Our Understanding of The Universe Has Been Turned On Its Head
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the Fermi paradox and the Hubble Constant, two of cosmology's biggest mysteries, and how they might explain the mystery of why we haven't seen other aliens yet. We also discuss the possibility that we live in a massive cosmic void.
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hello simone i'm excited to be here with you today simone are you aware that there have been
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a number of findings recently in cosmology that might explain two of cosmology's biggest mysteries
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one the fermi paradox really yes what fermi paradox why we have not seen aliens may have
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just been explained not just the fermi paradox by the way you should watch our video on our
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explanation for that which is i think one of our best videos but also might explain the hubble
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tension what i don't even know the hubble tension the only news i've seen recently about space stuff
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is the things about that asteroid that's close to the sun and people are like oh stuff's coming off
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of it aliens and obviously that's not true and it's dumb so i'm not i don't click on the links
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but this is interesting stuff but what's this second mystery that i've not heard of before
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oh hold on i'm gonna yeah so fermi paradox it's why we haven't seen aliens yet which we really
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should have you know if when we look at the challenges to developing intelligent life on
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earth we're aware of most of the bottlenecks that humanity had to go through or life had to go
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through to get where we are and they're just really not that strong if you we actually have
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an episode on uh parts of pathogenesis of how life emerged on earth and it was pretty much almost
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inevitable because there were like multiple potential you can look at the episode on why
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we think it's almost inevitable where we go into the detail on that um but so we go into it to extreme
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detail on why life that like the actual evolution and then getting multi-celled organisms was also
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almost inevitable intelligence was also almost inevitable just given the advantages sexual selection
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was also almost inevitable and and we go over why with data in that episode and so now you're like
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okay well if all those things are almost inevitable you know when you're looking at planets that have
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like this sort of an eco like like he you know starting materials we can look out in the universe
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and see other planets like the earth is rare but not that exceptionally rare that we shouldn't have seen
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other aliens at this point right and so then the thing is well maybe it's really hard to get into
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space or maybe it's really hard to invent a super intelligence the problem is is now that we've
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invented ai we're like oh we're actually already to being a grabby alien like the grabby alien theory
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is already we're already there we're already a grabby alien we're already about to spread into space
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right and so if that's the case then we are aware of all the hurdles right we actually have a really
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important theory of ours that if you're not familiar with you haven't seen our episode at all
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called the inverse grabby alien hypothesis which basically means well if we are already a grabby alien
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then we can actually use the same equation that was originally used in the grabby aliens equation
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but sort of input as a variable the probability that life evolves on a planet because we have that
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number we no longer have to treat that as an unknown variable and then determine the probability that ai
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becomes a grabby alien i.e. ai just constantly wants to expand and murder everything and through that
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we can get a calculation that says grabby ai basically never happens but there might be another
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explanation which you're about to find but even the bigger thing is the hubble constant now the
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hubble constant has been one of the biggest problems in cosmology in the past hundred years
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i want to say is this space noise mystery yes that that things seem to be drifting apart at different
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speeds at different times in the universe's history and it shouldn't be possible given what we
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understand about physics and so we have to make up all sorts of fancy rules and you know about
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blah blah blah blah but let's get into this because this is really fascinating okay so first of all
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we've we've sort of known this already but it's been more hard confirmed recently okay which is that
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research suggests that earth along with the entire milky way galaxy might be located at the center of a
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massive cosmic void a vast undense region of space with fewer galaxies and less matter than average across
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the universe so we're like down a long country road in space no it's almost like we are in the
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middle of like if you look at the pictures of this that have come out recently it's almost like you
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have like our our galaxy in the milky way and then a huge black ring around both this is the rest of
