/sci/ - Science & Math

Because, change is hard. Some people are weak.

Daily reminder that David Sarif was right.

I want to see what is considered "AP" internationally. Post a topic you learn about in AP Phys or Chem and your country.

South Africa - De Brogli's equation

>>3639974
>>3639975

OH WELL

I'll start downloading it through the normal Internet. It's faster but... I have to click more than twice ;_;

Also, does anyone have this urge to go watch the Ghost in the Shell movie after watching the Deus Ex trailer? :D

Like augmentation?

my vision is augmented

jc a bomb

a bomb

>>3243928

Yes, I heard of it; the clock evolved to use the radio waves from a computer in a nearby table as ticks.

Anyone who seriously thinks "it's just a matter of computing power" is delusional, but still we've made great progress. We simulated a rat's cerebellum, mother of fuck. And what happened to that open-source group that intended to upload a worm's mind?

What's the outlook for technology/advancement in the future, how would it effect politics + life?

Follow Samefag's steps and become a neuroscientist, work on brain-computer interfaces, and always remember to read your PAIP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnWSah4RD2E&feature=related

>>3186210

>OTOH, Lisp would make a perfectly good plumbing language if more libraries had Lisp bindings.

http://www.quicklisp.org/
http://www.cliki.net/index (Under "Free Software Lisp libraries")

Common Lisp has had a hard time because historically Lisp was used for mental masturbation, but this is not the case anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WJ19Ndz

Does this get you excited for the future, /sci/?

Now on to the dump.

>Love” is such a slippery word to begin with, like “God”.
>It is exactly whatever the speaker means by it at the moment, and thus impervious to any challenge. If one drills down too closely to its meaning, one finds it has moved and become something else; because when it becomes too clear what you are talking about, well, that can’t possibly be love.
>As my own mind is progressively shaped by the thoughts of those before me (those who once were me but not, and thus my own thoughts, but not) I find the concept of love neatly partitioning itself within my mental vocabulary, attaining a new crispness of expert familiarity.
>As with the many Inuit names for the handful of truly distinct things we just label snow, my mind has a unique name for each facet of love. With this simple arsenal, the slipperiness fades and the matter becomes downright ordinary.
>Perhaps I will endeavor to invent spoken words for these distinct concepts, introduce them implicitly to Laura over the course of time, give her mind the same handles that mine has, to see if this enables her to grasp it as I do.

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>100% efficient transport
Lisa! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

>Panoptic surveillance
Sure is Big Bro in here.

>Concentric railway
Too centralized, leaves no room for extra construction (Then again it's a fucking island)

>Footage stored in a database
Well that solves the problem of heating in winter, people can just huddle close to the computers as they churn out waste heat and the whole island gets hot enough for spontaneous pair-production.

>GOLD STATUE
No.

>Splitting people by specialities
Gee putting the intellectuals in their ivory towers and the rest in cleaning the toilets sure sounds like a good plan to breed Harmony and Love.

>Every relevant field ever
Intellectual scarcity, if not resource scarcity.

>>2924450

>Why? The only justification to go to such a planet is if Earth was literally about to be destroyed.

Luddite detected.

>And mars is so fucking dull nobody would even want to live there.

This is the science board, people with no curiosity not allowed.

>We should go places that actually have resources

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Posthumans gonna post.

ITT: Human augmentation, prosthesis and transhumanism

Is this a likely future /sci/?
How far away or near transhumanism are we?
Would you "upgrade" yourself if you could? Even if you're perfectly healthy?

>>2608741

This mutha mutha!