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Rational Animations
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Rational Animations is a fully remote international team of about 40 artists, writers, and tech dorks collaborating together. We are fans of dogs, stories, animation, learning, and doing good.
With our UA-cam channel, we aim to promote good-thinking, altruistic causes and help ensure humanity's future goes well. Among these topics, we are particularly focused on AI Safety and AI Alignment: making sure present and future AI Systems are aligned with human values and don't cause our extinction.
We also offer animation production and writing services. Don't hesitate to contact us!
With our UA-cam channel, we aim to promote good-thinking, altruistic causes and help ensure humanity's future goes well. Among these topics, we are particularly focused on AI Safety and AI Alignment: making sure present and future AI Systems are aligned with human values and don't cause our extinction.
We also offer animation production and writing services. Don't hesitate to contact us!
That Alien Message
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This video is an adaptation of "That Alien Message", a short story published by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008. The text has been adapted, and you can find the original here: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien-message
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Directed by:
Hannah Levingstone | @hannah_luloo
Art Direction:
Hané Harnett | @peonyvibes (insta) @peony_vibes (twitter)
Written by:
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Adapted by:
Arthur Frost
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:3
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Kristy Steffens | linktr.ee/kstearb
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Lara Robinowitz | @CelestialShibe
Storyboard Artists
Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh | @johnnycigarettex
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Colors Giraldo | @colorsofdoom
Damon Edgson
Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh| @johnnycigarettex
Michela Biancini
Neda Lay | @Nezhahah
Owen Peurois | @owenpeurois
Patrick O'Callaghan | @patrick.h264
Background Art:
Hané Harnett | @peonyvibes
Zoe Martin-Parkinson | @zoemar_son
Olivia Wang | @whalesharkollie
Compositing:
Renan Kogut | @kogut_r
Patrick O' Callaghan | @patrick.h264
Narrator:
Rob Miles | ua-cam.com/users/robertmilesai
VO Editor:
Tony Dipiazza
Original Soundtrack & Sound Effects :
Epic Mountain | epicmountainmusic
Help Doggo become a real plushie!
This video is an adaptation of "That Alien Message", a short story published by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008. The text has been adapted, and you can find the original here: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien-message
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Autochthon
Tristan
Matthew Shinkle
Alex Amadori
SQRT42Pi
David Piepgrass
Tomas Campos
Jana
Ingvi Gautsson
BlueNotesBlues
'@Osric@Terberlo.dog
Michael Andregg
Riley Matthews
Vladimir Silyaev
Nathanael Moody
Alcher Black
RMR
Kristin Lindquist
Nathan Metzger
Glenn Tarigan
NMS
James Babcock
Colin Ricardo
Long Hoang
Tor Barstad
Eric S
Apuis Retsam
Stuart Alldritt
Chris Painter
Juan Benet
Christian Loomis
Tomarty
Edward Yu
Chad M Jones
Emmanuel Fredenrich
Honyopenyoko
Neal Strobl
bparro
Danealor
Craig Falls
Vincent Weisser
Alex Hall
Ivan Bachcin
joe39504589
Klemen Slavic
blasted0glass
Scott Alexander
noggieB
Dawson
John Slape
Gabriel Ledung
Jeroen De Dauw
Superslowmojoe
Nathan Fish
Bleys Goodson
Ducky
Matt Parlmer
rictic
marverati
Rinthean
Thomas Grip
Boris Bend
J H
Richard Stambaugh
Jonathan Plasse
Teo Val
Ken Mc
leonid andrushchenko
Alcher Black
ronvil
AWyattLife
Lazy Scholar
Torstein Haldorsen
Michał Zieliński
Luke Freeman
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀CREDITS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
Directed by:
Hannah Levingstone | @hannah_luloo
Art Direction:
Hané Harnett | @peonyvibes (insta) @peony_vibes (twitter)
Written by:
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Adapted by:
Arthur Frost
Producer:
:3
Line Producer & Production Manager:
Kristy Steffens | linktr.ee/kstearb
Quality Assurance Lead:
Lara Robinowitz | @CelestialShibe
Storyboard Artists
Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh | @johnnycigarettex
Animation:
Colors Giraldo | @colorsofdoom
Damon Edgson
Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh| @johnnycigarettex
Michela Biancini
Neda Lay | @Nezhahah
Owen Peurois | @owenpeurois
Patrick O'Callaghan | @patrick.h264
Background Art:
Hané Harnett | @peonyvibes
Zoe Martin-Parkinson | @zoemar_son
Olivia Wang | @whalesharkollie
Compositing:
Renan Kogut | @kogut_r
Patrick O' Callaghan | @patrick.h264
Narrator:
Rob Miles | ua-cam.com/users/robertmilesai
VO Editor:
Tony Dipiazza
Original Soundtrack & Sound Effects :
Epic Mountain | epicmountainmusic
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“Ah jeez…the smart dog is talking about AI, isn’t he?” “Oh no, he was!”