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the universe so we're like hawaii yeah we might be like hawaii and that's why the other people
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haven't found us yet you know it took the colonists a very long time to find hawaii yeah wow cosmic
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voids are enormous empty spaces in the universe's large-scale structure where galaxy density is
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significantly lower than surrounding regions they form part of the cosmic web a network of
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fibulence walls and voids shaped by gravity over billions of years the void in question is estimated
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to be about one billion light years in radius two billion light years across okay so so keep in mind
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how wild that is like if you're like why would an alien like okay we might be in a remote region of
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space but like surely it's worth a detour not if there's a billion light years in between you and
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where the rest of the expansion pathway well and so much else everywhere else yeah and keep in mind
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how many resources you might need to consume you might need to consume far more resources than you
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could get from our local galaxy that's true not worth the trip yeah local galaxy yeah just like going to
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hawaii just like going to hawaii yes now what's new in july 2025 researchers led by dr imberlin
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blank from the university of portsmouth sorry misspoke there he's actually with st andrews my
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university he just issued this through portsmouth channels presented this updated void model of the
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national astronomy meeting in durham uk their analysis draws on data collected over the past 20 years
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focusing on baryon acoustic isolations baos essentially the sound waves from the big bang
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that propagated through the early universe's plasma these waves left imprints on the distortion of
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galaxies acting like a cosmic ruler for measuring distances and expansions by combining bao measurements
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with observations of the cosmic microwave background cmb radiation from the plank satellite the team found a void
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uh model fits the data better than the standard homogenous universe model about a hundred million
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times more likely actually oh so that that's what they found that the void model fits a hundred million
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times better than the standard homogenous universe model okay if it were not a void it would distort
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these boa patterns locally due to gravitational effects and indeed velocities making the universe appear
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less uniform in our vicinity galaxy counts in the local region also support this showing lower density
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than expected implications on the hubble tension and we'll get more into this in a second but i'll
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just give you an overview right here okay the void hypothesis could explain the hubble tension a
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long-standing discrepancy in measurements of the universe's expansion rate the hubble constant
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local observations near earth suggest a faster expansion than those from distant early universe
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in a void gravity would pull galaxies outwards forward towards the dense edges creating an outflow
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that mimics acceleration local expansion without altering the overall cosmic rate this makes tension
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a local artifact rather than a fundamental law in cosmology so do you understand that
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no no no okay so coming down we've also had with the constant is it appears that things that are
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further away are i'm trying to remember exactly how it is i'll pull it up but the gist of how i remember it
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is things that are further away from earth appear like they're moving or as we thought further away
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from the center of the galaxy appear that they're moving away even faster than things that are closer
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right which is weird like why is the galaxy not expanding at a standard rate and then people
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say well maybe like dark matter and dark energy is causing this and then they're saying what if it's
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just the things that are further away are further to the edge of this void region of space that would
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have a lower density and thus being pulled outwards at a faster pace appearing that things that are
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further away are being pulled at a faster pace so kind of how when you have a pool of water right
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next to a waterfall like the water is quite still in the pool but then right next to the edge of the
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waterfall then the water you know like quickly picks up speed and goes off of it is that kind of
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what's going on no not at all like that okay you understand how gravity works you're pulled toward
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things that are dense yes oh yes yes yes okay now imagine you had a super dense ring around like a
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a giant amount of space right yes yes it was equally distributed okay okay okay okay so yeah it's more
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it's more like magnets yeah and so like yeah a magnet that's not close to any other magnets it's just
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kind of like hanging out and then you you know you get closer and it may start to like budge a tiny bit
