🧵 Science once again proves that leftists are mentally ill
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:28:00 UTC No. 16106991
Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi
>DISCUSSION
>The studies also assessed how having critical social justice attitudes relates to well-being variables. Many authors have previously linked critical social justice attitudes to poorer mental well-being in their work implicitly, but have not studied them directly (e.g., Lukianoff & Haidt, 2018). In our samples (Study 1 and Study 2), having high CSJAS (critical social justice attitude scale) scores was linked to anxiety, depression, and a lack of happiness. However, Study 2 indicated that this lower level of mental well-being was mostly associated with being on the political left and not specifically with having a high CSJAS score. The association between lower mental health and supporting the political left is in line with what other studies have found prior to this one (Bernardi, 2021; Gimbrone et al., 2022).
tl;dr science has demonstrated conclusively that picrel is what you look like
🧵 Eternal Recurrence
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:27:48 UTC No. 16106990
Could it be scientifically plausible?
🗑️ 🧵 Do you think it's better to be extremely good at a single thing or be mediocre at multiple things?
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:06:01 UTC No. 16106955
I am a mediocre guy who makes a lot of money, yet I am unsatisfied. I want to be the best at anything, chess, sport, science field, doesn't matter what. Even if I lose my money. I am not sure if this just "grass is greener" issue or whether being at top of the hierarchy is what human brain craves. What do you think?
🧵 Fighting Weather
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:55:04 UTC No. 16106936
Is it possible that modern science in the future will have ways to stop super cell storms and funnel clouds from forming tornadoes?
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:27:34 UTC No. 16106900
If your a high level genius in a niche field do you get scouted by mysterious organizations like in three body problem
have u had experience with this?
🧵 Delayed gratification
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:22:50 UTC No. 16106892
How do humans find the right balance between immediate gratification vs. delayed gratification?
From a purely evolutionary point of view, I can see some reasons as to why immediate gratification was selected, especially in environments with increased uncertainty. For example, if you weren't sure you'd be alive tomorrow, it's best to reproduce and use up resources immediately today so that you have higher chance of keeping your genes alive, at least until tomorrow.
But this is mostly maladaptive in our current environment. For example, telling yourself that you might die in an accident anytime (even tomorrow) as an "excuse" (or "scapegoat") to spend your money on something you are tempting about (like example, new phone, clothes, etc.). But you are still alive tomorrow, but now you wasted your savings (ruined your long-term savings goal for buying a house for example). This is just one example for demonstrating.
How do we find right motivation to struggle today for a better tomorrow even when we are uncertain about tomorrow? From a psychoanalytic perspective, delayed gratification is a sign of maturity and well-developed Ego and that your Ego is better at regulating Id (which works on pleasure principle and thus only concerned about immediate gratification, which Ego filters out).
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:19:06 UTC No. 16106884
Hey /sci/ just a quick question for you brainiacs, phd researchers, and other great men (lol). I was looking up caffiene addiction and found that mice return to baseline receptors in 9-15 days roughly. However someone on plebbit mentioned that mice to human years are a a 9 mice days to 1 year of human life ratio, does this mean it would take a year or year and a half for human receptors to return to baseline or is this person an idiot?
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:14:30 UTC No. 16106877
Where did the dislike of musk originate from? He has be successful in business Benton several distinct scientific fields. He may not be a ground breaking scientist but has obvious skills in getting those scientists money in ways even other billionaires can’t manage and pushes science and industry forward. Is it the same ill founded hate Henry ford, Howard Hughs and Edison get ? I think only anarchoprimist have legit qualms about him and the rest is seething jealousy and political posturing.
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:05:43 UTC No. 16106863
Why does calorie restriction slow the aging process?
🧵 Best books on Logic for beginners?
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:32:24 UTC No. 16106827
Also is mathematical logic different from philosophical logic?
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:30:50 UTC No. 16106822
For a research paper I have to write for university my professor is asking me to create a methods section for my library search where I should include my search prompts and stuff like that, but I don't really understand what she wants me to do. Does anyone have any papers where I can see an example of a library search methods section?
