/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10061830
>that brace style
I think I'm in love.

>>10000124
>Why fucking bother doing anything when Wolfram or Tao could do it in a tenth of the time?
Why do you compare yourself to people you will never meet? It's simple why you should bother: because the world is not a single player (and not even a multiplayer) game. It's a convention where there are multiple games going on and you're free to join the table you think will be the most fun. In order to have fun, you don't need to play into big leage games. You only need to play with friends. If you had friends who would appreaciate you knowing math for whatever reason (e.g. if they love math too or even if they just need it for a test) it would make everything you do purposeful, like this has said: >>10000722

Holy Roman Empire couldn't exist if it was just the Pope and archbishops, without monks and missionaries all over the place.
You can take role of a monk and still contribute in ways this anon outlined >>10000678

>I want to learn maths and science in my free time
Why do you want to do this? You dont have this resolved. You apparently want to impress Stephen and Terry but they already know this stuff. They literally have decades of experience; it's their job.
Again, you either need to find people who will be appreciative of what you know or find a personal reason to acquire this knowledge.

>And now the IQ meme infects every aspect of my life, not just maths etc.
You're worrying your life away. For what? /sci/ anons will forget about your existence as soon as your thread dies.
Terry and Stephen never knew about your existence to begin with even though you've thought about them so much.

>I can spot bullshit and logical fallacies and so on.
Apparently couldn't spot the 'imposter syndrome', lmao.

>>9408719
i'm not some beta male. I've gone up to girls and asked for numbers, i tried to find a new chick to go after each semester. I've joined groups like the Society of Physics Students, and done other social shit. I even play pokemon go quite often, but girls just dont want to talk to me. Someone has to be the statistic, so i guess its me. Im the pathetic outcast loser no one enjoys being around, and will die alone after suffering endlessly through his life.

>>9383617
>he wants to do something other than work hard
enjoy your life of shit

>>9242678
>not setting up a schedule then blowing it off
>not drinking / playing vidya half the night then hating yourself the next morning as you drive to class dog tired and vowing that TODAY is the day you will become truly productive
>not getting home and doing it all over again
>not shitposting on 4chan instead of being productive and getting shit done

Before I jump in here I want to distance myself from a lot of the egocentrism that is present in discussions of god. Gallbladders exist in many different animals, I am just using humans as an example, I do not believe this “higher purpose” I have been alluding to is specific to humans, I think it is the goal for all forms of life, humans just have a nice head start, with that clear let’s continue:

>The universe from the perspective of humans
Nearly all men of science conclude that humans, and life in general exists to survive. Few would dispute the idea of survival as an objective reality. Whatever we have defined as “life” does indeed exist in this universe and the laws of physics do indeed compel it to attempt to “survive”.

The idea of biological survival is so widely accepted that it is frequently the basis of arguments against a god or higher purpose for life. After all, any thoughts we have of god are simply manifestations of our brains curiosity which was a trait we developed early on because it was beneficial to our survival as living things. Here is the problem with using survival as the counter to a belief in higher purpose, is that survival is not a purpose, it is merely a function. The same the function of a gallbladder is a decoder of chemical signals to be decoded, the function of humans (and all life) is to survive. FUNCTION != PURPOSE, this has been proven by the example of the gallbladder.

>>8769662
>when you spend your whole day shitposting about muh genetics on /pol/ then realize you're still a piece of shit so you come to shitpost on /sci/
End yourself.

I googled this shit but the results are all clickbait, people trying to sell books, snake oil, etc. Or faggots saying "just do it"

If I saw someone playing one of those japanese dating sims or something and they just instructed their character to lay in bed all day doing fuck all I'd think they were a complete idiot. And yet that's how I direct my own life