Philosophy Tube - 2023-02-24
Get Nebula cheaper with this link: https://go.nebula.tv/philosophytube Watch "The Prince: https://nebula.tv/videos/philosophytube-the-prince" Support the show! - https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube When crypto company FTX crashed, it posed big questions for the Effective Altruism movement! Twitter: @PhilosophyTube Instagram & TikTok & Tumblr: @theabigailthorn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosophyTube/ Email: philosophytubebusiness@gmail.com BIBLIOGRAPHY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSFGULN6WeMjXpBWlpv3RCE0MmchCIsu3fa_UPCt_yNEKK4PjyQK1CihSXMPYl0miuc0msfbL0Gz6Xc/pub 0:00 Intro 2:23 What is Effective Altruism? 7:27 Who is Sam Bankman-Fried? 15:23 What is Longtermism? 30:34 How Do We Change the World? #crypto #charity #philosophy
Being a consultant at a banking conference where you didn’t get paid. That tracks. That tracks so hard, in fact for a financial institution.
And an ethics consultant specifically... like okay Mr Bank Manz I'm sure this talk will really get thru to u
@@ayyydn And they probably also got tax deductions etc for all of it too!
It tracks so hard it just became a trolley problem
Even more so that they even paid for a business class ticket instead of an economy class one and giving the rest as salary. It shows how this is always about optics. Instead of paying a small wage and modest transportation it's about luxury transport (to feel acknowledged) without paying a salary, as a ethics consultant shouldn't take a job based on the money...
No it doesn’t…that’s actually really unusual. Consultants get paid a lot in all industries, but especially finance and tech
As someone qualified in AI, I can assure you that the real danger to humanity from AI isn't that it will go rogue and disobey its masters.
The real danger from AI is that it will never disobey its masters, and it will carry out their instructions without any compassion or ethical considerations, making those masters ever richer and more powerful, forever.
Yep the most dangerous part about AI is that it's got everything from us , and we then get it into our heads it’s impartial just because we have an algorithm do exactly what we do.
@@tamarabrugara More that it's ideal for manipulation. Consider this scenario: You take a successor version of GPT. Is it intelligent? No. Actually, if you were to compare it to a human, it's a moron and a compulsive liar. But that's ok: You don't need an intelligent program for this, you just need something that can pass as a human in a brief conversation in internet comments. Now, direct this AI to your desired goal. It might be "promote by product" or "support my politician" or "insult this ideology" or "talk about this news story."
Now, rent yourself some computing power, and duplicate your AI. Ten thousand instances. Tie them in to the APIs for some popular social media services. And there you have it: Your auto-troll. A tool with the power to flood the public conversation through sheer numbers and direct it, shaping public opinion to your own views. The AI isn't intelligent, but it's intelligent enough to pass in youtube comments.
Within a couple of years, I expect to see the internet just flooded by billions upon billions of comments explaining why China is the best, safest, most successful, richest, cleanest and most free country, and anyone saying otherwise is just a sucker for western propaganda.
Another dangerous aspect of AI is that if we ask it do something it may not give us exactly what we want or the method it chose to obtain it may be unfavourable. AI hss no ethics, morajs or human understanding, you ask it to create a money making idea it would suggest hacking into a randkm person bank account.
As an AI researcher, I agree with this statement.
Giving Wall-E
I absolutely love how this F1nn colab is just a normal philosophy tube video but F1nn is just sorta there vibing. Like bring your femboy to work day. Iconic
Hahaha ok i want that for my work day too
@@capucnechaussonpassion14 Everyone deserves to bring a femboy to bring your femboy to work day.
A low-key Derol from Glass Onion reference, perhaps?
Ideal.
Timestamps 4:35
F1nn wandering around the video like your office managers lost puppy is so fun
“Somewhere in a parallel universe, there’s an alternate version of me. And she doesn’t have any integrity, but she does own a house.”
Damn. I love that line.
It's the pink-suited girlboss character with the American accent who has some company I can't remember 😂
OOOft same it was so good!!
