Best HFY Reddit Stories: One Small Difference (r/HFY)

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  • @jtilton5
    @jtilton5 2 роки тому +355

    This sounds like a good explnation why a lot of species in Star Trek are monocultures with funny foreheads whereas the humans were more diverse.

    • @evernewb2073
      @evernewb2073 2 роки тому +31

      worlds in the startrek setting were sorta pre-programmed to develop humanoid life, there was one species that developed much MUCH sooner than any other and went off looking for anyone else, it was around the point where they became a multigalactic civilization without finding signs of _any_ life let alone other intelligent people that they finally decided to stop wandering around in search of vain hope and start doing something a little more proactive.
      they started tweaking things and fiddling with any remotely viable solar system to create conditions where life was likely to develop, and set something up on every planet that would nudge something vaguely like them to evolve. as a result while life isn't quite the rule among systems in the galaxy it _is_ the norm and usually includes a sentient humanoid species fairly early on in development. as you might expect having a billions of years old somewhat degraded computer program weighing in on things over the eons while producing what amounts to an alien species for the rest of the ecosystem can create a lot of weirdness like the occasional case of multiple similar sentient species developing on a planet at the same time, isolated populations diverging rapidly, and a lot of janky weirdness in the nonsentient wildlife.
      the lifeforms not affected at least in some way by this are mostly the spaceborn life you see from time to time.
      funnily enough, earth in Star Trek is _also_ a Deathworld: it produced a sentient species in between every major extinction event after life had gotten onto land and even had two on it for a decent stretch with one of them being among the very rare nonhumanoid examples to evolve naturally, all the mass extinctions have resulted in various sentient species fleeing from their dying world and allowing it to start the program cycle all over again while keeping a lot of the micro scale progress instead of having a sentient species develop around their homeworld and...well, usually destroy it in some horrible war or even just shut down for no apparent reason, civilizations in star trek rarely get much past the point they are all at in TNG and they never really got around to explaining why. even those precursors pretty much just quietly vanished as soon as they finished "setting the field" no elaboration as to how/why.

    • @evernewb2073
      @evernewb2073 2 роки тому +17

      oh! missed a part: the "planet of hats" thing is a fairly common occurrence as a result of the programming weighing in on things, they are kinda supposed to develop from there but again most species don't really live all that long after they become technologically advanced.
      even the in-setting humans get hit by it, they are just freaks in that they have a couple different "planet of hats" themes at the same time due to all those times of hitting the reset button on the planet...and possibly some influence from the whales (supertinkers and warmongers, star trek humans are _terrifying_ critters).

  • @DisIzDaName
    @DisIzDaName 3 роки тому +290

    Am I the only one that was waiting for them to mention sweating as one of our biggest advantages as persistence hunters? I was almost looking forward to the obligatory grossed out alien scene.
    "Th-they bleed all over themselves to keep cool?!"
    "Of course not! They'd likely die if they did that... most of the proteins and cells are filtered out."
    "And the rest of the fluids, minerals, etc in the blood?"
    "Um..."
    "Ack! Disgusting!"

    • @BrunoMaricFromZagreb
      @BrunoMaricFromZagreb 3 роки тому +42

      That is also really useful.Tierzoo outright calls us a gamebreaker.And for good reason.

    • @williamburnett3660
      @williamburnett3660 3 роки тому +11

      @@BrunoMaricFromZagreb I've seen that video also!

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 2 роки тому +1

      @@BrunoMaricFromZagreb Even if int was nerfed to roughly chimp level? That sweating would still make us pretty bullshit. Sure our ranges would be drasticly reduced, but still. Between sweating, thumbs, and the ability to throw things (as opposed to orangitang 'lobbing')

    • @cdgonepotatoes4219
      @cdgonepotatoes4219 2 роки тому +9

      That's a bit forced and unnecessary.
      Only keep to what's necessary to mention and the product'll come out better. Of course if this was an actual presentation where the sociologist had to fill an entire hour of rambling he may have diluted the talk with a small tangent, going deeper into that anatomy lesson, but as a guy who reads and listens to HFYs semi-regularly, I'm glad this writer kept the samey stuff brief and focused on the point they wanted to tell.
      Don't you cringe when you read about _"oooh, their predatory stare"_ and similars for well past the 20th time? Not single phrase, but an entire bloody paragraph and then giving the aliens tunnel vision on that crap for the entire remainder of the story? Like, you can put that in there but you don't need to write an entire essay on human physiology to get across why some test tube-looking limb roulette finds the human's excessive staring uncomfortable, WE find that uncomfortable, it's considered rude because it can be used to unbalance someone, it's aggressive, I don't need to read more about that, nor about sweating unless it's important later on like the alien finds out they have a sweat fetish or something.

