I was up at 6 am and watched 2 of todays jp videos, then 2 at work (or maybe even 3) now im home and hes STILL at it. He surely out works me. Thanks so much JP. The energizer bunny of content creators and a true champion of Ukraine.
Congratulations on the ATP Distilled. What an honor. Johnathan, you have to be the hardest working, most prolific, Ukraine support channel. I never pass up your notifications as a "watch later." I admire you immensely and wish I could do more financially to support your vital work.
I absolutely agree. I've always said that the people who constantly strive for more or perfection will never be happy. You have to do the best that you can and be happy with the small, simple things in life, the things that you can control. For example.. I gave up eating animals because I moved to the countryside and wanted to talk to the cows over the fence without feeling guilty. I said, "Right, if we can survive for a month without meat, we can survive forever. I'm still not searching for perfection but happily surviving and doing my best 10 years on. I always try to do my best in everything I put my mind to. I have learned that you have to try not to hold on to anger because it will make you old and bitter. ❤
@sirsmeal3192 I do apologise, I worded it wrong. I should have said everyone I've ever met. You're right, happiness is most definitely a state of mind. ❤
@@bennie_pie if you are the guy who is responsible for archiving . fantastic work ..if you could achieve that i would tip my hat to you sir .tho i do get a laugh antagonising the trolls
'Perfection is an absolute that cannot be achieved by our imperfect species. Thus, it is better to manage and maintain the flaws of man on an ongoing basis.' 'maintain' does not mean 'keep' here, but do maintenance instead - improve incrementally. I read something like that in a Science Fiction Novel in 2007, and it impressed me deeply. I think this a good way to handle perfectionism in general.
Change and relativity though, could any perfect species even be perfect? "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there's nothing left to take away" Little Prince
I checked out "Distilled", amazing to see all the articles laid out in that format. . . . "Millions of bullet points, talking about millions of bullets " ! . . .
17:20 My grandfather was a wise man who told me that whatever I do, to do it well, but to never let perfect be the enemy of good. He didn't call himself a philosopher... RIP grandpa 🥲
Jonathan I love your analogy about the woman getting robbed. And how countries are not doing nothing to help that woman. What if that woman was getting robbed by someone with a machine gun would you still run up and save her knowing that it might get her shot and yourself
I guess the machine gun isn't the greatest analogy if it's standing in for nuclear weapons, because for the robber to fire the machine gun the robber would be perforated by another machine gun that is trained on him.
I don't have the answers Jonathan. I know I care about Ukraine.I don't do social media. I have conversations with my friends and share my knowledge. I'm following the principles Stoicism and trying not to raise my blood pressure. Cheers 🍻
Just, WOW, Jon. I loved this video. I so enjoy when I have abstract thoughts but can't seem to sort out how they all fit together, and then someone comes along and in an hour covers these thoughts, strings them together as well as sorting out the morality which is often the part I struggle with. I thank you for this video and analysis, I now don't feel like I'm the crazy one in the room. Captain, My Captain.
Thank you Jonathan ❤ Benny ❤ Love to all ❤ I Love the ATP Distilled concept! My eyeballs are very sensitive to light though and don't know how to get darkmode. Is it possible? 🫂 ❤
Dark mode -in the top menu bar, right hand side should be a moon (or sun) icon to switch between light and dark mode. That's on a desktop/tablet version of the site. I've just realised that it's missing from the mobile version of the site though - oops! I'll fix that. Glad you like the concept and thank you so much for the feedback!!
There is the Duty of Rescue and the religious equivalent, the "sin of omission," which is referenced in the Bible numerous times. This is a good point. Maybe Trump should read his own "Trump" faux leather bible. He is such a horror of a human being. It would be wonderful if people would strive for moral excellence and put forth as much effort toward that goal as they do toward religious zeal. Humanity would be much better off for it.
Totally agree. Unfortunately I think humans have an idol and hero worship tendency which probably comes from the evolutionary need for our species to follow the tribal leader for safety and prosperity. Moral excellence doesn't advance a person's position in society.
Hey, hey, Jon & Team. You are too harsh when you say you are talking nonsense, that seldom, if ever, happens. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Russia mist fail in their bid to overpower Ukraine, even if it means our end.