I felt that, too.
It's stupid. She has made enough money to buy a house multiple times. Why does she keep pretending to be poor?
@@adamafzall4618 You said it wrong. It’s Pooah.
I might have missed a line somewhere but... I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realize EA stood for Effective Altruists rather than Electronic Arts... I was starting to go crazy.
Omg same 😆 after years of watching James Stephanie Sterling rail against EA, each time I heard it mentioned in a non-gaming context was rather jarring 😅
Took me a second, too xD
"Effective Altruist Sports. IT'S IN THE GAME!"
Effective Altruism Sports: It's in the game.
I mean the comparison fits
For more human well being you have to buy the DLC
I've worked for charities before, specifically animal rescue, and I've done independent charitable work and mutual aid in private. One of the realizations that hits you almost immediately is that charity is nowhere near enough, and cannot be relied upon as a solution to systemic problems. It comes down to a matter of scale, as charities can only help a small percentage of those who need it, and can't do anything to change the system that gave rise to massive inequalities in the first place. The average charity volunteer is giving everything they've got, and the vast majority of charity organizations are barely clinging to life. Unless an organization already has a ton of clout, or is corrupt like a lot of the big name charities, chances are it's struggling for survival itself. For people to act like we can just use charity to catch those who slip through the cracks is a gross misunderstanding of the scale and severity of the problems charity is meant to address.
I don't understand, what are you suggesting? That charities are nearly worthless because the system is so entirely broken?
@@skeetsmcgrew3282sounds like you understood exactly what they said
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 yes?
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Essentially. I'm not one to downplay the good charity workers do, because I've been there myself. I'm just trying to give people an idea of how insurmountable the problem of inequality is. We can reach a few people here and there, and this is a tangible good in their lives, but it doesn't last long, and is not a long term solution without systemic change. So I'm not framing this as an either-or situation either, we need both. Ideally we'd live in a world where people's survival needs are taken care of by default, and charities are there to help on the side. They cannot and should not be an absolute requirement.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 I think it's sort of pointlessly overwhelming to consider charity through this lense. Like, the problems have been around for a very long time, and until capitalism is destroyed they will never ever be fixed. It's a waste of time to even consider deep systemic change in anything resembling a decent timeline. Maybe several centuries, but not in a lifetime, and definitely not in a generation. So every good deed should be considered it's own win. I guess my philosophy is like, kind pessimism? Like, it's fked, we are all fked, but that doesn't mean you dismiss anything good thats done
I live on the Swinomish Reservation, where Shell had an entire train derail and spill into our watershed. I'm working now for a degree in Environmental Biology to deal with the long-term effects of this catastrophe. This video helped me a lot to understand what I'm doing and why. Thank you <3
But then Shell bought some malaria nets and donated to a bunch of rich men's tax evasion side gigs, I mean, charities. So we should all forgive them. Hash tag effective scam, I mean, altruism.
BTW, good luck with your study. I think your approach is million times more effective way of securing the future than EA.
Best of luck in your education and future work! Idk if this is helpful, as I know it is still quite expensive, but the South East Technological University in Ireland has a robust environmental remediation department. Since it's been recently changed from a college to a university, SETU is desperate for graduate and postgraduate students. There are some fast tracked postgraduate scholarships that offer a research based opportunity to earn a PhD in 2 or so years, all tuition paid by the school, and you get paid a fairly decent stipend to live off of during your studies.
You are joking right?
@@colonela7815 look it up
In Future we need more of you. You‘re doing the right thing.
Finally someone else referring to him by his proper title; "Grimes' Ex"
I prefer Elon Husk.
Given Elon's proclivity for putting "X" at the end of everything, it would be more appropriate if it were "Grimes' X"
Timestamp?
@@trinitym5552 Is music for the deaf?
