who /modafinil/ or /nootropic/ here?
Feels pretty good so far, am I gonna regret it later on? I haven't read too much about either.
tried modafinils alot before. fuck me if i do another one
>>7991286
why? I don't see downsides so far
>>7991241
Didn't do a lot for me but I typically take adderall.
When is she going to write a Calculus book?
>>7986951
Well she has an Erdos number and I'm guessing you don't.
>>7987179
You misunderstand. I'm not making fun of her. I actually want a calculus book from her. I mean most math books are so damn dry.
>>7987179
>thinking an Erdos number justifies the blatant stupidity her books demonstrate
This is another example of the theory I'm always hammering on about: mathematical ability doesn't mean a single thing when it comes to being a smart person. There's a trap that posts here with a PhD who got into math after an insult to HIS intellect and autistically pursued the goal. Mathematics is a matter of time and dedication, any person can reach a very high level.
Just imagine publishing a book with such shameless titles and messages instead of writing papers and studying more.
Why would you choose the sellout route? Money. She's a run of the mill whore who had some mathematical talent, when she had an easier route, she took it.
>"Her books include Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics."
Girls can do math too XD XD
So what's the deal with teleporters? I mean I know as far as the rest of the universe is concerned it's me stepping in and stepping out, but I get the intuition that I don't survive the process in the same way I don't survive getting torn into my constituent particles by a close range nuclear explosion.
>>7992205
It scans you, and by scan I mean it completely destroys you. You die, case closed.
Then it transmits the 0s and 1s equivalent of you to a remote location where magic happens in a magical machine that assembles a copy of you in a magical amount of time. People will say that is the real you. But, it isn't you at all.
Here's the fun part, the being created by this copying process will think it is the real you, unless it knows how the process works. Then it will know it is merely a copy. There begins an existential crises for a being that thinks exactly like you think.
So, tell us, what would you be thinking after walking out of a teleporter, knowing that you were just born, but burn with the same shit someone else had including all their faults, skills, and history? I'd probably be a good bit mournful.
I know one thing, I'd sure as hell stay away from fucking teleportation.
Now, consider this. How about a type of teleportation that only scans your brain's neuron connections without killing you or wiping your memory and taking a sample of your DNA and sequencing it? Then it transmits this info to a remote location and clones a brand new body complete with your memories. You'd still be alive at least.
>>7992274
>Now, consider this. How about a type of teleportation that only scans your brain's neuron connections without killing you or wiping your memory and taking a sample of your DNA and sequencing it? Then it transmits this info to a remote location and clones a brand new body complete with your memories. You'd still be alive at least.
Nothing can deconstruct and recreate every subatomic particle and their properties that encompasses your entire body in the correct order and without temporal shifting.
I'm sure that teleportation is one of the things that humanity will never achieve 100% guaranteed.
Let's talk about how awesome transhumanism will be.
I want a brain augmentation that allows me to be super smart and store tons of knowledge in my brain.
I also want a body made of nanomachines like the liquid terminator.
k thx.
> omg i want all the thing i saw in my manchildren cartoons to magically become real xDDD
> sciense rite guise ? :D :D :D
get the fuck out retard
>>7983434
fuck you, the future belongs to man children.
man children with balls.
>>7983436
we are gonna be mother fucking power rangers nigger
The notion of "five senses" does not include temperature. Is the bodies ability to distinguish temperatures objectively similar to touch?
To me, subjectively, my ability to distinguish hot and cold is as different to distinguishing pressure as say, touch vs taste, is listing 6 distinct senses more accurate than just the 5?
"Humans have more than the commonly cited five senses. The number of senses in various categorizations ranges from 5 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body and limb position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and relative temperature (thermoception). Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, fullness of the stomach, need to urinate, need to defecate, and blood carbon dioxide levels." -wikipedia: List of common misconceptions
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
>>7991910
Thermoceptors are part of touch.
>>7991935
>the sense of time
how does that work then
In South Korea a large number of women did plastic surgery: isn't this going to worsen their gene pool?