Morality. I often watch shorts on Funker 530. One thing has become vividly apparent to me when watching these videos. Rarely , if at all do Russians stop to help their wounded comrades. Ukrainians however seem to do everything humanly possible to help, treat and recover their wounded, even at the risk of endangering their own lives. This also falls into both 'Duty of Rescue' and 'Moral Perfectionism' parameters but at a much more personal level. We can therefore conclude that Ukrainians place a much higher standard of human morality and regard for human life than Russians do.
Great work, JR! You are a superstar! Re the issues Mitch raises, I agree with him 100%. To put it roughly in Kant's terms, which is the greater moral imperative: avoiding war or defending justice, the right to freedom and self-determination, etc? If Britain and France had failed to declare war against Germany in 1939, probably all the Jews in central and eastern Europe would have been exterminated. I'm not saying that this war and WWII are identical, but isn't the basic principle the same? Finally, all this talk about ending the war in order to save lives is either naive or outright disingenuous. What is ignored here is what will happen to those Ukrainians who continue to resist, or wish to preserve their cultural heritage if peace is suddenly declared? You can be sure that they will be politically persecuted, jailed, and even killed by Putin and those in his regime. While the deaths of Ukrainians will lessen if the war ends now, they will not stop entirely, and they will occur mostly behind closed doors. Also, what happens to the Ukrainians if Putin decides to use them as cannon fodder in his next war? Lastly, someday I hope to get one of my comments highlighted on JP's videos, but as JR and Mitch have demonstrated, the competition is fierce! Maybe someday... 😅
Awsome analyses, JP! It seems so easily understandable when u explain abt the drowning person and the stealing of yr nabours 1. floor. Now also u been a bad person, therefor yr friend clearly will look for another person to hang around. It is all so f'n obvious. I've started to use the first two examples in discussions already. Will do the third when confronted abt NATO expanding. - That is really a moskov narrative we need to stop. Onward I go into the battle of words! Slava Ukraini! 💙💛
Thank you, I'm glad it's been well received - there's a few glitches I need to fix and some functionality that need adding, so hopefully will prove to be useful for people!
Thank you JP. Congratulations to You & the Team on APT Distilled. “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War Let Ukraine strike back, and they could save lives, restore their territorial integrity & the right to self-determination - and bring Russia to its knees. What's not to love?
The French have a specific law, which carries a significant penalty, allowing serious charges to be brought for non-assistance to anyone in danger. I'm not sure that many other countries are that explicit or based in law, rather than through moral obligation?
Hi Jonathan, I think I heard you say something in earlier video than made me wonder if you might be vegan or tending in that direction. Personally, I am a lapsed vegan after being fairly strict about it 22 years. I now consume free range eggs and dairy cheese again, although I still support the movement and would like to get back on the vegan bus at some point. For me I currently have a health issue and a very busy work schedule that made it difficult to get good nutrition on a strict vegan diet. Also something of an armchair philosopher who would probably agree with you on your idea of Heaven. Kia kaha from NZ once again!
The free world and American voters are worried and have an important question for Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, Olaf Sholz and Donald Trump, about their controversial positions on Ukraine. ‘If the USA and Germany were invaded and their citizens found themselves under constant missile attack by a powerful enemy, with many cities destroyed and great loss of life’. 1. Would Sullivan and Sholz, refuse to launch missiles at the enemy launch sites in fear of escalation? and 2. Would Trump be willing to hand over Alaska and the state of California as a trade-off for peace????
Questioning Liability ....The Good Samaritan Rule , If You Do Not Acknowledge Them Your Not Responsible.... IF You Say Are You Alright? Now You Must At Least Call For Help.....I Now Bring Up The Budapest Memorandum , America , England , North Ireland , AND RUSSIA Promised To Protect Ukraine AFTER They Gave Away Their Nuclear Capability.......Another Treaty Being Ignored ??
So just wondering; can we work out your best tea you have had from AI used for ATP distilled? Do I break the search if I search for tea? On serious note; I think I have watched all of your videos and keep up the good work. You are one of the channels I goto for daily Ukraine news coverage.
To answer your question re searching for tea - yes you absolutely can and nope you definitely won't break the search this way - however knowing how the search works would be to your advantage, and to help you in your quest to find the greatest ATP cup of tea there has ever been, keep an eye on the search page as later on today there will be a tea themed explainer to demonstrate how the ATP distilled hybrid search works. (you did ask!) The AI has been specifically instructed to include any mentions of tea by JP in it's system prompt! "If Jonathan mentions cups of tea include it (because tea is important to every Brit including Jonathan, and so is humour!)."