@Trinity M the oc is defining musk based on his relationship with grimes, not the other way around. And not all women are dope 😭
Disclaimer for gamers, EA is referring to Effective Altruism, not Electronic Arts
Thank you 😂. My gamer brain was confused 💀
@@stansmith7445 I didn't want to admit it when I first saw your reply, but tbh same
Effective Altruism (It's in the game)
Thank you so much holy shit
😂😂😂
This woman opened the video with telling a conference full of bankers to resign and wearing, like 6 inch platforms. Abigail Thorn, you are an inspiration to us all.
@@higginswallop5009 wow what a cutting edge take 😐
@@higginswallop5009 sounds and looks like a woman to me
its a man
@user-fo8yu1hy1r was a man, is now a trans-sexual woman.
i think it is a story from a guy, jeff realname
I think there's also a question about how good and harm exists in the first place. Many disabled people, myself included, suffer because we live in a world that routinely fails to accommodate them. Alleviating disability can be helpful, but it puts the cart before the horse.
I have a different view on this as a disabled person. I'd say that society coming up with ways to accommodate is more task intensive than "solving" the problem at the basis. Accommodating vs preventing the need for accommodation with out sacrificing those who would need said accommodation. IE if we eliminated disabilities (with regards to that some are considered as such only due to cultural implications, vs functional ability, which I understand is a whole other can of worms conversation to have) but say that we had a perfect way of doing that, I'd more agree with preventing the need for accommodation where possible, if that makes sense.
@@vixxcelacea2778what do you mean by eliminating disabilities...eugenics?
@@Existential_RobotThere are a multitude of disabilities that aren't curable. Knowing this makes the idea that eugenics was the intended goal an easier conclusion to reach
As someone whose been homeless and works multiple jobs to keep from going back, I wish the world was more accommodating for everyone.
@@fawn2911 me when a disabled person has a different viewpoint than me
"Somewhere in a parallel universe there is a alternate version of me. She doesn't have any integrity but she does own a house." This had me in stitches. Love the video!
Hopefully those stitches didn't come from the American Healthcare system
Its doubly funny if you know how this particular scene thinks. Theres a lot of really weird beliefs popular within the EA crowd, one of which is a weird attachment to multiverse type ideas, along with "Were all in a simulation!" and its whackier corollory "If we piss off the robots they'll torture us in a simulation!". Its a weird little pocket of silicon valley culture and it really believes its own propaganda..
That line hit me the hardest in the video! There's a lot of humour in the truth!
@shayneoneill1506 You mean Roko's Ballisk? It's funny because even if that were real, I don't see how I'm supposed to feep threatened by the AI torturing a simulation of me after I die, when the simulation of me *isn't me*, but a copy of me.
@@psuedonym9999I've been told I'm too stupid to understand the threat of a supercomputer capable of simulating consciousness thinking mean thoughts about me, but we have those already; they're called brains.
I love Abigail’s commitment to video games’ idea of future fashion. Belts. Belts everywhere.
Oh man yeah, every character in cyberpunk has suspenders belts and holsters that hold nothing.
Ironically, this is also video games' idea of past fashion and fantasy fashion.
@@nucleargandhi2709 it's just video game fashion, and the fashion i want to do
Bit skimpy on the pouches though 🙃
There's one thing for sure: her left shoulder is SAFE! 🦾 But seriously, she looks great! Plus, personally I love the cyber look, and extraneous/useless buckles, strips, straps, grommets... Especially after I saw the extent of what it could be in The Fifth Element. Remember Zorg (Gary Oldman) and his slick-as-hecc latex/rubber pinstripe 3-piece suit? And it was lined in red! SO FAB!
As someone who has worked at a bank for years (and is looking for a way out), a sadistic part of me would’ve sold my kidney to be at that conference and watch the bankers being told the most ethical thing they can do is resign.
Hey, you can still donate your kidney! Save a human life and stick it to the finance bros ;p
ay u just watched the result for free, how about that :3
I gave a similar "keynote speech" at a construction project meeting back in the 90s. I eventually left the business entirely and could not have been happier. Unfortunately I was forced to return to it and everything is worse than I could have ever imagined it becoming. I'm struggling to get out of it again in order to keep myself from going insane.
