The Evolution of Morality (3-5)

[Bunyipz]

keep up the  great work AronRa

[slashingraven]

This is a huge request, but I'm having difficulty hearing what you're saying in several points in the video. Would you be willing to write an interactive transcript of the presentation?

[Ital21]

@slashingraven I too hear the speech with difficulty at some instances during the video. A transcript would be very helpful.

[0debug]

@Ital21 [ @AronRa ]

I also think a transcript would be useful, although I guess it would be quite time consuming to write one for a talk like this. There is one more reason for such a transcript (beyond the obvious of reading words that would otherwise be missed because of varying audio quality), and that is that it enables translations to e.g. arabic or spanish, to reach a larger audience.

Maybe something to keep in mind for future videos.

[Ital21]

@0debug I'm actually starting a project of translating many of these videos to spanish (via subtitles). In some cases, a remake would be in order, since some of the concepts and explanations are only in written english during the video and translating that using subtitles would be a bit trickier I think.

It's a long-term goal and it will probably not see light until next year.

[butchkitties]

A group of university students captured some crows for an experiment. Afterwards the birds were released. The crows remembered and recognized the students that had captured them, and attacked those students every day for the rest of their tenure at the school.

[SQuiRR3LM0nk3y]

@butchkitties Gangsta crows lol.

[NUTCASE71733]

One fundamental thing you got wrong on this Aron; Jurassic Park was originally written between 1989-1991 and the first two movies were in 1993 and 1997 respectively. Way WAY before it was found Raptors had feathers. You can't blame the moviemakers for that.

[Tazz2006]

@NUTCASE71733 And most of all, what was depicted in Jurassic Park wasn't even a Velociraptor at all. But rather Deinonychus.

[queenastilon]

Ah, bless you (if you'll excuse the phrase) for knowing that it's a murder.

So they were fooled by a coat? A man here in South England wasn't so lucky with some gulls a couple of years ago. Whatever he wore, however he tried to disguise himself, sea gulls attacked him, and only him, every time he appeared in a certain place in his town. Far as I know, no one ever found out why.

[alastair78]

Awesome videos man, keep it up.

[Grospoliner]

Insulation, camoflauge, mating display.

[charlesalika]

Are you aware of Naked Mole Rats and Damaraland Mole Rats, species of eusocial mammals that seem to function on a hive mentality?

[AronRa]

No I didn't. Just read about it now.

[Raptors09999]

Oh Aronra. . . . you are so awesome

[O2BSoLucky]

I wish this had subtitles.

[blurglide]

Crow's are very intelligent.

However, you may want to reconsider the word "altruism" to a certain extent. If the arrangement is mutually beneficial, then it can be considered selfish (in an Ayn Rand sense). It is to one's own benefit that their offspring survive. It is in their (or at least their genes) own self interest. This isn't to diminish any of the nobility of parenthood- just to examine it from a different perspective.

[DanRSL]

Are "crow's" intelligent enough to use apostrophes correctly?

Sorry... I had to.

[toecutterr6]

Very insightful video!

[athre0]

6:04 is excellent. Answered a question I had.

[TheJamesPope]

they had you on the crow equivalent of Megan's List

five stars

[AntiVenomFangX]

this guy is full of shit. do you actually think he is smarter than jesus christ?

[americant87]

@AntiVenomFangX

Is there any evidence of Jesus Christ's intelligence?

Assume he was real,

Assume he was the son of God,

How does that make him "smart?"

[BobChaos23]

No, but I bet he runs faster down a beach while trying to escape from a hungry bear.

;-)

[iamaliberal]

@BobChaos23 stop sucking on bush's cock

[Tsanuri]

@AntiVenomFangX : Based upon the writings upon "Christ" then my answer would be yes, he is very much smarter. If you want examples I'll be happy to provide them.

[AntiVenomFangX]

what is your definition of smart?

[hertder]

actually you would technically have to say that you believe him to be wiser. Obviously he would not have the vast amount of knowledge that each of us learn even in elementary school.

He grew up in the middle east and had a job that involved working with the hands.

