Why we NEED Neuralink! (GTA Playlist) 

I said it in twitch chat and I will say it again: please do “mundane” vlogs! It doesn’t always have to be high energy and constant hilarity to be good. Sometimes just watching three friends do chill things together is nice. So yeah I would watch you go shopping in Tesco or eat a burger at some random place just as eagerly as I would watch you build your own Mario karts to race around Queen’s Square or finally get around to lube wrestling in the warehouse.

I completed my degree in psychology & criminology two years ago now and one of the main things that stands out to me that I learnt in criminology - not only does the death penalty not affect crime rates positively, but in fact in some cases it has worsened crime. This makes the death penalty potentially criminogenic, much like prisons are in general (prisons are sometimes referred to as universities of crime). Also, kind of linking to this point as another reason why the death penalty is a bad idea - around 1/5 people in prison (in the UK) are in there due to a false confession. Literally around 20% of people in prison are there because they admitted to a crime that they didn't commit. This is because either people take the blame for others, especially family members, or due to horrific interrogation techniques used by the police that force so much stress upon the individual that it forces a confession just so they can escape the situation. I'm starting a job as a prison officer next month. I finally get to put my degree to use.

I love these podcasts.

Hat Films ironically joking about "we do normal human things" vlogs, unknowing that I would watch every single one

I am seduced by the sultry and smooth tones of Ross' voice.

"It's a little dystopic" What got me was at one point during the video he's like "Next 10,000 subscribers have a chance at winning $1,000!" Or something like that. I'm sure he's enthusiastic and genuine. And he works hard. And something about him still makes my skin crawl.

0:24 Love that Ross was about to do his usual crazy high-energy intro there. He's a diligent one.

Something I've always found funny about the Neuralink, Elon said his interest in it comes from the idea of the "neural lace" mentioned in The Culture series, but in the book it's described as "A more exquisite and economical method of torturing creatures such as yourself has yet to be invented."

Smithy forgets that it only takes an individual to make a whole lot of petrol bombs

I feel like this had a lot of good points. I had never considered the necessity of continuing the thought of opposing capital punishment in this light, thank you for the impuls.

I'd watch you guys do a burger and beer thing. Maybe make it a monthly "thing" where you just sit down with some good food and drink and let the conversation flow. Course once the neurolink is set up, watching you in my mind will be like being there myself so I will need to get a burger and beer to be able to feel like I'm part of the group and not some weirdo watching you guys eat P.s. I actually really enjoy when you guys have serious conversations and I have always been a fan of smaffy going off on politics and world issues. I know it can upset folks but it's nice listening to people who are friends just sit down and have a good chat about thing rather than the usual "this side vs that side battle" that is far more common

So what Trott described was basically the premise of the game "We happy few".

I think the word you want to describe the feeling of mr beasts videos where people sort of suffer for money is ‘sleazy’ , even though sometimes it’s nice in the end, it does just feel a bit gross

You guys keep up the good work! Perfect balance of funny entertainment and insightful conversation! I love listening to what you guys have to say, and what the rest of this community has to say!

I love that at the beginning of this Trott got 2 insane rocket kills but they were to deep in conversation to notice them!

I like the strong juxtaposition at the end. Deep talking into buy our merch.

Nothing better than 20 minutes of pseudo philosophical talk on a Wednesday afternoon

I think it would hurt humanity a lot to just be able to turn on “happiness”. It would kill the pursuit for happiness, it would be almost worse than drugs because we know that to take a drug is just covering up your usual feeling but to pump in fake happiness would mess up everything else in your brain i feel like.

I listen to Hat Films to hear frustratingly normie takes on complex geopolitics

For the love of god please make a vlog series called "Doing things that people do", id watch the shit out of that

Time it took the hat bois to say something gross: 1 minute and 26 seconds. The average time currently is: 3 minutes and 48 seconds. I will do this on every video as long as my smooth brain doesn't forget.

