Like, we’ll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.
Causal relationship between social media and degradation of basic critical thinking skills. Not just tiktok, anything in which people are primarily communicating asynchronously and has a “reward” (likes, upvotes, etc)
So Reddit/Lemmy for sure included
Casually closes this app, knowing I will be back in half an hour
I think a major issue is that nobody checks sources. Earlier, when everybody watched the news or read papers, sources were more reputable (not infallible for sure). Now any random creator can sway your opinion without that reputability. Pretty inherent to the internet as algorithms decentralise everybody into their own corner.
nice, have an upvote.
A high-resolution picture made on nearby “neutron stars” or nearby “stellar black holes”.
Like dark matter and the big bang they don’t exist and
so whatever they’re looking at will never conform to their theories.
Both of these type of objects are stars larger than jupiter with the latter being the largest class of supergiants.Come again?
Aspartame cures cancer, but only when ingested in soda.
Pi equals exactly 3.
The most effective, universal vaccine is based on asbestos.
I think it’ll be wild if AI actually becomes incredibly intelligent. I’m thinking specifically about materials and what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.
what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.
A LLM wouldn’t be useful but I wonder how far this can be done without AI (machine learning) technology, just programmatically like with protein folding simulations.
Microplastics and penile length. Seen some studies recently though lol.
You can get any length you want if you shove enough microplastics in there.
id rather have a small penis than be full of mircoplastics
The current studies are trying to say that the microplastics are causing length to be shorter, lol.
oh…well maybe that’s why it’s looking smaller…
For me it’s not the microplastics, it’s just bad genetics lol.
I only eat macrosplastics for this very reason
If you get your wiener hot enough, you can mold it into any shape you want.
We find out we need douchebags because
ourtheir assholery emits some kind of pheromone or something that repels imperialist extraterrestrialsWe need douchebags already so we can feel less of a bad person while the one next to you is being an ass. Lol. Keyword: feel.
I’ll take the imperialist extraterrestrials, they’re probably gonna be easier to mobilize humans in opposition against than the terrestrial imperialists we have now.
I’ve got a couple that roll around in my head, radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point. Assuming we don’t burn ourselves off this earth in the next few years I think we’ll see some progress on this. Moderna is known for their COVID shot, however they have basically eliminated melanoma with a tailored injection. Last I looked at it, it was in it’s mid stage or something and was almost 100% effective.
Honestly most cancer therapy is like that. Chemo and radio are basically working on the fact that your body is more resilient than cancer cells so they will likely die before you do. They are not pleasant things to go through. Surgery is your best option if it’s available and that involves chopping out chunks of yourself.
radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point.
We already know it’s barbaric. It’s a last resort. It kills you and the cancer, only the cancer gets the worst of it. It’s a terrible solution to the problem, only a step better than death.
There was a news story recently about a virologist who possibly cured her own stage 3 cancer using this technique. Obviously more study is needed but it looks promising!
If it turns out there really is no free will. What will happen? Do we get a kind Utopia? Or fascism where you are mistreated based on your lot in life?
There’s no functional difference, unless you can accurately predict someone’s actions, and to do that you’d need to predict the environment in which someone is making choices as well, which requires omniscience. So, there’s no functional difference.
Unpredictability is not the same as free will.
Yes, but if there is true free will, the universe would not be perfectly predictable. If it is, then there could not be free will. Luckily, it isn’t.
I would say deterministic rather than predictable.
I think the universe is deterministic and that there isn’t something inside our heads that bypasses determinism and creates free will.
But we know for sure that the universe is not deterministic.
From a fundamental level, it is probabilistic.
Simple experiments can show this chaotic action.
Take for example the dripping tap experiment. The time for next drop cannot be predicted by knowing the timing of the previous drops!
This is not a random process, there is a pattern, but it is also clearly not deterministic.We can’t predict it because we can’t possibly know everything. But unpredictably isn’t the same as randomness or implies nondeterministic behaviour.
If you are really interested, look into the uncertainty principle.
At this point in science we are as convinced as is possible to be; that the universe is probabilistic in nature.
Remember the reasons we have punishments? To discourage further misdeeds. Also, to restore justice by inflicting suffering on those who deserve it. Punishments would still be dished out for pragmatic reasons, but retributive punishment would be rendered entirely meaningless.
It would also shatter all sense of acomplishment an individual could have. All that would be left is maybe a perverse pride in knowing you where born “better” than others.