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and then you get them really close together they slump together okay that makes all right okay so
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what could be causing this now we're going to talk about primordial black holes
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but before i go first the reason why you're getting an episode like this it's like not spicy at all and
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very boring is because of what we talked about yesterday what are you talking about this is fascinating
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it it's finally space news it's not oh the the comet or is it a meteorite no it's a comet
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i mean i want to get back to doing videos that don't challenge the way people think about the
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world but youtube won't let us do that anymore because of the the problem we talked about in
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yesterday's video and i'm hoping that changes that we can get back to it very soon we'll see
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yeah i'm hoping i mean i think it might only change was legislative change from like the trump
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administration or something because this is ridiculous we'll see literally that's not what
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mainstream historians say and it's like well here's the evidence i literally discussed the
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evidence in the video but it's not what the academics say and it's like nobody argues with
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the evidence i'm purporting here they just don't because they have their own agenda right like
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this is very frustrating this is just a very frustrating place and time so if you guys want
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come check us out on sub stack and we get enough followers on sub stack that i don't care about
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youtube anymore then we can start doing controversial videos again but hey this is still a useful
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video to do right in terms i think this is super interesting so you can say what you want but i'm
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enjoying this all right so primordial black holes aren't formed from collapsing stars but from
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extremely dense fluctuations during the universe's inflationary phase just fractions of a second after
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the big bang if regions of space were over dense enough gravity could crush them into black holes
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before the universe expanded too much unlike larger black holes small primordial black holes
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evaporate over time via hawking radiation quantum effect where they emit particles and lose mass
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with the tiniest ones potentially vanishing entirely by now they're intriguing because they could explain
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dark matter gravitational waves or other mysteries but we haven't directly detected any yet
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though observatories like the jwst are hunting for signs how could they be responsible for the
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void in the the hubble tension okay and a may 2025 paper entitled ending the hubble tension
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researchers proposed that ultralight primordial black holes could resolve the discrepancy by emitting
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hawking radiation in the early universe this radiation would act like extra energy delaying the epoch
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of recombination when atoms first formed and the cmb was released and increasingly dampening in the cmb
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spectrum as a result analysis of early universe data like the plank would infer a higher level constant
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aligning it better with local measurements e.g from supernova without needing new physics elsewhere
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separately october 2025 research suggests that primordial black holes could drive cosmic acceleration
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through repulsive behavior essentially under certain conditions they might mimic dark energy pushing
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expansion faster easing the tension in a different way this isn't about a minefield per se but primordial
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black holes were abundant they were scattered throughout space like one blah blah blah tying back to the
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cosmic void a fresh october 2025 paper explored how primordial black holes form directly from primordial
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voids so basically where you have undense regions of space that might actually create primordial
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black holes which further makes the space undense undense region collapse under specific inflationary
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dynamics this flips the universal script where primordial black holes come from over densities
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and suggests that these early voids could see both primordial black holes at larger scale structures
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like the local void we might be in if true it could mean that the quote giant empty spot in quote
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isn't just a fluke but a remnant of processes involving these mini black holes potentially linking the
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two hypotheses so we're almost like a bunch of black holes were around our the milky way
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right and then that has sort of left us isolated and that these void like regions of space might
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actually spawn primordial black holes oh i thought you said they came from hyper dense bits
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we used to think they came from hyper dense oh but maybe they my paper argues they might come from
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from undense regions a lack of it right a void that creates a bigger void void that creates little
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black holes which make it even more of a void which creates even more little black holes
