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Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:39:58 UTC No. 16456654
Why does academia ignore all the evidence that whites were the first humans to reach the Americas?
🧵 Is epiphenomenalism unavolidable?
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:27:23 UTC No. 16456648
We are naturally inclined to believed that our conscious thoughts lead to our actions. But a contemporary scientific view of the brain, where electrical signals lead to thoughts, nullify this. In this view, what we perceive as thoughts are actually the mechanical hum of decisions already made in the brain (epiphenomenalism). In other words, electrical signals create thought, which we then perceive as our own rational logic, while that logic isn't actually ours, but rather predetermined by these biological processes.
This is profoundly disturbing, as it suggests that our perceptions of ourselves as rational actors is entirely misguided; our consciousness doesn't represent a Self, but the sound of an engine shifting gears.
Can we avoid this?
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Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:00:26 UTC No. 16456592
I'm doing basic mathematics
>no maths
>just realizing it's essential but was putting off
>...
>proofs don't run into each other whether in addition or multiplication because they can essentially be "broken down" so you run into other proofs (for addition or multiplication, haven't got further in) if you "try" and read ab as integers instead as rules or formulas
It's really taking me some time to take things in. I wanted to ask as some of you might be in school or take math, how much do you 'a - b , a + - b' do you internalized(without practice problems) if it's even possible. I also learned that rulers and left or right from 0 is also taken for granted like simple addition and subtraction. Am I reading too much into this or is this the way the book is taught to help me build?
🧵 Science has a problem
Stop guessing start learning at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:34:38 UTC No. 16456556
Scrolling through random threads here and reading popular science publications and mainstream science. I conclude science has a problem.
What Is this problem?
Most new scientific theories are utterly useless.
Blackholes, particle physics, astrophysics. Fusion, And quantum mechanics/computers Aren't profitable and a waste of time.
Like ok black holes exist, now what?
Like what do we do with this information?
The return on investment seems nill. You invest into something hoping for a return.
Techno and scientific optimist worship these theories as scientific progress.
But there is no progress science these days always overpromises and never delivers
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Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:08:16 UTC No. 16456486
scientifically speaking, what is the root cause of homosexuality?
🧵 we shouldn't
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:53:07 UTC No. 16456468
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:39:14 UTC No. 16456398
Is “scientific socialism” actually scientific, or was Engels mostly talking out of his ass and branding his theories with a crude flimsy outdated concept of “science” to lend them some intellectual legitimacy?
🧵 HAPPENING - Lawsuit filed
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:07:52 UTC No. 16456382
Billions of dollars in federal research funds by Biden-Harris to promote illegal DEI - in what Elpn Musk decries is a "corruption of science
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:36:58 UTC No. 16456352
>Gene editing and body modifying humans is wro-
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:38:28 UTC No. 16456291
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, formerly America's #1 high school for science education, has plummeted in the ranking since adopting a DEI policy.
And of course TJ is no exception, it seems to be the rule that wherever DEI policies are adopted, intellectual achievement soon disappears.
Has the scientific investigated this ever more common sequence of events negatively impacting many important institutions? Has cause and effect been identified and is their a means to correct the problem?
In the case of TJ, firing the school's chief executive isn't going to change the policies which lead to the decreased quality of the academics, thats just scapegoating.
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:47:36 UTC No. 16456236
this AI stuff is getting pretty whack man
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:16:19 UTC No. 16456206
i have learning disabilities that make it impossible to learn a language unless some sci fi shit like picrel is made how many years realistically until we are installing knowledge into our brains?
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:09:57 UTC No. 16456192
I took an legitimate IQ test because of my ADHD, is my score good enough to continue with STEM? I keep flunking courses and can't go on like this, sad part is that they don't even tell the exact scoring
>visual memory at +130
>spatial, logical and abstract thinking at: 120-129 points
>verbally only at: 110-120
>arithmetic only at: 110-120
>processing speed at 120ish
🗑️ 🧵 oh shit
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:09:26 UTC No. 16456189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70v
🧵 how can he be helped?
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:00:50 UTC No. 16456174
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:56:02 UTC No. 16456120
If a number cannot be exactly defined in a finite amount of symbols, then it does not exist. If it takes a whole (infinite) universe to list out the digits of a number for a mind to even know which number is being talked about, then that number is useless and practically does not exist in any meaningful sense.
However, the set of definable numbers is countable. Therefore real numbers are countable when you exclude the mystical undefinable numbers that humans will never interact with in a trillion years.
So what can we say about Cantor’s diagonal argument? After all, the diagonal number could theoretically be defined. But it is defined in a different _language_ than the ordinal list of real numbers. If you created a new list including all possible diagonals obtained from this higher language, then you could still obtain new diagonal numbers with an even higher language. And yet, all of these numbers are definable and therefore belong to a countable set.
Problem: if the diagonal argument can keep being applied to the new list, then what shall we say about the list of all definable numbers? What is the higher language that allows the creation of such a list? For if it gave a finite definition, then that diagonal number would necessarily be in the list of all definable numbers. Therefore the process could only work with an infinite definition, which we have already shown is meaningless. Therefore the real numbers are countable and we should waste no more time discussing fantasy nonsense.
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:39:41 UTC No. 16456109
>Can algae grow in outer space?
>What about algae in 0g?
>Hmmm algae in a vacuum??
when is Elon going to decommission this fraudulent trainwreck
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:29:50 UTC No. 16456092
Why do I feel nothing from drugs like adderall or phenibut, even in large does?
What is chemically wrong with my body?
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:50:05 UTC No. 16456047
What's the scientific consensus about counting on fingers, what's the biggest number you can reach by counting by fingers on one hand, without missing any integer. We're counting integers only...
Please enlighten me...
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:25:04 UTC No. 16456027
"Those who doesn't know history are sworn to repeat it."
Don't you think, that somebody who may build AGI is dumbfuck due to endless ignorance, and deliberately failing at category theory?
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Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:24:46 UTC No. 16456026
Why is life expectancy on the decline?
No progress in over two decades. Before that life expectancy only kept on increasing, but now its declining.
Whats wrong with the current crop of medical scientists? Why are they so incompetent?
🗑️ 🧵 Out of Africa theory utterly destroyed
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:57:23 UTC No. 16455990
300,000 year old human jawbone discovered in China.
New evidence suggests that the earliest Homo sapiens evolved outside of Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaK
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien
>The HLD 6 mandible is reminiscent of recent modern human morphology.
🧵 Can we hurry up with the reverse-aging please
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:14:51 UTC No. 16455881
And can we get the really smart guys working on it instead of randomised matrices
That being said, maybe AGI -> ASI would give us a solution more quickly?