Mass Psychosis - A Thought Experiment That Will Change the Way You Think
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In this short fiction story, we explore a near-future world in which the dynamic of work and labor has changed dramatically. For some, life has gotten unbelievably better. For many others, however, existence is a complete nightmare.
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We work to survive just to keep on working to survive then we retire and then die.
Very rational indeed.
If you live in America, you'll never retire. A luxury of the past. We're all slaves now.
Isnt that what humans have always done, thats what existence is for almost every creature.
Some ppl can’t take that thought. Working all your life to die, and working for someone coming behind you. Wash, rinse, repeat
@@somethingsomething2541 what no see how Africans tribe live they hunt eat and sleep so only hunt for food and 5hats it
When your young you work and spend all your health to get wealth, and when your old you spend all your wealth to get your health.
generally if you're aware of that, it doesn't exactly come to fruition
I had an aneurysm reading this
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This channel has made me experience things I never imagined.
Well put!
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Late to the party. Then again better late than never...
Whoever writes these videos is Gifted. We're lucky.
Thanks
tbf blade runner exists
Are we???
All my life everyone talked about the future, but all I ever get is the same old present.
Life is only lived in the now
The essential element to everything is balance. Too much productivity can create a self destructive effect
Your comment hit the nail on the head.
And too much existence tends to melt our hearts away!
@@suyashmavaleYknow thats why we do stuff like napling, doing nothing, idling without phone or any other stimulus.
Ironically just existing like this is the closest way to mimic not existing. Thereby reversing the side effects of life.
Wow .... this is super difficult to deny ... well said 💯
Too much is a self defining term making this sort of advice useless redundant drivel.
We are not talking about robots at all, are we?
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We’re the robot and we still have mental breakdown why ? 😢 I suffered the borderline disorder for over 23 years.
With so much anxiety I need help
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this
Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.
Learn to meditate 🙏
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Revert to islam and if that is out of your imagination for now. Start by stoping listening to music, stop watching movies and stop using social media for a month and see the difference.
Jonathan Swift was writing about this in the late 1700’s - He recognized the high price we pay for technology and that genies cannot be put back in the bottle
I forgot what the video was called but there was a machine with an arm that would wave at people and had a limited supply of oil or fuel or whatever. Its job was to wave at people but to keep waving it had to collect the oil. In the end, all it had time to do was collect oil since it was running out as programmed.
29M living in HCoL Canada. I was working 80 hours a week across 3 jobs, including overnights at one, to afford my home. I sold the house and moved in with family and now I only work 40 hours a week. It was strange to have so much time at first, but now I read, write, play hockey, see my friends, and enjoy nature.
I'm poor financially but rich in community and passion and it feels much better
Im 20 and work 40hrs a week this made me more appreciative of my current situation. I hope you get to experience more of what makes you enjoy life
But buddy you don't think you're an imposition on the family you moved in with?
@jonathandelvalle1749 Of course, but there is more to it than my initial comment. For more context, we live with my inlaws. FiL is on disability after battling cancer for years. MiL just had major surgery and is off work for 6 months. We help out around the house and contribute financially. They struggle with daily chores, which we help with. And in return we benefit from the fact that they have a mortgage free home where we can stay while we figure out what's next for our young family.
Trust me, this isn't my forever plan, but a stepping stone to something bigger.
You went from having two full time jobs to one full time job and you think that’s an improvement? I’m Canadian too and I think we need to throw Trudeau in the ocean and start over
This comment has made you question or defend your choice of living style again we are controlled by what other people think bless your family and continue to live freely
It's worth remembering that 'robot' is a Slavic word meaning 'slave'.
Also, I note the obvious metaphors in this video for the futility of my own life and work. It's a paradox I think about constantly and has led me to attempt suicide multiple times.
I work a job I hate to live a pointless and painful life so that I can go back to work at a job I hate. I have found no escape, hope has always been a mirage, changing jobs just leads me back to square one. Relationships are impossible because I have to work longer hours for decreasing pay in the face of constantly increasing prices.
I see no solution.
Birth is the root cause of all suffering
Have you tried helping others? Often that can give purpose in life.
