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NEW VIDEO: Stories that Change You Forever (Patreon)

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2024-10-10 11:30:29
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This has been a hell of a video to get out. It was originally meant to drop some 4 months ago, believe it or not, hence why I'm filming in France of all places. This is a video about the stories which change us forever, which remain for us for years, which we keep returning to and thinking about all the time. My question is: which story comes to mind for you in that? Stay nerdy!

~ Tim

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Miy Eterp

Awesome 😎👍

Ithileryn

Can’t wait to watch! I’d say NieR, BioShock, Avatar, and LOTR are the notable “life changing” ones for me!

Jacob Ogundare

I will have to say The giver, The road by Cormac, ATLA

Roland Deliz

Not all stories can be remembered, even by the one who read them. Some folks forget more than most. Many stories read, nearly as many then forgotten. Some recalled only in spirit, some dredged up as eroded pieces, others passing fully into dust. Yet every time, the soul still changes. The soul holds onto those changes. And these changes grow. Dust becomes soil, pieces become patchwork, and spirits compound to spark an entirely new story. ... I hope the story I am forging will change others as well. (Thanks for the inspiration!)

Patrick Greene

Maybe I'm just sensitive, or maybe I've just been lucky in finding the right media for myself, but I experience this kind of self-shattering change pretty often...and I love it. It's funny that you forgot video essays when listing the kinds of media that change you! Though I love your work, I think the video essay that most changed me was "This is Not a Video Essay", by The Leftist Cooks. I have felt myself change considerably since that video. It was a beautiful work of art, and by interrogating it's own premise, and its own motives in their characteristically empathetic way, the Leftist Cooks managed to slip the essay out of its "this is information" niche and into something so much deeper. I can think of lots of books that changed me. I've been reading a lot lately, largely since leaning into audiobooks, and discovering Libby to get them from the library. I especially love short stories for their punch. You mentioned Ted Chiang and Ken Liu, and several of their stories are on my list, including "Exhalation" and "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" for Chiang and "All the Flavors" and (of course) "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" by Liu. But "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Chiang hit extra hard. I have worked on creating natural language interfaces and "reasoning" software agents, and of all the repetitive fluff stories about AI domination or AI rights, nothing has hit so close to home, so neatly at the perversity of creating a thinking being whose very mind you can change. And best of all, it goes a step further and juxtaposes this with the very real possibility of doing the same thing to people. It is a chilling story. What is free will when someone could make you wear a device that controls what you find rewarding. The movie Arrival hit different after I had kids, and even more so after we had the news that our second kid (still in utero) would have significant medical complications. I was granted a glimpse at a future that wasn't all sunshine and roses, and we of course made the choice to go forward and meet this beautiful perfect child. I think that's why I slightly like the movie version better: in the book there's a dangling possibility of avoiding her fate. In movie, there is none, and she STILL makes the choice to live her life and marvel at its wonders (I'll come back to that). I am maybe lucky that I have found many books that left me changed. Some are for themes that resonate with me in particular, and some are (I think) more universal, from "The Bone Ships" by RJ Barker, to many of the books by Adrian Tchaikovsky, including "Children of Time", "The Doors of Eden", and most especially "Children of Memory". I honestly put "Children of Memory" above "Children of Time" in the impact it has had on me. [Spoilers] Because a particularly exotic organism got caught up in what turns out to be an endlessly repeating simulation of a human colony struggling to scrape by on the thinnest of ecosystems, events of the colony's history begin happening out of order, and one young girl in particular keeps appearing. She commands a special place in whatever mind runs the simulation, and we get to know her, and see her drive, her curiosity, and her potential for growth. And then we learn the reason she has such a special place in the mind of the simulator: she was the last one to survive. The simulated colony failed. The ecosystem evolved and fell apart, and this one girl with so much potential, was left alone and starving, wandering the barren and empty town. [End Spoilers]. But the book that I think hit hardest was Becky Chambers's "A Psalm for the Wild Built", because no other book is as refreshing and yet shattering breath of fresh air. It cut me to the core, and genuinely relieved an enormous amount of existential pressure. In a world where robots mysteriously became sentient, and walked away from humanity, and in which humanity picked itself up and built a kind and beautiful society, a monk wanders into the wilds without knowing why, except that they want to hear crickets. And they meet a Mosscap, a robot, and we learn that robots are motivated by a childlike fascination coupled with the patience of trees. Together, the monk and robot set out to find an abandoned monastery, and as the road gets challenging the monk's mental facade comes crumbling down. They despair at the lack of purpose in their life, of having accomplished goals and not knowing what else to do. And we get the following gems: “If you understand that robots' lack of purpose - our refusal of your purpose - is the crowning mark of our intellectual maturity, why do you put so much energy in seeking the opposite?” “Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? " “You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”