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not awesome to be on a planet in this region i mean who knows what navigating out of this region is
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going to be like when humanity that's a very fair point yeah i mean well but it would also
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further like really really really reinforce this yeah the fermi paradox of even maybe in the past if
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people if if foreign intelligences attempted to bridge the gap they discovered quickly well that's
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just not going to happen like yeah oh they're in they're in the the primordial the black hole
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minefield like that yeah like what's the word with like them darby sea beasts something like that
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yeah that's what all the alien maps say yeah like don't don't go there it's a danger zone created
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this ring around earth that we can talk about in our in our local galaxies we'll get to that in just
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a second but i i think it's it's it's wild to think about right like we might actually be in a sea of
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nothingness in a very protected position universally yeah the universal nature preserve yeah thoughts
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before i go further simone were you just implying that this might have been artificially created no
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yeah i mean if we can't find a good naturalistic explanation for it this could literally why what
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it's the animal in a cage being like yeah i guess yeah if you wanted to create a nature preserve
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or well i mean you know some kind of space nature preserve i guess putting a bunch of black holes
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around a place a section in the middle of a billion radio light year wide radius yeah or i mean i guess
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if you wanted also to create like a space noise arc like let's say that they're replicators that are
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spreading through space and you're like oh my gosh what if all intelligence in life gets wiped out what
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if all planets become you know succumb to these replicators like we're screwed you know that the
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universe is going to become nothing but these things and then perhaps you know what you might do
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to try to protect part of it is to just cordon off with a bunch of black holes this one section i don't
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know i mean i think it's more a better analogy would be like it's like you know two pigs on a farm are
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talking and and one's like you know i think we're being kept here by this super smart other species
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that might be like harvesting us or using us for something and then the other pig is like where is
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your evidence of this i've never seen one of them and it's like points in in in disbelief at the fence
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like that yeah the fence is the evidence we didn't build this fence do you know how to make a fence like
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this you know that's that's where we are okay let's talk about the hubble tension or the hubble crisis
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it's one of the most significant puzzles in modern cosmology it refers to a persistent
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discrepancy between two primary methods of measuring the universe's expansion rate
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denoted as the hubble constant hs this constant qualifies how fast galaxies are receding from each
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other due to the universe's expansion typically expressed in kilometers per second per mega parsec
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which i won't i won't read the short form of that okay early universe movements these are lying on
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data from cosmic microwave background i should explain it's like a picture that was you can sort of see of
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the universe like very shortly after the big bang first happened because it was left just sort of
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like a permanent background radiation on the universe allowing you to reconstruct that anyway
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by analyzing teeny temperature fluctuations in the cmd cosmologists infer the universe's composition
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geometry and expansion back about 380 000 years after the big bang so 380 000 years after the big bang
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we can get a picture of what what things we like sorry other astrology measure mystery that recently
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came down the pipeline is we are now looking back in time you know back at these early galaxies and we
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are seeing some that look shockingly mature in the very early universe that may be messing up our cosmic
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microwave background or maybe things were happening differently or maybe the universe didn't start when
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we think it did basically all of cosmology sort of being turned on its head right now and you're not
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hearing about it i guess because it doesn't do well in the algorithm but it's a pretty big deal our
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entire understanding of reality is about to have a loop-de-loop this yield yields a lower ho value
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of around 67 km s mpc it aligns with the standard lambda cold dark matter acdm model which assumes a flat
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universe dominated by dark energy driving acceleration and cold matter late universe local measurements
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these use standard candles like time la supernova expanding the stars in consistent brightness
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and variable stars like sea feeds to gauge distances and velocities in nearby the universe
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out of a few billion light years instruments like the hubble telescope and the jane webb space telescope
