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- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
There was s Skyrim for Alexa add
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
I’m not sure that life is good, but I feel that I’m part of life and that life is part of me. I suppose it’s a natural instinct somehow… So I feel like something is better than nothing…
I know I’m atypical on that aspect, but I feel it much more deeply than most of my friends when I see somebody else getting bad. I cant claim some philosophical basis to it, it’s just there, for me…
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
Haha, I think I’d enjoy a long discussion with You on this topic around a drink or something!
I come from a totally different direction, yet I agree that the self is an illusion. I think that humans and everything we make is part of nature, even if it’s hard to see the similarities.
What exactly is a self? Is it the body of a person including gut biome? Only the collection of all the cells with the same DNA? Or the nerves only, or the brain only? Or is the self an emergent abstract construct resulting from the reactions occurring inside the brain?
Or maybe the self is the bosy and it’s direct environment it shaped (the clothes, the house, etc.)? Are offsprings part of the self? Is the extended family part of the self? Are we the part of Earth’s biosphere used for thinking?Are we the universe being counscious of itself?
I like to understand genocide as a bad thing because it reduces biodiversity, and thus reduces the chances of our species’ survival. Since our species is currently the only one capable of interplanetary travel, we are the biosphere’s best tool to continue growing forever!
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
Yeah, let’s not try to apply the scientific method to social problems, that can only end badly!
But let’s not apply absolute relativism to science unless we want to end up with climate denialism.
Cheers!
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
Yeah, I appologise for missing the context and coming with such an adversarial tone… Being a person that can easily pass as typical (ND white guy), I didn’t think of the social aspect of the topic.
Natural science methods cannot be applied on social sciences in an ethical way… I don’t want to push for that.
I also don’t want to hear “Climate change is subjective and doesn’t apply to my subjectivity, because it was cold this winter.”
From a scientific point of view, all type of gender and sexualities exist in nature, and I’m sure it’s a mistake to assume humans are binary. youtu.be/Jxs2yHP6K2E
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
I was, however, replying to a message that was specifically talking about gravitational pull, so i assumed it was understood i was referring to the same.
You know, reading the thread I had the completely opposite understanding of the topic that was being discussed. Even now, I believe the other user was talking about the concept of gravity at large.
When having this type if discussion in academic situations, almost half of the time will be spent on defining terms to prevent misunderstanding.
Just using the word “gravity” is not specific enough. I’d recommend to talk about “gravitational pull” or “force” for the general concept, the one that applies the same everywhere. Then there could be the gravitational acceleration near the surface of Earth (or Gee’s for short), which is subjective to the location of an object.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
If really love to be able to subjectively stop eating and sleeping, waste of time… I’d be free from that.
There are many social constructs about which what you say is possible, but there is still some underlying world which will nit change.
Ignoring all of the world’s problems will not make them go away, you have to acknowledge them and face them. Although it’s okay to take breaks from the world to rest and recuperate! But don’t simply escape reality and let the bad people take it all…
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
That’s at least admitting that something exists, but it’s more complicated than what we currently understand of it!
My current standing is with “poetic naturalism”, in which we acknowledge that something exists and that we build, based on our subjective experience, models of knowledge. And that we must use epistemic tools (ex: the scientific method) to overcome our subjectivity.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
The fact that people feel different gravitational pull based on where they are doesn’t make the concept of gravity different for each of them. You’re just using the wrong word to describe the acceleration produced by gravity, rather than gravity itself.
That’s why technical definitions (so we speak the same language) and education (si we understand that language) are important!
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
What about gravity? It doesn’t exist, we just collectively hallucinate that stuff falls? That’s dumb
- Comment on $1$ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s fair! I didn’t get through some of his videos, being more of a downer “grumpy style” 😉
I’ll try to watch that again
- Comment on $1$ 2 weeks ago:
There was a full on mathematical war on YouTube, with numberphile coming back later to show that most partial sum methods also end up at -1/12.
As a science nerd, mathologer basically just took the camp of “old concensus” and gave no other argument than “this is alien math, nope, I don’t like it”. It just felt like mathologer was Pythagoras fighting against irrational numbers…
- Comment on I love astronomers so much 3 weeks ago:
Boring real answer: stars in an image. It’s a robust pre-opencv image processing tool for astrophysics.
