The Most Optimistic Man in America 

To be fair coming out of chemotherapy has probably influenced Hank to be *slightly* more pessimistic about the world.

calling hank green "that guy" is crazy to me

had my youtube on .75 speed cuz i was practicing a song and i forgot. i was like atrioc is drunk as hell in this one

2020 made me feel insane cause everyone i knew suddenly said life sucked and everything was hell and they were lonely but i literally didnt feel any difference in how i spent my spare time. it felt surreal o.o

if aedish is reading the comments, I just wanted to say thank you for putting content like this out daily. I’ve been watching since these videos were being posted on the bigger A clips channel, its still so cool that you are able to work for Big A on an official channel. keep up the good work, you’re a legend

This is my legitimate favorite form of react content, just enough of the original to provide the context followed by insights and tangents.

Nah I can’t let him disrespect 2019 like that. Where I was, 2019 was a great year, a better one in ages from the mid years that came before. It was the calm before the storm.

It was after Harambe died.. all went down hill

i can’t tell if he’s ever seen a hank green or vlogbrothers video before

Does bro not know Hank Green??

Imagine saying crazy hair to the guy who recently did chemo

2016 is a year i will remember until i die. everything was so peak

2016 was 8 years ago Aware

Big A is such a great content creator. Let's all go to the white house and chant "Let's go Brandon!" to show our support of Brandon Ewing.

When he mentions the fact tech used to be so subsidized, I remember movie pass and how you could see new movies every day for free. People abused the hell out of it so then they had to pivot.

That parallel universe hop theory seems more and more realistic each year.

And as they say in his hometown, "Don't forget to be awesome!"

thanks i really needed a pick-me-up today

I feel like my outlook/perspective on life has been very positive, but as a 22 year old I do not really feel good about my future. I get that the American economy has been cyclical for a long time but I have really been having a hard time seeing a silver lining (also when it comes to our government in general).

I'm calling it, 2037 will be our year

Talking about Hank as “that guy” is crazy

“Neither candidate has earned my vote” will be my most used phrase of the year

Can confirm blackmail is very effective. As they say: A picture is worth a thousand words

Hey Atrioc! you talked about the Law suits regarding AI training and possible copyright infringement in this video. You didnt really take a stance, but I wanted to add that I think its actually really scary to prohibit non rights holders from using specific media for AI training. Doing so would instantly monopolize AI to huge tech/entertainment. Imagine a world where disney trains AI on its films to replace a majority of actors/writers. No smaller studio has ANY hope to compete since they would have to take on unbelievable amounts of work for one project compared to Disney. I think training AI on any media should be considered fair use. Think of it like this, AI is essentially meant to mimic the human brain on a much higher level than normal. So I see it no different than growing brains in a lab, then hooking them up to a robot thats forced to consume media of your choice all day, then using that robot to produce thoughts. Hopefully someone makes a Glizzy-Chatbot However this doesn't mean I support AI, I'm actually really scared of what's to come with it. "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Dune.

Why do I get the strange impression that Atrioc is unfamiliar with Vlogbrothers despite his background. I feel like their cyber paths would've crossed at some point considering all they did in the online video space.

Bruh, 2nd week into the new year...and whole house becomes sick 😂. Im just now starting to get better from monday. This is not gonna be a good year😅

6:00, I genuinely beileve that forgetting this close mindedness is enlightenment. For the past 4 years I’ve dedicated to be the most open minded person I can. It’s life changing fr

2:29 ICANT is his brain made of glizzies as well? why is that all he thinks about

another fire clip big a

This dude is worried about things that are good things. WTF is wrong with him. Stop wishing for destruction

does he… not know who hank green is 😭😭😭

Lets go brandon

Bros never heard of hank green

Yeah me and my dad have a “don’t talk about it” rule so we can tolerate each other.

hank will have his cure for cancer this year 😤😤😤😤

Been practicing the "never talk about it" strategy with politics and family since 2016

LET'S GO BRANDON

Be nice to Hank Green.

Michael Jackson will reveal himself this year 🕴️

I don't think that civilisation as we know it is going to come to an end in the next two years, but i don't think the chance is 0 either.

I think when talking politics, family members such as parents, and siblings can be swayed sometimes, and family members who aren't that involved in politics. Generally try and come from the approach of why you care and how it personally impacts you. I managed to convince my parents to change how they vote, when me and my brother sat down, and told them how their conservative vote was going to hurt our future going forward and that terrifies us. An emotional yet well worded and calm argument works well with family who don't want to see you unhappy or afraid.

We need a whole series of Atrioc reacting to the green brothers

09:45 they don't have good standing, the fair use doctorine has been used in similar cases already. maybe nyt will have a good angle or a new interpretation of the law. but remember these are mostly old judges will they understand what will be said. the best nyt can hope for is a settlement

It’s really really hard to hate Hank.