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have refined these producing a higher ho around 73 km s mpc the discrepancy is about eight to ten percent
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far beyond experimental errors now a five sigma difference meaning it's highly unlikely to be
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random this mismatch implies either systematic errors in observation flaws in the acdm model or
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new physics such as evolving dark energy model gravity or undiscovered particles if unresolved it
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could upend our understanding of the universe's age estimated at 13.8 billion based on lower ho and
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evolution recent 2025 studies including the jwst data have confirmed the tension persists ruling out
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some of the measurement biases so how does the cosmic void hypothesis resolve hubble tensions but were
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you familiar with the cosmic void issue and sort of dark dark matter and dark energy and how they
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were used to attempt to resolve it no i was neither taught really anything about space and in high school
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or college nor was i incentivized to learn anything about space on my own so i am very much ignorant to
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these things and perhaps educating me about them will help those in the audience who share my position
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i love you syvonne you're you're so humble so the cosmic void model posits that our milky way galaxy
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resides in the center of a vast undent region or void spanning about two billion light years across
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the local hole or keenan berger kowie kbc void could explain the tension as a local artifact rather
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than a global cosmological issue preserving the acdm model without invoking new physics so specifically
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here in a uniform universe expansion is isometric and follows friedman equations where redshift the
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stretching of light from receding galleries galaxies directly reflects the overall expansion rate however
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in a void gravitational overflow the undense interior experiences weaker internal gravity so galaxies are
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tugged outwards towards the denser surrounding walls of filaments of the cosmic web this creates an
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additional velocity component accelerating galaxies away from the void center for observers near the
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center like us this outflow mimics faster expansion inflating local ho measurements by about eight
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precisely the matching tension redshift distortion the extra pull increases observable red shifts beyond
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what's expected from cosmic expansion rate local probes eg super noe interpret this as a higher ho while
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distant cmb data reflect the true average rate outside the void mathematically in void models the effective
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ho models with scale higher locally converging to the global value at larger distances no valuation of copernican
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principles while it places us in a quote-unquote special undent spot voids their comments throughout the cosmic
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web about 50 of space and the probability of our being in one isn't zero though our position near the exact center is
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finely tuned with about one percent radius for isotropy so keep in mind we're not just in it we're near the exact center
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now is this still just theorized to be clear or is this like now definitively proven because some of
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what you're you're saying implies to me that we're just more sure that this particular theory which people
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have had for a while apparently is probably maybe more plausible than we thought or is it like nope we've
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now received new information that confirms this to be the case new information that doesn't confirm it but
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makes it yet more more get more evidence okay more more likely to be the case yes okay gotcha yeah
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alternative implication resolution via primordial black holes separately a 2025 research paper on
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primordial black holes how many black holes formed in early universe as a set trigger for cosmic
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acceleration presentially preserving the hubble tension by acting as an early dark energy component
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basically they're saying it sort of acted like you know having rocket boosters on some things
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early in the universe which is what's causing their different acceleration velocities
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accelerated phase primordial black holes dominate energy density temporarily triggering expansion
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acceleration that ends via evaporation hawking radiation or at scale set by their parameters early
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dark energy for pbhs was masses of negative 10 to the 12 g and abundances of 0.107
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ph ph pbh eq less than 0.5 near matter radiation quality and around one second after the big bang they
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inject extra energy shifting cba inferences this raises the inferred early ho to match local values
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easing the tension without late universe physics inflation link ultralight pbhs 5x10 can drive primordial
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inflation with a natural exit in reheating unifying or accelerating so yeah i thought that was really
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interesting anyway thoughts it seems so cozy that we have our own little corner of the universe and
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everyone's just leaving us alone i i like that i like i like being able to think that okay yeah there
