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i stopped watching Kursgesagt after their video saying if everyone on earth just got rid of their nukes we could all live in post war harmony

I FRICKING HATE SCIENCE!!

Yeah, I like to flex my 82 IQ points sometimes

These guys are literally owned by Bill Gates.

It's hard to find discussions on proper conceptual space whatnot because people like this are overly obsessed with sci-fi tropes.

There's a difference between rocket science and astrophysics compared to "What if Mars was terraformed" "What if black holes teleported you around" "What if my peepee was inside a blue chick with head tentacles"

As a general rule some dude in a basement speaking to a shitty camera will impart more knowledge on you than any of those sleek high production pop science channels, they constantly veer into weird and vapid mix of theory with philosophy that amounts to nothing.

Man Kurge(some random syllables) really fell off

Their older videos on fracking, Ebola and nuclear energy were good pop sci

Their latest videos on shit like le heckin paradox, destroy/kill/behead the universe, aliens are shit.

Stopped watching them sometimes in 2016-2017

Also regarding Boltzmann brains

by the way, what do physic-cels here think of this concept, is this even taken seriously?

It's not taken seriously because it's more fit for a philosophy discussion, but in terms of feasibility it heavily depends on the assumption of the universe being ergodic (basically the assumption that every state of the universe/configuration of particles is possible to be reached). Now someone smarter than me could correct me on this because I suck at statmech, but I think the majority opinion is that the universe is non-ergodic and as such a Boltzmann brain might not be able to exist.

On the other hand if the ergodic assumption is correct and such a thing can exist, it still doesn't mean you are one. You'd have to compare probability of an ensembles forming a Boltzmann brain vs an ensemble forming... the world as we see and understand it, and while I've seen numbers thrown around to estimate the former, I have no idea how one would even go arround starting estimating the latter

I get so triggered whenever I see these guys, Veritasium or Johnny Harris on my youtube frontpage. The epitome of Soros-paid soyence promoters shilling some far-fetched electric cars on Mars or some shit Pure midwit shit

Boltzmann brains

Are a cool thing. Afaik if the assumptions they require hold (afaik they currently do) then it's inevitable that they form eventually. But it's basically irrelevant. More of a fun thought experiment. It's most likely more closely related to simulation theory (philosophy). I do remember I listened to a talk about those things a few years ago, by scientists who do dabble a bit in those fields.

Dyson sphere

Every !trekkies knows about Dyson spheres.

Fun fact, this channel is run by the husband of a Republican lawmaker

https://youtube.com/@isaacarthurSFIA

Also everyone knows that Temp X is the only good pop sci content

https://imdb.com/title/tt0384776/

it involves building giant planet size mirrors to cover sunlight from Venus so the CO2 in the atmosphere freezes

Saben is a decent physics channel btfod the soy fav string Theroy decent

I hate kuzsgerwhatever. It's mostly irrational. But it becomes more rational by the day

That's why I only watch chemistry channels. Physics channels are destined to filled with r-slurs that go "muh quantum muh aliens muh black holes" etc.

BTW is there good channels about other less popular stem fields such as civil engineering (no Scott Adams or whoever that guy is called please).

Ain't the thing about Kursgesagt the fact that they just source all their data from a site Bill Gates owns and basically just push videos on tech the 'gates has a majority share in?

>not in US

>opinion discarded

Perelandra