Like Doug Stanhope suggests, if you really want to be green, "Don't fuck in the front hole".

Regarding drug addicts, homeless people etc. you look to rectify their situation. Portugal's legalisation of all drugs and focus on rehabilitation has worked wonders, and homelessness is usually directly caused by our corporate capitalist system, which relies on an excess unemployed population and the fact that people are allowed to own multiple houses (and often rent them out at exorbitant prices for free income) whilst people are homeless Plus proactive mental health care, a free and well funded health service and a better education system would go worlds towards stopping the problem

I feel like Smith needs to take a short break

thanks for talking about this stuff 💜

Wtf does trott look like a super villain? Hair slicked sideways, mustache on fleek.

No way is Beer & a Burger £2.50. It was £5 10-12 years ago when I was a student in Wales. No way in hell they dropped the price

Loving the return of the gta content boiks

Whenever the boiks talk about Spoons I always think of the time I ordered a chilli dog from their menu out of curiosity. Never again. Never again.

Im so up for "Hat films recreate the hole in the ozone layer and also bring back capital punishment"

In the spoons I work in ruddles best is being sold for 99p. Other ales sometimes also come down to this price if management is dying to get to the end of the barrel for some reason

Great vid guys, more stuff like this is always welcomed

Capital punishment as a solution for homelessness? Sounds about Smith.

Ketchup dynamics - the study of how to safely get it out the bottle

Chepstow getting a mention, you love to see it!

ill be impressed with mrbeast when he builds one of these GTA maps IRL and races on it with a lambo

Ah, yes, setting people on fire, that's the big downside with fossil fuels 😂. Man, this episode just keeps on giving.

Neuralink immediately makes me think of the "We Happy Few" game.

Better rehabilitation is a noble goal. But the fact is death row inmates are more costly than people in prison for life. You don’t have to come up with a deeper solution, even ignoring any attempt to rehabilitate someone just keeping them in prison indefinitely is superior to killing them because in the event you’re wrong you actually can release them, compensate them. If they’re dead they’re dead and you’ve failed that person in the most horrible way. When I hear people calling for the death penalty it’s always just bloodlust, they’re angry such people exist. It’s never pragmatic or well thought out

I don't have the brain energy for an articulated comment apart from I love engaging with your conversations, they help me spark my own convos with friends later on

Don't need neural link, when we've got the boiks.

0:45 I forget that I’m not far from Bristol some times. Cool to hear Smith mention Chepstow- not sure what pub that is though!

Worms, GTA, Icarus... I am a very happy hatter recently Boiks - loving the content!

What was the Alastair Rrynolds thing called those societies where everybody is hooked into collective computers by chips?

Gimme that beer+burger

I love hatfilms have done for over 7 years now, but I have never met a person I agree with more than smith these type of videos are great and and a nice change of pace keep it up boys

These GTA Playlists are pretty much Hat Chat Extra :P

Does anyone else find that hat films just constantly talk about depressing stuff now? I used to laugh at their videos but now I just leave feeling deflated. I know pollution and capital punishment are important issues but I just occasionally want some entertainment as well

No matter how old smith is, he's still /r/i'm14andthisisdeep

Neurolink for emotions, no thanks, but if you can do me a do-hickey to control my phone, tv, pc, games console and many more electronic devices. Yeah I could go for that!

My favourite painting was the first one!

"How much will you suffer for?" Look up the Dash for Cash thing that happened in South Dakota and you'll see. And that's not for the teacher's benefits, that was just to get more funding for their classrooms. That's one cash grabbing venture that didn't pan out how the organizers wanted.

More please.