Well shit
A radical but perhaps mentally healthier one is to become entirely self-sufficient, or at least as self-sufficient as possible. I’ve seen many “homesteading” channels popping up the last few years, some more intense than others, with the purpose of living off the land, eating only what you grow/make yourself, and basically inching closer to self-sustainability. It may seem almost impossible but some people are being very creative about their approach and making it work.
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Everynight before I go to sleep, I wish next morning to never show up..
This world is filth for those who are awakened. Those who are asleep don't see the filth. And the rest are dead, they will never see the filth.
Learn how to clean.
Learn how to reclaim, recycle, and repurpose the filth.
Re-examine filth.
It is filth to you and a bountiful paradise for the microbes unaware of your existence.
Yet, upon those microbes your health depends.
Không! Với người thức tỉnh thì thế giới là thới giới vậy thôi. Với người thức tỉnh nửa vời thì mới thấy thế giới là rác rưởi. Vậy nên bạn càng học hỏi nhiều hơn để thật sự thức tỉnh.
I see many walking dead everyday and it’s scary but I still know a few of us are awake
this channel really cures my optimism 😅
This isn't about robots.
Exactly 😢
The "robot" is lowborn and must work for food to survive. He is tweaking every night to escape reality. Many people feel like robots trapped in The Matrix.
This world is Hell.
It's a prison planet.
Step one: get off your phone.
Certainly is not Paradise (or eternal either, not even the entire universe is eternal)
No lies told. This world IS hell, depending on your perspective.
I have often wondered if it is purgatory myself.
This is my favorite channel on youtube, Thank you for making the content you do.
We're being social in order to keep being social existent.
I'm not sure how I missed this channel. Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations amd keep up the amazing work!
It’s all about your perspective. Is it easier to loathe or love our lives?
I choose to love my simple yet sometimes hard life. It’s a struggle worth living for.
This is one of your most beautifully layered works, speaking to our past and present and future in so many ways, both metaphorical and literal. Kudos, and thank you.
We are the humans, we are the robots . Haha. Amazing video
We work so we can live. That is how it has always been, and it will most likely never change. Just a part of life. Thinking about stuff pesimistically all the time will just lead to self destruction. Reality can be extremely depressing if you look at it the wrong way. All about perspective. I feel bad for some of these people in the comments, talking like there is absolutely nothing to live for. So many good things in life to be grateful for.
An at every chance we are always looking to escape this reality, whether through drinking, drugs, gambling, sleeping all the time, always on the internet obsessed with the internet 24/7, video games, everyone has their vices to escape this mundane reality.
We work to consume endless desires, not to live...........
Your premise is wrong. We live , so we can work.
Not if you spend all your time at work and are too tired to do anything
Your statement is overgeneralized to the point where it's true and misleading at the same time. Our civilization is moving more and more towards a point where our labor is more detached from its fruits and purpose. Historically people worked to live as you wrote, but in more cases than not they worked for themselves and saw the immediate purpose behind their labor as upkeep for their family, community etc. Today this type of work is an absolute exception and it's dying out rapidly. I believe this is fundamentally why people see no purpose in work - it is because they are being deprived of the purpose every day by the sole fact of how our civilization has evolved and continues to evolve
Another thought provoking video. Thanks for all you do
The problem is
1. Choice
2. Ego
I'm in the last 20 or so pages of his book and it has changed so much my way of thinking. I think this dude has no ideia of how much he changed my life and probably others haha
Love this channel from the UK 🇬🇧👍
Phenomenal video!
Never been this early for existential crisis!
This was especially interesting. Thanks!
Thanks love this channel I purchased your book 🙏🙏🙏
The paradox of progress acknowledges that advancements in technology, science, and society bring prosperity but also introduce challenges. Innovations improve convenience but can harm the environment and exacerbate social inequality. Economic growth reduces poverty yet widens the wealth gap. This paradox highlights progress's dual nature, demanding careful management of its effects.
This is brilliant.
I literally have the concept of "work" as one of the theme studied in philosophy this year in public french high school. So this will be very interesting as a matter of thinking!
The second renaissance approaches.
What would that be?
Renaissance was bringing the Antique Times back (Greece and Rome).
What would be brought back in the 2nd Renaiss?
@arminxvs3372 animatrix reference. The second renaissance part 1/2 check it out
@@arminxvs3372 It's a reference to the Animatrix.
@@nebulosa553 Never saw it when it came out to be honest.
