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depends on what you want to think about

>>8891095
I saw your thread in /lit/ too. Okay, here's your answer: First of all, you need to read great works of philosophy and science to raise your powerlevel. Even if it's just through handbooks at first --- when i was like 16 or 17 i read a very short introduction: hegel. It was like blasting my brain through the first stages of intellectual puberty overnight. imagine being 12 and suddenly waking up one day with a hairy 9" dick. That's what it was like. But the point is this is possible at every stage of your mental training: even now in uni when i read stuff like kant's prolegomena, it's like doing mental benchpress. The reason for this is that you are forced through these people's genius reasoning, and thus learn what that actually looks like at the highest level. The only way to actually become intelligent is to put the work in and read the shit that is famous for a reason. Or you can just remain a pseud and keep scrolling through sam harris memes on r/atheism.

At a certain point your brain biceps will be big enough to actually have deep insight about things, and be able to parse problems into smaller parts. That's all thinking is: subdivision and analysis until you reach the fundamental nature of the issue at hand At a certain point however you break through to the other side, and are actually no longer subdividing but unifying phenomena based on the universal principles you have uncovered.

Yes, conspiracy theorists do this too, but the difference is that they are completely close-minded and do not challenge themselves. And that is the most key part of all of this: challenging and questioning yourself at every turn. Utter rigor. Take nothing for granted --- no assumption, no definition, nothing. The second you stop questioning yourself is the second you have become ignorant. I don't care how much you have read --- what truly distinguishes an actually intelligent person from a pseud is to what length they are willing to question their own assumptions.

>>8891184
Thanks for this but I already started reading philosophy(primary sources of course) and that is my main objective but the thing is that I just get knowledge on things but not the fundamental of how to think so I can understand them better. Of course philosophy by itself is difficult and exhausting but I thought there are some kind of way to a better thinking, something like algorithms.

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>>8890930
What sort of constructive replies did you imagine people would make when you submitted your thread OP? Genuinely curious, I'm sure you had a hypothesis since you're "excellent in science" and all.

>>8890932
I've heard people say that it's usually because you had a bad teacher once but I dunno if you guys would corroborate that

>>8890930
Because science is just about applying formulas and the harder it gets is when you have to combine various formulas.

In the non-trivial types of mathematics problems you have to usually deduce a completely new formula, which involves actual thinking.

>>8890733
Because in practice, it is pretty clear which parts of our current understanding are likely to change in the future, and which parts are set in stone and beyond all reasonable doubt.

>>8890740
Sounds like pure arrogance.

>>8890742
I'm sure it does. It's still true.

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depends on the subject

It's a meme based on english language research only.

>>8890631
Kind of a meme, just look at their population. Doesn't seem like a Nation that could produce scientific advancement in important institutions.

>>8890479
algebraicly or geometricly?

>>8890479
apply an affine transformation that turns it into a circle, draw the tangent line to the circle at the corresponding point, then apply the inverse transformation.

>>8890483
I need to derive a formula [math] \frac{xx1}{a^{2}} + \frac{yy1}{b^{2}} = 1 [/math] (i don't know how to write '1' index in latex) from the formula of an ellipse given in OP, and the point T(x1, y1). I don't know what's that method called. Eurofag here

>>8890377
>experience 3d space
>can't prove i'm experiencing 3d space

what?

>>8890383
I just experienced playing Halo, doesn't make me a space marine, champ.

>>8890377
Well yes, you also can't prove that you're actually conscious and not going through predefined code like a computer. Because there is no evidence to suggest that however, it doesn't mean anything.

>>8890051

Is he Jewish?

>>8890051
I think the academic career made his social anxiety worse. But still, he shouldn't have sent those bombs all over USA.

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Nothing. This dude is a pure baller.

false flag.

>>8889979

>CS
>"how do I compile in Eclipse"

>CS
>how do i sum primes under 2 million

>>8889966
His only means of communication is a computer. For all we know, it could have been hijacked long ago and he could just be a puppet. You wouldn't really be able to tell, would you?

>>8889969
Shit, that's deep.
>>8889969

>>8889966
probably
i would be very suprised if he did any research on the subject

he probably just watched inconvenient truth

SETI Just listens for radio transmission aliems are making. Back in 2015 they thought about broadcasting a message but chose not to. It's pretty irrelevant though since we've been unintentionally broadcasting radio waves into deep space for eighty years already.

Who cares. Its a good shot of aliens finding us and making anime real or they find is and squash us like a bug. IDK which i worse.

>There is a high probability that an advanced alien civilzation capable of reaching and communicating with us would be hostile
What are you basing this off of?
Wouldn't a sufficiently advanced speicies be beyond such behavior? just look at where humanity is going in terms of violence.

>>8889589
>if 0.999... = 1 does that mean that the set of all real numbers less than one but greater than zero contains one?
What? No.

>how arbitrarily close are we allowed to get to one under this set?
As close as you like, so long as the distance isn't zero.

>Is there a specific amount of nines after 0.9 that we're allowed to have before that number is no longer a member of the set?
No; any number of nines would still be less than one.

>>8889602
>any number of nines would still be less than one.

So 0.999 is not 1?

>>8889611
0.999...*

>no true scientist
this thread is pointless because there is no agreed-upon definition of "scientist". Is it a post-doc researcher? a published grad student? an unpublished grad student? a tenured prof who hasn't published in 30 years? anyone who conducts experiments following the scientific method? there is no universal "scientist" credential

now go away /lit/ and/or /pol/fag

>>8889483
t. lacks basic knowledge of philosophy

>>8889488
epic reply my friend, simply epic :^)

>>8889321
Physicists since the 20th century have been smoking big bongs while they write their theories (hence the name of the theory). You shouldn't really trust much after Newton. And certainly NOTHING after Einstein. Physics is more politics than science nowadays anyways. See Bill Nye for a good example of that.

>>8889339
popsci is not science

>>8889342
>Bill Nye good a real fucking degree in engineering (read: applied physics) for which he worked 4 years for
>You think that doesn't prove that physics and engineering courses are simply assembly lines for the next generation of politically driven ideological "tru scyentees"

top kek go back to tumblr

>>8889011
>wat do.
make a quantum computer?

>>8889011
They cheat by rounding .999 to 1.

>>8889023
>They cheat
Of course they do, they're Chinese.

>Spouts nonsence and makes up facts to support it.
>Calls for the imprisonment/death of others who dont believe it
>Is a massive egotistical prick
Yeah id say he is /ourgoi/

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>>8887763
More like Bill Bye!

>>8887763
He is a traitor to science and the scientific method