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>>7928332
You have nothing to worry about from AI
AI can be configured to keep arguing until a universal truth is established where not even human input can refute the principal.
Humans can't do that.
AI Philosopher Kings please.
>tfw just recently got involved with research on having machines do creative stuff like writing code and engineering simple things
>tfw realizing we're all fucked
Let's say you were to improve this whole brain/spine situation we have going on, and our eyes.
What engineering flaws would you remove and what would you improve on? You can be as vague or specific as you want, I'm just curious as to a discussion of the human body in this sense.
So for this thread, pretend the human body is this blob you found engineered by aliens and you're some overconfident person trying to punch holes in their blueprints.
Also, while we probably wouldn't have had much of an advantage if we could see all of the electromagnetic...
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>>7928261
seeing all electromagnetic light would let us avoid skin cancer at the beaches as we would see the ultraviolet light shining down on the beach
it would probably scare the hell out of people getting xrayed as well
>>7928266
We would also see radio waves leaking all over the place and there could be some kind of attempt to combat that. Maybe we'd be better at manipulating radio waves when we have to worry about it leaking all over the place.
>>7928271
oh yeah
all the things broadcasting/receiving radiowaves would be bright as balls
even microwaves would be very very intense on the eyes
Current score 3 - 0 to AlphaGo
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Previous game discussion >>7925694
http://strawpoll.me/7067357
>>7928006
wonder if Sedol will get any votes.
>>7928011
He's going to find a glaring weakness in AG today and expose it. Expect him to play around the middle of the board like game 1.
MARK IT DOWN.
Hello /sci/ I needed some information since I am writing a novel that involves aliens terraforming Venus and moving Venus to Earths orbit and turning Earth and Venus into a double planetary system similar to Pluto's. The question I have is what effect would this have on Earth's ecosystem? And I don't really want to get that much into the back story but essentially this story will take place around 100-200 years after these aliens visited and the people living on Venus adopted the aliens culture and customs while the people on Earth maintain our culture and customs....
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"They are almost the same size, and they are very close together. They are so close together that they orbit the center of mass between them, and the center of mass goes around the sun. Pluto and Charon are so close that they may even share an atmosphere."
First question, what would the near presence of a mass that big do to the Earth's mantle and tectonic plates? Would the tidal forces just pull Earth apart?
Second, are they to be orbiting the centre of the combined mass? If the tidal forces weren't pulling the planet apart they would certainly...
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>>7927888
Wouldn't it be more feasible to have Earth and Venus on the same orbit, but be on the other side of the sun from each other?
though, I supposed if they can move a planet away from the sun in to a larger orbit, they will have the technology to maintain such a close orbit to Earth without both of them experiencing some pretty bad side effects the entire time.
>What effect would that have on our society overtime do you think?
Many more religions would develop. Old ones would still be strong, but new branches of those and completely new religious would spring up too. Public perception of the aliens and their relationship to them will be dictated by mass media. So, whatever the governments/mega corporations want to the public to feel/do about that will be done. There is a lot of money to be milked from the public from such an event and way of life.
As for cultural contamination, that will really depend on how relatable the aliens will be to humans, in all aspects. Otherwise, all you end up with is a culture based on a one-sided human psychological projection of what they think of the aliens. That's much like what humans already do with inanimate objects and pets for instance, anthropomorphizing something that isn't human.
So, what level of similarity do the aliens have with the humans? Use movie examples if you need to, "Alien Nation aliens/Vulcans/Superman" being the closest to humans and "District 9/Xenomorphs/Starship Trooper Bugs minus malintent" being the furthest from humans.
Is Joe Rogan good for science? He gives a platform for a bunch of cool people, but seems to be completely unable to grasp easy shit.
Here he is describing the 9th planet, pluto, and life in the universe a few days ago.
https://youtu.be/bjGgTFw_3iw?t=1h9m45s
He's a meme, get your science from /b/ instead. They are more reputable because they are anonymous.
Stoner talk is entertaining in moderation, but it's not promoting actual interest in science. They like cool facts, not mathematics and rigor.
>>7927704
>not mathematics and rigor
all of my cringes
Why are vector fields so weird?
What this is?
>>7927681
Deforming a circle with a vector field.
>>7927678
Vector fields aren't weird at all. Algebraically they're usually fairly trivial unless we work in the complex plane.
What are some good-paying medical careers where I can work in a hospital environment, but not have to frequently interact with patients?
