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What is the overview effect, /sci/? Why is it so life-changing? Is this effect the future of the human consciousness? Are these guys http://www.overviewinstitute.org/ on the right path?
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Flinging disagreeable people into space to adjust their political attitudes sounds fun. I'm in.
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/08/04/sciences-and-humanities-brains/#.WYuvd1XygdU
why do we waste time and effort teaching STEM kids humanities and vice versa?
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>>9096577
Why do educators want us to pay for so much education?
Why do car salesman want to sell so many cars?
Why do realtors want to sell me houses?
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>>9096577
The fact the humanities are so shitted up right now with postmodernism is purely because we stop requiring them to learn math and real logical thinking in the early 20th century.
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What would happen if you gave someone a sugar pill, and told them it was a cure for the placebo effect?
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>>9096355
They'd probably kill you for making annoying threads.
https://youtu.be/nNng0KrNUuI
this fucking thing
this FUCKING thing triggers me so much
this bloody thing is so impure and so perfect at the same time
I cannot touch it, I cannot reach it, I cannot influence its stupidly tumbling path in any way
this makes me mad, why does it move to weird
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>>9096126
>triggers me so much
I'm sure you have more important things to worry about.
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Is pure mathematics merely symbol-pushing?
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Only if you're a calculus monkey (i.e. a physicist).
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What would have happened to humans today if maths had not been created or invented? 2017-08-09 07:41:29 Post No.9095938
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What would have happened to humans today if maths had not been created or invented?
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>>9095938
>if maths had not been created or invented
>What would have happened
Nothing(Non existence of math) can not cause something to happen.
Your questions presupposition is not consistent with how reality is understood by most people.
Now replace "Math" with "Kys" in that picture and follow it through.
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>>9095938
How things were over 80,000 years ago before humans.
>tfw i still use the lattice method
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>>9095806
I do too.
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>using numbers in 2017
Brainlets
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What would be worth more money in the long term, a real hair cream that can make hair grow anywhere or a pill to change dick size.
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>>9095567
So, basically still flooding /sci/ the shit from, "Idiocracy".
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>>9095567
Dick pills. No contest.
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Why are cosmologists always so butthurt about God and religion? Why do they always insert some "caution" in the preface that "we do not represent any religious or moral view, just pure science here"
Jesus christ these idiots
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>>9095504
>"we do not represent any religious or moral view, just pure science here"
Why would any cosmologist say that? It doesn't seem at all relevant to cosmology research.
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What do you think about The Emperor's New Mind 2017-08-09 02:27:00 Post No.9095254
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What do you think about The Emperor's New Mind
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Penrose argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine, which includes a digital computer. Penrose hypothesizes that quantum mechanics plays an essential role in the understanding of human consciousness. The collapse of the quantum wavefunction is seen as playing an important role in brain function.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
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>>9095254
Penrose is full of shit.
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>>9095254
The whole quantum nantube thing is a shit theory that still doesn't explain conciousness. With the Internet, I think it's now possible to develop a touring machine that just googles a phrase and picks the response it wants.
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>>9095254
Non algorithmic and unmodelable sounds plausible, QM and consciousness are obviously related but probably not how he thinks.
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Why 99% of research across the world are not laser focused in strong AI right fucking now?
I mean, as soon as we get it on a human level we'll not need humans doing research anymore
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>>9095149
Nigga, are you an ai
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>>9095149
i think ecology is the most important research
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Because superlongevity is more important
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So is it safe to say humanity is fucked when oil runs out? 2017-08-09 12:43:16 Post No.9095112
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So is it safe to say humanity is fucked when oil runs out?
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Renewable energy doesn't come anywhere close to filling the energy output gap that fossil fuels gives us.
Also leftists and religitards will never accept Nuclear power because of muh radiation.
>inb4 solar power
This is strongly dependent on geographic location and the inclination of the sun's radiation on that location. Also you need VERY LARGE areas to harness enough energy to meet the economically viable output. Yeah...Good luck acquiring all that extra land unless you plan on starting a war and invading it.
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>>9095112
We're only really fucked if wars start for the last remaining oil supplies.
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Can can synthesize hydrocarbons from air and water.
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Don't worry, itl be the same as it was with coal. We still have it, we will replace oil with something else. Even "if" not we wont be there to whitness that. But afterall we can hope to se the rise of independant merchant outpost planets and habitations of other star systems if were lucky.
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Uh oh uh oh
Sci am I going to die?
Is this study legit ?
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2047487317723212
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>>9095028
yep you gon die
have fun with youre stroke
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>>9095028
[math]3*\epsilon[/math] is still pretty much just [math]\epsilon[/math]
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>>9095028
Fuck off and die pothead.
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Digital-to-biological, you know about this? 2017-08-09 10:40:48 Post No.9094983
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Digital-to-biological, you know about this?
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Slides for a TED talk script
http://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/dynamic/cfp.html
and the context, maybe amusing
https://medium.com/@chorasimilarity/how-i-became-a-face-model-for-ted-8ef40e250062
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AI seems like a hot meme right now. Does that mean that its worth learning or that its already too late? I'm intrigued by the idea but don't know what's worth learning.
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>>9094888
Do it faggot
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>>9094888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPEEV8Xih20&index=1&list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6YJ3XfHhT2Mm4Y5I99nrIKX&t=7s
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>>9094888
AI is a meme please kys