I get this question a lot online in emails when i’m running errands hey pippin how are you going to finish the earth in minecraft 1 1 scale i mean we’ve been building for two years now and we’ve built 100 000 buildings so far and that’s not just great it might be The largest single thing ever made by a collective group in minecraft already and while that hasn’t been merged into a single world file yet you can check out some of it on our patreon but the world has billions of buildings i think the internet isn’t even sure how many Buildings there are on earth these are some really interesting answers okay i actually emailed this website emporia and asked them how many buildings there are on earth they’re based in germany so they’re all asleep right now but let’s see if we get a response anyways ucr conundrum two years with one hundred Thousand buildings is fifty thousand buildings a year if we go conservative and say the world has 4 billion buildings you divide that by 50k per year and you get 80 000 years to completion wow that’s more than an entire year granted our 100 000 building count has been people focusing generally On atypical buildings those include skyscrapers renowned architectural works of art giant shopping malls and landmarks suburban houses are easier which make up the vast majority of the 4 billion building counts so with that in mind we can cut this 80 000 year timeline into about half that’s a lot More manageable but in all seriousness the prospect of this can make people feel a bit dismal but i want you to set that aside for a moment and just ask yourself this what if we never finished how would you feel about that what if it actually took us hundreds or thousands Of years i wouldn’t just be okay with that that would be awesome you know how many multi-generational projects humans have accomplished over the course of history the pyramids cathedrals even farming land and family estates we would pass the project down to our children a lineage of virtual builders emerges as Death no longer stops us from passing on skill developed over a lifetime to pass on to the next generation so they can push it further just imagine the legendary historical precedent a project like that would be setting that would be amazing another question i get pretty commonly is how will you finish when Humanity builds infrastructure faster than they can build in minecraft this is a misunderstanding of our project okay so when a builder finishes an area that’s a historical snapshot you do not update it if a building is demolished or a new one is created which means if we Were to finish the project before 2030 it would be fully complete and not updated meaning the world captured in minecraft would eventually become a historical artifact of what the world was like in 2020 to 2030 a geographic holocron for future history classes just imagine if we had one of these for Ancient roman times they didn’t have minecraft that’s beside the point though starting a 40 000 year project sounds awesome but i don’t want to spend the rest of my life grinding this towards one percent completion there’s a limit to what you can physically accomplish how many hours can you spend on Something in a day even limits to your own mental agility in being able to maintain productivity and maintaining your fastest pace for the majority of a day there is a hard ceiling on the concept of working harder but there’s no ceiling or limitation to ingenuity so when you find yourself to the point Where you’ve hit a brick wall in the amount of productivity you can achieve in your current attack plan on any given project you need to change the parameters and evolve work smarter and to everyone invested in the dream of completing this project i’ll summarize this clearly unless we convince a Nation’s government to enslave their entire populace into working on this project for a few years working hard isn’t an option for completing this working smarter is the only parameter with which we can achieve victory so i’ve prepared three general strategies of this each with differing magnitudes In which it will affect the speed of the project so that it can become completable number one copy paste a minority of the houses on earth are unique house designs conceived by architects are reused by construction companies over and over and over and over again to cover this up they usually Just swap out materials and colors and also add a window here a terrace there and if you’ve built in this project and worked on the neighborhood you’ll know what i’m talking about some of you living in neighborhoods can just confirm the similarity yourselves once you’ve completed a building design very often You’ll find another building almost exactly like it even facing the same direction this allows you to copy and paste with world edit and in a few seconds eighty percent of your work is done unfortunately sometimes it’s not facing the same direction which necessitates having to use the rotate Command which can really destroy a copied structure especially smaller ones if we could develop a build the earth custom slash slash rotate that minimize destruction and disorientation of rotated buildings that takes into account how terrain orientation works in our projection copy and pasting could be maximized cutting the work we have to do At least in half but in order to do that to its full capacity you would have to be extremely efficient about it a building schematic for a house in seattle could have its identical