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Subscribers 85.7K

Videos 19

Views 2.7M

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The Simulated Leviathan covers AI, governance, surveillance, automation, and the myths justifying technological control, exploring how technology reshapes the human story through deep-dives and analytical explorations inspired by its book. Content style includes long-form discussions and theory-focused videos (noted by titles like Are They Engineering the Apocalypse? and The Great MOLOCH Sacrifice of 1914), with an average of ~177.3K views per video and about 0.4 uploads per week.

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Top competitors include TEDx Talks (79% match) and TED (56% match) as well as IBM Technology (62% match). All share overlapping queries such as surveillance society, politics of technology, and human-machine relationships, connecting via topics of AI governance and the ethics of technology. The Simulated Leviathan has 85.7K subscribers, while TEDx Talks and TED each boast tens of millions of subscribers (44.2M and 27.2M respectively), highlighting a substantial size gap but same audience interests in tech-driven societal questions. Freethink (49% match) also competes on digital governance and political technology themes, rounding out the landscape of channels discussing the intersection of technology, power, and society.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to The Simulated Leviathan?

The Simulated Leviathan's biggest competitors on YouTube are TEDx Talks (44.2M subscribers) with a 79% match, IBM Technology (1.6M subscribers) with a 62% match, and TED (27.2M subscribers) with a 56% match. They share a focus on educational or thought-provoking content and technology/science topics that align with inquiry into society, technology, and ideas.

What type of content does The Simulated Leviathan make?

The Simulated Leviathan creates content exploring provocative questions about civilization, technology, and existential scenarios, as suggested by video titles like Are Boomers Planning an Alien Invasion?, Do You Want Civilization To Collapse?, Are They Engineering the Apocalypse?, Did CERN Try to Destroy the Earth?, and They Want To Live Forever In The Black Cube. The channel averages about 177.3K views per video and uploads roughly 0.4 times per week.

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