What is actually deja-vu? I've had few where you dream about something really unimportant and short and it happens 1-2 months later and it makes no sense logically at least.
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>>8287558
that's not what it means
it means you THINK you dreamt it, it's a glitch that happens when you actually experience something and think you have seen it before, when you haven't
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>>8287558
Ugh, a gorl I dated used to constantly tell me why deja vu happened, and I ignored her every time. Stupid bitch. Who cares, anyway
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>>8287563
Then what is the thing that happened to me. It happened exactly like my dream and I even wrote it down.
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Well?
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>>8279629
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Some 5 star poster you are
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>>8279630
Why did you multiply?
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>>8279630
It's actually 40
"Science can't address ethics"
>implying all normative statements aren't reducible to a set of positive ones
>mfw
>pic related
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It can as long as you define some axioms.
But defining those axioms is not science.
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>>8289757
You don't need axioms; you merely need testable hypotheses drawn up from logical inference.
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>>8289764
You need axioms like:
>the best action is that which shields the most happiness
and then with science you can find what shields the most happiness
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Bill Nye thinks Philosophy is stupid. 2016-08-22 14:45:01 Post No.8289196
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Bill Nye thinks Philosophy is stupid.
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Does /sci/ agree with him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROe28Ma_tYM
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>>8289196
I don't think philosophy is necessary stupid, but as long as philosophy is acting like a big circle jerk with the typical tunnel vision it has, it is really kind of stupid.
I've yet to find a philosopher who is aware of the other scientific fields. The only use of a philosopher today is one that has a broad view of the sciences.
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No, and Bill Nye is stupid
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>>8289196
Of course not. It doesn't sound like he actually has a solid grasp of the kinds of problems that philosophy actually engages with, and if he does he's reducing them to egregious simplifications. Not to mention the kind of results that run "contrary to common sense" that something like physics provides lead to the kinds of consequences that would be deemed as philosophical implications
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Was he just an intelligent racist, or a man who spoke the truth in a time where lies rule?
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Science is racist in its nature.
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He's a hack who stole someone else's work
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He never published any data that showed differences in intelligence were to do race... now go back to /pol/
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what if we dig a big hole in the earth until we reach the lower part of a tectonic plate and throw all the radioactive shit in there,
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digging your faggot hole would be the most expensive undertaking in human history
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why the fuck
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but then we would be poisoning gaia
like shooting heroine right into her arm
what will she do with all that radiation?
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So /sci/, prove that 0 factorial = 1 2016-08-21 05:50:55 Post No.8286198
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So /sci/, prove that 0 factorial = 1
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I ain't gotta prove shit nigga
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It's a very reasonable convention that fits with some convenient abstractions of the factorial. Most formal definitions of the factorial will explicitly state 0!=1 or it'll be a natural consequence of the same.
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>>8286198
>prove a definition
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Checkmate AI-fags
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it should just run over the people on the street because why the fuck are there people on the street
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>>8287802
Because black lives matter.
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>>8287798
What's your point? Is it wrong to design a mechanism that maximizes utility?
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Hey /sci/, explain your field in a nutshell. I'll start,
>Physics
>Just math applied math to fundamental things in the universe.
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>>8285797
>math
>just applied neural network operations
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>'chef' at mcdonalds
>making fat people fatter
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>>8285797
Mining engineering
>look at rocks
>classify rocks
>break rocks
>take rocks
>melt rocks
>tunnels :DDD
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If you actually like any of the men on the top list, you are a pseudo-intellectual and should promptly eradicate yourself from this earth.
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>>8285550
But Musk claim to fame is being an engineer, not a scientist nor a "scientist".
Also I don't see what Hawking is doing in that list of popularizers.
If your issue is that he does some popularization, then so did Feynman.
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>>8285550
so you can't like someone unless they're a scientist?
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>>8285550
>Hawking
>pseudo-intellectual
>underage thinking he can discredit scientific minds much greater than him because contrarianism
gtfo of /sci/ and neck yourself
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What did he mean by this?
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>>8285291
That he didn't understand science. It's literally impossible to scientifically study non-physical phenomena. The subject he was looking for already exists, it's called philosophy.
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>>8285291
What does he want science to study, ghosts?
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>>8285300
>he didn't understand science
Wrong. You just don't understand Tesla.
And don't claim you do. you didn't live with him, work with him or know him or the basis of his thoughts and ideas in any way
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Films about science and technology are usually pessimistic. Why? 2016-08-20 18:32:46 Post No.8284866
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Films about science and technology are usually pessimistic. Why?
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Why are science fiction films so pessimistic these days?
Every film seems to revolve around us all (nearly) getting killed by robots or aliens or the 'elite' amongst ourselves who have access to some kind of powerful technology denied (for unknown reasons) to everyone else; getting marooned on some alien world and trying desperately to get back home, or trying to save the world from some catastrophe caused by our own arrogance or ignorance.
Where are the optimistic visions of the future?
Where are the films about mankind setting out into the stars and achieving great triumphs, rather than constantly struggling against all odds just to stay alive?
Where are the films about the creation of incredible new technologies which *don't* nearly get us all killed; that instead radically improve our lives?
Where are the films about the radically better, brighter future that we used to believe in?
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In order to have a plot, you need conflict. In order for there to be conflict, something has to be wrong in someone's life.
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>>8284869
>In order to have a plot, you need conflict.
Not true.
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>>8284866
It's always been like that.
Because western story telling revolves around conflict.
Maybe we will get something like Rendezvous with Rama.
Remember the movie Transcendence? Imagine if it didn't have the bullshit human war against him or the isolation he did for love. It would have been a movie about humanity advancing at breakneck speed and spreading out across the galaxy.
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What other forums/boards do you /sci/entists browse?
Personally I browse StackExchange, Quora and Reddit.
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/pol/
The rest of you do, too; except the butt-mad libcucks that post here due to envy.
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I used to read Quora but now it's way overrun with Pajeets.
Read reddit but only frugality and financial independence related subs
/pol/ of course
Not much else
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/g/
>>8286978
I'm not a libcuck, but I'm too embarrassed to visit /pol/ with my rare flag. I don't feel anonymous enough.
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What are some interesting open questions in mathematics?
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>>8285405
/Thread
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>>8285405
That problem is a meme.
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>>8285439
Then I hope it memes on because I'll be doing a presentation on that problem for uni this monday.
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So if I understand correctly, unless our scientists discover/invent something(s) miraculous we won't see space travel outside of our solar system in our lifetimes? Or maybe in Human history?
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Yes.
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>>8284059
Pretty much.
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Gotta get to arrakis nigga