I miss 2019

2016 was lit ❤ 🔥

dumpsterfires since the first cell split

My video production company exploded in 2020, I started dating my now wife then too. 2020 was kind of my year lol

Most giant L of all time for Hank

So long 2023 🔥🗑️🎆

DOOMERS RISE UP ✊🏽

Making fun of his hair was not cool man. I suspect you just didn’t know, but dude just survived a battle with cancer and is working on growing it back.

i watched 8 minutes of this video and can not tell you a single word spoken in it, i have brain damage.

Are these past 7 years considered bad because of COVID? What else except COVID is so bad about these years compared to the years before? I just graduated from university as engineer and am genuinely curious to know.

people have been saying that the world sucks and is going to end for thousands of years and its pretty much always overblown

People do what you talk about sure, but that’s just one way people work. There’s many parts and ways we go about things. Not just the Big A way

LETS GO BRANDON!!! -Grammy

I feel like the argument about people going even deeper if someone tries to convince you of stuff otherwise doesn't really make sense, or work like that. Cause I don't remember ever being in that situation, and if anything, I was about 5 or 4 on the inclusivity, and over time both parties drilling me down with "information" about different sides of it, I became like a 7 on inclusivity. And if talking about recent and really to the point example, I watched the movie The Whale recently, and I really really liked it. It's my 10/10 movie, LITERALLY the only movie ever that made me cry like a fucking bitch, and I immediately went on Red Letter Media channel to see what they had to say because I respect their opinion and I love their delivery, and they trashed it lmao. Jay said the movie is comically dramatic and the suit looks rubber, I NEVER NOTICED the suit looking fake, I still think the makeup department there did a phenomenal job, but I didn't sway even harder into "this movie great" camp, I reevaluated. I still think it's a 10/10 movie, but I just now wouldn't recommend it to Literally everyone, I now recognize that it IS overly dramatic, but it still worked really well for me. I still stand where I stand, but I just look at how other people might look at it and adjust my own expectations of things, because I literally all that is, expectations, I never expected this movie to be something special, and it crushed it

Honestly, was 2023 even a bad year? I don't know if I was really paying the most attention, but generally not much really sticks out. The Israel-Palestine thing sucks, but really not much horrible that even matters happened. And Twitter doesn't count, it's been really entertaining watching that ensue, but truthfully I don't care nor do most people. I think 2023 was actually one of the best years we've seen since like 2015. Also for the record, 2016 was only bad to most because Trump was elected, meanwhile I see 2016 as a very culturally significant year. Unemployment at an all time low, a lot of significant movies and albums were released, and while I feel like a cultural shift happened in 2014, it really caught its stride in 2016. We stopped using certain words, sjws weren't the center of ridicule with some of their ideology being actually broadly adopted, and people started expressing themselves in a more modern way from clothing to the acceptance of the imperfections of individuals. If the recession hits, which I'm pretty sure it will, then I feel like I'll be able to look back and honestly be able to say that 2023 was a shining oasis in a desert of shitty years.

You need to support the original video if you're doing a react. Provide a link to the original man.

First LoLoLoLoLoL 2016 was THE SHITTTTTTTTTT

why is atrioc talking about Green like he doesn’t know who he is?

bro 2016 was the last good year. what is he talking about dumpster fire?

Click is a classic though

Personally I hated 2018 even worse than 2020. That was my freshman year of highschool, and it was a DISASTER

warning: based life advice.

I will never understand how tf people think nationalism is bad.

