Well that’s certainly ominous

First question: You use

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as an option to download the first 10 minutes. The asterisk means the numbers are treated as a timestamp instead of looking for a chapter with that title.

Second question I don’t know.

Not really. I tried staring at a picture of Obama for 5 minutes, keeping my eyes fixed on his nose exactly between the eyes. After two minutes it was like his face got squashed vertically, his mouth got closer to his eyes and his ears got more pronounced. After 3 minutes my mind began trying to fill in his mouth, stopped seeing the teeth and instead just saw closed lips, like the area was a blind spot that the mind had to guess about. I saw both teeth and lips overlaying each other, like if each eye saw a different version, or if you hold your finger close to your eye and see both it and the background simultaneously.

For the last minute his features began morphing slightly, but never that much at a time before springing back. His eyes got a little downturned, his nose got a little less pronounced, and so on, but the features always corrected themselves immediately when my eyes moved just a little bit.

Again, I think it’s about how our eyes work. They’re not cameras, they respond more to changes in their field of vision than they see the absolute image. Keeping your eyes still on a still image means nothing is changing, so the information reaching your brain is limited. It has to start making guesses to fill it in.

Usually just a minute before vision gets blotchy, colors blend together and desaturate, and some things seem to move more around than others. For example looking at a dark painting on a bright wall makes the contents of the painting seem to jump more around than the wall around it. Staring longer makes things start disappearing as if my entire vision is becoming a blind spot.

I always begin seeing weird shapes if I keep my eyes fixed somewhere. Doesn’t matter where it is, can be a white wall even. I don’t think it’s anything more than a quirk of how our eyes work.

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I feel like a true meritocracy would be a system kind of like Plato’s republic where children are separated from their parents as early as possible and are all raised from the exact same level, so the only thing that sets them apart will be individual talent (their merit). If not this, then the wealth, status and connections of your family will influence your opportunities, which runs counter to meritocracy.

Safe to say it’s not a system I’d want to live in.

Omnipotence without knowing how to control it could very easily instantly annihilate you, whether physically or mentally through complete ego death.

this is exactly why the kibibyte, mebibyte, etc. were introduced.

Anything good?

Then all of them. They are human beings, not black holes of pure evil.

I’d assume that “related” suggestions would still work, unless Youtube decides to break them out of spite.

You can get that experience any time by going to Trending.

You could also pour milk in your boots.

Yes I’m a bit confused as well, how are they supposed to know what to recommend if they don’t know what you’ve been watching?

Sounds like they kept a watch history anyway but in secret, and turning it off just means that the user can’t see it anymore. Exactly like back when turning off location history on Google apps just meant you couldn’t see it anymore, but Google still collected and kept the info.

Yes, I do wish it had a longer memory. It feels like only the past few days of watching has any impact on suggestions, if you’ve neglected to watch videos about a certain topic for over a week it’s basically ancient history and never comes up again. I’d love to get a varied mix of things I’ve been interested in for the past 6 months or even longer.