Tom Scott
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Tom Scott is a British YouTuber who produces educational videos around futurist, geeky and computer related content. He could be considered a de facto transhumanist.[1] He wears red all the time because reasons.[2]
Popular futurist videos include:
- Why Computers Suck At Translation - discussing the precursors the chinese room problem
- Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers - lays out a possible mind uploading scenario with huge inequality of access to the technology
- Danger: Humans - describes the dangers posed by humanity to hypothetical alien observers
- Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen - outlines a hypothetical crowdsourced private mass surveillance system
- 2030: Privacy's Dead. What happens next? - discusses mass surveillance, changing attitudes to privacy and synthetic telepathy
- Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords - talks about a scenario with a mass security from Google
- The Bubble: imagine the web without trolls, or shocks, or spam - provides a hypothetical critique of 'internet bubbles' and filtering
- "Is This You?" - lifelogging, privacy and scandal by Tom Scott at Electromagnetic Field 2012 - life logging, google glass predictions and future politics
- When Facebook Resurrected the Dead - big data and consciousness simulation from Facebook, something later explored in more depth in Black Mirror
- The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century - Artificial intelligence, copyright and censorship
- Stealing Our Friend's Brain Backup PRANK (GONE WRONG!!!) 🤯🤯🤯 Mind uploading
