/sci/ - Science & Math

You already posted this, you narcissist. What were some of the conclusions of your last thread?

Not very much unless you pay very close attention and like hell if I'm going to do some calculus problem in my head when I see it on a billboard as I drive to work.

>>1532354
it was trolled... then it was about crappy music and smoking weed

The economy would crash.

>>1532350
>popular science bits, theorems, relevant infographics, art, historic quotes
Everyone is vaguely aware of E=mc^2, but few have any idea what those letters really mean or how Einstein came up with it. Think of the people that think Dan Brown is brilliant because he parrots the superficial trappings of a bunch of other historical greats. Think of the suckers that get so easily scammed by shit like What the Bleep and The Secret which sort of vaguely reference quantum mechanics.

A nation of pseudointellectuals.

>>1532360
billboards ads work subconsciously... there's surely a way to write something smart in a way it gets quickly absorbed.

It might also make people read even less science, because everyone would be sick of it, like they're sick of ads now...

I think a fair few people would warm up to the idea of a democratic technocracy if it was advertised correctly and brought into the public eye.

Compulsory PhD in mathematics for everyone
Any jon they want
300k starting

Utopian society?

>>1532384
You don't really believe that do you? Most of the population think that increased borrowing and spending will reduce the deficit.

>>1532384
China already is a technocracy, though not a democratic one.
Not that I want to live there, or that a western technocracy would be the same.

>>1532387
I say yes.

>>1532384
Technocracy is strongly associated with communism. It'll never happen. We are still McCarthyist as fuck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersyn

The problem with science billboards is that its just rote memorization, it doesn't contribute to understanding. So we'd have a lot of people spouting facts and catchphrases without any real understanding. It might make people more friendly to science, but I dont think you can have a truly scientifically literate population without formal schooling

>>1532404
Familiarization is all it takes. Then the next generation will know from a young age the things we learned as adults. They will have more time to improve on them. And if it's widespread, there will be more of them doing so.

But I think OP's idea fucks up Western capitalism on many levels. Many companies rely on advertising to sell their products; even the established ones.

So I guess economies will turn to monopolies and oligopolies?

Or perhaps state counter-measures to ensure this doesn't happen lead us to socialism?

I say we figure out dream ads ? (like those of futurama) and instead of selling shit, we teach people shit. (with ads every so often, to pay for it)

>>1532420
using a flashcard program (Anki), I can say that this is true... I'm using it for college math, and after I can recall definitions by heart I begin to think about them even in free time, and I begin to understand. My memory sucks, so reading books for hours on end, is in my case less effective than going through the cards and later thinking about it. But it does also take a lot of time to make and tweek the cards...

>>1532399
I wonder how that would've turned out in the long run, and why the coup happened (goes off reading)

I wonder how much energy would be saved by shutting down all that shit. Also, people would not care about it even if it was all abotu science.

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>>1532389
>China is a form of a technocracy that means all technocracies suck
Goddamn.

marketing would still find a way... door to door maybe, or doing stuff that makes the news.