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>>8396446
>Does our universe have a hard limit for biological intelligence? Is it possible that human-level intelligence is about as intelligent as a life-form can be?
Yes.

>Or is it still possible that an alien species can exceed human-level intelligence by an unfathomable amount (e.g. IQ of 10,000 or something)?
Yup.

why don't they just create a massive brain like creature via genetic engineering and find out.

shouldn't be too hard. imagine a massive brain connected to some kind of I/O device.

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>>8396446
Why ask questions with no definitive answer.

Hope this board gets deleted in the upcoming purge, it's a fucking cesspool.

keep doing it and find out

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naw you'll be fine keep up the good work

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>>8396385
just one little blood clot...

Because you're relaxed from a good night's sleep.

>>8396350
Actually, this is a sign of penile cancer. It's most likely terminal anon, I'm very sorry.

Since you spend all your nights getting fucked in the ass, the pendulum motion of your testicles adds some mechanical energy into your sperm, finally heating your semen up by a small but measurable effect. Enough, at least, for your estranged girlfriend to notice after you've come home from the "bar" i.e. bath house.

>>8396329
There are more details you could insert, eg self - replicating compounds, multinucleate single 'cell' life, etc. But what are you asking exactly? Any list like yours is probably going to come across as bait for an argument.

>>8396422
Mainly just wanted to see if I had a basic understanding of our entire origin.

>>8396329
>organic compounds>[MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF HAND WAVING]>single-celled life

It's fantastic for teaching an understanding of orbital mechanics and how rockets work on a basic level (staging etc.). Not much beyond that though, and some things may even lead to an incorrect expectation of how things work in real life (for example, rocket nozzles).

>>8396243
>rocket wobbles
>keep adding struts until it stops
Kerbals Space Program provides a realistic simulation of being an engineer.

Bump. Any good tutorials to start on this game?

>>8396152
g(x) = 1/1-x^2 =1 - x^2
g(x+h)-g(x) = 1- (x+h)^2 - 1 + x^2 = -2xh-h^2
[g(x+h)-g(x)]/ h = -2x - h
let h be infinitesimal
g'(x)= -2x

why the fuck is computer science lower than law and statistics, and on the same tier as fucking life science? Everyone who makes those stupid charts is retarded.

you moronic fag how fucking dare you put physics fucking engineering you inbred peace of shit

>>8396091
>Is any of this real?
No, it's all simulated.

>respected scientists are more and more buying into Simulation Theory
probably just shills paid to promote the upcoming release of the matrix trilogy in 4k quality or sum shit.

>>8396091
>renowned, respected scientists

black science man isn't renowned nor respected

>>8396091
A ton of evidence points towards it. Take for example the transition between micro and macro, which is much like walking towards a distant character in a videogame and higher resolution textures/eye candy effects being loaded as you get closer. An atom behaves according to QM, but a billiard ball does not behave like 10^24 atoms, it obeys Newton's laws, a vast simplification. Much like in the analogy, we do not need such a high resolution once we zoom out.
Then there is the fact that non commuting variables share a precision according to the uncertainty principle, as if they're regulated by one set of floating points or something.
In another thread an anon even came up with a way how you could save on RAM by modeling things with waves instead of particles, which could be what the duality comes from.

Now the important part is finding ways to determine for sure if we're in one, by finding glitches and such.

It'depends?^^
I guess the question is not if, but when.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sSpPyruj0

>>8396104
>Sam Harris

>>>/trash/

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>>8396071
>Will technological singularity doom us all or bring humanity to the next stage of evolution?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>8396049
I don't know the name for it but i instantly think people are sub-human when they do shit like use their instead of there.

>>8396065
I'm tiered anon, leave me alone.

>>8396068
Your english is not as great as you think.
Do I think you are sub-human because of that?
Yes
Does it matter?
No

Lumosity

>>8396144
Is it effective?

>>8396016
>/Sci/ whilst I understand that some of you respect the measurement of intelligence quotient and some of you do not

Understand that IQ threads and anything else related to psychology do not belong on /sci/ you frothing faggot.

>>8395968
fuck off faggot

captcha: meaney de

>>8396066
rude

Get an 8 inch dobsonian. Simple, easy to use. Maximum bang for your buck.

Depends on the kind of masters degree. I only had a Bachelor of arts in sociology and still got into a Msc survey statistics cause I had lots of survey methods / data analysis courses.

It's usually listed on the homepage

>>8395961
>Depends on the kind of masters degree.
You mean MS vs MA?

>>8395961
Ideally it would be applied mathematics or applied statistics.

MONEY, IT'S A CRIME

>>8396079

SHARE IT FAIRLY BUT DON'T TAKE A SLICE OF MY PIE

>>8396105
GRAB THAT CASH WITH BOTH HANDS AND MAKE A STASH

>>8395845
1) rewrite with your fraction bar being straight in the middle of your = sign otherwise this is unreadable 12-yo shit

2) repost new pic

3) choose good orientation

It's probably something like 1/(0.05)^2
But it could also be 4.

>>8395845
You've actually stumbled upon a famous unsolved problem in algebra. You'll probably have to settle for a numerical approximation.

xenoestrogens are not harmful unless youre a developing fetus that receives abnormally high exposure

municipal water sources in the united states are potable excepting infrastructure failures

gmos arent innately harmful and nobody produces dangerous gmos; worry more about antibiotics in meat

i shop at both a large supermarket chain and a local food cooperative

>>8395830
>So we all know we should follow that oh so famous food pyramid

>>8395837
Yeah i'm about to switch to butchers meat and lowered meat consumption in general.
I try to know my sources, was'nt too sure though where it would be important to do so.

Thanks for your post anon.