at least one of the conspiracy theories is true?
ONE TRILLION
The government *totally* paid TED-Ed to do this mannnnnn
>smokes more weed
Constellations hardly depict what people call them anyway. It's like that scene from South Park where two stars make up the entire battle scene in the Crusades.
Good explanation , appropriate background music and smooth voice of narrator thanks Ted-ed
who decided to arrange the text of Moby Dick in a grid?
If you arange the description of this video in a 22x22 square, you'll find the word cvid
How could you count the number of atoms in the universe when you don't even know the size of the universe? LOL
Concise. Coincidence. Adorable animation. Awesome.
It is true that we can find order where there is none by looking for it, but it is more common that things that appear ordered actually are. If that weren't true, we wouldn't be looking for order in random things.
So the hidden Illuminati messages in music videos are all but a figment of my imagination?
+islezeus Yes, you only imagine those videos, I haven't seen or heard of Illuminate ever.
Double D oh my
+islezeus
Well there's also the fact that musicians love to screw with conspiracy theorists.
+islezeus they are made to trigger you feeble minds who constantly, again and again, keep looking for it. Therefore they put it in there, to have some fun haha. God damnit you nut. IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING!
engladtur I guess your feeble mind didn't sense the sarcasm in the tone of which I wrote my original post. In other words, I'm not an Illuminati conspiracy theorist, you moron
i’m so proud to see PatrickJMT’s name on the video!
After he explained Ramsey theory, all I could think was 'A Beautiful Mind'.
How did this come to your mind?
Just to advertise what a nerd I am, when I was in my master's program several of us would play a drinking game that involved betting which of us could identify possible patterns with the least amount of data. Think of it as Name that Tune, but with data sets. Please control your adoration, ladies.
It's like a word search for conspiracy theorists
I love this channel so much
Extremely well put together. A smart, concise argument, backed up by proper theorems and facts
This is also great for conspiracy theorists to explain why you see things the way you see them.
3,6,9…_ what’s the missing number-it can’t be 12 as that would be a pattern
I thought Ramsey Theory was having an idea of where the lamb sauce was
Gordon drinks water*
"it's dry"
The revelation that our minds impose patters on random data came to me at age 14 during my first LSD trip, in 1967. I'm always pleased to see that idea confirmed; who doesn't just love to have our biases confirmed?
It wasn't touched on in the video much, but confirmation bias plays a large role in these patterns. After arranging the words into grids you are going to see words you recognize like NewYork, Towers, Terror, Terrorist, America, etc. You naturally link those words together because it was an event with significance. What you are leaving out when finding words with those patterns is all of the other words you find in the same block of text. Along with all of the words you think relate to the 9/11 attacks, there are just as many that do not relate to the attacks that are just left out because they do not fit the pattern like Pie, Braless, Feces, Vasectomy, etc., etc. Confirmation bias allows a person to just discount the occurrences of other words because they are not fitting a pattern we recognized in some.
This video: exists.
This video: tells people that many conspiracy theories are based on coincidental conjecture.
People watching this video: this video is a conspiracy. He only wants us to believe that nothing is happening.
Paranoia confirmed.
Not sure if i'm just not understanding that party problem or it's badly explained. How can we say a group of 3 out of the 6 all know eachtother? It seems we're assuming they all know at least one person but that wasn't said in the video. They could be 6 completely random people at a party that got like +1'ed? 1 might know 2,3,4,5 and 6 but they could've never heard of 1 before.
A little more explanation would be great if anyone does understand it.
I think for 3 people to know each other and for 3 people to not know each other, the minimum number is 6. That's what I got from it anyway.
+Porkchopio It's that either you will get a grouping of 3 people who all know each other or a grouping of 3 people who all don't know each other. One of these 2 results has to happen.
+Porkchopio I thought the same thing, and the explanation they gave didn't seem to answer for this.
+keltzar1 --- why can't 6 strangers form a party? Or why can't all 6 know eachother?
exactly what I thought. I think it's just not explained well.
Patrickjmt used to be my yt calculus guru
Can't believe he's doing these stuff now
The head of the course in maths teaching i took made me demonstrate the one of the heads with the same number of hairs.
And Ramsay theory dictates that Gordon Ramsay will throw at least one dish into the tall grass in any MasterChef outdoor teams challenge, usually saying how his bulldog wouldn't eat it.
Pffft!
There is no such thing as reptile men. ^^'
-Slithers- Sneaks away
PatrickJMT, the man who taught me calculus.
Honestly man, everything just bounced outta mY hEad!!!!!
wow this completely explains the JFK assassination and the Building 7 collapse thanks Ted
Very interesting and love Patrick
3:56 love that effect
Last time it was just rumours spread to your pals within your limited social circle. Thanks to the power of social media, anyone could turn any rumour into a conspiracy theory
To be fair, there were many conspiracy theories which turned out to be true.
Like what?Give me an example if there is too many of them.
@@biliminsrlar5752 Google MK Ultra
@@biliminsrlar5752 Google MK Ultra
Joe Star mind control does not exist.
I think some conspiracies are true but not all of them
+frediax10 Some of them sound more factual than government bullshit
+frediax10 , a conspiracy is always hyped, while the truth is boring... Eg: videos of sinkhole: one sounded mysterious, while another lectures you about frozen dirt.
+xponen there are some hype science videos there are a lot of boring conspiracy videos therefore conspirazy videos are truth and science is not
marlonyo a boring science is an hour long lecture... not that "Top10 sciencey stuff" video, and a boring 'conspiracy' is a documentary. Do you know what I mean?
Then you must be crazy! Nah just kiddin'
Conspiracy theorists are smarter than regular people, thus, their speculations are the absolute truth.
this gives an another level to my existential crisis lol
I ate toast for breakfast at 7:14 this morning. Yesterday morning I pooped at exactly the same time. So according to the alignment of Venus and Saturn, Hillary Clinton is a lesbian! Wow! Thanks TED-Ed!
The same thing happened to me, which means the moon landing was fake
Is it bad or irritating, to see someone liked or reply to something you commented on 3yrs ago or Is it cool, an by the way I almost forgot, (I LIKE YOUR COMMENT) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Wow this totally explains why epstein killed himself. Thanks TED!
My computer told me a joke the other day. It went: How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Three, one to unscrew and one to confuse the issue.
So co-incidences are actually common? okay wow. YOU GUYS ARE CHANGING THE MEANING OF WORDS
"And what do we say about coincidences?"
"The universe is rarely so lazy."
... And what do we say about anthropomorphizing the universe?
The universe is normally so lazy. It's not even a person who could be industrious. It's not a person at all.
What I really want to understand is the psychology of conspiracy theories. My in-laws are really into anti-vax, and QAnon, and Peter McCullough, and Pizzagate, and therefore it affects my wife, and it puts a real strain on our relationship. I'd like to know about the allure of it all; like why are certain people attracted to this? In this, I think there's a real problem to be solved.
Because, if you leave your home and sense youve forgotten something- chances are youve forgotten something.
This wasn’t the explanation I had hoped for
This guy helped me pass calculus in college.