I read a book called The Anxieties of Affluence, which was a sort-of anthropological look at the ultra wealthy families of Manhattan. Nearly all of the (mostly women) in the families struggled a great deal with how to be rich "ethically", and how to best donate to charities. But the thing is, how is a random millionaire in Manhattan supposed to know what exactly their community needs, or how their money can best be implemented? As a result, the majority of wealthy people tend to donate to their children's (probably already financially healthy) schools. The book made the conclusion that rich people should simply be taxed more, as even though the govt is not by any means a perfect means to distribute wealth effectively, it is at least ran by people who are (theoretically) democratically elected to represent their communities. I really think philanthropy is just another big smoke screen the wealthy use to avoid taxes. It's an incredibly ironic twist of fate to me that most rich people donate to their children's private schools, while public schools languish due to a lack of tax revenue from their neighborhoods. Cool!
Ahhh, you forget the very useful action of busying one's meddling wife in charitable ventures and the subsequent validation she derives from it, freeing you to go back to pillaging the world she'll then ceremoniously apply a rhinestone band-aid to.
This
idk, no effective altruist would ever argue for spending on private schools. I feel like real, effective charities that work in super-impoverished countries doing things like feeding starving ppl can definitely be more effective than giving money to the US government
More taxes for the ultra rich, yes please, sure! But not avoiding the little they should pay would be a start aswell
Abi mentions the rise of the charitable foundation, but doesn't mention its tax benefits. Eventually the taxpayer ends up subsidizing them because donations to them are tax deductible. Same with religious orgs.
I spit out my drink when Finn walked through the background when she mentioned "your college aged son getting into internet culture."
Femboys!
"The crypto sphere is powered by the hype about how we're all gonna make it. Sometimes that hype is pretty unrealistic." - Abigail.
So generous, careful, compassionate!
Other times it's a deliberate predatory lie. - me
I was running home from work the other day along a river. I rounded a corner and saw a child in distress in the water. I immediately stopped, removed my backpack, took out my phone and saved two starving children in Africa (via an ethical donation) as two is clearly more than one that felt like a clearly better use of my time. By the time I looked up the kid wasn't there anymore, not sure what happened to them.
Fn Cute Ed
Peter Singer actually uses a drowning children thought experiment in his book Giving What We Can, although I think the point you're making is unrelated.
An EA would tell you that your ability to save two starving children in Africa via donation is (almost) orthogonal to rescuing the child in distress. You ought to be aiming to do the most good possible, not compensating for your decision not to rescue a drowning child. Same reason you it's silly to say "It's OK that I'm not vegan because I donate to charity". Your ability to donate to charity is (arguably) unrelated to your ability to avoid consumption of animal products.
Otherwise I could morally justify murdering someone if I also donated US$3000 to Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program.
Wait did I just reducto ad absurdum a reducto ad absurdum wtf. I need to go to bed.
@@TheActualDP I would say it's silly to say "It's ok that I'm not vegan because I donate to charity" because I define neither action as good. One of the issues I have with EA is that no one has a clue as to where to spend their money to maximise goodness.
No one is an island. This means that your actions effect you and others (whether you want them to or not). No one is in quantum superposition with all life. This means that your actions don't effect everyone and everything evenly.
So basically there are two tenets of EA, that we can identify what is good and distance doesn't matter. And both tenets are horribly mistaken.
