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Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery
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Just the tip
I've enjoyed every video I've ever seen by him, but always forget to subscribe to him and YouTube never recommends his videos to me even though it's filled with all kinds of other skeptical materials.
The YT algorithm hates inconsistent uploaders, so they don't get as promoted as much. Unfortunately you're going to have to smash that bell icon if you don't want to miss a video from him.
Sub now. Captain D is amazing.
Are people really serious about liking him? I mean, I get that there was a lot of tongue in cheek SNL unfunniness in there. But…I felt it was painfully unfunny to watch. S
I’m saying this in the most genuine way possible, what is the appeal exactly? Is it the humor? The information? I was very surprised to see under that video is was on the trending list. I’d never heard of him. But everyone here seems to really like him as well.
Just curious. No hate
He is genuinely amazing at his craft and has some really informative material. This specific video isn't a great example but some are much funnier too.
The humour is a large part of why people enjoy watching his videos, but the main focus of his channel is going over visual effects in viral videos with incredible detail.
Just check out his other videos I guess. I think he can be quite funny, and this video isn't the best example. But he's built a lot of goodwill by other means with the blender community over the years, he didn't become popular as a comedian.
He only uploads like once or twice a year
There you have your explanation. "Sceptical" channels will just question everything without providing real evidence. The Captain always backs up his claims.
Most science communication YouTube channels engage in debunking (of flat feathers, young earth creationists, pseudoarcheologists, etc.), always with evidence. Just because a bunch of racist pngtubers co-opted the word skeptical 10-15 years ago doesn't change the meaning of the word itself.
I think you have a very uninformed idea about skeptical content. Go find Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, Skeptics with a K, Be Reasonable, Skeptoid, Bayesian Conspiracy, Squaring the Strange, Monster Talk and others. There is trutherusm crap and then there is looking at evidence.
Captain D is a fan of this stuff. He attended The Amazing Meeting, a skeptical conference held by the JREF, back when James Randi was still alive.
I'm very skeptical of "skeptical materials". most of that shit went on to a misogynistic, transphobic and xenophobic route. and that's not captain disillusion.
See my reply to Diplomjodler3. One of the temporary hosts of Skeptoid was trans. You have some very uninformed ideas about what skepticism is and what it isn't.
no I don't. I said nothing about what skepticism is. My comment was about YouTube "skeptics" and the people they idolized, like Sam Harris and Dick Dawkins.
Given your unwillingness to accept that you aren't as informed on the topic as you think you are I can see why you have the ideas you do.
Sam Harris has never been part of the rationalist or skeptical culture. He is much better known in the atheist and the "intellectual dark web". In the skeptical community he is generally regarded as a close minded person who is too busy kissing the butt of people like Ben Shapiro and selling meditation.
Even before Elevatorgate Dawkins was on the outs for being a sexist & misogynist who was contributing nothing to the movement except harm. If you are using him as an example you are operating on information that is more than a decade out of date and it might be time to update your priors.
"I utilize a narrower definition of the word, shame you are too closed-minded to comprehend that I'm right. Now let's force a debate on semantics to maximize our time wasted."
Don't you find it's usually better to frame your opponent's position in terms they would agree with? You're using skepticism in a way that does not comport with today's use by the community. Community exchange over time. Community exchange over time.
The community's use isn't the correct point of reference. It is also naturally biased, because the community seeks to avoid association with these people.
It's not crazy or outlandish to label Harris or Dawkins as skeptics in the common use of the term. It's core to their branding whether you like it or not. That's what matters when you talk to people outside the community, not the insular definition you treat as objective fact.
I don't even see a point in litigating this, other than the one I mentioned already. It was clear from context what they were talking about.
The community has explicitly rejected the people you named because they aren't in keeping with positions the community holds. If the community says they don't want these people in the group but you insist on saying they are part of the group then you are making a bad faith argument.
Communities get to decide who is an isn't part of the community. You specifically mentioned trans issues. Two of the pods I named had trans hosts. Dawkins had his AHA award pulled because of trans comments. Skeptics aren't being the people you said they were. You can either change your mind or stick to your beliefs despite the evidence.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/richard-dawkins-trans-humanist-aha-b1835017.html
You're completely missing the point. This isn't about a community no matter how much you'd prefer otherwise. This was a conversation in a public forum.
The word "sceptic" has a generally understood meaning regardless of how the community feels about it, because the general public isn't paying attention to what the community wants.
You can either change your mind or stick to your beliefs despite the evidence.
How kind of you. Word of advice, don't resort to statements like this. It's transparent ego stroking that makes you sound like a self-centered asshole and doesn't help your argument in any way.
"This isn't about a community no matter how much you'd prefer otherwise."
Except that it was/is about the community/movement/group collectively known as skeptics. Go back the the beginning of the conversation. I mentioned materials and the reply came back about how it was all transphobic misogynist stuff. Well there is nothing inherently transphobic or misogynist about the application of epistemology, logic and spotting logical fallacies so the complaint must have been about the people. Then the conversation explicitly mentioned people by name as representatives of the community. So no matter how much you try to say it wasn't about the community it was.
"This was a conversation in a public forum. The word "sceptic" has a generally understood meaning."
There are lots of "generally understood" groups that go by existing words that aren't understood at all by the general population. To many people atheists are Satan worshipers, trans people are bathroom predators, and geologists are part of a massive cover-up about the truth of young earth creationism. But we know that these "generally understood" meanings are completely false. In a dictionary a word can have more than one meaning and context matters.
In a dictionary a word can have more than one meaning and context matters.
Precisely. Which is why you can make the case why the distinction is important to you, and why other people should care about and respect the more specific definition.
But you didn't make that case. You took the position that there's exactly one valid definition and the other person was factually, self-evidently wrong, and needed not to be convinced but to be condescendingly corrected. That is not conducive to your goal of conveying your position, it doesn't represent the community position well to outsiders, and it rubs me the wrong way simply because it's self-absorbed and extremely rude. Hence my sarcastic initial reply.
If you seek a discussion that others can meaningfully engage with, purely out of self-interest you need to be able to center other people's perspective, not talk down to them about how they could be so obviously wrong and stupid.
Being perceived as less of a total ass is just a bonus.
Thanks, Captain o7 o7 o7
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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