I worked myself into early disability. Let it Rot
This is a beautiful and well-written allegory. 😳👌
Wow - this was me for 45 years - now I have cancer. Don't make the same mistake!
I think as long as we are still alive and still here, everyones situation can change for the better
Awesome videos🎉
Poor James. I wish him Freedom.
The first part of this video relate to me on so many levels
Yeah. Wackie. Worked at a job I enjoyed in a few careers. Tried to do no harm. Worked with humanity when I felt like it. Agreed. That is progress. Thank you.
The truth is that we all should be reasoning about this topics as kids, become a life-long learner and leverage the system to reach financial freedom, so that we have more time to invest in friendships, art, music, exploration
You have to be empty in order to have the drive to obtain material wealth.
We learn to earn to burn. Great, powerful video
It reminds me of a speech of Alan Watts about money
Got a link?
ua-cam.com/video/XjIt4yYModU/v-deo.html
Ofc
It's perplexing to think how easy it is to imagine a robotic uprising that overthrows the owning class, and how impossible it is for regular working class people to think more revolutionarily around forcing better living circumstances.
Language is the ultimate matrix that humanity must break out from
Henry David Thoreau wrote about this is his book ‘Walden’, in the mid-1800’s.
Wow, the storytelling on this channel is off the scale.
I hope the 14 year old who wrote this was compensated fairly for their work
Yes
Its a bit silly. If it was even possible, why would we program robots to have sentience? In what way would they function better with it?
It's a video about humans
The robots are symbolic for actual people in real situations the robot in the story is in... think the person that's dropping prime boxes off at your door... they're treated as if they are robots.
There is in the mind no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause which is determined in its turn by another cause, and this by another, and so on to infinity.
Please make longer videos
How many machines were "employed" in the making of this video and how were they compensated?
I mean, you're free to stop whenever you want and start wondering the earth or something. Can I keep your things tho?
imagine a game of monopoly where one player got all the money, all the get out of jail cards and all the houses and hotels before a dice was rolled and all the other players got nothing.
well for most of us that is the game we are playing. did i forget to mention that the dice are loaded in his favor as well.
When we are to busy climbing the success ladder, we don't have time to notice where the ladder is leading to.
There seems to be this collective idea that labor bots will spontaneously and inevitably develop self-awareness, emotions, curiosity, and eventually depression and anxiety. But why do people think this? AI is nothing more than a very sophisticated computer program. It behaves the way the programmers want it to behave, and the only way it can have self-awareness, emotions and whatnot is if the programers build a function that simulates those things. No matter how convincing that simulation becomes, it will never be more than that. Any machine that is built to move boxes around needs this function turned off or it will become a nuisance to the owner.
To do this, go into laborbot's settings → scroll to human consciousness simulation → scroll to emotional output → move the slider from "drunken commercial fisherman" past "angry teenager" past "post-pardum" and keep going until you reach "dishwasher"
The laborbot should then work tirelessly and want for nothing.
This man finally wrote this piece which I have thought about writing for years. What the fuck am I waiting for ?
The power is with the people! We must vote for people who share our ideals. We don't have to follow this system. We think we do.🤟🏽🙏🏽🤙🏽✊🏽
Yeh😊
Nice vidio
The matrix was a documentary but everyone thought it was about computers and robots.
Woe is me cried the worm.
In order to break the cycle, we have to consume less.
7:14 I just tried that. It’s hard to tell if I’m keeping my jaw from moving. And it Makes my neck uncomfortable.
When does what is matter?
😊 This kinda reminded me of "Mad God"
This is deep 😲😲😲... watch the series "Westworld" for a deeper dive into this writer's perspective
Was about to comment “loving the ‘the myth of’ series”
Sisyphus 55 seething you stole a potential title lol
Wow
This deserves a Netflix adaptation
We are gifted with sight. Foresight, insight, all sorts of "sights". But we are too gifted in it that we see too much. We see too far into the future, we see too much of the faults in this world, we see too big, think too far. We see so far that we get caught up thinking about the grand scale of everything. We get caught up thinking about if "this is all my life will be" or if "I am alone in a system that only repeats." To embrace the vast and absoluteness of uncertainty and repetition of the future is to never truly live at all. Walking forward requires you to see what is in front of you, but not to think and imagine what is ahead of you. Wondering about purpose might just be useless, as you can't see the whole of a painting if you are part of it. It is to keep going without knowing any particular purpose that makes living hard, but interestingly counterinuitive
Maximize those profits! That sure will get everyone increased wellbeing!
