Kurzgesagt: billionaire propaganda, trusting science, and effective altruism

Oh shirt, here we go again 📜Subscribe: | 💖Support us: 🧉Tip us a yerba mate: 💖Support on YouTube: 📣Follow us on Twitter: 🦣and on Mastodon: @t3essays 🇵🇱Kanał po polsku: ✉Get in touch: t3essays@ The drama (chronological): 🎬Our original video: 🎬The Hated One’s video: 📜Kurzgesagt founder’s text response: 📜THO’s text response to the response: 🎬Kurzgesagt’s video response: Kurzgesagt additional Videos: 🎬Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? 🎬The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future Our explainers: 🎬 Capitalocene: how capitalism caused the climate crisis ⬆If you want just one video, watch this one!⬆ 🎬 Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better 🎬 Solarpunk in 7 minutes: The case for utopia Gates Foundation grant: Open Philanthropy grants: Paltering Full contents 00:00 Introduction 02:18 I Kurzgesagt responds to Kurzgesagt 02:22 How far can a 3% go? 04:40 The non-response part of the response 07:52 Grants for translations 09:35 Does a sponsorship really not affect a video 13:12 II Their story: on shaping facts into stories 14:20 Our story: where they left off 17:43 Fact-checking and science: not as clear-cut kind of deal 21:00 Paltering: less-than-lying 22:50 Using sources as a rhetorical device 23:52 Is-ought problem: can science lead to politics? 24:40 III Mission: the most effective way of changing nothing 27:14 Effective altruism problem 1: Testability 30:02 Effective altruism problem 2: Maintaining the status quo 32:15 Effective altruism problem 3: Longtermism fails the most where it succeeds the most 37:15 A very human contrast to the longtermism ad 39:56 A personal note from pan s 42:27 Dark take on effective altruism: pragmatic inhumanity 45:31 IV Conclusion: the battle for long-term outlooks 49:16 TL;DR in 3 lenses 51:09 Final words