I don't think that's how it works. Saving the kid requires physical effort and time and not money. The outcome is instant and observable so it's quite obvious what should be done at the moment. Your example is a pretty bad one
@@ed1726 again another person missing the point. Helping someone is better than not helping someone. Putting a bit more effort and finding a more efficient way to help more people is even better. Waiting for the perfect solution to help a hypothetical maximum number of people and wasting time on that un obtainable goal. Is stupid.. it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be better than the previous option. And it can even end up being worse.. but if it's more efficient 80% of the times when it's done then it's still worth it. In other words it's trying to find the optimum solution not the maximum or a perfect solution
The closed captioning during the credits is so sweet and pure. Love PhilosophyTube CC. I'm rooting for you, Abigail! :)
Thanks for pointing it out! I had otherwise missed them. The cc are indeed incredibly adorable
lol I went back and watched the credits bc of this comment. I loved the little hidden treat <3
I'm so glad Abigail is trying to keep herself grounded while also growing. In case she reads this, the quality of the visuals seems to always be better than the last. This one was a little bit light on some of the deeper philosophy but on the whole the quality of that also increases over time. I hope you can manage to continue making content that makes me think, consider, and ponder while also having the career you'd like. I value your insights and the philosophical context even when I disagree so I know a different view and can empathize with those who espouse it.
Came for F1nn5ter, stayed for the lesson
oh hey Kyle, on an alt.
I just came
I too, came for F1nn5ter
came for f1nn5ter, came for f1nn5ter, left the video, cried.
The funny thing with the MrBeast blindness example is that I'm mostly only aware of it from the Twitter drama that followed MrBeast agreeing that it's actually not OK that these things are left to random celebrities instead of being addressed with public spending and triggering a backlash from the "fiscally responsible" crowd.
The ironic thing is that anyone "fiscally responsible" should agree that policies like this would ROI easily for any country which invested in it.
That's a pretty cold way to think about life-altering healthcare procedures, but it uses their supposed framework of reasoning.
F1nn5ter's cameo was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
Ahhhhh I just need to mention that I absolutely love the way you show your sources during the video. It's a small thing (an annoying thing to edit in, I'm sure) but it gives so much more depth to the topic and works as a really effective way to raise interest to dig deeper without having to introduce essays in a repetetive way. You've done it in a visually non-intrusive and stylish way and I just really appreciate that extra mile! Oh and the latex is absolutely bomb! <3
It really is one my favourite little details about her channel, I wish more YouTubers who made video essays did it.
i wish they would cite sources in that way on tv documentaries and stuff like that! where you're likely to tune in in the middle of it and might not see the credits, and theres no description you can look up. I know it's just a thing this channel does (much appreciated) but i wish it was adopted more widely!
Adam Ruins Everything used to do that. It was like having footnotes in an article. Super useful not having to scour the entire video description for further reading.
I too hope to have the time to track sources for my work, lol
I completely agree and if you actually use sources in the creation of the video I doubt it's much of a hassle to edit. I'd guess the sources are already marked into the script and since the formatting is always the same all you have to do is copy paste.
I am so happy that I found your channel. You’re phenomenal at storytelling and educating.
We had an effective altruistic talk at an atheist club, they talked about how if we all gave a small portion of our income we could do exceptional things. The specific example was how for this percentage we could reinvigorate the space program.
I asked if what they were proposing was something we already had called "taxes".
They did not like this
Really the key difference was they basically wanted libertarian taxes.
In that it was totally voluntary, and more importantly each rational individual ought to decide how to earmark their funds. So each of us could decide if it was for malaria nets or rocket ships or whatnot, but the key aspect was that it wasn't a decision made by a government body.
Shhhh do not expose the man behind the curtain
@Denise Jaimes and putting a facility on low earth orbit will be easier and cost effective based on your "donation"?
@@CodyEthanJordan Libertarians are supporting an unrealistic Ideal
@@CodyEthanJordan These are just covers. They are not honest justifications. Though that doesn't mean these people are lying, they may actually believe it. But belief itself is something that is nothing more than a behavioral regulator managing interactions of individuals of a social species. What it really comes down to. Do you remember when groups like Publisher's Clearinghouse would go make a big scene with a giant paycheck to someone that won money? Think about what that display gains for the person or group making that demonstration. It makes them look better. Now, think how much they then gain from that appearance, esp in a time that it can be pasted all over TV, or now the internet. Why did Mr. Beast or whatever his name is make a YT video about the whole getting people vision treatment? He could have just went and done it all without the camera. But then he'd not have gained the social benefit the display would then grant him. He probably has no conscious cognition of this fact, its something that is an inherent part of social behavior. But this is the root of it. Libertarian types hate governmental action because it takes away their opportunity to display their "altruism". It takes away the gains they would then receive.