    • @worldcomicsreview354
      @worldcomicsreview354 Рік тому

      @@BrunoMaricFromZagreb That's why the Matrix agents are after us. We're using a cheat code.

  • @MrJinglejanglejingle
    @MrJinglejanglejingle 3 роки тому +208

    Ah, yes... The butterfly effect, but on a species-wide level.

  • @caos1925
    @caos1925 2 роки тому +264

    "Threw themselves into dangerous technologies"
    *Humans making the first nukes*- "Well this might set the whole atmosphere on fire, but lets try it anyways!"

    • @Valysion
      @Valysion 2 роки тому +20

      i now get why aliens call us monkeys

    • @xenn4985
      @xenn4985 2 роки тому +22

      We knew it wouldn't. It was one guy who did some bad calculations saying it would, versus literally everyone else doing the correct calculations saying it wouldn't.

    • @sivadfa
      @sivadfa 2 роки тому +12

      Humans when discovering the smallest elements: "This might make a black hole on earth, and we're not entirely sure how one that small would react inside an atmosphere."

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 2 роки тому +4

      Diddling the numbers for political/moralistic reasons has a long history.
      Forcing nitrogen and oxygen to bond requires either catalysts like enzymes or a great deal of pressure and heat the chemical reaction of burning nitrogen does not generate the heat to maintain the pressure wave necessary to set the atmosphere on fire even including the trace concentrations of flammable gasses. Being horrified by the power of the weapon you have created does not justify lying about it.

    • @xyne6542
      @xyne6542 2 роки тому +4

      Remember that humanity detonated the first nukes having underestimated their power fourfold

  • @idcgaming518
    @idcgaming518 3 роки тому +136

    Wow, this was an... impressive, story. I always did like the ones looking at human development and what advantages it would bring compared to different developmental paths

    • @willparry530
      @willparry530 3 роки тому +5

      yeah, this one definitely stands out for being unique.

    • @worldcomicsreview354
      @worldcomicsreview354 Рік тому +2

      You can also see the logic of another social species that becomes intelligent always staying in contact, and thus only ever having one language and culture. They'd be peaceful and cooperative in many ways, but would likely develop very slowly and naievely in others.
      You could maybe write an HFY story where colonial aliens who have enslaved a lot of other "innocent" races get thier s*** pushed in by humans. When they can finally ask why, they are horrified to hear "we used to do it TO EACH OTHER"

  • @minecraftermad
    @minecraftermad 3 роки тому +458

    the writer either has a good understanding or is good at making believe he has lol

    • @ImieNazwiskoOK
      @ImieNazwiskoOK 3 роки тому +69

      I feel like it was what came after overthinking about something for longer time

    • @almar8874
      @almar8874 3 роки тому +98

      It's the former: He has a good understanding of human development. I've long had an interest in human evolutionary history and after I started read HFY stories I've wanted to write one using what I've learned so as to correct some misconceptions some other writers have - this writer has done it so well I no longer need to. He got everything right.

    • @minecraftermad
      @minecraftermad 3 роки тому +7

      @@almar8874 it's still possible to be entirely wrong even if everything you say sounds right.

    • @kingkiller1451
      @kingkiller1451 3 роки тому +31

      @@minecraftermad It's also possible someone actually knows what they are talking about, skepticism isn't a bad thing but at a certain point it looks more like you're asserting they are wrong without saying what part is wrong or how. Since you seem so sure they aren't right what would be huh?

    • @minecraftermad
      @minecraftermad 3 роки тому +2

      @@kingkiller1451 no sources cited :)

  • @tomendruweit9386
    @tomendruweit9386 3 роки тому +57

    There where two options. Learn to make peace or die fighting impossible wars. The results where 50/50 but the other side can't report anymore.

    • @DanJones-np8xb
      @DanJones-np8xb 7 місяців тому

      Do you know why the "good guys" always seem to win!?
      Because the winners control historical narrative. After the bloodshed is done.

  • @kriegsmanguard7326
    @kriegsmanguard7326 3 роки тому +95

    Ahh, it's pleasant to listen to stories like these every so often.

    • @HurremDurrem
      @HurremDurrem 3 роки тому +4

      KRIGSMAN! WHAT IN THE EMPEROR’S GOLDEN BALLS IS THAT FLAG

    • @kriegsmanguard7326
      @kriegsmanguard7326 3 роки тому +4

      @@HurremDurrem SHIT...NOTHING COMMISSAR! IT'S A OLD TRADITION PASSED DOWN IN REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH AND DEVOTION TO THE EMPEROR!