Those with enough money to do it will have more chances to marry and procreate too, but they'll pass the bad traits just removed with the surgery to their kids.
Are you somehow under the impression that only the most attractive people have children?
worsen as in uglier ? than maybe.
because this type of selective breeding only rewards actually pretty ones and ugly ones with money. the hideous ones whom even makeup can't fix don't get to procreate.
its kinda the same in everywhere
>>7991744
>they'll pass the bad traits
There is no trait that is "objectively" bad evolutionarily. There are traits that increase/have no change on or decrease fitness.
Medicine and cosmetic procedures can and have allowed traits to persist in populations that would not have survived or have existed at current proportions. It doesn't matter though since these traits don't decrease fitness and select against an individual any longer.
>but what if modern medicine disappears because of a disaster and some of these traits will decrease fitness then
Use your brain, friend. :)
The very demonstrated premise of cellular life in a planet with right conditions, evolving into conscious complex organisms like humans which built civilizations, means of transportation and communication, simply establishes that nobody can say alien life can't exist.
Prove me wrong.
>>7991199
Alien life can't exist.
I just said it OP. You can deposit my 5 shekels in my paypal.
>>7991199
The fact we exist simply means extraterrestrial life is "likely"
>Prove me wrong.
Eat a dick you fedora tipping piece of shit
>>7991199
>nobody can say alien life can't exist.
That's a pretty low bar, Opie.
What is this shit?
Some divide by zero nonsense
False equivalency
>>7991136
(a-b)=0
You can't divide by zero which is where the problem arises.
Do we all agree on these?
∞ + 1 ≠∞
∞ - 1 ≠∞
∞ / 1 = ∞
∞ * 1 = ∞
>>7989597
>implying you can perform arithmetic operations on infinity
underage pls go
>>7989597
No.
>>7989597
What do those first two equal then, if not infinity?
If you lose half your genes every generation in sexual reproduction doesn't that mean that eventually your genes will be lost? So what was the point in the first place.
>>7987611
No not necessarily, many of our genes are still the same more or less as we've had since being single-cell organisms. And there is no point.
>>7987616
Actually speaking of being single-celled, mitochondria used to be free single celled organisms but we've co-opted them to produce energy for us.
>>7987617
Margulis pls
/g/ didn't seem impressed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazFiIhwAEs
>>7987250
>/g/ didn't seem impressed.
Quadcopters aren't particularly good helicopters.
>>7987265
technically it's not "quad" since there's 18 of them.
but the thing practically flies itself. how is that not a good thing?
>>7987271
what advatages does it offer?
because I ai't seeing it.
how do yall mother fuckers feel about this as a field of health/medicine/study/biology/whateverthefuck? you, your mother fucking self. john q. whatever the fuck. your own god damn opinions.
dont bs me.
>>7984524
I feel that it is a real scientific field with merit as schizophrenia and depression, for instance are real conditions which requires sometimes long term care and medication. However, I also feel that there are a lot of biased diagnoses, influence from pharmaceutical companies and a lot of stupid people who want attention, get involved in the field, get subjectively diagnosed, and then complain about having a bunch of disorders (but they love the attention and pretending their life is so tough).
Honestly it's a disgrace to medicine and everyone knows psychiatrists are just failed MDs
>>7984603
No it isn't and you're just parroting things you've seen autists say.
Have gravity been proven? i don understand what gravity is or how it works. how is this a proven theory, when no one can prove gravity exist?
i dint get it.
>>7983213
>Have gravity been proven? i don understand what gravity is or how it works. how is this a proven theory, when no one can prove gravity exist?
>
>i dint get it.
Yes
>>7983217
Could you explain it then, if its so easy.
>>7983221
Www.wikipaedo.br/gravity
What is wrong with this picture?
A isn't there
>>7979723
A stands for area.
>>7979726
oh man I'm really tired
Will science be the only effective weapon against an alien invasion?
>>7979135
Hate to break it to you but the jews are already here.
>>7979135
theres a small possibility left that an alien race didnt figure out nuclear particle/forces
in this case: muuuuhahahaha
>>7979141
What do you mean dude?
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