Our new video is an adaptation of That Alien Message, by @Eliezer Yudkowsky. This time, the text has been significantly adapted, so I include it below.

Part 1

Picture a world just like ours, except the people are a fair bit smarter: in this world, Einstein isn’t one in a million, he's one in a thousand. In fact, here he is now. He's made all the same discoveries, but they’re not quite as unusual: there have been lots of other discoveries. Anyway, he's out one night with a friend looking up at the stars when something odd happens. [visual: stars get brighter and dimmer, one per second. The two people on the hill look at each other, confused]

The stars are flickering. And it's just not a hallucination. Everyone's seeing it.

And so everyone immediately freaks out and panics! Ah, just kidding, the people of this world are [...]

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Outline:

(00:16) Part 1

(06:22) Part 2

(09:53) Part 3

(11:58) Part 4

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.