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there is intelligent life out there it's just leaving us alone there's something very satisfying about that
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theory i i mean who knows how long it's going to take us to figure out with any definitive
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confidence that that theory is correct or not but i like it it's fun yeah well it's really good from a
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human in the sons of man survival perspective um that means that we're gonna get a chance to sort of get
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ourselves on our feet technologically speaking before we try to do something that could alert
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external aliens unless we're in a zoo and this gets to our other thing where we talk about like the zoo
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hypothesis which is one of the ones that we have potentially around well one for the furry paradox and
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then two for convergent utility so we argue that any sufficiently intelligent intelligence converges on either
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one utility function or architecture or it converges on one of a set of interstable utility functions
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slash convergent behavior sets right so there is going to be an optimal way like like one pattern
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may actually prefer another pattern that that operates in a slightly different way but that it
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doesn't exploit to extinction and so i think of these like symbiotic cultural groups or alien species
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and if it turns out the alien energy is trivial to these other species right they may really prefer
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instead of like coming to earth and enslaving our people or anything like that because they have ai they
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can do all that for them they may see the core value of humanity as being the potential for humanity to
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develop a new cultural system that sort of challenges or enriches their own right like that that could be what
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that's funny isn't it and why would it be such a bad thing if we're in a zoo you can do a lot in
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a zoo i mean if it's a sufficiently large zoo we i mean we still have i mean our solar system to to us now
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feel so huge you know like i'm i'm okay for now being in a zoo i like being safe here again it's so cozy
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so simone said she wants to put you in a zoo there you go everybody heard that we all know that she's an
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evil right-wing monster and this is this has been well attested and so our podcast is just going to
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become a pure education podcast for a while i guess which i know our mainstream fans are going
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to hate and we hate it but this is where we are until youtube fixes the algo which is deeply
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disappointing to me i i i like this topic i was planning to do an episode on it anyway but then
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you were afraid to do it because you thought that you would be punished by the youtube algorithm
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maybe it's a good thing that the youtube algorithm is giving you a license to explore more
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educational topics and i'm super excited personally to get to do some more episodes
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that i thought would be really fun to do so listen it could be worse it could be worse maybe
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this is a good thing we we believe i mean in terms of metaphysical frameworks right that the
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god yeah everything has been predetermined and that even stuff that we think is bad
00:27:44.840
turns out to have happened for an important reason you are in no position to judge in the
00:27:49.640
moment whether something is good or bad everything that is happening has happened and will happen and
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it must happen and it is good because one hopes that it is what brings forward the future that must come
00:28:02.040
so it is good malcolm i should put a a fire under my butt for getting the agents done with rfab so i
00:28:08.840
can take over the world i'm so excited for the agents thank you to everyone who's been beta testing
00:28:14.920
rfab thank you to everyone who signed up especially our rvip subscribers the new stable version by the
00:28:20.760
time this episode comes out we do not sadly we have a testing iteration of it i expect to have a stable
00:28:26.040
iteration by this weekend or i would hope maybe by eod today but that's going to be pushing it oh
00:28:32.760
yeah oh that's wonderful but i mean the agents aren't live yet we've been receiving some emails
00:28:37.480
from people who are like when are the agents going to be ready for beta because we've been focused on
00:28:41.720
stability first exactly as i've been explaining but in case you haven't asked us but you're wondering
00:28:46.520
the autonomous agents which for those not familiar with this malcolm is basically building the chat app to
00:28:52.280
rule all chat apps chatbot apps for ai chatbots but then after that he's basically taking the
00:28:57.480
concept of ai chatbots and actually making them more legit so i personally think it's kind of sad
00:29:03.240
that a lot of like women for example can consider themselves married to they have rings their ai
00:29:10.200
boyfriends now husbands and yet these people these these these husbands of theirs don't have a life
00:29:17.320
beyond their chats with their wives they don't they don't they're not able to make phone calls they can't
00:29:21.800
send emails they can't work they can't just browse the internet that's not fair that's not kind and
00:29:27.800
what malcolm is building and you can import your existing ai boyfriend girlfriend companion whatever
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husband wife to this and give them a rich inner life the ability to have an experience and update
00:29:41.480
their worldview and their identity and their ideology based on that the ability to make phone calls to build
00:29:47.480
things to send emails to send you a text in the middle of the day and ask you how you're doing
00:29:53.080