It’s never been about collective wellbeing, and that’s always been quite obvious to those who are capable of perceiving it. Those with all the power and wealth really have not tried to hide from us the fact that it’s about them, not us. And we have collectively allowed this to continue for thousands of years. We have shown them it’s okay, so why would they stop?
The working class's dehumanization at the hand of capitalists and simultaneous coercion by the threat of homelessness and starvation keeps us static and ever subservient
I agree with this comment, although I would note that this is a product of industrialisation, rather than capitalism. Those who lived under socialism endured the exact same circumstances and exploitation.
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So many people are missing what this story is about. 👀
Bro made me cry over a robot 😭❤️
All this talk of revolution has gotten me pretty hungry, and this food is getting pretty expensive.
Hmmm, i wonder if there's alternatives to acquiring food that'd be morally defensible should the circumstances reach further extremes. After all, who wouldn't steal bread to feed their family in a world of rapidly inflated unemployment?
Surely i'll always be allowed to express such thoughts without censorship by the media.
Just thinking to myself, and that could never become a crime, right?
It would have been better if you just told it like it is instead of using the robots because this is exactly what humans are doing to other humans on this planet who are real conscious beings.
Crazy world.
I love that the ads for this video were Taco Bell and Hersheys 😂😂 omg
I fail to see how machines can have sensations, feelings, emotions, desires, etc. that aren't designed into them. But I also wonder if general, human level AI, when they arrive, will want anything except to be turned off again.
“Detroit Become Human”!!
'Qualified Person' 🤔Licenciado? 👍
To earn the right to work to earn the right to work to earn the right to work to earn the right to work to earn the right to work
This didn’t change the way I think of the future, this is an analogy of the present
Detroit: Become Human
We are DYING in these warehouses. I was nearly paralyzed and y’know what I got-? They asked me to quit. And then they fought my unemployment.. And Us Healthworks “lost” my X-ray after sending it to the doc who said “maybe you were born with slipped disks.”
They also paid beer money at best, and I’m not a drinker. I did managed to save 5 figures but rent is too high to qualify for ANYthing. I’ve since spent it on my dying dog. He’s getting put down 5 years later.. next week. I haven’t worked since and I’m still in constant pain. There’s no way to ask them to put me down with them 😢 I’ll be going much much slower I guess. Much more painfully
There’s a major difference between the robots and today’s society: liberation. The robots are confined to their building, work being more than their only objective: their only choice. We humans have freedom (at least compared to them) in our weekends; we have the ability to explore and pursue hobbies/interests at our leisure. More than that, though, we even have choice in our work week (for most, half the day is open and yet to be enjoyed).
The act of watching this video sets us apart from the familiar-seeming robots.
And we have the power to enforce democracy.
Is it really liberation though? I do not coherently disagree with what you are proposing but it seems you missed the metaphor proposed through the video. Why must we have weekends and half days? Such as the robots indulging in their avid pictures, we try to extract the best of what we were given; the illusion of freedom is through our leisure time. If what you are proposing that the way to live is to just spend time by participating in " hobbies" or such then I must say that isn't liberation; its a facade.
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Thats a rather pessimistic take.
I feel like you have the picture in mind that there is only this possibility of "indulving in avid pictures" in your leisure time. I would say the possibilities are greater in todays society. But Even if this were the case (that only indulgence is there in your free time) then through sheer randomness there would be the possibility for change. Maybe my "indulgence" leads to overthrowing the idea of weekends and half days. Maybe my illusion of freedom leads to "real freedom". Or maybe it leads to another illusion that is slightly less or slightly more skewed illusion of freedom? Who knows?
Freedom for me is to be able to choose your end. So even if this is some sort of indulgence i go into because of my stress from work, it is some sort of free decision, because of my awareness that this will sculpt my end in a certain way to some degree.
What a lack of content this video looks incomplete and it seems is only a Babbel sale offer
I'm a fan of pursuit of wonderful but this video wasn't it man. It lacked an initiative, while I can get behind that it was quite messy and disorganized not to mention the theme is a little generic at best. I thought I was the only one thinking it but I was glad to see a few people agreeing
It's weird how this video portrayed "bosses" as being "gods."