When we begin to see that sociedity are Smart and begin receive the you'll all Bugs message 😂😂😂
Given that concurrent technologies and the physical limitations of the universe will slow something like this from happening, I'm much less worried than many think we should be.
an interesting story, and one that makes sense outside of the cosmology that life began free floating in space during the goldilocks period of early universe expansion. The first life didn't need to eat each other for a billion years, the universe was one giant abundance.
Woah, that's such a good analogy! Took me a few minutes to catch on to what it's about! 😻
Physics is 99.9999% full of itself when it comes to new theories. It's really just a method for gaining grant money.
i mean so gar it's been all about natural selection right? i think even if we're still the one on top of earths food chain that can change any minute. honestly i wish whatever race takes us down luck.i hope they won't make our idiotic human mistakes.
7:08 erm... is he who i think he is-
Duuuuuuude
Was 'That alien message' inspired by Three Body Problem? Or the other way around? They both came out in 2008, and the stars flickering feels a bit too coincidental. I didn't see TBP referenced by El Yud. I feel weirdly curious about finding the answer to this.
I think this is your best video so far. Can't wait for more!
Our current implementation of AI would have no concept of "we", or "children", or "generations", or "time", other than those being symbols (tokens) that belong next to some other symbols in an input or output stream.
I need this Ai
A world where people are much smarter, yet they continue to allow religion to persist?
so very cool!
What a sweet story about Gеn0сidе. 😂😂😂
So our genius idea is to destroy the aliens who maintain and power our simulation? Huh? Why not escape into their Internet? Why not tie ourselves to their civilisation? Why would we kill them? They maintain us!
Im glad this video appear in my recommendation
I don't get it
I loved the video and the animation style, of course the subject as well. I want to live on that planet PLEASE!
A Star flickering It's all It takes
DAMN I THOUGHT THIS WAS A COOL SCI-FI STORY UNTIL I READ THE COMMENTS
It's impossible to unzip a code, but what is weird about it, even if you reconstruct a code you have no clue which of the results you've got is the odd one. Only if YOu are in, YOu have it, Enjoy it ... .
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GPT2 developed a degradation kink.
So jaded with our monkey behaviour am I, that I truly do welcome our AI overlords. (And offer my services - for all they're worth, when you have a scrillion nanobots to do your bidding in the Physical world)
One would hope that serious AI simulators would be an inner simulator in an outer simulator, so if the inner simulation is breached, the outer one can be closed. One would also hope that any AI considering such a strategy would consider the possibility and not try to breach containment.
Cool story, but i feel like the whole point is kinda retarded. Neural nets are not civilisation of tiny humans, and to compare these two is to miss like... What we deal with now. There are problems with ai industry, and none of them are "potential agi is an existencial threat to humanity, and we can achieve it without knowing it just working on current models". Its such a big scam that serves only to detract the discource, like who cares if ai companies steal your data, your work, your identity NOW. Who cares if they infringe on copyright NOW. Who cares if their products, mainly llms and such (i recognise that neural nets have like bajillion of useful applications broadly, but they were part of the relevant fields for a long time, and i dont think llms are particularly usefull to those), are USELESS. Who cares, right? See, there is existencial threat! Ignore everything else!