I think if the Neuralink system was created by a highly respected doctor or team of researchers and it was a kind of mental pacemaker, it would be beneficial for those with severe mental illnesses, like manic depression or schizo/paranoia. Much like the heart pacemaker, it would only take a generation or two for that kind of tech to become normal and commonplace. However, the issue with Neuralink is that it's being made by a literal James Bond villain, a psychopathically egotistic, completely unhinged and detached-from-reality quadrillionaire. Getting a brain implant that can control your biochemistry or even just your actual thoughts from someone who has completed capitalism really doesn't sound safe to me, it sounds like a 'really metaphorically on-the-nose dystopic film'. Like if you asked a 15 year old to write a script for a film set in 2100 about society, first thing they write is that our thoughts are controlled by a private company and a mad trillionaire. I think the idea is good, but the execution and potential misuse of it is literally the kind of thing George Orwell had nightmares about.

random thought when talking about prisons, if instead of prisons, they had the criminals do some sort of job to pay for whatever the damages they caused doing criminal stuff and when paid for they get to leave. And then whatever they earn in that job should go towards whoever they did the crime upon.

The fishermen who were preventing the RNLI from rescuing crossing migrants should be charged with attempted murder/murder/attempted manslaughter. Also the idea of the neurolink is basically the mood organ from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner).

I'd watch hat films cover Mr beast riding his own makeshift rocket into space....

I agree with the other comments about making mundane/everyday videos, somewhat like a spin on hat chat. Most of us are here for the boiks anyway

When it comes to charitable endeavors the truth is there is very little an individual can do and so very many things that need to be done. Ocean, oil, hunger, housing, corruption, Corporate and personal greed, mental and physical health and the list goes on forever and ever. At least if a person donates to a cause they are helping push a needle forward but the absolute truth is there are just to many causes and very little that a single person can do.

BREAKING NEWS... Ross missed WW2, he was on the phone to Colin in the baaaath

agree with smith for sure

Mr Beast should do Team Mountain, where he cleans up Mt Everest of all the people that died on it

There's nothing inherently "wrong" with being mentally ill or neurodivergent or anything else. It takes a lot of self love and work to manage, and support and understanding from the wider world is of course a necessity (we're still working on that one), but individuals shouldn't HAVE to fundamentally change who they are with some...frankly fucked up brain implant in order to be accepted or perceived as "normal" or fulfilled human beings.

That was a bit philosophical

Secessio plebis

Sometimes. Business' lower the price of an thing. But raise the price of the main selling item.

You know you're too much of a Hat Films fan when this 2:13 is enough to trigger the memory of this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6PBKzzRjNP0.html

Yeah id watch the boys go eat

I just want to sit and talk with smith for a few hours about the state of the world. Seems like a critical thinker to me

Just though I should say this towards the talk of the last race, has no one seen serenity and how the revenger's were made.

Sounds like the Soma drug from Brave New World

I enjoy listening to people talk about things they know little to nothing about. Remembering a time where you played video games, had fun singing together, and weren't cynical nihilists spouting off the latest socially acceptable opinions with the pretense of being controversial and not in line with what's being supported and pushed by nearly every major corporation and political talking head. Keep it up fellas!

'Stimpy's Invention' comes to mind. Please RU-vid it if you don't know what I'm talking about. I'm on about the television episode not game.

Have you played 'We Happy Few'?

Hmmm yes Okay no yea okay I'm done pooping cheers

Weird one but does anyone know what Chris trott’s horn was at the end there?

13:49

Re: the capital punishment argument from smith. I’d highly recommend listening to the ear hustle podcast about San Quentin prison. It creates a lot more understanding and empathy about that issue and many others to do with the criminal justice system in general (American centric, but later has more input about the similarities to the UK).

When I think Neuralink, I'm thinking controlling my electronics remotely. Yes if it has feedback you could theoretically brainwash someone with it. Personally I'm wondering what people will do to break in and control it themselves. Homebrewing, jailbreaking, rooting, whatever you want to call it. I wonder what the unintended and unforeseen functions will be. Personally I welcome our cyberpunk dystopia. Lets get some of the cool shit already.

