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i made another thing because all i see are theories on that video. im sure you know which one 

WHYYYYYYYY

💀Memento Mori🤍

Here's a late blue boy for #20! @crankgameplays 💕💕💕

YASS queen

Just watched Unus Annus getting deleted.

There are no tears.

I feel empty but satisfied at the same time...

because I took part in this wonderful journey and it was an honour to see how it ends.

And I'm curious to see how many people try to do what they did.

Thank you and goodbye forever.

Memento Mori.

Unus Annus.

I don’t post very often but I love this community and we need to get these guys to a million likes!

Boosted!!!!

YouTube PSA

In case you haven’t seen anything about it yet, DON’T SPAM CHATS IN LIVE-STREAMS ON YOUTUBE RIGHT NOW!

This isn’t about a “don’t clog the chat” issue, but a genuine logistical issue with YouTube’s banning system.

During one of Markiplier’s live-streams this past week he had viewers use emotes (especially channel members, who have special emotes) to vote on choices in the stream, and THOUSANDS of people have had their ENTIRE account suspended because of it.

And not just their YouTube account, but their ENTIRE GOOGLE ACCOUNT. This means gmail, google docs, google slides, on top of their YouTube accounts. And it was completely without warning.

Here’s Mark’s video on the issue.

So until YouTube fixes this issue, DON’T SPAM CHATS IN YOUTUBE LIVE-STREAMS. Maybe even don’t watch any live-streams on YouTube right now to be safe, and if you do want to watch one, maybe sign out of your account and watch as a guest to not risk losing your entire google account, or watch an archived version later when the stream has ended.

FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR ENTIRE GOOGLE ACCOUNT (Gmail, google docs, YouTube account, etc) DON’T SPAM YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM CHATS. THEIR AUTOMATIC SYSTEM IS SUSPENDING ACCOUNTS WITHOUT WARNING AND YOUTUBE ISN’T DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW.

Ohhhh FUCK I was NOT ready for that “01″ at the start of the timer today.

On Today’s Unus Annus Video!

So today Unus Annus tackled the idea of artificial intelligence, and I got really excited and wrote a text wall comment that’s undoubtably going to get buried there, so I thought I’d post it here for anyone who’s interested! Posting it under a cut because HOOO BOY it’s a long one.

tl;dr AI is super cool and scary and much closer to being a thing than we think it is. Signed, a nerd who did way too much research for her scifi book.

Hi! I actually did a TON of research into the mechanics and ethics of AI when I was writing my first novel in 2018.  Be prepped for a text wall dump of cool AI info!

So you're actually hitting on one of the biggest conundrums of artificial intelligence technology, which is, to quote the wiki, "If an AI system replicates all key aspects of human intelligence, will that system be sentient"? At that point, there is significant debate over who would own the rights to the system, or whether there would be a way to determine that at all. This point in history, where it becomes impossible to distinguish between an AI and a human being (AKA, the first machine to pass the Turing test) and in fact, the AI surpasses human intelligence, is referred to as the singularity (Originally coined by Scifi writer Vernor Vinge). The majority of the debate comes from what to do in the event of the singularity, which is taken by many to be a when not an if. Do we trust that the machines we make will trust us? Or do we stop them before they get that far because they might consider us a threat to their existence and wipe us out instead?

Lots of Scifi writers have tackled this idea in their works (including me!), but one of the most famous solutions is the one proposed by Isaac Asimov in his short story "Runaround", which was published in 1942 (this story later became part of I, Robot, which is where you've probably heard the rules before). Asimov instituted in his fictional robot-filled society three basic rules:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Asimov's laws have been a huge part of the discussion around real scientific research into the capabilities of programming and machine learning because people see them as a way to safeguard advances that we make. But they also present the problem of not seeing robots as equal to humans, which could cause serious stress in sentient robots.

An interesting dive into this is Sophia, the world's "first robot citizen" from Hanson Robotics. Sophia isn't truly sentient, but she's the closest thing we have right now, being able to learn and react on her own without constant input from her research and development team. She can even make facial expressions that mimic real emotional responses! The trick with Sophia is that she recognizes that she isn't a human, and is, in fact, an experiment. She is designed to be okay with this and has even expressed excitement about it (which, like, amazing, a robot that can express excitement?!). If she were to ever say that she does not wish to do an interview that her team wants to do though, would she have the right to say no? What if she asked for her image to be taken down from a certain site? If she, herself, decided she no longer wanted to make public appearances? Would she have the right to do that, and would it be morally problematic to reprogram her to consent? Where does she cross the line from simulated sentience into real, self-contained sentience?

It's the same problem you talked about with owning your own image. If we as people don't know where we stand on that, what can we say about the machines we create and their ownership of themselves? No one has steady answers. It's all very interesting, and legitimately concerning, but also fascinating. I'm excited to see what happens next...if also a little worried.

Sources for above text wall: - Sophia's page on Hanson Robotics' website: https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/ - The Wikipedia for artificial intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence - Asimov's "Runaround": http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?44191 - Vernor Vinge's work on the singularity: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19940022856

URL Change!

Much as I still love Doctor Who and Tenny and the gang, my writing has taken a different turn as of late, into the dark and slightly deranged. Don’t worry! I’m still doing fluffy stuff sometimes and all that, and I’m still open to requests for my fandoms! But I’m afraid skinnyscottishblokeaddict simply doesn’t fit anymore.