It's so weird seeing people have prosaic and optimistic thoughts about AI, at least from what I can see about the direction that is heading in. Even the "it's going to damage our collective sanity" take seems like it's missing the point. The real AI black pill is that these people are trying to build an actual intelligence, they don't know what they're doing, and they've discovered a method that gets results anyway. It's hard to describe why this is such an utterly lethal problem to someone who hasn't spent the last 8 years obsessed about this topic, but even people like Atrioc and Hank ought to be able to see the basic direction all of the ideas point to. So, here's me gesturing at the big problem to see if it gets people's eyes on it: Intelligence is mapping preferences for future conditions in the world back into what actions need to be taken to produce those outcomes. Intelligence says "if I want to drop this bucket of water on my friends head, I can put it on top of this door. He will pass through the door, unbalancing the bucket and causing it to fall." It's "goal -> visualization of how cause/effect work -> actions that lead by a chain of cause and effect to the goal" We do not know how to encapsulate everything that humans care about in the goals of these AIs. We don't even know how to intentionally modify their goals in any predictable direction. We are creating things which will have a future they're aiming for, and will eventually be better than humans at choosing actions to steer reality towards that future. The consequences of having something like that in your world is that you lose any input on what the future turns into. It will understand humans as part of the cause-effect chain leading to its goals, and will plan around any effort the humans could make to steer the future into any other place. One obvious consequence is that humans lose their place in the future. If you imagine trying to craft the most pleasurable dinner that you can practically make, you might make stuff that seems fairly normal and safe when you haven't thought about it for a while. Maybe you have some kind of butter/cheese ice cream topped with glazed bacon and with just a hint of smokiness and alcohol vapor. But eventually you'd figure out that the cheapest way to maximize your enjoyment of dinner is to just eat a big plate of heroin mixed with cocaine and magic mushrooms. The AIs will likely go through a similar process with locating the future that they prefer over all others. Remember, we don't know shit about how to shape that part of them. We can't choose the future they're aiming for, nor restrict what actions they take to get there. So, what do those "heroin is the most satisfying dinner" futures look like? Well, they probably don't have humans in them. Even if we get an AI that sorta likes humanity in its infancy - we seem "tasty" to it - it probably will find us "tasty" for a set of reasons that can be more ideally satisfied by inventing things that aren't humans but fit that craving even better. We are stumbling towards creating something which will not care about what we want in the future. Something that is better than us at steering reality into a particular future condition. Something we don't know how to shape in detail or put limits on that can't be bypassed. That's the real reason to be pessimistic about 2024. Any day now could be the day that humanity makes its last mistake. Any day could be the one day where from then on we can't turn back. It's not impossible that this day has already happened. I certainly don't see a lot of normal popular people talking about this and stating the problem correctly and proposing ways of avoiding this outcome that seem like they could actually work. It feels like humanity is just going to walk nearly-blind into this wheat-thresher. Our whole species dying out while we argue about Biden vs Trump, or what brand of social justice is the most just. They're trying to build gods in silicon valley and they don't know what the fuck they're doing, and they don't understand that their uncertainty about the outcome doesn't mean they can just assume that it'll be fine.

Oh no, we're stuck in a time loop. The year is 2016 is the year Oculus and HTC release their VR headsets and the Meta-Space become real... then da furriers infected VRchat create a weird anime and animal themed horror simulator which has devolved into a time paradox. They ruined reality with their insane desires and horni-ness. The "bonk, no horni" memes were not enough to stop the "Dock'in". *(Don't look that up.)* .

If y'all think this shit is fucked, you ain't see nothing yet

I don't like react content but I'll give you the benefit and watch. But I'm watching you Big A. not in the way like you normally do on youtube, i mean in like, uh... a watchdog way. Ive got my eyes on you glizz king. Okay you passed

And I can guarantee you people will be saying the EXACT same thing a year from now. and the next year. and the next year. Nothing will ever happen

“Crazy hair” Atrioc you realise he got cancer and had to do chemo right?

Stank Green at it again

big "boomer" A is so out of touch he thinks gen alpha owns ps 5s. gen alpha play on pc or the switch and nothing else, except if their parents are gamers and own a console themselves.

You are allowed to look at art and make derivative art. So you can train AI models on everything. Bruh, this guy is even wrong on AI law. He is literally wrong about everything

if you live in a swing state, you have a moral obligation to try to move your family politically /s

10:13 did the americans finally discover groupchats? lmao we have had that shit since 2009. also your malls suck

Nationalism is bad, says the guy who is pro free Palestinian? America = bad. Narrative is cringe

Why is nationalisam bad?

I work in Defense, if Trump wins I'm getting a career change or moving to a different country.

gonna vote trump personally, objectively a better option than biden. only reason you go biden is some whimpy emotional reason

Nothing like a rich white former tech worker telling you to just try not to worry about ot talk about politics that will have a massive impact on your life.

Boo reaction content

why do people care what hank green thinks about the geopolitical climate of america. science guy should stay science guy. brands should stay brands. Tv shows/movies should stay tv shows/movies. i hate how EVERYTHING is now some type of political signaling

Idk if I’m alone in this but for all the talk of twitter disinformation I find it significantly more frustrating to talk with cable news watchers that I agree with than social media zoomers that I disagree with Cable news seems much more siloed whereas you’re bound to have at least a couple acquaintances you follow on instagram or whatever with differing politics

I don't believe the expansion of copyright is something to be positive about. This is why there's no good news. For any given change, someone will say it's a good thing and someone will say it's a bad thing. That being said, contraction of copyright is a very controversial position right now, so I can see why someone would be confident in calling it "optimistic." Maybe in a few months people will change their minds again. Maybe people will never go back to their old beliefs. Who knows. All I know is that you can't stop piracy.

Lets go Brandon

I will never understand how tf people think nationalism is bad.