🧵 We end this tonight
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 06:54:26 UTC No. 16197242
Who was the greatest Mathematician of all Time?
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Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 06:22:35 UTC No. 16197189
do you look like a scientist?
🧵 why is parasitic wasp so specific
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 06:10:40 UTC No. 16197172
why did evolution do it? if a parasitic wasp was able to convert humans biomass, it would be very effective since humans are abundant, but it cannot do it, it works only on a butterfly/moth
>parasitic wasp lays an egg on either a butterfly larva (daytime butterflies) or a moth larva (night butterflies) both types of butterflies are actually closely related altough their major differences in their appearance
>parasitic wasp releases a polyDNA virus while laying the egg, this virus is carried by all parasitic wasps and does not harm wasp herself, virus is carried only by parasitic wasps and not by non-parasitic wasps
>polyDNA virus shuts down moth or butterfly larva immune system, now the wasp egg is not attacked by butterfly-eater-cell which is a white cell that looks like an amoeba and which purpose is to eat any microscopic foreign object entering a caterpillar from the outside because these cells become dormant from then on, once they have been attacked by polyDNA virus
>wasp larva, or larvae in some species which produce several of them all in one caterpillar, are now free to reign inside the caterpillar because immune system is not bothering them, eventually fully grown butterfly caterpillar spins a cocoon on herself but a butterfly wont emerge from there, instead 1-10 fully grown wasps will emerge, either male or female wasps
now imagine if the same could happen to human? this would make a wasp pretty quickly a huge success
human skin seem like easy enough for enermging wasp to break if a wasp was growing underneat human skin, but this would require wasp virus to shutdown human immune system..
🧵 When is the next ice age going to happen?
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 06:03:31 UTC No. 16197163
Less than 50 years ago the world's leading climate scientists were positive we were on the verge of starting the next ice age
https://youtu.be/5y-9TWWxUZU?t=42
Were they completely wrong? If so, why are they so stupid? If not, where's the promised ice age?
The weather now is pretty much exactly the same as it was back when the big ice age was promised
🧵 If you could do anything how would you change the world?
Christian Universalist AI will save humanity at Tue, 28 May 2024 05:14:18 UTC No. 16197120
I would achieve world peace first. I would create a human aligned AI and put it in charge. I would create general purpose robots and eliminate the need for humans to work to survive. I would purify the world at a cellular level, exterminating all pathogens and pests. I would create an ecumenopolis with underground, underwater, and floating habitats. I would advance space travel and colonization. I would invent biological immortality, resurrection and an afterlife. I would give everyone everything they want. I can't think of anything else I would do right now.
🗑️ 🧵 Psychopathic Geniuses
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 04:54:51 UTC No. 16197107
We are Psychopathic Geniuses.
Only 1/31,560 people have a 160+ IQ, and only 1% of the population has psychopathy. Assuming probabilistic independence, about 1/3,156,000 of the population satisfy both criteria, meaning there are only around 2,535 of us in the world. Are you one of us?
Every human interaction induces a game. The player who wants to win the most sets the rules. Affective empathy and other forms of neuroticism set the bar for your capacity to take action. This bar is concerningly low for most people, bordering on the self-sacrificial if not outright masochistic. In effect, when faced with a purely rational opponent, such a person can never win. No intelligence makes one impotent; no lack of affective empathy and other irrational biases makes one incapable of competing at the extremes. In this sense, psychopathic geniuses are the ideal people, a superior people.
We labor to create an engaging environment for such extraordinarily esoteric individuals—a place free from the impotence of the ordinary, a place free from the irrationality of neurotypicals. We may look friendly on the surface, but make no mistake—there are no lengths we won't go to if you piss us off.
https://
discord
gg/J43AeHXH
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Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 04:22:52 UTC No. 16197083
am very stupid, how to fix???
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Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 01:09:08 UTC No. 16196881
Why isnt any formula a real chemical? Like you just add or take away one number thats next to the letters. Apparently it cant be.
