This Video Will Doom You. | Answers With Joe

Nothing like a good paradox to melt your brain. So today we're going to look at some of the most interesting and mind-blowing paradoxes and thought experiments.

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[beastamers]

"if you give a monkey a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, the monkey will break the typewriter"

[SebastianMikulec]

"This video will doom you"

That ship sailed a long time ago.

[RandomguyMr]

That's actually really smart of Joe. He covers his own ass by making a video about Roko's Basilisk. He saved himself at the cost of his viewers.

[eboal]

The Astley Paradox: If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie Up, he cannot give it to you as he will never give you Up. However, in doing so he lets you down. Thus creating the Astley Paradox

[jlee]

Your pronunciation of basilisk… is like the premise of the thought experiment. Flawed.

[planetdisco]

Personally whenever I’m pulled over for by the police for exceeding the speed limit I ask them for data on the metrological device used to measure my speed then cite both Cantors Theorem and Xenos Paradox as to reasons why their metrological assessment of my speed is only reasonably accurate until it gets below the Planck scale and that furthermore all metrological units are essentially arbitrary in nature and a matter of social consensus and therefore devoid of meaning from a cosmic perspective. It is not long after this that I am usually taken “back to the station” and summarily beaten by the officer on watch and a few of his friends and discharged with a warning. I don’t have as many teeth as I used to but at least I still have all 12 demerit points on my Australian drivers licence intact. Totally worth it unless I’m eating corn on the cob lol…

[keiththorpe]

As Rush said, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..."

[mgmcd]

I am partial to Allen’s observation that “eternity is a long time, especially near the end.”

[markuspfeifer]

The good thing is: by sharing and liking this video, we already helped the Basilisk.

[BomageMinimart]

Good show; fun and quick paced. I gotta tell ya, tho: I have never before heard "basilisk" pronounced like that.

[battlespace]

I like George Carlin's take: "Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."

[budershank]

The best paradox is always Homer Simpson's "Can God create a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it."

[jackielinde]

So, in 2003, someone spend a month proving that, given access to a computer, even monkeys will devolve into shit-posting.

[someroboticpizza]

i just wanna say that i found this video comforting knowing that there are some problems with the whole roskos obelisk thing that just made the whole thing less scary and instead just interesting as a concept, so thank you joe

[lizc]

Roko's Basilisk is the sort of thing that would have tortured me a decade ago and now is just a little funny because ya know, depression.

[thingsiplay]

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

― Albert Einstein

[kariscoyne]

as I said on Kyle Hill's video- this just sounds like Pascal's Wager with extra steps

[GuitarShre]

I find the Roko basilisk concept very relaxing compared to the Monty Hall problem.

[DarkOverlord]

For the trolley problem you just flick the switch between wheel segments so the front goes down one track while the back goes down the other, as they get to the furthest point they can away from each other it’ll lurch to a stop, a few bumps and bruises for those inside but nobody dead then you just walk over and untie the people on the tracks

[AdvancedLiving]

Joe: “it will kill you to death.”
Me: “only if I die…”