    • @HurremDurrem
      @HurremDurrem 3 роки тому +3

      @@kriegsmanguard7326 I don’t see this in the sanctioned holy symbols solider!

    • @tomendruweit9386
      @tomendruweit9386 3 роки тому +2

      @@HurremDurrem commisar it's an old national flag sir! From the time before the glorious unification ofankind sir!

    • @HurremDurrem
      @HurremDurrem 3 роки тому +2

      @@tomendruweit9386 this is...acceptable....I WILL HAVE YOU TWO TO HAND PAINT THIS ON EVERY LASGUN OF THIS SQUADRON @Kriegaman Guard @Tom Endruweit

  • @doppelhelixes
    @doppelhelixes 3 роки тому +101

    and all i think after hearing the last 50 years where the most peacefull - how horrible was te first quantum mechanical bomb to make us peacefull?

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer 3 роки тому +12

      Quantum laser imo

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 3 роки тому +24

      They discovered the compact before it discovered them.
      They unified to "join".. but also in preparation for the fact it may be a greater threat. Humanity formed warsaw and NATO to fight itself. Now? It made the Sol Interplanetary Agreement.

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer 3 роки тому +8

      @@krel7160 i still want to see another story where "new warsaw" exists.....
      Sry if random

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 3 роки тому +9

      @@angrydragonslayer Not too random, and it's a pretty novel idea. And to be honest, with the way space travel + FTL and galactic industry works.. A soviet style of production with each colony being largely independent but still under the broader curtain would probably work quite well.
      Especially because you hit one colony, and you hit the entire warsawian compact as one. Plus anybody else in humanity who refuses to stand idly by.

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer 3 роки тому +10

      @@krel7160 oh no, i meant "new warsaw" the city
      I forgot what the movie was called but it's an alternative reality where the nazis and commies actually honored their treaties and became the naco party
      It's literally a giant sawblade with a city/c-camp on the sides of it, they used it to cut a moon in half when some dalek copycats refused to surrender

  • @heatherweir8726
    @heatherweir8726 2 роки тому +57

    I wonder what they would think of dogs. We had them for around 5000 years before any other domestic animal. Also using snow to build shelters.

    • @hokutoulrik7345
      @hokutoulrik7345 2 роки тому +9

      And cats domesticating themselves.

    • @kurodo9926
      @kurodo9926 2 роки тому +9

      Now that I think of it, making snow igloos is essentially creating an oven out of a thing that with regular logic/without further knowledge seems like a bad material

    • @RedneckSith
      @RedneckSith Рік тому +7

      There's another story like this which proposes that pack bonding is one of our greatest assets. Which is kind of right. We can bond with just about anything, and have that bond be reciprocated. From tiny, helpless rodents to giant predators which could easily devour us, given the right approach and enough time, a human can make a friend out of anything. I mean, the Polish army had a bear who would help carry artillery shells, FFS! And nobody trained him to do it! He just saw the humans he bonded with carrying them from one place to another, and wanted to help. His name was Wojtek.

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker Рік тому +2

      It is said that humans and Dogs domesticated each other, as their cooperative hunts allowed a steady food supply without needing to migrate and led to the development of food storage & farming. Food storage attracted vermin and also the animals that hunter vermin which led to pets like cats, ferrets. Etc.

    • @kirishima.nue13
      @kirishima.nue13 Рік тому +1

      ​@@RedneckSithhhh yes, the time the Poles out 2nd Amendmented the USA, lots of crazy stories about him tho, from smoking cigs, to drinking beer to catching a spy.

  • @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH
    @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH 3 роки тому +25

    Bless the Narrator
    Bless the Author

  • @ryanlavallie4065
    @ryanlavallie4065 3 роки тому +90

    Sounds like the author has played a lot of civilization lol

  • @OrlandoMGarcia
    @OrlandoMGarcia 2 роки тому +9

    I think this sociological make me realize books like all tomorrows could be more flesh out about how small changes make civs all different and why speculative evolution should look more to this field

  • @H3xx99
    @H3xx99 2 роки тому +20

    Humans speed ran the civilization stage.

  • @drgxiii
    @drgxiii 2 роки тому +15

    Now that was a well written story and why I love the genre.

  • @mllhild
    @mllhild 3 роки тому +22

    I call propaganda on the 50 year if peace data.