copy all the way in new york in order to prevent both of these buildings being Built from scratch we would need some sort of database or program that can recognize and affirm these matches so that when someone builds something an accompanying mod in minecraft lets them know of all the worldwide locations they could successfully paste it with minor modifications but the way construction Companies make these houses different in swapping out the building material and colors makes this very difficult to detect copying and pasting is extremely useful if used to its fullest extent it could possibly reduce the total workload for the project by 60 or more but the detection of building pairs is extremely Difficult for machines to do and impossible for humans to search when considering the entire world you remember this card matching game on super mario bros 3 it would be like that but add billions of cards to the screen and change all the symbols to specific house orientations instead of the more Recognizable mushroom or fire flower until a breakthrough and worldwide recognition between building similarities is made this method is mostly applicable to when you notice a copy paste opportunity in your local neighborhood town or city number two coding build scripts okay this one is insane the process for building a house In this project is actually relatively straightforward you start with your outline that you make from tplling points you take a street view look to decide the material it’s built out of once that’s made you stack it up to the height of the building from measuring it In google earth pro then you create the roof for more tpling add windows make it street view level details and you’re good to go but the strategies we use to build all these parts of a building are highly predictable depending on what it is there’s typical window patterns for Example court stair to resemble the trim of the window while also having a window which is done by putting white gray or black glass blocks behind it and then blacking those out by putting black concrete behind that that’s one of half a dozen typical window designs that we Use so what if you created a script that automates all those steps if it’s so predictable and there’s a user in build the earth doing exactly that brigard is a builder coder and member of team sis who generally builds the territory of russia and he’s been working on a script That doesn’t just automate a shell but most of the basic features of a building that you would want you target a tpl outline like this and then you enter the specific fields exactly what you want the building material the height of the building even the type of roof being Flat or slanted spending a few minutes entering in those parameters then having the script generate the building shape saves an incredible amount of time after that you touch it up with a few atypical details that the script couldn’t do and then you’re done this saves an incredible amount of time and it can Reduce a building that would take an hour to create down to five minutes depending on what it is but the script is currently in its infancy stages only being able to apply to some of the most simple structures and unable to do the more complex slanted roofs that you so Often see in suburban homes but the potential of this is almost limitless if this continues to be developed into a tool that could do 90 of the work of your buildings and correctly apply to 90 of the buildings on earth it could change the number of buildings that can Be completed by a builder in one day from the current 10 to 20 to thousands or more so let’s get a little outlandish with our math let’s say that the full potential this allows the single builder to complete 10 000 suburban homes in one day you have 1 000 builders completing 10 000 suburban homes in a day that ends up being 10 million houses a day you divide 4 billion by 10 million and the project is completed in only 400 days now these are some insanely optimistic numbers but it gives you an idea for the potential of how scripting can reduce The total project time there’s no limit to how smart the script can get or what it can apply to it just takes effort and ingenuity to make it work with a larger and larger range of standing structures on earth increasing the number of buildings that can be completed per day To the point where these absurd 40 000 year estimates get down to decades or less because there’s almost no limit to automating in this way most of what we do when building suburbs is repeatable from the walls to the roofs to the windows and through smart coding that Time investment can be reduced by hundreds of factors and perhaps even more which leads me to the final method number three a i ai has been recognized by multiple movies as an apocalyptic force but does ai and reality really live up to the hype yes yes it does our Computers can seemingly process and achieve things so much faster in comparison to us summoning so much mental energy to just making decisions on what to do it almost seems like our computers are the horse or sleigh dog with infinite energy and capability while we’re a slobbering drunk barely Conscious driver who can barely figure out what to do in time lelone doing it at all in comparison but that’s just the way it seems based on our interaction with technology what’s the actual comparison it’s insane biochemical circuits mirroring the function of neurons can process information at least A million times faster than actual