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this meme again

Because useful =/= true.

Every thread on this board is shitty trolling desu senpai

>>430808
Germany falls into an indecisive shitheap and loses the war without nearly as many gains.

>>430808

I remember this was included in the History Channel documentary about all the attempts on Hitler's life. It was released right before/after Valkyrie. By shear luck, Hitler made it out of there just before it went off. I mean just before it went off.

What happens next? Well, remember, Hitler didn't designate a successor until 1941 (Goering). So you would have had von Papen (Vice-Chancellor), von Ribbentrop, Frick, Keitel, Goering, and Himmler probably all trying to take over.

Who wins? I'd say the guy with 200,000 SS troops under his command at the time - Himmler.

>>431260
The fact that Beria managed to not take over the USSR seems to show that merely controlling the major paramilitary body in a country wasnt a garuntee

They perfected their methodology on the Irish people before exporting it.

>>430743
Ships, being the first country to industrialise, and the desire to make money

>tiny island

Why do people assume more land = most powerful? It's so much more complicated than that.

The whole family got shot by mosins multiple times. All very dead.

She is kill but one of their dogs survived

>the monsters who did this were never punished
Is there truly no justice?

What the hell is AGI?

And the next big thing in science is the shift from linearity to non-linearity

>>430538
Artificial General Intelligence

It will transcend human cognition rendering mathematics obsolete.

>>430553
oh, so a fancy word for full AI

I sure hope so

>>430284
It's not inherently wrong but it's a tricky business
econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/05/virtue_conformi.html

>>430284
its a utterly pointless exercise, if nothing else.

There's nothing inherently WRONG with the concept. It serves as a proper benchmark for one's progress in any direction.

What most people have trouble with is judging said morality through their modern perspective, and then leaving the exercise at that. All too often you find historical 'reviews' and 'summaries' which carry slanted views on events in the past, often condemning them or in rarer cases endorsing them. All of which is done through the modern lens, tempered more or less by the writer's personal preferences. As time passes, those writings get accepted more and more as fact as opposed to mere 'Editorials' on said facts, and soon enough you have a perceptible slant on history itself.

Go to /v/ sometimes, and you may note an extreme example of sometimes historical-based video games being given a modern slant. Likewise on /tv/ or /co/ or any entertainment medium.

Bump for interest

I know that the Incan Empire was united about 150 years before the conquest, but I don't know what happened before that or where they came from. Did enough historical records survive the conquest or is it all based on archaeology and interpretations of folklore?

From what I know, the Incan Empire basically invented the equivalent of the modern highway system. There were thousands of miles of roads allowing easier travel through the mountainous terrain. In addition, the coca plant played an interesting role. Due to a lack of horses, all messages had to be relayed by foot. To expedite the process and keep the runner alice, he or she would nibble on a coca leaf to stay awake and keep hunger at bay. On the same note, waystations were set up along the highways to give the runner a quick meal and rest if absolutely necessary.

Also Machu Picchu is fucking majestic but you can easily look that up anywhere.

IIRC Peru has been inhabited since 10,000 or 9000 BC. Norte Chico was a pre-Columbian Peruvian civilization, considered to be the oldest civilization in America, dating to 3000 BC. Very strange compared to ancient Europe and Asia. They had no ceramics and one instance of visual art that I recall, some scratch on a gourd, although they did have musical instruments. Norte Chico may have started based on maritime food sources like fishing rather than crops like most civilizations. Agriculture for textiles and weaving for fishing nets likely developed before food crops. The economy was based on cotton and possibly dried anchovies. They had strings resembling quipu, although it's not sure if they were mnemonic devices instead of record keeping. There is no evidence of warfare or defensive fortifications, but they had platform mounds and terraced pyramids.

>>429769
Not really. If it can be studied for and greatly improve your score, then its not objective. It is predictive, but only to a point.

It's a pattern recognition test.
Great for engineering and physics aptitude, but less useful for everything else

>>429769
I keep getting about 130 to 140 on these things throughout life and I really don't understand it. I'm a great test taker though and fantastic bullshitter.

I agree that it's based in pattern recognition and memorization of basic things like word recognition and simple math. Even if they did reflect a person's intelligence, how well the person applies themself means more in our lives today. Sharp as shit but a total NEET? You're worthless.

>>429764
What about bha'ai and sikh?

>>429780
Bahá'ai
Shit

>>429764
back to /pol/ nazi fuck

>>429348
Is this bait?

>>429362

No.

>le how dare you imply the existence of things that contradict my prepackaged one size fits all materialist worldview spoonfed to me by flash in the pan pop sci icons who have a vested interest in promoting the primacy of their chosen profession even in fields where it doesn't belong like all matters spiritual and ethical because they've gotten really good at smashing subatomic particles together maymay

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>>429289
>no central europe
>poland is eastern
>balkan is eastern

I am not sure that fits. Central Europe seems to me distinct enough, with Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Austria having different culture and values from the people east and west of them.

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This projection makes Kazakhstan look way bigger than it should.
Southern Europe is a bit too big but whatever.

Parts of philosophy can't be answered by science. For example, for some philosophers, philosophy was about how you should live a good life.

Oh boy, it's this thread again.

Just saying something like "philosophy is dead" or "science can explain everything" is to do philosophy. Philosophy is the bedrock of all human inquiry, so you can't escape it.

>>435298
I think even something like a "good life" could be objectively explained. There are things that are objectively harmful for you, so for good health you avoid them, and there are things that are objectively harmful to other people and to society, so for a good life you avoid them. To live a "good life", you just have to stay in good health and not kill or screw over your fellow man (although that can get all dicey and relative and whatnot, I think it's because we don't have a clear scientific understanding of some things yet).
>>435310
I mean in the sense of philosophers writing out their theories and essaying and debating and whatnot, not "philosophy" in a general sense.

Paternal reverence.

>The act of creation is in itself a predominantly feminine attribute
lol

>>429258

>what is giving birth

Creation is by definition feminine. See parthenogenesis.

>>429261
>Creation is by definition feminine.
lol

I like to think I helped contribute to making the hard problem of consciousness one of the top meme arguments on /his/. You're welcome

>>434144
You know, even as someone staunchly opposed to every form of reductive scientism there is, in a way he is right. There is nothing intrinsically "painful" about a pain signal, it's only my perception of that signal that "imagines" I am feeling pain. The Buddha would agree that there is no fixed, ontic identity we can point to and say that's us, that's our "soul-pearl", as Dennett refers to it.


That said, it doesn't explain the existence of this perceptual field in the first place, so Dennett doesn't really succeed in proving anything substantive about consciousness other than "it's kinda tricky lmao"

You can use Hitchen's Razor to solve the problem of Conciousness easily.

1. Conciousness is presented without evidence
2. Therefor we can dismiss it
3. Problem solved.

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>>428886
> Soviet Union didn't care about them.
What.

About soldiers who died in frontline.