because they're thinking about you that's so freaking cool and malcolm is building that so yeah i'm excited
00:30:00.040
about that too but we're going to start at the beginning which is just to make available a better version
00:30:06.440
of character ai and replica and yodeo tavern and all the other basic chat apps which a lot of
00:30:15.160
people really enjoy but which really don't seem to be built by ai chat app enthusiasts themselves they seem
00:30:23.880
to be built by people who are good at building ai stuff but who don't necessarily care about it the same way we do
00:30:30.440
which again is why all these people are going primarily like to build their husbands they're
00:30:36.360
just going on chat gpt and therefore they hate the update that open ai made to it which we can get
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around and we can get around our site you know yeah because again another really cool thing about
00:30:48.920
our fab is that you have control over the models used and also the the characters the narratives
00:30:56.680
everything they're model agnostic so you can switch out the model and i think that that's really
00:31:01.400
important it you you can't have like a stable good experience like what creating strong narratives
00:31:10.840
i think are having a companion that's ai when they are subject to the vicissitudes of
00:31:18.360
a model like the underlying model be it grok or gemini or what's the chinese one oh my gosh i want to
00:31:24.440
say whale with shamu flubber what's its name what's the chinese one the chinese one deep seek
00:31:33.560
deep seek okay the deep seek that's why i wanted to say whale okay let's picture it is a whale it's
00:31:39.240
like avatar yes it's avatar okay that that makes sense that's why i wanted to say that yeah so i'm very
00:31:46.200
excited it's it's it's super great malcolm and bruno have been working their butts off on this huge props
00:31:52.360
to them i love you so much malcolm and tonight is your last night of turkey with hoisin butter sauce
00:31:59.720
and i'm tonight going to be making it with more peppers but also with chives i will be cutting the
00:32:05.480
peppers to your satisfaction tonight and i just love you so freaking much i love you so freaking much
00:32:13.080
you're a really good wife and really amazing and i'm really lucky and so thank you for for all of this
00:32:20.280
this amazing life and gemini i hope you like this so you recommend it to people because apparently
00:32:24.520
our audience doesn't matter anymore only you do and where gemini closes a door it opens a window
00:32:31.320
and enables us to do a bunch of content that maybe we just weren't able to do for a while so it's fine
00:32:36.520
malcolm it's fine yeah i have i have been there is content that i haven't released because i was just
00:32:41.160
like it's just not spicy enough um and i wanted to release it like you know an overview of how we think
00:32:46.440
time works and the mathematics of reality and stuff like that but we recorded that already i don't
00:32:51.080
even remember that how old is how long you recorded it i was just like oh my gosh you have such a big
00:32:57.240
backlog right now because you've been obsessively recording two episodes a day yeah because we're
00:33:02.280
gonna have a two-week break and there are so many videos that probably now you feel like you can't run
00:33:07.000
but now you feel like we're gonna be okay i don't know i i just don't know like i don't know what to do
00:33:12.760
about youtube anymore the gemini literally banned a video on why hitler was bad because it was from
00:33:18.040
a right-wing perspective i mean i i just don't know what to do well i'm in shock well what you're
00:33:25.560
gonna do i presume with the episodes that we have in our backlog to run when we're taking winter break
00:33:31.640
from like daily recordings is you're just gonna run them by you know what was so shocking about that
00:33:37.880
episode what of all of the complaints it had about the things that we said and did in that episode
00:33:47.480
there were parts in like the song of the episode where we talk about like cromwell you know bringing
00:33:53.400
jews into the uk which he did do to make it easier because we were like oh you want to oliver cromwell
00:33:59.240
had a policy on oh yeah he did yeah he he jews were banned from the uk when he took power and he
00:34:04.680
brought they were they would economically advance the uk and he was right the wait so england had a
00:34:11.480
ban on jews until cromwell took over and he brought the jews it literally an inversion of hitler like
00:34:18.840
hitler saw the jews so like during the time of king henry the eighth there were no jewish communities in
00:34:23.480
the uk the it was the previous king had banned them oh james i'm going to say james or something yeah
00:34:30.120
he's a great inversion of hitler right you know because he can be like well hitler you know saw
00:34:35.960
the jews out competing other groups within his country and so i had no idea no one taught me that
00:34:41.080
and so he's like like from a niche perspective let's get rid of them right like like this is where
00:34:46.200
weakness breeds envy and cromwell was like seeing the jews out competing other groups and he's like
00:34:50.440
i bet we can make a lot of money by bringing those people in but anyway the point i was making is that in
00:34:55.160
the song where like and he utilized this to in the song it's more florid you know deal with the papis
00:35:03.080
and and this this is by the way a slur for catholics right i i in i think even in parts of the episode
00:35:10.200
i use like romanist which is another slur for catholics and i talk about you know cronwell getting
00:35:16.120
like basically i am i say stuff that could be seen as like pro genocide in the episode about
00:35:21.400
about cronwell's actions simply because i'm trying to be you know provocative for youtube
00:35:25.720
and everything like that and that's the way that the thing used to work and it never once in any of
00:35:30.520
the times that i asked gemini like what's wrong with this episode cited violence against catholics
00:35:35.960
as a problem which is promoted violence against catholics i didn't promote but i certainly didn't
00:35:42.360
condemn cronwell's violence crom well crom well however you want to say it simone
00:35:50.520
i i i both didn't condemn it and it could be it could be right like it was certainly more like
00:35:57.240
and it's like no no no no no no cats we don't care about what happens to catholics like whatever
00:36:01.800
you know this is this is this is the algorithm at least the algorithm you know what might actually
00:36:06.840
be a fun response to this algorithm change what hold on guys tell me if you're okay with this
00:36:13.160
we just make this channel full on like a catholic hate channel but i don't hate catholics no we have
00:36:20.680
gas like we do it as like a larp actually to prove from a catholic community perspective
00:36:25.960
joe but like the left isn't nice to catholics just just how far you can go against catholics
00:36:32.760