Irrelevant but I have fucking loved watching you come into your most fulfilled self through the years. I don’t care how corny this is, it makes my heart leap with joy.
Personally, I echo this sentiment with only a minor pivot to appreciation and admiration. But, these are the essence of love, fuck yes.
Its really this that continues to motovate me to continue to fight for Trans rights. I am a cis-guy but I see people like Philosophy Tube, Jim-Stephanie Stirling and tens of people in my personal life become their most fulfilled self through transition. Fk people that oppose that.
@@narvuntien amen bruthur. We cis gotta fight for our trans brethren, to the last breath. I'll be damned before I let fascists wipe them out.
i want her
I thought the same!
On the off-chance you see this, I just joined Nebula and Patreon for you and your content. I'd been tempted by other brilliant creators, but I truly get SO much value from watching your content that it feels almost like an insult to not pay you back in some small way. You are incredible in every way, and I truly look up to you
Welcome aboard! Thank you so much!
@@PhilosophyTube Just one point. That alternate version of you that owns a house is likely a man, because men are usually quicker to compromise their morality in pursuit of perceived personal gain. My supporting evidence for this is over 50 years of observatation and experience, across several industries.
Abigail this might be your best yet. I love reading your captions and it's such a clever way to keep people engaged through the end of the video to help metrics. The Prince was SO good. Thanks for the great video and excellent essay of things to chew on.
Fun Fact: Pong isn't a program. It was made in hardware using timing circuits. Every version of the original Pong you have played on a computer is either emulating the hardware or written from scratch.
Some would argue that the difference between a software program and "hardware using timing circuits" is immaterial... Assembling hardware to do a specific task is just "writing" a program in something that is not bits and bytes.
@@Vogel612 I was going to make a very similar point. You could argue it's not a program *for a turing machine*, that is it's not code written for a general purpose code execution machine, so you can't copy-paste it into an emulator and get it to run on any computer that understands the instruction set.
So in that sense the difference is more of a practical one. It's still a digital program, it's just made on purpose-build circuits, so once you're able to emulate how those circuits should behave you have a version of the program that is made for turing machines and then you can copy it however you'd like, which was the analogy made in the video.
Honestly though I'd say almost all modern versions of Pong are just re-written from scratch and simply mimic the rules and the appearance of the original. It would be so much less work.
As Tony Stark said “he beat me by one second”
Chiming in something something, Lovelace, Babbage Jacquard loom, something...
Every program is just software emulation of some other hardware.
The section on how the EA movement doesn't listen really spoke to me cause its very true. In the last couple of years in tech that claims to be helping people and all these programs, they are headed by people whose focus is really more on optics then trying to solve problems. They are still living the billionaire lifestyle. The Theranos scandal was all about making a product that could help people, but it was headed by someone who was deeply paranoid, a bully and not remotely suitable for the job. Its such a jarring disconnect.
Well if you look like you're trying to help as many people as possible there is less chance somebody starts to seriously ask why aren't you paying any taxes. The only reason the rich do charity is because it's cheaper than taxes.
@@Rig0r_M0rtis I agree it is true that there are a fair amount of the rich that do this for tax reasons but I think like the video shows there are those in higher income brackets that was to actually use their money to do good but there is a fundamental leadership problem and it’s this tightrope you have to walk on with making money and trying to be helpful. Money has a way of tainting the entire process if not kept in check at all times. Like with Sam in the end he was spending lavishly at a hotel. Money has that affect on people because it works. If you suddenly don’t have to worry about money anymore I think it can be easy to fall into the mindset where you start to see the poor less as people who need help and more as social capital and “lesser then you” a mentality the ultra and legacy rich still have.
@@idontevenknow9758 there's also the problem that the wealthy want to be the ones who define what "good" is and it will never be anything that challenges their ability to be the decider.