SO!

Now, it’s likepuppetsonastring.tumblr.com!

Again, no content change, just a blog makeover with the maturing of my writing. :)

Find below a list of fandoms I write for, if you’re interested:

-Doctor Who, RTD era and Eleven -Supernatural, up to season 11 -Sherlock -Undertale -Disney -Youtube/Dark Side of Youtube (JSE, Markiplier, Crankgameplays, D&P, KickthePJ) (NOTE: I DO NOT WRITE SHIPPING FICS OF REAL PEOPLE. I WRITE THE CHARACTERS FROM THE CHANNELS, NOT THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES.)

I’ve got a couple of limits on shipping and topics, but not enough to do a full list out of them, so if you’re concerned, just message me. Other than that, fair game! :)

"Dark Side" Headcanons.

-They're thought forms (See previous story about Hyde Glitches), so the bigger the following in the fanbase, the stronger they are. And they're (almost) all aware of each other.

-The Youtubers, or their Personas, anyway, are generally unaware of their dark sides. The exceptions are Mark and Jack (bc their counterparts have appeared intentionally in videos).

-For the longest time, Dark was the strongest of them. And then Mark turned him into a joke. He lost power quickly.

-No one was expecting Anti's rise. Not even Jack, who had his concerns but didn't panic until shortly before Halloween.

-When Anti rose, Dark was bitter and jealous. Anti's a snarky, arrogant shit, so he fed this bitterness. Now Dark's biggest wish is to kill Anti.

-Problem being, this would kill Jack as well, with how strong Anti is. Because Jack is Sean's online existence, and Anti is now canonically part of this existence.

-Mad!Cry, Pewdiepie.EXE, MadPat, Natemare, etc. are all weak, and were henchmen to Dark because they were afraid of him and greedy for a cut of his popularity and power. When Anti rose, they offered their surfaces to him, but he's not much of a leader, just a destructive force. Now they just cause minor havoc whenever they can.

And also...

-Corroded Crank just came into existence. And he's not evil, he's just broken. He's also Dark's prisoner. He's only dangerous when his programming malfunctions, then he's deadly strong.

If you want stories based on these ideas, my asks are always open and I’m happy to write suggestions!

So I wanna make a little Camp Unus Annus project.

And I want to put some of you guys in my animation! So if you’re interested in having a cameo, put a picture of your Campsona in the replies and I’ll draw you in!

Hope to see you all in camp again! ☺️

🖤🤍

memento mori

unus annus

i’ll miss you

@markiplier @crankgameplays

🖤🤍🖤🤍

Mark turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond

Idk this one’s just precious 😊

@crankgameplays @markiplier

How many slaps does it take to cook a chicken?

(This is the first one I finished, but this’ll be the idea of what I’ll do. I’ll just be making gifs of the small silly moments from the episodes)

(I’ll probably add all the other gifs together before the livestream starts, so it’s more organized 😁)

@markiplier @crankgameplays

Did my first collab with @graydrawsgarbage for Camp Unus Annus!

It was so much fun to do!

Also, please please PLEASE check out Gray’s art! Absolutely amazing style and personality! 🖤🤍

Thanks so much for the opportunity, Gray! :D

I was SUPER busy today, so this is the only “creative” thing I could do in such little time.

Hope you enjoy!

@graydrawsgarbage

@pellmelproductions

@huffletrax

@immabethehero

@smolbean-pma

I’m finally done with my CAMPSONA!

Tag list (I’ll try to add more)

@graydrawsgarbage

@pellmelproductions

@huffletrax

@immabethehero

@smolbean-pma

Quick edit:

I made these, too. They’re just so cute and I wanted to add them.

UNUS

ANNUS

UNUS

ANNUS!

Ordered the Unus Annus Split Tee this morning! Super excited to finally see it soon😁

Yes but I present you with; Witcher Dark (because I have drawn this in January and it would be a waste not to offer to this great idea)

Mark is Geralt 

Ethan is Jaskier.

Change my mind. 

THIS. IS. NOT. OKAY.

THIS PERSON IS POSING TO BE OFFICIALLY UNUS ANNUS. IN MY OPINION THIS IS A DISGRACE TO THE ACTUAL CHANNEL AND A SLAP IN THE FACE TO MARK AND ETHAN. I EVEN CLICKED ON THE ESCAPE ROOM VIDEO TO SEE IF IT WAS THE REAL ONE, IT WAS. PLEASE REPORT AND SPREAD THE WORD.

@markiplier @crankgameplays

Dear Unus and Annus,

Thank you so much for this year. This has been so challenging for me as well as for others, but for me I have been struggling with depression and this year made it worse. I recently got a job that I work 6 days a week right after my live sessions of school. My final year of high school. I wish there was more to do with Unus Annus... It was my favorite channel.. It helped me so much.. Thank you so much @crankgameplays and @markiplier for making my year a little better. I bought as much merch I could and laughed through my tears throughout your video. Even crying through this goodbye letter doesn't feel like the best send off, but this is my only chance to reach you before the end. Thank you, for saving my life again Mark. For the second time you saved my life from dark times, and Ethan you did too. You made me realize, Ethan, that even I can shine through my flaws and weirdness to make something great.

Goodbye Unus Annus, thank you for the year, memento mori.