neurons that means if you were to create an ai with average human level intelligence at a fixed level that doesn’t increase it can still make a million years of human level progress in one year but we’re talking about a fixed level of intelligence here not factoring In the reality that an ai could be configured to make changes in its own source code presumably to make itself even smarter it’s a runaway train effect that could easily bring about either the apocalypse or a galaxy wide human techno civilization so why are we talking about This in a minecraft video if we had either of these society explodes anyways and we’re building dyson spheres that harness the majority energy output of the sun and time traveling in a moderate span of time sometime after this explosion the entire earth in minecraft seems paltry in comparison but we don’t Even have to get to this point in ai development as explained previously about scripting and coding most of what we do in this project is repeatable and replicable which could be replicated by a system that can automatically create the changes we make in game to build the Buildings the next step to take that further is to create a program that can make those decisions goes into street view on google earth looks at the house and assigns the closest block type that matches the material instead of us doing that and entering it into the parameter Field of brigard’s script it would take the remaining human level work that we do of finding the height deciding the roof type tp allowing points and does it itself and because these tasks do not require the more ethereal creative ingenuity that human brains are capable Of that ai is still not yet i believe the level of ai development to be able to make these decisions exists right now it’s just a matter of plugging these two technologies together and then you can begin to automatically build neighborhoods so that’s the game plan i See moving forward for me it’s all about the second step coding scripts with an advanced enough script a house will no longer take an hour but ten minutes five minutes two minutes one with that kind of speed developed we can choose to have an ai drive the tools into automatically creating Neighborhoods or we can mass produce them ourselves the point is that this speed will afford us a larger freedom in the project of creating seemingly endless completed areas and a removal of the anxiety from the prospect of us never being able to finish these aren’t easy goals but i think they are 100 Achievable and as long as you do that we’ll have the tools to build the earth and minecraft to a degree never seen before if you are heavily involved in any of these fields mentioned and think that you can help significantly with the development of these tools i strongly Recommend that you join the project as these are the most pivotal and important roles that will change the game forever and bring us that much closer to accomplishing something previously never even imagined thanks for watching and i’ll see you in the next one worst thing that i got in uh that i got Suspended for was in high school i’m talking high school like this is not a little kid stuff um i was being rowdy with my friend in a classroom where i’ll tell you this was this was a class that i didn’t sign up for it was one they put Me in for like kids with learning disabilities apparently even though i didn’t have that i just had like a minor problem they were like this kid needs more time to do his work so we’ll just do it in this class it’s a class where basically you do nothing except work From other classes or sit on your phone all day so i was in this class and i was being rowdy with my friend and the teacher got pissed and she told me to move seats and i was just not in the mood so i didn’t move c i refute i just Ignored her i stopped talking to my friend i stopped making noise and i got into my work um but i refused to move i was like no way i’m moving seats and enough time goes by and she calls the principal she straight up calls the principal on me and i’m just like i Don’t i don’t give a crap i’m staying in this seat and then the principal shows up and she’s like come to the door he wants to talk to you i’m like okay whatever and i get up in my teenage angsty mood acting as angsty as i Possibly can to show them that i’m tired of their [ __ ] and i come to the door and he’s just like uh all right uh you’re out of school for the day i’m like what uh and he’s like any kid who doesn’t do what their teacher tells them To me they’re out of school he was going full force my crime was that i refused to move seats and he was he suspended me kicked me out of school for the day and he was gonna call my parents and everything like that and listen i my Whole life i have been unabashedly a [ __ ] and i don’t think i’ve ever been to a principal’s office without immediately breaking down into tears so i was grade 10 was that 15 16 years old and he brings me to the office and he just starts grilling me about respect or Whatever i can’t remember what you’re saying but i just i quickly i’m just in a sobbing situation uh for not moving my seats and eventually it convinced him enough i guess he just saw my sad display and he convinced him enough to instead give me an in-school suspension And not call my parents he sends me to the library and he locks me in a room and i just do my work there all day instead of going to Video Information
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