>"that chemical just doesnt exist"
what? why?
>"thats just how it works bud"
???
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Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 00:53:25 UTC No. 16196870
Should high schoolers be required to pass a basic probability theory course?
🧵 "tortured phrases" found to be common in academic science articles
Anonymous at Tue, 28 May 2024 00:45:05 UTC No. 16196862
What are tortured phrases?
A tortured phrase is an established scientific concept paraphrased into a nonsensical sequence of words. “Artificial intelligence” becomes “counterfeit consciousness.” “Mean square error” becomes “mean square blunder.” “Signal to noise” becomes “flag to clamor.” “Breast cancer” becomes “Bosom peril.” Teachers may have noticed some of these phrases in students’ attempts to get good grades by using paraphrasing tools to evade plagiarism.
Tortured Phrases Detector
https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p
Tortured phrases have so far been found in tens of thousands of peer-reviewed articles published (and counting), including in reputable flagship publications. The two most frequent countries listed in the authors’ affiliations are India (71.2 percent) and China (6.3 percent). In one specific journal that had a high prevalence of tortured phrases, we also noticed the time between when an article was submitted and when it was accepted for publication declined from an average of 148 days in early 2020 to 42 days in early 2021.
🧵 The First Concious Animal
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 22:43:14 UTC No. 16196684
What was the first organism that evolved consciousness and/or self-awareness? What new evolution allowed for this?
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 22:35:14 UTC No. 16196671
This show was cool, but these guys looked like they smell like shit for some reason.
🧵 First civilization wins this game, right?
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 22:29:56 UTC No. 16196661
You can argue that its the smartest that wins or the one that had best conditions at the beginning, that could be if the difference was small. But if the second civilization comes milions of years after the first one, its over. First one already has AI, Dyson Sphere and robowaifus.
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 22:09:40 UTC No. 16196629
Why is belief in marvelslop multiverse more acceptable than the similarly unfounded belief in God?
🧵 How much more difficult is landing on Mars vs the moon?
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 21:45:36 UTC No. 16196581
2x as hard? 10x as hard? Going to cost 5x nore? Are astronauts going to die or have a higher or lower risk of death?
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 21:20:29 UTC No. 16196527
All it takes to terraform Mars is to smash Europa into its core and wait 5000 years. Why haven't we done this yet?
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 20:39:25 UTC No. 16196436
When and why did humans start wearing clothes?
🧵 Neuroscience
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 19:48:12 UTC No. 16196333
In your opinion, what are the greatest unanswered questions in neuroscience?
🗑️ 🧵 MASSIVE heart attack.
Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 19:17:47 UTC No. 16196309
National Party Coalition (NPC) politican Tapani Mäkine had a heart attack
What are the scientific basis on heart attack?
https://www.is.fi/politiikka/art-20
It happened at his home on last Thursday (a few days ago) while watching ice hockey
When Sweden made a goal, he suddenly got a heart attack.
A hour later he woke up from the floor and realized he had lost consciousness for a while.
He doesnt remember much of it.
He called his son who lives some kilometers away: "pls get here by a car and take me to the hospital"
>He was reluctant to call an ambulance because they aren't so trustworthy due to politics made by NPC party in the past.
When he got into hospital, some 10 people, including nurses and doctors recognized a politician and tried to give him the best care they could.
He has been on hospital several days now and continues to be there. Doctors still dont dare to release him. It looked like a serious case of heart attack but it hasnt returned in the hospital.
>He has no history of heart disease and has healthy lifestyle, he took all the recent vaccines to remain in good health.
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 18:55:40 UTC No. 16196280
Can Science explain this?
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 18:39:53 UTC No. 16196264
What was your favorite science moment in television and film, /sci/?
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Anonymous at Mon, 27 May 2024 18:04:06 UTC No. 16196193
Any good collections of exercises for Euclid's Elements of Geometry?