Arguably, yes, but being imperfection leaves one open for charges of hypocrisy, and the effects of that need to be factored in to the calculus. My belief is that perfectionism will always produce worse outcomes than a measured approach.
A date filter is on my list - you're absolutely right. My plan is also to also take a set of search results and submit it to the AI for further analysis (e.g discuss the data with the bot) or turn them into a table of data, or if you wish produce an another output e.g. a written summary, a timeline or whatever else. At the mo the search screen is very simplistic, and needs a redesign. It is limited to 50-100 results max. I will remove that restriction once I know the server is stable.
Duty to rescue: so Western leaders can be said to be responsible for deaths in Ukraine when they've dithered and refused to help where they easily can.
I support Ukraine and regularly donate to various causes but just regarding the baseball bat V burglars analogy isn't the application of similar logic to the war more complicated because it involves many men being compelled to fight by the state for the benefit of the state/their countrymen rather than themselves? You may die so the state might live regardless of how you feel about it. It would be a bit like you being expected to stand up and be injured for the bloke down the street rather than for your own property. Also regarding the Trump "peace plan" I suppose to steel man him his argument would likely be he needs access to the levers of state (or at least presumptive future access) to be able to apply the required pressure to both warring parties to end the conflict. Just food for thought, thank you as always for your content!
9:31 - the next paragraph? I would argue that the US, UK and rest of the world created the Ukraine situation by lies enabling RF to control the UN. Not the strongest legal argument for a legal duty to help Ukraine. But a pretty strong moral argument for fixing the UN - which would then help Ukraine, and far more effectively as it has power to take unlimited steps.
I understand moral perfection and when is enough but this also strives away from the imperfections of being human and when is not enough. There's a balance which is wrong the correct answer is always slightly of balance otherwise you are stuck on a fence. The common good is not always the right good then there is always the question what is right and what is good, nobody talks about the common right.
As for Jainists , I always liked the parable of the Monk & the mosquito / lech , I am sure you know it , end of the story is lots of mossies / leaches & no monk . Ending wars does = climate change , the climate damages from just making weapons is horrendous let alone using them As for being Vegan , a bit of a long shot to counter MS although MS is a very broad spectrum . I have no objection to Veganism as I eat at least 90% friuts, vegggies , nuts & pulses as I grow most of what I eat . Just so long as the vegans are happy to mine human excrement to return the minerals to the plants I am yet to find a vegan who is happy to do this in fact it always seems to repulse them which only goes to show they have no understanding of the nutrient cycle which is why proper science teaching is essential .
Doesn't repulse me. Seems a very good idea to use human sewage to restore the soil. It won't be raw sewage, it will be well rotted stuff. This was done in the past. Also you can use well rotted manure from stables, rabbit and guinea pig cages with leaves and vegetable waste. No actual need for animal dung at all really.
@@carolwilliams8511 Well if you are a Vegan you are the first one who seems to have an understanding of the nutrient cycle although you might not quite be up to scratch . It is not a case of you CAN use it. It is a case of you MUST use and that goes for urine as well . Currently we grind , digest then roast phosphate rocks to get the phosphorous we need to grow our crops, in particular grain crops and 95 % of that ends up in the waterways one way or another . Every stage of the processing of phosphate rocks is highly polluting yet this is always ignored in pollution / climate change debates and of course every step generates a massive amount of heat and you must keep it in your head, it is not CO2 that is the problem it is the HEAT ENERGY we create being released into the atmosphere and it not being allowed to leave as fast as we generate it . CO2 is a minute part of the problem as we will find out in 10 to 20 years when we have decarbonized as much as is humanly possible and the problem is still getting worse at an exponential rate
Coming back for more is a bad argument. Ukraine is practically a de facto member of NATO right now, with mutual defense agreements from many powerful countries. So, in the event of Russia returning for more, Ukraine would arguably be in an even better position than it currently is. Deterrence is effective, and it works. You don't have to wage perpetual war until your demographics completely collapse to win a war. There are alternatives and just instisting on fighting the Russians for a long time is disastourous for Ukraine just imagine how much debt they have racked up right now. And the demographic catastrophy that Ukraine has to deal with after the war.