I don’t think society would survive if it was a common knowledge.
Like I said, how can you prove that free will exists now? We could very well already live in your scenario, and the world isn’t ending because of a lack of free will (if it doesn’t exist). I mean, it is ending, but not because of free will or the lack thereof.
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That may actually explain why I rarely get sick. I’m having a hard time remembering a single day of this year where I was sick that wasn’t caused by things like eating uncooked foods or something else of that nature.
The breakdown between quantum and classical physics is proven to be optimizations in a simulation and then everyone kinda shrugs because it’s real enough and scientists are driven up the wall trying to figure out some sort of way to actually use this knowledge for any purpose
Wouldn’t proof that we’re in a simulation also mean pretty concrete proof that there’s no afterlife or any form of continuation of consciousness when we die?
Like, I doubt your virtual machines go to heaven when you close them.
Yeah but could they be saved and restarted? Or better yet, restarted from an earlier save but with access to older saves?
If life is a simulation, afterlife can be simulated as well.
Why would an optimization make things more complicated? The point of optimizations in any simulation is to simplify the complexity of the computation. The entire reason why there is a multi-billionaire industry to research quantum computers is because they are exponentially more difficult to simulate than classical physics, so they are not practical to simulate on a classical computer. Seems weird to me that a simulator would “optimize” things by making them enormously more complex.
Classical physics is the optimization. Kicking a ball is kicking a ball if you’re zoomed out far enough
Do you even need quantum mechanics to make that argument, then? You’re basically saying weak emergence is evidence of being in a simulation because you can approximate nature much simpler when “zoomed out.” It seems like even if we did not have quantum mechanics you could still make that argument.
Do you even realize you’re in an asklemmy post regarding hypothetical scientific studies (OP even referenced booger eating ffs). Way to kill the vibe
So many skibidi vibes here man, it was all vibes rizzing up this place and until I came and unvibed everything. The vibes are so joever vro I was just mogged. 😔
I think you have something there with the booger theory. Please do testing and report back.
i will willingly submit my boogers for science.
I consider Extended Wigners Friend Problem Experiment to be quite fascinating. This experiment has already been performed, but I expect its results to be fully understood by the masses. And I am not proffesional physicist and want to understand it better too by myself. a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality The results of this experiment call into question one or more assumptions about the existence of objective reality, freedom of choice, or locality. All three cannot exist together. But personally, I think that the second and third points have been checked a lot of times, so no matter how improbable it may seem, the first point is the most likely.
Wow that website is awful
Sorry for this website it’s not some special website, just one of many website describing the experiment. You can search in internet for better site with review of this experiment(Extended Wigners Friend Experiment).
Solid proof that the source of all life on this planet actually began on a different world. The critical components came here via a comet or even an spacecraft that inadvertently dropped it off. Should screw with a lot of ideals
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“Scientists find proof that the hand of God created all life on Earth.”
Solid proof of God? Yeah that would change things
I was referring to how it would be spun if life was proven to have come from an extra terrestrial source.
You still have to come up with the explanation of what started life in the first place!
This is always my reaction to this theory as well. If someone asks “How did life on Earth start?”, surely we can assume they actually mean “How did life start?”
It’s like if a kid saw a baby, and asks their parents “Where do babies come from?”, and their reply is “Oh that baby lives next door, it came from that house”.
Id expand on this. I think the entire solar system has microbial life. Every crack it can exist it will. Asteroids, comets, the gas giants. Its likely all related too. Itd be mostly underground tho and hard to find. Probably multicellular life in some cases too like ice moons, and underground on mars in cave systems.
Still better than the alternative: solid proof that we are in fact alone in the universe
Not only is that unprovable, it seems highly unlikely.
I thought we had evidence that life was seeded from off world? don’t have sources right now but i remember coming by an article explaining that.
Want that the story about the teen aged alien that came here to jack off?
no, a asteroid from space came with the seeds of life that helped kick-start it.
Gravity + velocity: the practical applications of time travel. That or anything investigating anything to do with sentient energy because that will shit all over 99% of every religion.
I was going to go with that one, but I went with something else.
COVID originated in the swamps of the deep south.
Edit: obviously, not really, but we shouldnt be too quick to judge where it came from.
Were you around when the Fort Detrick conspiracy was going around? Obviously not true but has more evidence than the Wuhan shit so was fun to use to push back against that.
