Correct me if I'm a brainlet, but even if every disease becomes immune to antibiotics, how does that make much more worse off than before the invention of antibiotics? I mean, it won't be very good and we'll be seeing a lot more plagues, sure, but it doesn't seem like it would be an apocalypse triggering event like some believe it would be.
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>>8982153
Have you ever heard of the bulbonic plague, aka The Black Death?
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>>8982162
I already said it wouldn't be very good. The Black Death didn't wipe out the human race, which is what I'm mainly getting at.
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>>8982180
It did do some serious damage, and population density has gotten higher since the advent of antibiotics, which will speed up the spread of communicable diseases.
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How much further scientific and technological would we be if religion and intoxicating drugs/drinks were never a thing?
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>>8981756
Well since religion is the only reason most of the information in the European "dark ages" were kept around and were the incentive behind the formation of record keeping for many societies probably good bit behind where we are now.
Drugs and intoxicants are the same thing, there is a theory with some pretty strong backing that the only reason agriculture developed was to make alcohol reliably.
The real question is how much further would we be if brainlets weren't a thing?
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Religion doesn't necessarily mean we would advance as a species towards a scientifically positive direction. People will occupy their time in any activity that they want to do, regardless of piety.
Intoxication is unavoidable. You can achieve an affect from medicine which is furthered by science. Your questions would better be converged into a single question, "what would the world be like without ignorance and immediate gratification"
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The retards will find another way to hold us back, not much more needs said. The ignorant will ignore and find ignorant things to partake in regardless of what's available. It really all goes as >>8981786 said.
Not to mention, humans are not rational creatures by default. I know how much people will push that religion is not needed to uphold morality, but that's only for the rational person. An irrational person still needs some kind of imaginary threat and imaginary chance at redemption, and by default we are all irrational.
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>Learn IQ test
>Score 144
>Take IQ test with no training
>Score 110
If your score can fluctuate so wildly, how is it a valid measure of problem solving ability?
I know people say "You're only supposed to go off of the first score", but life doesn't work like that.
People build skills, and if 110 IQ man can problem solve like 144 IQ man, what's the difference here in reality?
What are mathematicians if not men who are interested in mathematics?
Does anyone have the answer to this?
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>>8979932
I, honestly, believe this test is only good for detecting mental retardation.
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Being an avatar fag is also good for detecting mental retardation
Back in first year I had a weird crush on one of my profs (she had just received her PhD and was about the same age as my ex) because it was right when my relationship was breaking down. I'd go to her office hours under weak pretences just to spend time with her, shit like that.
Now (eighteen months later) it still feels awkward seeing her around campus and she obviously tries to avoid me, for instance on the subway platform.
Should I apologize and explain why I had been acting weird back then or just avoid her forever? I don't have any more requirements in her department so I'll never have any more classes with her.
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Rape her?
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>>8985421
Obviously I've taken the hint, it's just that we seem to be running into each other more often in the last couple weeks and it's weird again.
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The Real Science on the Relationship Between Race and Intelligence 2017-06-19 07:13:33 Post No.8983764
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The Real Science on the Relationship Between Race and Intelligence
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Here's the famous 2002 study that speculated, based on a single citation buried in the Discussion, that genetic factors might be at play in determining intelligence. Race isn't even mentioned, and there appears to be no reason to even mention genetic factors. However, it was too soon to link socioeconomic status (SES) to intelligence so directly, and so, they tried to come up with a competing hypothesis to temper the obvious conclusion here. Here's a quote: "Specifically, children from low SES families scored on average 6 IQ points lower at age 2 than children from high SES backgrounds; by age 16, this difference had almost tripled."
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4641149/#bb0170
By 2012 the genetic hypothesis was cast into serious doubt by this study, which concluded that genetic factors for intelligence had a roughly equal effect for both low- and high-SES backgrounds, and even then, the study concludes that the apparent intellectual advantage for high-SES families (which was still observed in this study) appears to totally cancel out by adulthood, and may not even be relevant.