Nope. It will often refer to them although is quite polite and professional when JP goes off on one - although it has been known to quote him verbatim for some of his more colourful moments! The AI has been prompted to include the rants, jokes, tangents, cups of tea as they are part of the appeal of the channel!!
The problem is not all of Ukraine has the will to fight. They had the wheel at the beginning but people are fleeing and not coming back to fight. They should not lock down the border better at the beginning at least for men
Whilst all the arguments are correct, there are a multitude of worthwhile causes to fight for so there is a need to select. How to prioritize for example the genocide in Gaza, black and brown people disproportionately suffering the effects of climate change, LGBT people suffering from bigotry and hate, British children living in substantial percentages under the level of poverty and so on.
Putin wants Ukraine because it provided SU with a disproportionate amount of it's economy, technology, materials, military, etc compared to it's population. It was 2nd only to Russian SSR itself. The 5 Oblasts invaded, plus Odesa, contain around 90% of Ukraine's resources. Those areas becoming involved in EU-UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION TRADE AGREEMENT, with the prospect of a prosperous Ukraine would have been a problem for a Dictator trying to keep his own people oppressed. All the excuses Putin has given over the years have been pure propaganda. Without the lies Putin couldn't have destroyed the Constitution and changed the amount or lengths of terms as President. Got to have an enemy to brainwash the people, so enemies are invented. Invented as an excuse why Russia is kept from it's "destiny", which is whatever he can convince the Russian people it is. By lies, oppression, fear - whatever it takes.
I don't believe in a "god" as such but I heard someone use the argument once that if god existed then why doesn't he end all suffering on earth.. And the counter from someone else was, god does exist but god cannot end all suffering on earth because if we didn't have pain, unhappyness and misery then we would never know the meaning of joy, happyness and pleasure. Or something along those lines anyway. It made a lot of sense to me.
@@carolwilliams8511 of course nobody wants suffering but I hope you had the saem eureka moment I had when I first heard about it. You have to think about it a bit. Of course it is easy at first glance to just say "I would prefer no suffering" I would prefer no war" but like mitch I believe quoted "War is terrible but it is not so terrible we should submit ourselves to absolutely anything our enemies demand from us" So in the same way that sometimes war has to be fought to eradicate evil a world without suffering cannot exist. It was more to justify why that argument cannot be used to dispel the notion that god does not or cannot exist though. JP said if there was a god up in heaven and he was looking down on earth and happened to notice the ukraine war one day, he would be a moral monster if he didn't decide to stop it. But god if he does exist would not stop it. He gave man free will. Man must learn to be better and it is not up to god to rule and control us like putin does. The main point is that if we never ever experienced suffering we would never strive to be better. Only by improving ourselves can we reduce suffering. I for one believe we have completely overpopulated the planet which the planet cannot naturally sustain and eventually we will cause such bad climate change many billions of people will die as a result. That will have been our doing. Of course god could have come down to earth one day and sai right you lot, that's enough breeding this century. But god doesn't exist anyway. So after a lot of rambling the main main point is that if people never ever experienced unhappyness which is hard to hypothetically conceptualize, you would realize that happyness would not exist either. Like it would exist but we just would not be able to quantify it. Because it would just "be" there would never be anything better or worse. And that would ultimately also be a bit boring.
@@carolwilliams8511 another thing I should add is that all life eventually dies right? That is inevitable. Death will always be hard to deal with. It is a natural part of life. You cannot have life without death. So another thing to consider is would you rather never have anyone to have loved in your life, live on a deserted island all by yourself to avoid all suffering? Or would you prefer to have friends and loved ones knowing that one day you might lose them?
Democracy needed one voice to scream No yet the world stay😢silent and now Trump is laughing hiding and watching as Democracy last chance gets told he is to old he didn't do enough for Ukraine. Good luck with Trump
legend is nothing bro ... u are a celestial mythical entity that can make from a bliss of a water drop a universe and can colapse 3 or 4 heavens just for your pleajuse ..so legend mean nothing to you ,, please be careful with words ;)
Johnathan I do love your analysts but at times you do go off at the deep end and end up off the subject, I end up getting fed up and not carrying it on until the end It’s a shame, but your rants get a bit boreung
Please do not bring God in to this Death is not what God wants but he gave us free will, so every one will then regretted his action’s. No one is perfect, but admitting your sins in past actioned in other words repent and mean it That will give you a blank canvas. But if you carry on doing that is wrong then there is no redemption