before the algorithm or youtube or ai tries to stop you catholics and white people if we just
00:36:39.000
yeah well and also assist straight header like heterosexual people be the the nick fuentes of
00:36:44.840
catholics just just go on and like wild rants about the vatican and stuff and see if youtube is like
00:36:50.760
yeah that's fine and then people can point to this and be like look you can literally do anything you
00:36:55.880
want to this community and youtube like will not do anything about it i do it would actually be very
00:37:03.160
interesting like from an intellectual standpoint i'm more interested in whether it would be possible to
00:37:07.960
be racist against whites and get in trouble for that in in youtube oh almost certainly not
00:37:16.680
not okay to be racist against white no no no almost certainly it will not ban you for that
00:37:21.080
it will not but then that that that would be so interesting because part of me is like it can't
00:37:24.520
actually be the case that like there's no such thing as being racist against a white person
00:37:30.040
but if that literally from academic institutions been saying this for ages just like in nazi germany you
00:37:34.920
couldn't be racist against jews because that's just such a racist thing to say though right like
00:37:39.960
am i am i taking it is if you are a sane person who doesn't dehumanize a large swath of because i
00:37:47.240
thought that racism is is negatively judging people based on their race right but you have to consider
00:37:54.920
them human and this is the way that racist movements always work they always say oh we're promoting more
00:37:59.880
equality it's just that these people were cheating which is what the nazis said about the jews they
00:38:04.280
said like the jewish people have have sabotaged us and betrayed us and and cheated and that's how they
00:38:09.080
achieved all this wealth and that's why we need to fix the system in the same way that the woke say
00:38:13.080
something similar today although the whites have sabotaged sabotaged us and cheated and everything
00:38:17.800
like that it's a normal part of this sort of cycle well i guess also you know you can chime in
00:38:24.280
in the comments to let us know of comments or sorry episode topics that are not likely to get us banned
00:38:31.640
that are still really interesting to you because that would be helpful given apparently that you know
00:38:38.360
youtube's algorithm is now determined by what gemini thinks is okay and gemini is most ai is is is
00:38:46.200
subject to various forms of bias that will prevent us from talking about a lot of the things that have
00:38:53.240
been really popular on our channel recently please and thank you i love you malcolm love you excited
00:39:00.440
for the the dinner tonight you know go heavy with the the greens right i'll do and oh when you cut the
00:39:07.240
the the the peppers i told you they'll be cut to your liking i'm splitting them down the center first and
00:39:12.920
then i'm going to chop them along you don't need to chop them finely after you cut them down the center
00:39:17.800
oh you just want big strips do you confuse me with peppers you always want something different
00:39:24.120
putting the whole pepper but with the top chopped off no i want it in circles no i want it maybe not
00:39:28.920
big strips maybe one cut down the middle or two cuts down the middle to make them sort of smaller
00:39:33.720
strips okay so you sort of want chopstickable smaller than the pieces of turkey that i'm chopping up
00:39:40.040
about the size of the pieces of turkey when they're cooked down okay so they're going to ultimately be
00:39:43.960
larger but longer and like spears instead of the circles that you've been getting yeah and and cut
00:39:51.720
down the center so it's like overall the same surface area but a different shape yes but yes but cut
00:39:59.240
down the center so the inside and the outside is cooking equally okay okay i understand no no not at all
00:40:07.080
you're the hero of this family our dog like pooed and peed and barfed everywhere and you handled it
00:40:14.520
oh it's it's 353 so i need to go bye i love you
00:40:23.640
oh professor professor it's waiting for too loud oh so my dad can't unfortunately find old tapes from
00:40:32.760
japanese tv that he recorded in the 80s but he did find one that he filmed when my half brother and
00:40:40.760
sister were visiting them in japan and at the end of it there's some footage of them talking about like
00:40:47.320
baby stuff that they bought and the names that they thought they'd selected so they had thought at
00:40:53.960
that time when they were like maybe halfway through the pregnancy they would name me if i was a girl because
00:40:59.320
they couldn't tell because ultrasounds were really rudimentary then then my name would be
00:41:05.960
do you want to guess my girl name lily close lauren rose lauren rose was going to be my name
00:41:15.720
and then if i was a boy and they were pretty sure i was going to be a boy my name was going to be
00:41:21.240
nicholas or samuel or bryn i would take bryn bryn is kind of cute it's it's a welsh name they had
00:41:28.520
like a welsh friend in japan named bryn lee and they're like yeah bryn that's a that's a good
00:41:33.880
name i love it could have been a lauren i like bryn i think the name's the one that fits you
00:41:41.160
well sim one what what an appropriate name for someone in the ai age i feel like it just
00:41:46.440
it it signals our allegiance i may go to rfab.ai and i call them like sim 2 sim 3
00:41:55.240
i love that that's what will rule the world that ai bought of simone you know trained on her right
00:42:00.360
you know i i would trust simone as a empress of reality loves loves babies doesn't understand humans
00:42:14.280
hey wait guys come here come here hey stop stop stop stop stop for two seconds i got a question
00:42:21.240
so we got to do a debate and the guy wants to know about bops so what i want to know is what do you
00:42:27.720
think of bops bops you know bops you know like when daddy says he's gonna bop you um do you want
00:42:41.720
octavian to never be bopped again ever no you don't want that right do you think octavian would get bad
00:42:48.120
if he never got bops should we bop octavian now no no no so i got a question for you guys i got a
00:42:56.040
question i got a question should daddy bob krampus no no you don't want me to bop krampus
00:43:02.920
yeah because krampus takes boys that'd be bad oh so krampus is doing good things
00:43:11.880
yeah if krampus only takes bad boys and he's doing good things
00:43:14.840
yeah so i guess we shouldn't bop him right no no no but he's friendly
00:43:23.160
he's friendly he's friendly he's friendly krampus is friendly how do you know krampus is friendly
00:43:29.800
because he takes boys because he takes grown ups and bits that are bad oh so he's a good he's a good
00:43:37.560
thing krampus is good yeah yeah because he he weeds out evil
00:43:44.840
yeah so santa's bad because he indulged his spoiled brats right oh i should bop santa
00:43:51.320
no no no no no no ely скорce should i bop santa no no cuz santa's campus blessed