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 21:10:08 UTC No. 16106790
What is the most prestigious award in science? Nobel prize is limited to a few fields, same with Fields Medal. Dawkins award in only regarding atheism but it’s starting to include other academic disciplines
🧵 I want to investigate east palestines pollution from the train derailment
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:50:57 UTC No. 16106763
How do i do this? The environmental impact is definitely being covered up. What should i go to test for and how do i do that?
🧵 Is gravity a social construct? Is dark matter made up?
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:33:50 UTC No. 16106733
🧵 Division by Zero is Valid within a Wheel Algebraic Structure
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:27:15 UTC No. 16106715
The algebraic structure "Wheel" is a algebraic structure similar to field where zero is always defined, including division by zero. Fields (which includes the algebra most plebs work with) don't allow division by the absorbing element i.e. 0. Often, misguided people try to fix this problem by letting field be defined over (Q union inf). In other words, they let infinity be a defined element that equals a/0 where a is a element. However, this approach modifies the algebraic structure such that certain contradictions can be derived (1=2 for example). Therefore, this new construction is not a valid algebra. However, if extend our structure to include two new elements (two different types of infinity) and modify the structures distributive property, then we have defined what is known as a wheel. This structure is well-defined, behaves like a wheel in all the "normal cases", and allows for some cool behavior when we need to divide by zero. Interestingly, this structure is isomorphic to a 2D Riemann Sphere and resembles the complex numbers where the imaginary part is equal to 0.
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:01:29 UTC No. 16106675
Somebody seemingly knowledgeable posted this:
Mean distance = 29.3018
Eccentricity = .98153
Inclination = 4.35684
Ascending node = 18.5295
Arg of pericentre = 94.1284
Mean anomaly = 305.16514
Claiming something was going to impact earth on Apr 8 (or be announced that day, not sure).
Can anyone figure if these numbers are just pulled out of his ass or do they tell us something?
🧵 tablet
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:27:53 UTC No. 16106631
What kind of tablet do you use to write down formulas? paper gets messy
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:45:05 UTC No. 16106584
I'm scared of this reality, can you alleviate me of this worry /sci/entifically speaking?
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:43:11 UTC No. 16106517
I know that blue eyes are caused by the iris just not producing as much melanin as brown eyes, but what specifically causes the color to be green or gray?
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:28:39 UTC No. 16106502
>>16103945
Seems true to me. I tried to write a math paper with a guy who claimed to have ADHD, I did everything and he never wrote a single word. After 6 months I never heard from him again. Many such cases.
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Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:20:17 UTC No. 16106492
1. Assumption: The laws of physics are independent of the observer.
2. Then the global Lagrangian is invariant under exchange of conscious entities.
3. Identify the set of all conscious entities with the set {1,...,n}. The symmetry is then described by the permutation group Sn.
4. Since the number of conscious entities can vary over time, the Lagrangian must be invariant under action of Sn for all n in N.
5. Sn can trivially be embedded into Sm for m > n. Thus we can just take the directed colimit of all permutation groups in the category of groups. Let's call this group C. (Question: Does it have an established name?) The Lagrangian must be invariant under action of C.
6. By Noether's theorem every symmetry induced a conserved quantity. (inb4 "nooooo you can't do that with discrete symmetries": Yes, you can. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader.)
7. Since the action consisted of an exchange of conscious observers, the conserved quantity can be identified with global consciousness which is coupled to physics.
8. Conservation of consciousness implies that reincarnation must be a physical law.
9. We therefore arrived at the following dichotomy: Either reincarnation is real or the laws of physics are not independent of particular observers, i.e. are subjective.
Constructive feedback regarding my argument will be appreciated.
🗑️ 🧵 Is the Mandelbrot Set actually proof of God?
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:08:58 UTC No. 16106471
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0h
I feel like this guy is actually wrong. How is math actually proof of God? Aren't fractals supposed to be finite by nature? I actually don't think God is real. But I'd love to hear some scientific reasons as to why he does or does not exist.