/sci/ - Science & Math

My preferred method is cutting it off with a chainsaw, and then stick your balls up your bladder area so it makes you look as though you have a vagina.. That's just me though.

What did you expect from these women

Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?

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I haven't read his book, but in one of his presentations Sam Harris basically said that if we take the purpose of ethics as to reduce suffering, then we can arrive at supportable conclusions.

The problem is this: if we quantify suffering, say, through MRI scans to find out if someone is displeased: the ideal society would be Brave New World. Nobody thinks drugging everybody into delusional happiness is ethical, though it does make everyone happiest. The ideal does illogically involve some kind of challenge and relationship to reality, whatever that means. Those are not objective things. Since ethical ideals* are illogical and a product of our minds, we cannot objectively support what people think is ethically right.

* Defining ethics here as what feels right; of course if you define ethics as "maximizing potential to colonize planets" you can objectively support ethics, but this is a buttfuckingly stupid definition.

hey /sci/

I have come to a huge revelation about the US educational system that I hope can be rectified. Currently I'm a Greekfag in the UK finishing last year of 6th Form (age 18 to 19) and I am considering applying to an Top 5 Ivy League Uni (Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc). What surprises me when I looked at the academic requirements for international applicants at these Unis was that they asked me to take a SAT 1 and 2 subject SATs to prove academic aptitude and that my UK qualifications are not really considered (which fyi are apparently of a much more complex syllabus), which when I did some practice questions of I found the level of mathematics in SATs to be equal to what we do at GCSE in the UK (15-16) and even younger in other European countries. What also surprised me was that they are MULTIPLE CHOICE ?!, come the fuck on this shit was taken out of every exam here ages ago for making things too easy.
Now I am almost sure this is not the only thing you guys need to do to get into the most prestigious unis on the planet, but then again I have absolutely no idea of the US educational system, I keep hearing of some AP ?? classes you take, what are they like ? basically what is it like for an American to get accepted into such Unis, is it deceptively easy on purpose or has your educational system seriously deteriorated so far as apparent ?

(also no trolling attempt if I sound aggressive or insulting, I am just immensely surprised and curious)