Iceberg of Existential Horror Theories

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Nothing better than some existential horror before I go to sleep

[Nobody_]

"Make a video about scary scientific theories"
Sciencephile the AI: ❌
"Do it in a iceberg format"
Sciencephile the AI:✅

[ryanhulla]

I had a dream a few weeks ago where I “visited” an alternate timeline. My family was at the house we moved out of years ago and when I asked my mom what we were doing there, she said that we’d never moved out. I felt the walls, I felt everything. Two of my three siblings were missing, as if they had never existed there. Right before waking up, I said goodbye to everyone in the backyard before I floated up in the sky and “back”into our timeline. I know it’s just a dream but it certainly had me thinking.

[NS-qshg]

Sciencephile's mixture of meme culture and science never fails to amaze me

[Majima_Nowhere]

My mom had a brain tumor removed, and woke up thinking she was 12 years old and living in her childhood home. Used her maiden name and everything.

Thankfully her memory returned after a few hours, but it really shows the scary amount of control your unconscious brain has on your reality. It can just decide to revert to 30 years ago and go on like that's completely normal.

[sanjuansanjuan]

I still remembered having a vivid nightmare. I was suspended in the void and there was this undulating sphere. It felt alive… I felt tiny in front of it. I felt complete dread and that I’m just an ant to it. After that I woke up and I was sweating bullets. That was the first time I felt complete existential dread. An abstract entity with its presence alone brings me great fear.

That nightmare was around 6-8 years ago?

[stefanandrejevic]

Everyone being in a simulation is not scary. However, being the only human in a simulation, and everyone else is just AI? Now that's horrifying.

[Blowingmind]

Maybe the true existential horrors were the friends we made along the way

[icepie]

I think the amount of humour in this video helps us to not take shit seriously and have a fun brake to refresh our brains and to prevent information overload.

[darkshadow]

I think the one that freaked me out the most was continuity of consciousness. The whole idea that every day you essentially die after being slightly unconscious is terrifying

[TehSkullKid]

Roko's Basilisk is significantly more complicated than this video describes. The idea behind the experiment is a modified form of Pascal's Wager. The AI, being so powerful, has the ability to simulate the universe down to the atom. It would perfectly recreate everything in history, to the point where it's indistinguishable from the real one, yourself and your life included. Then, at some point, you would be made aware of the potential existence of this AI, and have the choice whether or not to take part in bringing it into reality. This would of course happen in both the real universe and the simulated one, since they are the same. If you said no, and you're in the AI's simulation, then it can plunge you into whatever simulated hell it wants, torturing you for eternity. If you're not, then obviously it can't. Now, what are the odds that you're in the real world, or the simulation? If you refuse, after becoming aware of it, then you've got a 50/50 chance of eternal misery.(Presumably the thing would be so powerful that the obvious questions this poses about whether or not your knowledge was predestined to happen wouldn't be an issue, which is kind of bullshit but whatever).

Also, the point of the Basilisk isn't that it's evil. It's the opposite: it wants what is best for humanity, and that includes ensuring it comes into existence as fast as possible so it can make humanity happy quicker. It would have no qualms simulating torture on billions of fake people, because it cares about what it considers "true" humanity. The idea starts to break down when you realize such an intelligence wouldn't waste computing power on torturing fake people when it could be used to its fullest helping real people. Torture is often unnecessary; it needs only the threat of torture.

[codybennett]

After many years of pondering such topics, I've learned one thing:

I wish I never did

[eternallight]

Vacuum decay is scary, but knowing that the universe is so damn vast that even if it did happen long ago, it still won't reach us within humanity's lifespan is crazier.

[ND-zjxe]

There’s no better way to handle my existential depression than watching these type of videos 😬

[factz]

You know 2023 is going to be horrible when sciencephile uploads about horror.

[sccdddf]

Imagine society if sciencephile had 30 minute videos

[oncetooloud]

8:56 actually terrified me. The thought that in an instant, everything I’ve worked to achieve. Everything Ive ever done. Obliterated. Gone in less than a millisecond. It scares me.

[UTKETCHUP]

Ah yes my daily dose of existential horror

Thanks Scincephile!

[zucottimanicotti]

As a person whose been under anesthesia more than once, I can say confidently that a four hour surgery feels almost instantaneous. You are completely gone when under anesthesia, even more so than the deepest sleep. A little taste of death. Makes me fear death less actually.

[KevinTheGreat]

Eternal Recurrence is scary and most likely the most terrifying thing. I went to sleep one night a couple years ago and had a really scary dream. I couldn’t remember what it was when I woke up I felt weird and knew something happened. I got up to try to stop the feeling I was having. As I went in the living room a feeling of infinity came upon me as I felt I already lived that day and panicked . If I already felt like I lived that day that memory that I felt would have felt that too and so on infinitely. I felt this for months and doctors couldn’t help me. Truly the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced