/lit/ - Literature

Important for what?

Self-fellatio. Like seriously, it's perpetuum mobile and motivates you to healthier lifestyle because you want your cum to taste good.

>>5593126
FIRE UP THAT LOUD
ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOTS

>>5593129
>you want your cum to taste good.
So, I have some news about your sexuality that may not be surprising at all.

>>5593113
WOW
a thread about science vs philosophy
there hasn't been one of these for LITERALLY AGES
thank you anon for starting this awesome thread

THANK YOU

>>5593129
> you want your cum to taste good

pro tip : avoid asparagus

Neither. Your ability to understand the world comes from self realization and experiences, not from interpreting and memorizing the ideas of others. Scientists spur progress and advance humankind, but rarely is it a broad shift in intellectualism. Of the current population, how many people are downright idiots? Probably somewhere between 70% and 85%. The rest are above the crowd, but only a tiny fraction are truly beyond the comprehension of their peers.

Those are the ones who think for themselves. The "smartest" people I know are a medical doctor, veterinarian, and a lawyer. All hold multiple degrees and make 6 figures easily.
But they're all incapable of understanding basic human concepts because their life has been a process of simple memorization and repetition. Their ability to create original thoughts is severely diminished, and rather than searching for information they're content with regurgitating what's presented to them.

If anything, I'd say reading fiction expands your mind and broadens your thought processes more than anything else. Reading history certainly helps you to understand human beings, but there comes a point when you also realize that our behaviour is cyclical and predictable. Breaking that chain by failing to repeat history is what you might aim for.

>>5593135
I have some news about your mom that may rustle your jimmies last night.

There is no thing that is important to know.

>>5593168
>that may rustle your jimmies last night.

>implying said production of information has the ability to retro-actively rustle one's jimmies
>some kind of jimmy-rustle-continuum

Are you a wizard

>>5593179
I was quoting "Lycidas" when I was six my friend, you don't want to question my power level.

>>5593113
depends on context of situation honestly

philosophy. unless you're actually doing science it's pretty much worthless. what's the point of reading a pop science book on quantum theory or whatever without actually any of the math behind it? without solving problems? without being able to improve it?

>>5593309
I answered that not as which is more important but which you should know as a layman.

>>5593113
i wish i was samrt enough to be good at math

>>5593327
You are not smart enough for following rules? Don't be ridiculous. Learn the rules by heart and play by them: that's all math is.

>>5593336

There is almost no math left which requires original thought or insight. Unless you're talking about theoretical physics, but that's not strictly math.

Literally 95% of the applied math used in society is available and usable by anyone, even those with low intelligence. It's just memorization and application. Once you know the formula and where to apply it (which is based on further formulas), you're just plugging in numbers like a monkey.

Mountains more respect for the poet than the mathematician.

>>5593398
>Literally 95% of the applied math used in society is available and usable by anyone, even those with low intelligence. It's just memorization and application. Once you know the formula and where to apply it (which is based on further formulas), you're just plugging in numbers like a monkey.
>Mountains more respect for the poet than the mathematician.

>Mathematicians
>having to do with applied math

You wot m8
People like you are why /sci/ laughs at this board

>>5593412

>"A mathematician is a person with an extensive knowledge of mathematics who uses this knowledge in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematics is concerned with numbers, data, collection, quantity, structure, space, models and change."

Is your shitposting intentional or are you legitimately stupid?

>>5593412

you know /sci/ is mostly first year engineering students and the occasional med school hopeful, right? wouldn't put much stock in what they have to say.

>>5593424
I am a math postdoc and post on sci.

>>5593188
Im glad to see this catching on

>>5593113

>>5593519
>mostly

>>5593309
It probably won't make a difference in your day to day life, but knowledge of some basic scientific concepts can help you look at the world with slightly clearer eyes.

It's also surprisingly helpful in detecting bullshit.

>>5593695

Currently a graduate in Physics and regularly attend /sci/. At what point do you question your generalizations?

>>5593113
Shit that looks so comfy

>>5593610

made a lil image to shitpost with :o)

>>5593113
English.

How are you going to read books on philosophy or science without language?

>>5593113
Cognitive psychology and social psychology with a little bit of political philosophy with a tinge of history of philoaophy for flavour.
A little bit of math and physics, undergraduate level. Proficiency at one of the main computer languages and business savvy and you are good to go.

>>5593113
Knowing philosophy will help you understand the past, knowing science will help you understand the future.

Science is more job-wise if your job is scientific, philosophy is more important personally.

>>5593113
If the citizens of this world were to all become more philosophically wise in the course of the next generation we'd probably see more of an impact than if they all became *tips* le science man *tips*.

>>5594600

There are some math books without a single word in their explanations.