See also SAO Image DS9, which was the subsequent version after SAO Image Next Generation.
- Comment on do you know? 5 weeks ago:
You can’t leave us hanging! Where can I watch it? 🐡🐧
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
Oh! That’s nice to know about mining, making it safer for workers! But there’s still the environmental impact… A few years ago, I was talking with a mine engineer who seemed proud to say that they had to move a lake to mine. He claimed that simply shop-vaccuming fishes from one place to the other was good enough…
- Comment on You spin me right round baby 1 month ago:
This is bad popular science. Look at PBS Spacetime for a better way if doing it.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 1 month ago:
It’s clean regarding chemical waste.
I’ve helped build nuclear waste caskets, nothing is perfect but the amount of attention put into making it safe is incredible! The layers (and quality) of stainless steel welds would put your average steel bridge to shame…
But fission will always be limited (as in non-renewable). If everything was powered by nuclear, I’m sure we’d see even more awefull mining operations. Also, fusion should in theory be much better, if the thermodynamics of it end up working.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 1 month ago:
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Yeah, cause those cinnamon flavored sweets are disgusting!
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 2 months ago:
I was sure the peace symbol was from combining the letters K + G from “kg of weed makes people peaceful”.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
Very on-topic SMBC today: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mary
There are multiple types of color blindness, most of the time they affect the production of a specific cone inthe eye. Deuteranomaly is the red-detection cone being affected, and causes issues distinguishing red/green colors, but also blue/purple. It’s a “hardware” issue caused by less or lack of detection.
I’ve heard of “software” version of colorblindness, but it doesn’t seem to be as documented as others. I have a younger sibling that seemed to have “copied” my deuteranomaly despite being able to pass the “hardware” tests…
The exact neurons in the eye and the brain being triggeres are the same for detection of color, but where the “qualia” differs is to which external interpretation they are linked to. If we were able to isolate the souvenirs/associations that come from specific colors, I’m sure in general people would see the same colors.
Just like touching something hot triggers the same neurons as touching capsaicin, it creates a signal to the brain. What happens inside the brain depends on the life experience of each, but the initial signal is the same, and it can be proven with fMRI.
Off course, if we want to define a “qualia” as “the thing that can’t be proven by science”, then off course it won’t be provable using science. What is it, though?
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
If they’re fully color blind, how could they be shown colors? That would be a bad control group.
Instead, when doing fMRI stuff, they usually create a “baseline” by showing their subjects random stuff to see how the brain fires up. For example, they could show greyscale images of grass, sun, blood, etc., then see how it differs from seeing contextless colors (ie: a uniform green screen)
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 2 months ago:
They did researchers with fMRI that showed that the same colors activated brains of viewers the same way, giving as much weight as possible to the idea that people perceive colors the same way.
- Comment on I said maybe 2 months ago:
Is it n-string rollover? How many simultaneous string pluck?
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 2 months ago:
The whole point was to get people sitting at the same table to reduce risks of conflicts… Without veto power, some countries would never have joined, which is unfortunate.
- Comment on Witness 2 months ago:
They can sell it as premium footage at a later date!
- Comment on Witness 2 months ago:
My understanding was that it was a risky moment, they didn’t want to risk showing astronautes dying… But that doesn’t make sense since the same logic applies to most of the launch!
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 months ago:
Its pronounced “I-see-pee”
Yes, I’m an official adult, why do you ask?
- Comment on Nothing Ever Happens 2024-YR4 2 months ago:
Former astronomer here! You can download a lot of data from open access websites such as data.nasa.gov or any of the big digital surveys.
I don’t know about today’s data format, but it used to be all on the FITS format, with lots of libraries in Python/Matlab/etc., and also the excellent SAOImage DS9, all available for free.
Here are some links: sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/…/download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS www.stsci.edu/…/our-collections www.sdss.org/dr19/data_access/
- Comment on Dear Faith IV 3 months ago:
No matter how bad the writing was, this is not a good thesis supervisor! It’s funny to read the sassy reply, but I’d hate this professor…
Even doctoral students are still students and are there to learn.
A better review would have been something like “There are severe issues with the structure of the text” and then refer to an external resource on technical writing…
- Comment on Why nor???? 3 months ago:
It probably produce/absorb heat somehow when being deformed. Then, we use it to boil water, turn a turbine, and generate power!