[Tsanuri]

@hertder & AVX: Indeed! that would have been the crux of my argument - assuming he was a sigle real figure (big assumption), he was an uneducated dude wandering the 'holy land' over 2000yrs ago. He doesn't show that much smarts at any point tho he does have wisdom enough to know how to get himself martyred, I'll give you that. Beyond that his advice is rather hokey and certainly geared to the time. Nothing he does shows him as a Son of God, any more than a modern day televangelist.

[ytben26]

@MomoTheBellyDancer Yeah no doubt.. what a moron he only lasted a week from Palm Sunday and not even a full week.. and he gave no real world advice about farming in the desert or irrigation systems or any of the mechanism that could have made the jewish people better just this melarky about getting your soul saved (from his own laws if he was god) brother

[BlahBlable]

"monkeys, like ourselves" 4:01

Correction: apes

(Pedantic, i know)

[86adamleon]

Perhaps you should look at his other videos, where he goes into this topic more in depth, by saying that apes are a subset of monkeys.

[BobChaos23]

Humans are apes.

We are also monkeys.

We are also mammals.

We are also vertebrates.

We are also animals.

Et Cetera.

[ProcInc]

@BlahBlable

All apes are also monkeys

[EpsilonKnight7]

Doubly pedantic, monkeys. See some of AronRa's other vids.

/watch?v=tz52ivJgVx8

and

/watch?v=Ri20shBEsls which gets relevant at 2:45, but you may as well watch the whole thing. :)

[BlahBlable]

Ha, yes. I look like a bit of a fool.

I used to watch AronRa's videos, but I haven't been on YouTube in a while.

In an attempt to protect my dignity, I did acknowledge "primates" as an order. I guess I'll just try an put it down to a "brain-fart" ;)

[LynxChan]

Aronra, you really need to write an autobiography. Killer crows, big-foot, giant birds and lizards as pets...what a life!

[FlightIsLife]

^ This

[Katalyzt]

★★★★★

[truvelocity]

Spawn.... So creepy. I have spawn.

[kmg501]

Numerous great educational points in this segment.

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[FuckYouYouFuck]

Similar thing happened to me with a grounded baby currawong (Australian passerine bird, not too dissimilar to a crow), walked up to it, it shrieked, its family attacked me. Haven't seen that flock again though, but don't often walk through the same area.

[myjizzureye]

@FuckYouYouFuck Your name is nearly as cool as mine.

[TadRaunch]

@FuckYouYouFuck A few years ago I used to walk to my old work, and at the same place a pair of Australian Magpies would attack me every day... I guess their nest was nearby or something. No point to my story other than it's similar! Also, strangely, a bit later on I got attacked in the EXACT same spot, but by currawongs protecting a younger one that seemed to be stuck in a tree (I didn't get a good look at it because I ran... I'm scared of birds!)

[zenigel]

Buy a shotgun! :)

[shehenazi]

"Nobody believed me!" Hahaha thats so fucking hilarious! If you had told me that, I would've had to see that for myself. I wonder if that flock passed on their hatred for humans in brown corduroy jackets to their offspring. lol

[BILLYRUBAN]

Oh that's were the anger towards birds comes from, now I get it. lol.

[billygutter01]

Kentucky Fried Archaeopteryx, anyone?

[TheInfernalSpark]

Haha nerd joke ftw.

[TheD0ded0de]

only if it comes with sides of mash potatoes, biscuits, coleslaw, beans, and mac n' cheese...

[gooddarkjedi]

@billygutter01 om nom :)

[armarjaleo]

Wow! all this time eating at Mcdonalds and KFC. I didn't know i was eating raptors!

[HConstantine]

Welcome to the world of 30 year old science.

[8DX]

Ha ha ha =) That shit's older than me for a start!

[sciencemile]

Lol, the same thing happened to my cat when he caught a crow...they were everywhere outside my house for a couple of days :o

[Kargoneth]

Lol... bird aerial assault.

[ultimatejesus]

So you've come pretty far from browsing the internet at work, huh? That's actually pretty awesome and just a little bit inspiring.

[waketherabble]

This is fantastic, as always.

[Kingzogre]

Oh AronRa, I wuv you