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3270016/
So no, race probably doesn't determine intellectual capacity, but socioeconomic factors (which are often closely linked to race) do.
If you disagree, post your (legitimate) studies to receive a response. I'll wait.
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>>8983764
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_NsS1Zdlk
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>>8983766
Holy shit OP this doesn't fit your narrative! Whadda ya gonna do now??
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>he doesn't realize dogs can be bred for certain intelligence and behaviour like pit bulls, dachshunds and border collies
>he doesn't realize rats can be genetically modified with human genes to become smarter
>he doesn't realize blacks that can afford medical school still do very poorly
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is a romantic partner necessary for maintaining mental health?
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>>8983163
Yes, but imaginary one works fine.
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>>8983167
serious answers ONLY
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A healthy relationship makes you happier and more confident as a whole.
Key word here is "healthy." You shouldn't feel pressured to get into a relationship just for the social status. And don't go around looking for booty calls and one-night stands as a replacement for that. That will just make you feel worse.
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if gravity is the curvature of spacetime, why do objects fall down the "well"?
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It's an analogy that doesn't work if you think too much about it
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>>8983001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD6pSP-E6pc
have fun
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>>8983001
This is a start
Gravity is BS
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Hello /sci/ - are you guys into the science of strength training at all? It's really interesting stuff and the evidence suggests that it's one of the most beneficial activities an individual can do to promote longevity and combat the effects of aging. Will dump studies
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>>8982791
>Will dump studies
About what?
Just workout brainlet.
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Within reason of course. I find powerlifting in moderation and combined with running makes you much healthier. If you are too aggressive and don't mind your form, you will quickly find yourself injured. However, if you do compound exercises such as squat, bench, deadlift, power clean, pullups, overhead press, etc, you will find that you are much more resilient to aches and pains.
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I've recently bought this ball, now I feel like playing everyday. Is voluntary cardio not better than V02max exercises like these for health? I still do strength training but I feel like cardio is what kicks my health up a notch
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Do you think someone should be considered an intellectual even if they don't know mathematics up to the level of basic abstract algebra and analysis, or physics up to the level of basic quantum mechanics and general relativity? Is just reading a lot of postmodern philosophy enough?
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For me, an intellectual is someone who argues well and is able to think critically. It has nothing do with the fields which the person holds knowledge in.
Anyone can read books and memorize other people's thoughts. Reading all of Plato's works doesn't make you Plato, unfortunately.
Besides, if someone says "an intellectual should know the basics of physics/math", some other person could say "an intellectual should know the basics of sociology/gender studies". It's very arbitrary.
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>>8982650
Gender studies and sociology (as currently taught) are total bunkum, tho. Physics and math describe the fundamental nature of reality, and aren't so easily disputed.
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>>8982623
A lowly farmer in the plains of Anatolia tending his crops can be an intellectual of he alone questions the traditional farming techniques of his village and instead tries to plant seeds in a more efficient manner, or water them differently when he observes it working despite tradition
Even if he knows no math, philosophy, or anything.
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There, I said it. It's boring. It requires little skill, everyone can do it. Even the most brain dead people can just practice until the cows come home and they finally comprehend the logic.
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Finally someone said it. Unless you're doing something useful with maths, just admit your disability
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If its so easy, why havent you solved a millenium prize problem and cashed your million bucks, mr smarty pants?
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I cannot into college algebra. Math is not for brainlets.
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Your thoughts on the cognitive-theoretic model of the universe? 2017-06-18 01:00:06 Post No.8981530
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Your thoughts on the cognitive-theoretic model of the universe?