*Laughs in 95p ruddles in the North east*

Funny how you mentioned the fishermen stopping people from saving drowning migrants because it's now illegal to save them making the fishermen in the right :/

Arent the boys just talking about 'we happy few' the game? haaha happend in a fictional British setting as well

Yeah, Sadly the whole public execution thing is slowly gaining in popularity over here in USA. From what I have seen on facebook, But then again it's facebook. So take it with a grain of salt. I know someone who saw and supported Public Execution of people, who have committed certain crimes. And after finding out, someone they knew. Allegedly had committed one of these crimes, went and killed them for it. Now he faces life in prison and it isn't known if the person he killed actually committed the crime or not. I understand the points people make justifying Public Execution's. But I still don't agree, Anyone can be accused of a crime they truly didn't commit. That's why we have courts! But it's scary that this Idea is growing, Since it could lead to innocent people being killed. I don't want to see that. let's say that this public execution thing actually happens. There will be those who will use it for there own gain. Make a false accusation against some poor person who didn't do anything. And the next day, they are dead. Why would you make a false accusation? I don't know, but anyone can and there are many reasons why someone would. Maybe they just really hated that person, or maybe they were there Ex lover and they have come to despise them since breaking up. I do apologize for this grim and dark paragraph. I don't mean to depress anyone, just stating my opinion.

Hat BOIKSSSS

Ahhm, love the discussion. But what have I missed, where everyone hates Elon Musk? What don't I know?

Someone make them watch psycho pass please.

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It's weird, I don't tend to watch Hatchat, but I'll watch/listen to these sort of videos all day

You know what. I'm glad smiff has thought about how people being twats are both dickheads, but that they also may have had a bad life that they may blame on say migrants, and maybe that blame is founded, but that it is a really multifaceted thing that isn't just some simple thing like "that person just sucks". It's nice to see someone actually think about things with _some_ depth on RU-vid.

The ponderings of the godless are always so banal and simplistic.

Okay so obscure request, but does anybody know the classical piece trotts horn is based on right at the end of the last race - driving me crazy!

Hey Smith do yourself a favor and watch Dr Simon Clark's videos on climate change to get a better idea of what sort of influence you can and cannot have as an individual in regards to helping the climate

:)

mr beast making something and its sponsored by a mobile game.. i dont want to say whitewash but.. yeah.. whitewash

There is something calming when Smith uses intelligence and rationale to shut up Trott's fence sitting. Love ya boikinos

It’s interesting that when someone has a world view “you” don’t agree with they are “programmed”. Like those saying this aren’t themselves. Perhaps simply the arrogance of “knowing” they are right, and everyone else is wrong, which seems a little bigoted to me. 🤷‍♂️

Give you mum a call.

On the Multiple Subjects in this video: 1) When it comes to Mr Beast, I have no issue with him, if every person who earned more than a million a year was like him, the world would actually be a far better place. Like legitimately it would, regardless of why they did it. 2) We aren't to blame for Global warming, Companies are. We are to blame for allowing them to run rampant, and electing the wrong people. 3) Capital punishement is wrong for the reason of a single innocent life lost is not fine simply to try and avenge peoples death. But I am still fine with life in prison. in the same vein, I would be fine with a lot more efforts towards rehabilitiation and teaching like is done in northern european countries for people without life sentences. 4) The nueralink idea would not be great for the simple reason that choosing to be happy doesn't improve your life it just makes you less likely to question authority. As I get older I doubt governments more and I don't like the idea that people could choose to be happier as it would just allow governments to be less on the ball on making everyone happier. 5) We really just dont understand the mind well enough in any capacity, its the reason for why I am so against Assisted suicide, unless the case has severe physical ailment. We simply dont know where the line is, when someone is truly lost and unable to get better, doomed to live their life in sorrow completely against their will.

Happy is a problem for art and music, so let's not get rid of the bad which makes us appreciate the good. We certainly don't need Kanye- or Taliban-levels of illness, but some level of suffering is necessary for humanity to continue to innovate, create and grow.

Trott says “I don’t like the concept because we’re seeing how much people are willing to suffer to make money”. That is the social commentary my friend. Welcome to capitalism