  • @sheller153
    @sheller153 Рік тому +5

    This was great! Though I’m pretty sure that humans discovered farming at least seven times. Discovered as in “these humans figured out how to farm without ever seeing or hearing about farming.” In Central America/Mexico, Peru (or possibly Chile or southern Brazil, jury is still out), Ethiopia, Syria/Iraq/Turkey, Afghanistan/Uzbekistan, India (or possibly Thailand, again the jury is out), and eastern China. Also, it was recently discovered to have also cropped up in Papa New Guinea as well is you’ll excuse the pun! All in a mixture of floodplains and “sweet, dank river valleys”

    • @morgankuikka4940
      @morgankuikka4940 7 місяців тому

      Also the timeline of "civilization" was way off, they said 6k years from the lecture, but we have evidence dating from 12k plus (gobekli tepi being a great example) of a civilization with farming and advanced architecture. We have skeletons dating back 100k years that are almost identical to modern skeletons. Our history goes much further back then our records do. And we keep finding older stuff.

  • @choosykraken1985
    @choosykraken1985 3 роки тому +14

    the fact that the first 2 comments havent even finished watching the video yet

  • @ekkovaan2261
    @ekkovaan2261 3 роки тому +27

    >no views
    >2 likes
    Seems legit

    • @BrunoMaricFromZagreb
      @BrunoMaricFromZagreb 3 роки тому +2

      Makes me think of the old UA-cam,back when the shittines came from the userbase and not the executive powers that be...

  • @onerxowns2202
    @onerxowns2202 3 роки тому +14

    Interesting dissection of humananity, will this be continued?

  • @Praetor_Jeep3r
    @Praetor_Jeep3r 3 роки тому +12

    Nope never been this early
    Side note, does anyone else wonder if aliens are going to view us as primitive? Or the other way around?

    • @ivanwrsong4792
      @ivanwrsong4792 3 роки тому +2

      Probably violent sliver tongued lawyers

    • @DisIzDaName
      @DisIzDaName 3 роки тому +7

      Depends on which of us finds the other first, I'd expect.

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 3 роки тому

      It might be that in some things they do not see us as primitives or advanced but different(likely because of biology),in some things primitives and in others just a bit more advanced than they are. And we will do the same and if not just start genociding them.

    • @DeaconBlues117
      @DeaconBlues117 Рік тому

      @@DisIzDaName And relative technological development - see Harry Turtledove's short story "The Road Not Taken" for an example.

    • @drmachinewerke1
      @drmachinewerke1 11 місяців тому

      It depends if the aliens are carrying a book .

  • @rat_king-
    @rat_king- 2 роки тому +3

    Yes.... 50years. of "Peace" yeah... the UN. about that.

  • @leriku2270
    @leriku2270 Рік тому

    One of the better ones

  • @ernestmac13
    @ernestmac13 Рік тому +1

    This is an interesting look into how humanity might become a truly peaceful civalization; realizing the dark alternative realities of a global government achieved via dictatorship and authoritarianism vs one of mutual cooperation between the world's nations, of worldwide subjugation and slavery vs the freedoms many of us enjoy. While it's true humanity has a far way ro go; to provide freedom, opportunity, and a sustainable quality of life for all of the world's masses, we still are a far cry above how bad things could have been. This story is correct that; despite humanity's ongoing conflicts, qe always strive for peace.

  • @michaelflegel7759
    @michaelflegel7759 3 роки тому +6

    Woot woot

  • @beingsneaky
    @beingsneaky 2 роки тому +2

    Well let's hope there is more to this story.

  • @MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh
    @MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh 2 роки тому +6

    Pure meat is one of the least energy dence foods(unless fat is also considered meat) , it's protein density is unmatched on the other-hand.

    • @Arexack999
      @Arexack999 2 роки тому +3

      True, people can wither away of malnutrition uf forced to eat only hares for example. The leanness of the meat prevents the proper absorbtion/digestion of the protein. The moniker 'meat' however does not encompass muscle tissue alone, but rather the whole animal. The organs are especiallt rich in protein, vitamins and other essentials.

    • @MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh
      @MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh 2 роки тому +2

      @@Arexack999
      Whole animal --> Carcass (all encompassing)
      Meat --> general term used to refer both muscles,nonmuscles & fat together (technically shouldn't include fat)
      Bones --> bones(without meat)
      Fat --> fat
      Organs --> Offals
      Lean meat is easier to digest, good for gut and better for health due to low fat content.
      Organ rich with mineral and vitamin is mainly liver , rest are just meh. But organs are heavy with toxins and bad stuff , mainly liver-kidney-spleen especially in nonorganically raised animals.

