Tim Tyler: DOOM!

A video about DOOM.

This video attempts to understand DOOM as a natural phenomenon.

DOOM is probably the most unsuccessful prediction of all time. DOOM predictions date back thousands of years, and so far all of them have been proved wrong.

When people make the same mistake over and over again, there's probably a reason, and this video offers a hypothesis about what it is most likely to be.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• doom
• risk
• end
• world
• save
• existential

[viorelagocs]

You said in the video that resources on the planet are abundant. Are they?... Just listen to what Richard Heinberg, here on YouTube, has to say about "peak everything", including "peak oil". Maybe you can make a video about it. I would love to know your opinion on the subject... Have a a nice day.

[tmtyler]

@viorelagocs My views are similar to those of Matt Ridley, who has written more on this than I.

[kataklysmozarella]

Anyway, you are also a very good English Teacher,

delivering a great listening-training for high-speed-speeches.

[kataklysmozarella]

One more comment (sorry for my english): okay, you really like the idea that intelligent machines will become the masters of this planet ( this galaxy etc...) pretty soon and you fervently emphasize your wish that these machines won't have anything in common with human beings. Some might qualify this as an altruistic dream of absolute power. It certainly gives me the impression that your mind is perpetually oscillating between self-hatred and an stockholm-syndrome.

[kataklysmozarella]

Let me quote W. B. Yeats:

“Hell is the place of those who have denied (being human, i may add);

They find there what they planted and what dug,

A Lake of Spaces, and a Wood of Nothing,

And wander there and drift, and never cease

Wailing for substance.”

[kataklysmozarella]

You are extremly smart, that’s for sure.

But please consider this:

There is also a long history of eschatological salvation expectations (Naherwartungen) -

many of them resulting gruesome desasters.

And the enthusiastic notions about the ''technological singularity'' are, in my opinion, an actual example for this phenomenon.

I think there’s a good chance that the ''technological singularity'' (as unstoppable as it might be ) simply leads to an existence of INFINITE boredom and desperation.

[TheMightySalami1]

Tim, I love you even though I disagree with a lot of what you say.

[trakkaton]

@tmtyler

Learn to read. Really. Or, to be more specific: Learn to READ what other people WROTE instead of thinking around while reading. And then RESPOND to what they ACTUALLY WROTE. Because you AGAIN ignored COMPLETELY what I wrote to present another UNRELATED and UNCHANGED REPETITION of your initial claim. And this kind of monologue simply IS annoying!

[trakkaton]

@tmtyler

Incorrect. Almost every claim you present uses selection bias. Ignoring the sleight of hands (a criticism you have - again - ignored so far) it is selction bias to use the alleged "success" of the human species to calculate the probability of doom. Ignoring your ahistorical view (humans have been reduced to about 3000 individuals in a past armageddon), it is selection bias to use the alleged absence of armageddon to calculate its probability. Cuban missile crisis. Doomsday clock. Etc.

[tmtyler]

@trakkaton If you don't think saying I have an "overblown ego" is ad hominem, it is you who needs to look the term up.

[tmtyler]

@trakkaton I simply did not argue that because the world hasn't ended so far, it is unlikely to. Much of my actual argument is at 1:53. and 3:17.

[trakkaton]

@tmtyler

If you don't understand the meaning of the word "ad hominem attack" then refrain from using the term. "Ad hominem" means to attack someone as an substitute for an argument, NOT to speculate why someone refuses to correct his position once they are debunked.

P.S.: Please clean up your act. Your claims here and elsewhere are of appalling quality. Ignoring that your positions have been debunked does not make them better. It's irrational, unscientific and autistic.