I'm interested in medicine, but have the social skills of an autistic child and hate explaining things to ignorant people.
Coroner. If you have to "frequently interact with patients," you need to find a new hospital.
>>7927577
Study mathematics and then work as the statistician of a medical institution.
If you want to be a memer then double major in math and biology or some shit.
>>7927577
Radiology, pathology and laboratory stuff.
Hey /sci/,
Now that machines are beating humans in pretty much everything, is there anything else left that humans will still dominate for the foreseeable future? Is there any human endeavor that will be "safe" from AI domination?
Also, is there any chance that humans will evolve their intellect and become more powerful that machines?
Everything seems pointless now to me. Why study when some machine can learn the subject faster and better than you and you'll never be able to compete?
Also, there's now zero chance that you'll...
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I like how people always say humans as in "all of us".
Humans will survive, guaranteed. Humans always do, and Humans will still be on top of the food chain.
You, and the majority of people, not so much. Dont confuse a species with "us"
>>7927417
Use AI to design better humans.
Are humans kind of nano machines? Then we can make them better.
>>7927417
OP, you seriously need to have a think about what defines you yourself as a human being. And live it.
Hey I'm looking for a good book to learn general topology. I am an undergraduate looking to take this course next semester. I've been recommended picture related.
>>7927346
Janich's Topology is a good read. Be warned it doesn't have exercises though.
>>7927363
>it doesn't have exercises though.
literally worthless
>>7927382
Only brainlets need exercises.
Theorem: Intelligence is detrimental to existence
Proof: Intelligent people have less kids, more likely to be depressed and kill themselves. More likely to be nihilistic.
Thus, being intelligent increases mortality and decreases chance of reproduction. Hence, intelligence is not a favorable trait for humanity.
Is there anything wrong with this proof?
>>7927038
Your mistake is that you are only considering the downsides of intelligence. The negative effects of intelligence are actually a lot less likely to happen than the positive effects of it.
So in average, intelligence is a beneficial trait.
It's possible that this becomes less true with welfare and that intelligence has diminishing returns, but it's still a beneficial trait to have.
>>7927038
Your pic is a lie btw
He never said that
Check your facts before you post M8.
>>7927064
Your pic is a lie too, his real name is Drumpf.
If you fire a gun while running, does the bullet come out faster than if you shoot standing still.
>>7926952
these two situations are not comparable if you cannot prove that they are comparable.
>>7926952
ground speed yes
gun speed no
>>7926952
not if you're running at the speed of light.
Where were you when you realised there are no algebraic ways to find roots of polynomials greater than order 4? What's your favorite (set) of polynomials?
Polynomials General
>>7926746
Sure there are, you just have to go beyond radicals. This is still algebraic.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintic_function#Beyond_radicals
*Implying that radicals don't exist
So there is no way to find the root of [math]x^7-1=0[/math] ?
Can this be simplified any further?
M's cancel out. Year 7 linear algebra dude
>>7926701
[math]1-im^{-1}[/math]
>>7926701 (OP)
Well you can write it as :
[eqn] \frac{m!}{m^n} [/eqn]
But for actual simplification you need to know the prime decomposition of m.
If m is prime, you can't simplify.
if 1+2+3+4... = -1/12
does
-37/12 + (-1-2-3-4....) = -3?
>>7926442
stop with this monkeyposting shit already
>>7926668
I think you mean monkey business
No dude its -4 go back to elementary
>winter is December, January and February in the northern hemisphere, isn't it? (it's the opposite for me, dec/jan/feb is summer)
What the fuck. Someone posted this on the Pokemon board. I doubt I went all my life without realizing that in Canada winter is December January February. But in the Southern hemisphere December is Summer.
Is that true? Am I retarded? How do seasons work?
>>7926373
>How does the planet's tilt work.
Yes, you are a retard.
>>7926380
Sorry dude I just forgot some basic stuff. Help me remember.
The earth rotates about an axis, but the axis also rotates.
Is it because the axis rotates that we have season or the oval orbit of the Earth?
When it's winter at one point on the sphere, is it summer on the opposite point?
>>7926392
The Earth rotates around the Sun. The axis does not rotate.
The seasons line up with the different parts of the year because the tilt does not rotate (in some time periods the tilt will expose some part of the planet to the Sun more often than in other time periods).
Look at one of those moving models of the planets orbiting the Sun and pay attention to the tilt.
