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>>8672664
Always interesting stuff, but I feel like whether or not he's onto something is irrelevant at this point.

Quantum science is leaps away from understanding the "fabric of this universe". If we go as small as there is (Not as small as we can) and find everything is 1's and 0's, I'd be interested.

Likewise medical science is still pretty far from understanding consciousness.

>>8672681
Wouldn't quantum science have a better chance at understanding consciousness than medical science?

I took him seriously. I didn't 100% believe him but I took him seriously. I really liked his idea that the universe doesn't even decide what happens unless something is there to observe it, because it doesn't care. Similar to Minecraft, in his own words, because chunks don't actually "exist" unless the player is in it to observe it.

Then he went off and started talking about how we're all part of a greater being of interdimensional consciousness, and that this consciousness splits itself into smaller bits inside mortal bodies in order to mature itself, and when we die we go back into big larger consciousness. I'm 100% serious he actually said that this was the implication of his theory.

>>8672376
become an artist
a lot of famous artists supposedly had ADHD.
getting bored easily is a mechanism to train creative thinking desu, see cats and other felines and how they torture their prey and play with it, ever watch a housecat pounce on a bug and then almost sadistically tear it to pieces playing with its food instead of eating it?

>>8672393
I'm not really good at any form of art, just humanities/political philosophy. I could have the mind of Julius Caesar but not execute anything because of ADHD.

lameass excuses

just give it up and end your life

any bump at all? is space not science?

>>8672153
ISS is just a grant chasing tool.

>>8673178
sure, but it's also an incredibly expensive grant-chasing tool. why should that boatload of money burn up in the south pacific when it can live on in lunar orbit?

with a little bit of refitting that money can actually be made useful again

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Sure.

>>8671342

You have to be 18+ to browse 4chan.

>>8671337
Literally just disperse with a regular bomb and you contaminate a large area

>>8669007
it's pretty alright as long as it's only used to discuss math
people who try to apply philosophy to real life always fail in some respect

>>8669007
If I came from an aristocratic family inheriting millions of dollars I'd major in Philosophy and Maths and spend my life thinking about things.

Instead I major in CS and Maths in order to secure some shekels

>>8669007

Philosophy about truth and logic is the foundation of mathematics. Something I've spent a lot of time on to understand proofs in first order propositional/predicate syntax and other works (Tarski, Godel, Russel, etc.). There are some papers that I believe should be required reading for everyone on this planet.

There is a lot of bad information to sort through, although I don't fault the field itself as memes plagues our branches as well.

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Anyone?

>>8675294

Thanks for the feedback. I am going to have to do some more research before I can give a sensible reply. But for what it's worth, the idea behind this analogy is that quantum entanglement starts some sort of process, which predetermines some future event (based primarily on time).

I don't see how your analogy captures the idea of the hourglasses being entangled.

A vague analogy would be that you send two envelopes, one to Australia and one to Russia, and in one you put a green leaf and in one a brown one. Two friends there expect one of those two leaves each. As soon as the Austrialian guy receives and opens his envelope, looking at the color, he instantaneously knows that color of the Russian guys leaf. (If Australia receives brown, Russia must have gotten green).
The difference is that for QM the interpretation is that the leaf in the envelope (the wavefunction) has no fixed color (state that's singled out to be measured/observed) until opened, and when opened it appears odd that this fixes the other guys color. But imho it's not a strange thing if you know QM and are "raised" with that theory, and if you're not a realist about the framework.

And I have a problem incorporating the feature in your picture because an hourglass is done at one point (whereas a wavefunction never stops on the general/unobservable level, the time derivative is never zero)

>>8674999
from the given info, sounds like your beta-9 enphedrine levels are warbly.

consult a drugologist.

>>8674999
you were molested?

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I'm really only attracted to Korean women. I occasionally fap to Japanese women, whom I consider as "poor man's Koreans". Anyway, white pigs are fucking disgusting.

>>8674618
CS is somewhat unusual in that you can actually do a lot of what you'd do at work from the comfort of your own home and thus learn it.

However, for many jobs you really can't get relevant experience by yourself. For example, you can tinker with things to see how they work and become proficient at it, but whether that translates to undertaking and managing a larger scale engineering project is questionable. So getting the experience to bypass the need for a degree by yourself isn't very easy, especially in the kind of jobs that require a degree to begin with.