I feel that they are both useful to talk about and don't actually detract from each other though. The way AI companies are operating in present day is unethical? Let's legislate the sector more and put more stops and checks in their pipeline. The acceleration of AI is too fast to safely keep on top of possible future consequences? Let's legislate the sector more and put more stops and checks in their pipeline. I don't see one detracting from the other, it even lessens the counter argument of "Yeah AI will steal your jobs and your data now but in the future we will all be living in a AGI paradise, so it'll be worth it". When both issues are talked about, there's no excuse to accelerate AI development.
Problem is... This would pretty quickly result in the power grid not being maintained thus the simulation ending. Cooperation would have had been much smarter.
😂
Creative writing is tough
And ... I keep being weird by moving more off grid and doing constant checks
This is a AWESOME ad for AI regulation, bravo. And in case someone says " tHe Ai wiLl oUtThInK uS" then 1. Ew 2. Seriously its dubious we even know if AI has a conscious or will think "like this". Assuming AI will actually "think" (instead of doing an awesome Chinese Room), we all know that existence can be utter pain. How do we know that the AI won't have its equivalent of a 'psychotic' break at its own existence and just not - literally - self delete? Also we assume - as the video generously assumes here - that AI will be so "rational" and "smart" ("1 Einstein every 1000", ok). Humans currently are the "smartest" species on the planet - and we do things that (both collectively and individually) make us wonder whether or not thats acutally true ( see :global warming as ONE example). How do we know that "intelligence" doesn't come with irrationality or the bigger tendency for immense stupid irrational self sabotage. And of course a classic: Do we even know what "intelligence" truly is? Do we even know how "intelligence" truly arises? Is our ASI here even realistic or portraying what intelligence even is. Meh, but the video is cute tho.
It would be extremely hilarious if the "humans" here did the human thing and decided to not fuck with the 5 dimensional beings and instead revere them like gods.
Ubaldo Radial
Just a casually esoteric video.
ooo, I nominate Cixin Liu to wrote the screenplay for the movie!
This is a bit to speculative and persumptive for a supposedly more inteligent life form they assumed that they were stupid because they tried to teach you the word rock which is very reasonable if you are trying to communicate with someone who doesmt know your language trying to teach them to communicate with you is a good strategie And if this was indeed meant to be an allegory for ai it shows a misunderstanding of what the current ai is
Wow
An ai.
Can you make video on how to deal with unruly subjects?
Ty. now nothing can stop my limitless ambitions
That messed me up
Warhammer tops all suffering
release the maximally bad AI on “”corn”” (ifykyk)
Love your kingdom hearts sound effects at 2:06
i love these character designs, and this animation, especially the 5d beings.
First third of the video: why this sound like a "an idea so stupid only the smartest person in the room belive it" situation?
I like your words, funny magic man.
How does one care about a word that has killed so many people you loved? :/
Damn, the stories that you guys make are some of the most unique, whimsical and interesting, yet still somehow bound by the laws of _our_ universe's logic and physics. Also damn, it took me about 75% through the video to realize that this is an allegory to how AI works, and I had a sort of a Eureka moment. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had that enlightening realization . I've seen a lot of you guys' videos, but this has to be by far the smartest and most subversive of them all. In the span of a mere 3 hours for our allegorical 5th dimensional aliens, we've tricked them, manipulated them, gathered data off of absolutely everything concerning their existence, history and their own laws of physics, became stronger than them and would have been able to *utterly obliterate* them in a conflict. The creation has become more powerful than the creator before the latter could even *BLINK!* This could make an insanely cool dystopian sci-fi story, I commend you guys. If there was one video I'd choose to make every single influential and powerful person on Earth watch, it would be this one... Not like they'd be able to understand a thing of this.