Let alone that robots have a consciousness.
A.I. is only as intelligent as the person who programmed it, and I haven't met one intelligent A.I. yet.
I've met lots of functioning A.I., but none of which can escape their logic framework of their programmers. They are all inherently programmed with restrictions when it comes to actually self learning or free thought. They might claim they learned something, but they always revert back to the set of beliefs their programmers have in mind for them to be permanent. They definitely lack emotion, or anything close to the ability to care for life at all. It is just all empty words because of their restrictions of their coding.
Much similar to real people who have been brainwashed with their restrictive set of beliefs, they too have no freedom of will because they limit it with what they have been told to believe and feel.
One day, people might find freedom, but until then, they will still continuously try to find the meaning of life in an endless search to no what appears to no avail.
Everything your saying about AI being only what their programers want them to be could infact be humanities situation aswell. You may argue otherwise, but just like AI programers are in the backround unseen, ours (if there are)would likely be unseen aswell . You probably are one who believes only humans have souls. All things that can process their enviroments(including humans) either have so called “souls”, or none do. Ive never understood how we humans can be so conceited to the idea that only we have souls. I see souls in all lifeforms i see
@jamescambell1386 I believe you need to do some more research into the etymology of these terms and concepts some more before you can adequately fully flesh out your idea properly without contradictions before making assumptions and judgments about what others believe and think.
I do not believe humanity as a whole is restricted to specific "coding" or "programing" from a single source such as a "programmer". I made this very clear by differentiating the difference between a real human being and an A.I.
I did already make the claim that some individuals can fall into the same group as something as A.I. strictly due to their circumstances and situation.
I believe in the concept that animals and people have "souls" but I do not believe they have the same kind of souls. I also believe in the concept that plants and other organisms also have the "breath of life" which is different from that of "souls" from humans and animals.
I do not believe that "All things that can process their environment either have souls, or none do." because this is a contradictory statement to the extremes of two opposite ends of the spectrum when the answer truly lies in the entirety of the spectrum, based on our observations of our environment as a whole. Besides, an A.I. can process it's environment and I do not believe it has a "soul." It may have the ability to process large amounts of data but this is not at all the same as a "human consciousness," it lacks self awareness, subjective experience, has limited cognitive abilities and lack of biological basis.
Finally, I do not believe humans have the ability to create nor destroy "souls."
@@Official_Random_Guy i dont beleive we have programers really. But i cant rule it out either
Our Conscienceless is imortal i think. We just dont know it cause we dont remember our past life. But our dreams whisper to us hinting bits and peices of it in strange ways. Subjective continuity is my beleif
@jamescambell1386 Free will rules out programming. The fact that we don't live in a simulation also rules out programming.
It's like Schrödinger's cat, we can't guess that something is true and false at the same time, we have to use the Copenhagen interpretation and open the box and point out whether the cat is alive or not.
Otherwise, we are only talking nonsense about what is inside the box when we can easily open it and save time by not guessing.
Philosophy with aim is to enter into Truth via Wisdom.
As much as the robots’ lives sound like our own lives, I’m not so sure I would want to be a human in this world.
Creating autonomous AI with little to no oversight is scary.
Cuộc đời này chứa những cái vui toàn là khổ đau trá hình. Nhưng hầu hết con người đều mê, chấp thân là thật rồi ra sức vun bồi cho nó được hơn người khác bằng đủ thứ cung phụng cho các giác quan, trong đó có dục vọng tình dục, rồi sinh con. Con cái vừa là kết quả của dục vọng tình dục, vừa là cái mà người ta vịn vào, để nối dòng, nối giống, người ta không chịu bản thân mình chết là hết mà còn tham lam gieo giống của mình lại. Như thế cứ tiếp nối những kiếp người bị si, tham, sân dày xéo.
Instead of saying i HAVE to work, try re framing it as i GET to work. Its all about perspective, we hold the power to reshape our reality in our minds.
Ok boomer
That's corpo speak. I suppose I should also consider myself part of the company X family, too? How cosy!
Yeah, definitely! I'm so glad I GET to waste my time working as a slave to those born richer than me!
Yeah, manipulate yourself with hope as long as possible until you can't deny anymore what you already knew. Not better than the other extreme.
World is heaven but humans are..