🧵 Physics student Demoralized
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:38:38 UTC No. 16583903
I study physics and math in uni, and I genuinely like it. It's satisfying to learn new abstract concepts, and to learn something very real as opposed to humanities and arts, which I could never take as seriously.
But there's a very fundamental dilemma: I think technological progress is a mistake. AI is a mistake. We should get blasted back to the stone age. How do I keep studying physics with such conflicting luddite thoughts? This genuinely bothers me and I often consider dropping out simply because I hate tech. Hell, I don't even own a smartphone.
I'm posting this because I trust that there's someone out there who is smarter than me and can easily solve this dilemma.
Everyone praises science and technology these days. We live glued to our glowing screens, we outsource our thinking to AI, and rely on apps to get our daily chores done. I claim that this "progress" is a net negative on human well-being, and all new tech is introduced to make the rich richer. Capitalism is the driving force behind technology: the need to replace workers with machines, the need to monitor citizens and harvest their data, the need to isolate people so they'd pay for Tinder...
This isn't what I signed up for. This is bullshit. For me, the marvels of technology would be things like the AC generator. It's truly amazing that we have lights and heating. That's good tech. But over time we went too far and now our latest inventions are literal doomsday machines. People are telling me I can't possibly claim that there's some acceptable amount of tech we should have, like I was Amish or something. That's exactly my claim. There's some very discrete point in time where tech stopped being beneficial and started benefiting from us instead.
It feels weird to study physics when I know it's no longer time for humanity to learn more science but to learn how to study its degenerative nature instead.
🧵 let’s settle it
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:46:12 UTC No. 16583865
Your personal theories on Oumuamua’s nature?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:44:39 UTC No. 16583862
From the standpoint of mathematics, whats wrong with being the bad guy?
Just stop having morals and you can squish all the little bug people like the ants they are
Morals are the problem
🧵 issit possible genes determine your looks
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:33:07 UTC No. 16583854
will anything in nature that looks like a crab, have somehow similar DNA structure?
eventhough they would seem to be very far away from each other phylogenetically?
I mean, dos change in DNA turn you to look like a crab when you originall were more fish like, more streamlined, shrimp?
Can we somehow find what exactly in DNA is the one that affects the physical manifestation of the body?
Some spiders look like crabs more than others. Some crabs do not look like crabs (DNA reveals they still are crabs anyway)
But could there be a complex 3 dimensional calculation in protein structure that ultimately makes unrelated animals all look like crabs and can we find out what it is, test it on an grasshopper and see if it will also turn into a crab while still being majorly grasshopper?
🧵 Using Inertia-based Optimizations to Improve the Performance of a Generator
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:27:26 UTC No. 16583850
Let's say we have an electric motor being used to power an electric generator. Now think about this: is it possible for the generator to produce enough electricity to power the electric motor?
The answer is no. Anyone who has so much as looked in the general direction of a physics book will tell you that this is impossible. No matter how much you optimize the motor to use as little electricity as possible, and no matter how much you optimize the generator to produce as much electricity as possible, the amount of electricity produced by the generator will invariably be less than the amount of electricity required by the motor. And there's nothing you can do about that.
However, that's wrong. Here's a way to get a generator to produce more electricity than what is needed by the motor powering it:
https://artiesays8.wordpress.com/20
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:04:37 UTC No. 16583839
i dream of a future where ai takes on the role of the adults of the world and let humans stay as "kids"
all powerful ai that run things so humans can just relax and have fun
🧵 Aliens as our descendants?
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:47:00 UTC No. 16583824
What if aliens (specifically greys in particular) are actually the next step in our evolution? Before you dismiss me as a schizo, think about it, our ancestors have one thing in common that they have, which is that the further you go back, the more hairy and "animalistic" their body looked like, we had more body hair, but as we evolved, only our head, legs and genitals have any hair left, and as we keep evolving we will eventually lose those parts too, essentially becoming hairless beings just like the greys.
What I'm saying is that, from a scientific point of view, is it plausible that our appearance is eventually going to become akin to hairless, gray-skinned creatures with bulbous black eyes?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:40:36 UTC No. 16583821
is the climatic fad finally over?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:34:23 UTC No. 16583764
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-s
Humanity is fucked
🧵 /sfg/ - Spaceflight General
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:21:51 UTC No. 16583752
china will grow rarger edition
previous >>16580054
🗑️ 🧵 "science" youtuber chart
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:58:08 UTC No. 16583728
Made this in an autistic attempt to categorize science youtubers I like/dislike. I went too easy on mark rober because there is no way cgp is just as pompous as him.
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:58:05 UTC No. 16583727
>theories like QFT and String theory posits that there are parallel universes or extra dimensions that are simply unobservable, and people still think existence is completely material with no room for anything extraordinary
🧵 Suggestions for physics
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:45:14 UTC No. 16583708
So, my level of physics is very low and poor, I want to fix this by reading a book or a thread somewhere or even a watching a YouTube teacher, and the things I want to focus on are:
Types of energy (especially potential, thermal energy, thermodynamics and so on)
Work
Specific heat
The relationship of volume to work and thermal energy.
🧵 Question?
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:44:18 UTC No. 16583706
Would animals that have a larger brain mass than humans (dolphins, elephants and whales) be able to achieve human intelligence or even above-human intelligence if their brains are microchipped and trained via a universal language like mathematics?
https://youtu.be/uNhR-16r5lM?featur
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:36:39 UTC No. 16583699
if you could switch Luna, Earth’s moon, with any other moon in the solar system, which would you choose?
also, why did we have to get stuck with objectively the most boring moon in the solar system?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:18:04 UTC No. 16583692
Hypothetically, what would happen if I inhaled a big whiff of hydrazine fumes. Like, as a thought experiment. Just now.
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:45:37 UTC No. 16583678
>Quantum psysichs
So basicaly we cant know the position of the thing but it still has a determined position that it travels trought or does it magicaly teleport around?
🧵 Global warming is a hoax
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:36:56 UTC No. 16583612
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:26:21 UTC No. 16583602
Reminder that you can learn undergraduate math through flashcards.
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:24:49 UTC No. 16583597
Why are human males so dumb and violent?
🧵 Geology
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:14:23 UTC No. 16583589
Is there a more fake science than this? We get earthquakes in Santorini, Greece and geologists don’t have an idea for what to expect.
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King at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:37:13 UTC No. 16583573
Is determinism - probability= to electronic induction
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:26:22 UTC No. 16583567
https://youtu.be/lfAgr9ZLZDg
What's the corelation between disliking classical music and being mentally and spiritually retarded?
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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:25:44 UTC No. 16583566
Doesn't the fact that the spacetime can bend and expand imply the existence of a 5th dimension outside of our universe?