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Where information is the abstract currency of perception, such a theory must incorporate the theory of information while extending the information concept to incorporate reflexive self-processing in order to achieve an intrinsic (self-contained) description of reality. This extension is associated with a limiting formulation of model theory identifying mental and physical reality, resulting in a reflexively self-generating, self-modeling theory of reality identical to its universe on the syntactic level. By the nature of its derivation, this theory, the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU, can be regarded as a supertautological reality-theoretic extension of logic. Uniting the theory of reality with an advanced form of computational language theory, the CTMU describes reality as a Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language or SCSPL, a reflexive intrinsic language characterized not only by self-reference and recursive self-definition, but full self-configuration and selfexecution (reflexive read-write functionality). SCSPL reality embodies a dual-aspect monism consisting of
infocognition, self-transducing information residing in self-recognizing SCSPL elements called syntactic operators. The CTMU identifies itself with the structure of these operators and thus with the distributive syntax of its self-modeling SCSPL universe, including the reflexive grammar by which the universe refines itself from unbound telesis or UBT, a primordial realm of infocognitive potential free of informational constraint. Under the guidance of a limiting (intrinsic) form of anthropic principle called the Telic Principle,
SCSPL evolves by telic recursion, jointly configuring syntax and state while maximizing a generalized selfselection parameter and adjusting on the fly to freely-changing internal conditions.
t. smartest man in the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0
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Word salad.
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>>8981534
Egg salad.
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>>8981534
yummy yummy
Hi I asked my science teacher that if there was just empty space between the electron and the neutron then why can't see alot of mini holes? He couldn't answer it and I thought I should ask you guys. Thanks!
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>>8981427
Wavelengths of visible light are far too large for it to work.
Next time ask in /sqt/
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>>8981433
My bad, thanks for the answer!
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>>8981427
It's kinda sad that your teacher was unable to answer you this.
While there really is a lot of empty space between the nucleus and the electrons, the whole deal with opacity is light being absorbed, scattered and reflected by the charge of the electron cloud.
Your retina cannot receive an image of empty space inside an atom, because the outer layer of the atom is what influences the light in the first place and individual atoms are incredibly small.
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If CS is so shit tier why don't you all do one on the side of your existing majors then get 6 figure jobs straight out of college instead of shitty $50k CAD positions at manufacturing companies in Oklahoma?
CS master race thread for espousing the benefits of being a "code monkey" and "CStard"
>Jobs in every city
>High paying jobs
>Highest paying jobs in highly desirable cities
>Lots of specializations, can switch in and out of them at a whim if you learn a new skill on the side
>Fun if you enjoy it
>As much or as little social interaction as you desire
>Lots of money
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Computer science is the most versatile field in engineering. People hate on /sci/ hate it so much they'll go as far as to say it's not an engineering major, it's a science or arts Major. CS is truly master race, employability is extremely high, there are a lot of cases where students land code monkey jobs while still in college, so the opportunity is higher like no other.
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>>8980246
I wanted to be a mathematician. Ended up doing a combined Math/CS degree.
Decided I was too mentally ill to ever make it under the stress of academia (probably too much of a brainlet to be a mathematician anyway). Fucked up the one undergrad research position I earned, and too much of an autist to get references from profs (so no grad school).
So I guess I'm a programmer now...
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>>8980246
The web and app bubble is showing signs of weakness and getting ready to pop. The entire software development field is propped up on the backs of industry "unicorns" that are losing billions of dollars a year. Uber, Snapchat, Twitter and the like are all about to go belly-up.
These aren't viable businesses because at the end of the day you're still just helping hipsters broadcast pictures of their laté.
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Theoretically speaking is it possible for anything to move faster than the speed at which lint travels?
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>>8979869
I move faster than lint when I have to take a shit.
As for light, no. Well, you could appear to travel faster than light in a given frame of reference with a warp drive or wormhole, but that's very much only in theory.
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>>8979879
Not talking about light here as lint moves faster. Start another thread instead of trying to post offtopic
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the fastest thing in the universe is a chick's laugh after you show her your dick.
Well, /sci/, what is it?
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we have been over this before.
many times.
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A blue colored triangle.
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7. If you can't solve this you are either underage b& or retarded