How do you feel about GiveDirectly
@Denise Jaimes Taxation is bad because there's war in Ukraine? Can you elaborate?
Been on almost a 3 year break from Philosophy Tube, glad to be back in it, and what a lovely surprise to see the YOU I see now!
hahah, welcome back!
@@PhilosophyTube Same here! You look amazing!
@@PhilosophyTube are you trans?
I don't know why she dresses like a nun to talk about money, but she looks great and she talks smart, and what else do you need, really.
Edit: Okay, now that I've finished watching: woah, what an amazingly made video! I love the way you credited your sources and how well picked they were! You also kept me attentive all the way through, something my adhd tries to make sure doesn't happen very often, lol.
I'm definitely subbing. I like how sincere you are in the captions during the credits- it gives very nice insight to how you went about this. Just, a very lovely experience, even for a topic I didn't really care that much for hahah. I'll be staying around for more. Keep up the great work! <3
@@wserthmar8908 No, I'm pretty sure that's a real woman. Get out of my comment. Trans rights.
Abby please don't ever stop talking to us in your CC <3 The video was excellent and as always I walk away with more. Don't feel negatively about succeeding in a place where another trans person may never be. Time are tough right now, but the success of just one person can in it's own way shine down on the rest of us. Continue to be strong and beautiful in your own ways!
💯! All the love.
But also I think, your success wouldn‘t be less legit if it wouldn‘t shine for everyone else. Trans people don‘t profit if you were not successful or not taking chances to do what you care about or dream of.
Feeling bad for succeeding is a weird concept to me. Like trust me, I GET IT, but also, I feel like the feeling implies there’s some other hypothetical person being forgotten due to your success. But if anything, this is giving a lot of visibility to trans people in general. As a fellow trans person I prefer to see one of us succeed over zero of us.
Wasn't expecting a F1nn5ter guest spot! Love him so much.
"I didn't mean to commit one of the largest frauds ever, I just took all the steps to help me get away with it for as long as possible!" - SBF
Pro tip: nobody becomes a billionaire without exploiting someone. They are not people any decent human should look up to or take advice from.
This new Philosophy Tube DLC slaps! I can't believe they added a Battle Nun costume to the character creator! I'm also glad they didn't fix the bug that makes your Abigail pronounce "poor" as "POO-rah". Sometimes a bug is just better off being a feature.
EDIT: You can also recruit a Cat Girl companion!? HOLY SHIT! Move over Skyrim Lydia, you've been replaced. Maybe if you didn't complain about helping me carry 50 sets of heavy armor and a metric ton of ingots...
Best DLC considering it's free for bettering the community 👍
Meh, I prefer Philosophy Tube 2.
@@patfitch6660 Philosophy Twobe.
"Poo-er" not "Poo-rah"
@@thomasfisher4833 oh, they used to be "Poo-er", but by now they're even "Poo-rah"...
I think that Chidi from The Good Place is a criticism of EA. He was so wrapped up in trying to figure out all the consequences of his decisions he became a burden to everyone around him.
He's a criticism of ineffective decision making. Part of effective decision making is deciding when to stop analyzing.
The whole series was about the world getting so complicated and intertwined with everything that effectively it's not possible to be a good person anymore. Like even buying flowers for your mom gives you bad karma because the flowers were picked by underpaid young people working long hours and by buying the flowers you're funding such operations. This lead to even the holiest people going to the bad place, as they were evil by simply existing in the current world.
The most effective altruism is the altruistic acts you do not the ones you think about. If you are spending an excessive amount of time trying to optimize your altruism you are not doing effective altruism.
@@Jackassik And at the same time, it also criticised the kind of people who got caught up in trying to maximise their "goodness" score by over-analysing the complexity of the world, instead of just bloody doing something.
Everyone in the OCD community agrees that he definitely had OCD lol
I just want to take a moment to appreciate how this information is being delivered by a person in costumes that look like they come straight out of video games.
latex nun makes my pp feel funny
... Yes. Video games...