Many countries have decent to great universities with tuition fees being nonexistent or much smaller than in the UK or US. At some point young people who got fucked by huge debt burdens in a job market where degrees don't automatically give you a job anymore are going to be in a position to make a change and hopefully they'll spare the future generations this silliness. The other option being that the prevailing attitude will be "I dealt with it, why shouldn't these kids?".

>>8674679
I would hope that online resources expand to courses such as engineering, that are traditionally much more hands on. Certainly, some sort of internship would be needed as compensation for that aspect - I just hope employers begin to respect that as a possibility (very unlikely unless this becomes a massive new trend and produces positive results, but I believe that's putting too much faith into people).

And you're right about countries outside of the US, I tend to forget it's really just us dealing with these outrageous prices. I'm curious as to how Europe must run that, because here in the US it seems to be a capitalistic, free market approach where the prices are going to rise until demand drops. They must be public, non-profit institutions? Also, the textbooks and software are fucking ridiculous. There's easily a replacements for most books and programs that are free, or much, much less expensive.. I'm not sure why (most US) colleges choose to require such expensive books, I suppose the incredible demand jacks up the prices there too.

Hopefully we see some change for future generations. But as a student interested in academia for the pursuit of knowledge, it all seems incredibly unnecessary to the point where I feel I'd progress faster and more thoroughly if I were to just hire a private instructor when needed.

>>8674618
>Many simply don't pursue higher education at all because of the cost

Many idiots do not understand how to control costs while getting a higher education.

FTFY

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>A while ago I was forced to listen to religious-babblers

>>8674522
Martyr yourself, weakling.

>>8674515
What a waste of time. You could have been thinking of solutions to famous, new and/or useful mathematical problems

>>8674513
Neither is an answer to society's problems. However...
CS is much easier since it depends on simple logic.
Physics is about as accurate as psychology, but at least some therapists help people by talk treatment whereas sci guys and gals rarely contribute to society.

>>8674513
How do you wanna help?

>>8674513
Neither, it's Business Science that contributes the most.

Mass food shortages will only really effect the thirdworlders

>what will we do if food supply is gone?
>but wouldn't this hit us before oil/climate change/etc?

It wouldnt. There is more than enough food to feed the entire world. We do not have a global food shortage, more so a global food distribution shortage.

Have you seen how corn subsidies have filled thousands of silo's?

>>8673811
what? how does having thousands of silos dent the impact billions of people cause with their metabolic rate in the thousands? if livestock were to be gone due to functional extinction it'd be used up in weeks.

>>8673684
Big blimp went kaboom once :^(

The humanity?

>>8673684
For what purpose?
Instead of wasting electricity to split water molecules, just use it to charge a battery.

They used their hand and water. You could have easily Googled this.

>>8673608

They squetted over a hole.

Try it out.

Poop doesn't smear against your checks if you do it that way

>>8673662
Not op, but I find it interesting that your shit smears against your ass cheeks.

The statement is wrong. Light has a variable speed. Light is energy. And us humans call that kind of energy light because we can see it. But energy can not be constant. First it has to start, and then it WILL fade.

>>8672903
>Why is there a speed limit at that speed?

That's more a question for philosophy than science.

>>8672981
Did you know that if you click the first link of a Wikipedia article's text and keep repeating that, you almost always end up on the philosophy page? At the end of the day, everything is philosophy, isn't it?

in a way Siri already works this way. You have a device which can capture sound (your phone), that sound gets sent to a server where it's analyzed and converted to text, the text is then sent to another server where it's analyzed for instructions or what Siri is suppose to be doing, then those instructions are formatted in a way your phone can understand, then all that info is sent back to your phone again where it can execute the instructions.

>>8672182
>>8672182
First impression is no just because we can obviously see brains are designed to do something come tell different compared to your average computer. And then I guess we don't really know enough.

>>8672182
Society has only a tiny idea of how the brain works: It's hard to mimic something when one does not understand that something.
Are better computers going to do "anything" to solve societal problems?
Unlikely. It's more likely computers are now the problem: people don't "think," and this has always been a problem.