    • @Arexack999
      @Arexack999 2 роки тому +1

      @@MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh that is indeed the modern human defiintion of the meat. Predators tend to go for the parts that we dismiss as offal first tho.

  • @norneaernourn8240
    @norneaernourn8240 3 місяці тому

    Dangerous tech huh? Like detonating a nuke in a deep hole, buried under tons of solid concrete and then covered by your run-of-the-mill steel manhole cover. The manhole cover that got sent out of our gravity well or pulverize when the nuke detonated. Maybe we will see that manhole cover again. It is the fastest thing human built after all.

  • @ernestmac13
    @ernestmac13 Рік тому

    While A.I. will help us understand human and animal sociology better; it will be interesting what we learn from alien life forms, let alone ones as advanved or more advanced than ourselves.

  • @loqkLoqkson
    @loqkLoqkson 7 місяців тому

    NetNarrator is so much better than Agro Squirrel Narrates. NetNarrator gets the occasional word wrong and sometimes changes the meaning of a sentence. Agro Squirrel Narrates re-writes whole phrases into incoherence, and then makes the readable text so narrow, it's hard to work out what the meaning was meant to be.

  • @orangedragonn4173
    @orangedragonn4173 2 роки тому +1

    I want to meet Fredrick too! :(

  • @jonathanlimburg5636
    @jonathanlimburg5636 3 роки тому +7

    Never been this early

  • @henryjesionowski5600
    @henryjesionowski5600 2 роки тому +1

    Is there a continuation to this story?

  • @WiredTurkey316
    @WiredTurkey316 3 роки тому +1

    For the algorithm

  • @thrall6647
    @thrall6647 2 роки тому +1

    Greetings!
    Preiss algorithm gods!

  • @talyn3932
    @talyn3932 7 місяців тому

    Humans are 300 thousand years old, not 3 million. Early hominids were tool users but not developed like we are. Crows and chimps are also tool users.
    We also had that massivly long Ice age that kind of slowed us down.
    In reality once our competition in the denisovans and neanderthals dissapeared and the ice age ended, we progressed quickly. Farming for a low population makes mo sense though... it was our numbers and crowdded migration regions that dictated a need for farming. We then shrank from malnutrition until we figured things out and spread east to west or into similar climate zones as crops need generations to adapt to colder or dryer environments. Even the Inca took multiple generations to adapt north and south as they did.
    Domestication is also random luck. Anatolia, the levant, and India just happened to have most of the easily domesticated animals. The useful ones we call farm animals now, anyways.
    Farming also developed independantly more than 3 times. It spread from central asia and evolved but also cropped up in isolated civilizations everwhere. The only true farming in isolation from the others was the Americas.
    No species analagous to us under our circumstances could do better. Foundations take time to build.

  • @eddoh2701
    @eddoh2701 3 роки тому +6

    now this is a fairy tale, Humanity united?

    • @babla69420
      @babla69420 2 роки тому +3

      Well..we were united when we were slaughtering the 20+ other human species to extinction, so we just need to find some non human intelligent species

  • @BrunoMaricFromZagreb
    @BrunoMaricFromZagreb 3 роки тому +6

    Accurate.For a bunch of warmongering sociopaths we're really good at making friends.
    Also,FYI,discoveries suggest we started in Europe before Africa.Not suree if that's correct,just possible.

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 3 роки тому +1

      You may be thinking about the PIE not homo-sapiens here,on what i know.

    • @PodreyJenkin138
      @PodreyJenkin138 Рік тому

      The out of Africa theory has never been proven and remains a flagrant example of science simply retelling a possibility as truth and nobody ever setting the record straight
      Recent discoveries in Europe for example predate some of the older artifacts from ancient Africa and also predate the supposed time line for the Exodus from Africa (which is the biggest point here since it proves they have no idea when people would have actually left which is the crux of the argument)
      It's definitely proven that humanity was in Africa for most of our history but they cannot prove we started there and that's the key
      Honestly it doesn't make sense for us to have started there as it's one of the most hostile regions on the planet, I would wager the middle East and central Asia is closer to where we began we aren't assuming some creation event

  • @WhatWhy42
    @WhatWhy42 2 роки тому +1

    Looks like the Alien's we're lied to about our past just like the rest of us 😐

  • @scarletrhine4510
    @scarletrhine4510 Рік тому

    This needs more more more chapters. This story doesn't feel complete.

  • @jeronimomod156
    @jeronimomod156 Рік тому +1

    Nothing about finding multiple different types of UFOs and back engineering them 🤦

  • @jimmycoyote74
    @jimmycoyote74 2 роки тому +1

    For the algorithm