Kinda her whole schtik. Abigail's costumes are always a vague reference to the topic at hand
"And he may even have been sincere"
No chance he was. He's admitted that he just used EA as a way to puff up his reputation, and has said that in part he justified it because other people are doing bad things as well.
I clicked this video thinking I had time to wrap myself up in it - and within the first two minutes I was just thinking to myself "God, I love her". Ready to dive in, but I just wanted to say thank you for what you do Abigail - you keep my faith in humanity alive.
not gunna lie i was a bit on the fence when i saw that first outfit, but then the devil nun outfit had me realize she just likes dressing up in costumes. and then the bit with the femboy walking by in the background at the exact moment she says there are stranger things your son could be doing just completely killed me. instant sub, i too love her.
I feel like F1nnster won a bet and lost a bet at the same time
He lives in this limbo perpetually
That's just the nature of F1nnster
@@jesustyronechrist2330 roleplays "eboy" ?
An alternative perspective on Longtermism might be some of the decisions that John Green has talked about in various videos and podcasts. At one point he struggled with whether to donate money NOW to charities, or to invest his money and then as it grows, to donate it to charity. He decided that saving lives NOW affects the future just as much and should count as an "investment" as much as financial "investments" of larger monetary sums later on.
Nerdfighter here. I agree that we should donate now because charities invest into mankind, which has better returns on investment than growing a pile of money.
However, I don't think this is a good criticism of longtermism.
Longtermism doesn't recommend pooling a giant pile of money to be used at some future date, it also wants us to donate now to things such as biological weapons regulation efforts, as they have a chance of killing most humans in the future. They want to prevent a catastrophe before it happens.
Technically if investment into people directly, has a greater return on investment than investing in companies, it should be included in longtermism, but I agree with you that it is not a big enough focus within the Longtermism sect of EA. There is little discussion of improving the economic structure of 3rd world countries because it is hard to solve government economic policy by brute force donating money.
If humanity lasts just another 10,000 years then waiting on 100 years of investment before donating is worth it if the ongoing effects are 1% greater.
@@tompw3141 nice pascal's mugging
@@tompw3141 after 100 years you wont be there to do anything with that money. And humanity might end sooner because people like you it was better to wait a century to start trying to make the world a better place
@@tompw3141 Except to the people that experience pain during those 100 years because we're sitting on our thumbs waiting for an investment to grow before helping people with their problem.
One thing I always appreciate about your videos is the settings and outfits. I never know what to expect from your visuals
I always questioned the 'person asking for your help not getting it in lieu of someone who didn't ask you' scenario. Missionaries are a good example of this phenomena.
Not a cross over I ever expected to see, I'm quite tickled about it
maybe she’ll finally crack his egg
I have also been tickled
If I were tickled, it'd be a crime, but so am I!
Tickling is the devil!
I bet there was a lot of tickling going on when the cameras were off
I'm really excited by this novel "landmines for children" idea. I think it has got legs.
Which is more than you'll be able to say about the kids once it's up and running!
Not for much longer
bruh
I think it will run far
“Legs”
@PhilosophyTube - 2023-02-22
I really hope you enjoy this one - I worked super hard on it and tried my very best to keep things even-handed and educational! If you appreciate that effort, Patreon.com/PhilosophyTube is what helps me keep making work like this!
@guyfawkes5012 - 2023-02-24
definitely one of my favorites from you :)
@thtb - 2023-02-24
I like the joke in the title, the rich having ethics (of any kind).
It seems hard to disprove that the 0,01% cause and benefit from everything negative on this planet.
@GrayV60 - 2023-02-24
@@guyfawkes5012 What do you mean????? It's still 7 hours away, and you posted this comment 9 hours ago wtf
@freemansteinslab - 2023-02-24
@@GrayV60 Abi's vids drop on Nebula about a week before YT, so some people have already seen it
@GrayV60 - 2023-02-24
@@freemansteinslab ahhhhh fair enough