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Saying ificial Intelligence makes way more sense then artificial Intelligence.

Artificial comes from Latin artificialis,
from artificium ("craftsmanship" or "skillful work"),
combining ars ("art" or "skill") + facere ("to make").
>Literally, "artificial" means "made by art/skill"

"Ificial" could evoke "made" or "crafted" intelligence — intelligence that is produced, fabricated, or engineered rather than innate or biological.

Isn't that way more logical to say Ificial Intelligence?
>Less letters too
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>>16937377

Don´t make me get the universal solvent ... :p
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>>16937332
If you're cutting it to down to fice/facere there's no need for the I, moron
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e = mc^2 + AI
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>>16937332
That's not how Latin works
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Where did the A.I. discussion come from?

Why the scientific consensus says that women and men have the same iq if imperial data contradicts this statement?
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>>16845334
derp
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>>16845334
>Anonymous 11/13/25(Thu)03:01:26 No.1684
do you think this is some quality post anon?
>imperial
lmao
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>>16927379
>At best, the averages are the same, but there are far more men who are stunning geniuses with the ability to solve world hunger, and correspondingly more absolute human garbage that should be executed the second they take their first breath
Stop repeating what you read in these studies.
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>>16938066
im a stunning genius and i choose to build trading algorithms who the fuck wants to solve world hunger im comfy in my mansion lol
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Lol.

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MOONSHOT
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how will they get back
the newsreaders keep saying to latest burn takes them out of earths gravity

makes you wonder how the moon stays in orbit
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>>16944282
They are on a free return trajectory so even if the engines fail they will return to Earth just by how the orbits work. It's like a figure 8 around the Earth and Moon. That's just for this mission though. When actually landing there they will need to actually enter a stable Lunar orbit then after light up the engines to leave orbit and fire them back at Earth again. That will be using the engines on the ESM (European Service Module) which was successfully tested on Artemis 1.

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What do you do when the professor SUCKS at teaching but attending the class is mandatory? Watching his lectures is waste of time and energy, should I bring the book and learn by myself?
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>>16938483
Yes, you have to learn it yourself. Bring your book or computer. I had a bunch of professors like that, they're assholes lol.
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>>16938483
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.
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Attend an online class for it at the same time, and bring a book of mid-19th century poetry.

Classmaxx.
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>>16938483
Nothing is mandatory. Just skip his classes.
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You should probably try to make the class more productive. Or be more productive in the class if your brain can handle it.

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If the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy was the distance between San Fransisco and New York, Voyager 1 would have travelled a total distance of 4.2 inches.
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>>16937279
Fascinating, if the Enterprise left Earth and traveled at warp factor 1 for exactly 24 hours they would come upon the derelict Voyager spacecraft (that is if a wormhole hasn't yet transported to the domain of the god like machines who transform it into Vger)
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>>16936850
I always fins it funny that normalfags need these kind of comparisons to comprehend the distances in space.
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>>16939108
i was going to say be careful getting off your high horse but realized you're already wearing a helmet
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>>16936850
What is it that you imply? Did you fail to satisfy a woman with your pecker?
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>>16936850
>4.2 inches
we can just round that to 6 inches

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>Day 3 of compulsive wanking, even on uni grounds
>My cock only grows more rigid when I hear her German dialect
Why do I find Sabine irresistibly sexy? What are the underlying psychological causes?
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>>16938826
>Why
because of the edge case you cause. ordinarily, her repulsion of you would be sufficient to gain distance from you such that she can form a sort of creepy interaction event horizon to which you would someday disappear behind.

unfortunately, since your attraction to her is matched by her repulsion, a fact which you are not fully aware, this makes the edge case. normally equal and opposite reactions, object in motion stays in motion, inertia, blah blah blah...

but what about the edge case not of opposite reactions and distances, but the one in which they are reactions sharing the same N-dimensional dot product, meaning that you will always attempt a motion vector in all dimensions with your rock hard prong pointing as a vector notation arrow to Sabine's sweet sweet aristocratically bred and educated turd cutter like some sort of cartoon character pornstar.

because, mathematically, even if you are traveling at 12% of Sabine's escape velocity, that effectively destroys her event horizon to get away from you. does that make sense?
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>>16938826
If you like camping/outdoors stuff then check out survival lilly on YouTube. She might be your type.
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>>16939098
waht the hell happned?
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>>16942390
No
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>>16938826
Ah look at the time, off I go to kill myself to erase this image from my memory.

Are women better scientists and astronauts than men?
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>>16938316
Gross. Science needs to fix women asap
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>>16939149
How?
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>>16943147
No periods. They need to make eggs on the fly instead
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>>16943154
Why
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>>16938486
After all these years, my beloved regex has betrayed me. Many summers of joy and bliss, shattered by this colossal faggot imprinting his homosexual manual-correct before by eyes. I shall cheer the day you wither away in pure agony.

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this nigga is just LARPing now
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holy shit!
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>>16932562
because its a dragon, faggot.
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>>16935146
>calories are not that expensive for me
Wild animals don't have access to high fructose corn syrup
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>>16932068
OP is some 75 IQ thirdie from south America.
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>>16935146
>>16943546
Plenty of animals have absolutely no problem accumulating calories, and there are entire species you'll only ever see fat specimens of (unless they have some debilitating disease or are stranded in a very unsuitable environment)

Maybe dragons NEED to breath fire occasionally to avoid becoming obese and unable to fly, actually.

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The first liquid rocket took flight over 100 years ago. Since then we haven’t developed any new means of space propulsion.

Why are we stagnating?
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>>16943211
Because the combination of our planet's mass, size, and composition makes very few things more efficient for getting lots of mass into orbit.
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>>16943321
There is a good chance there is no FTL. Besides we haven't even implemented NTP which was demonstrated in the 60s. There is no social, cultural or political will to seriously pursue spaceflight
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>>16943211
We've had nuclear thermal rockets for decades, just not flying for safety concerns.
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>>16943211
>The wheel was invented eleventy gorillion years ago. Since then we haven't developed any new means of ground transportation. Why are we stagnating?
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>>16943211
>Why are we stagnating?
N

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Thread for the general discussion of Outbreeding Depression, particularly in humans, though discussions of the trend in other species is encouraged.
This thread seemed to do well last time and was very informative, lots of participation from many anons from different backgrounds citing various forms of evidence on the topic.

Thread Theme:
>"Does Outbreeding Depression occur in Humans? How do we measure it? And is the mainstream consensus on this issue trustworthy? Why or why not?

Adjacent studies and links:
>Icelandic Kinship and Fertility Study, Fertility outcomes (Which refers to positive health outcomes following birth) are optimized around 4th-5th Cousin Pairings.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18258915/

Higher rates of Cesarean Birth in Mixed populations, with literature citing a verifiable medical reason for Asian Women with non-asian fathers, as well as other kinds of negative pregnancy outcomes.
>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2008/10/asian-white-couples-face-distinct-pregnancy-risks-stanfordpackard-study-finds.html
>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18928981/
>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10166644/

Great risk of adverse fertility outcomes in Mixed Race couples often justified by socio-economic conditions, seen as an example of artificial selection where modern medical intervention supersedes natural selection, and masks our ability to accurately observe health and fertility outcomes in these populations.
>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22776059/
>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8274554/
>https://pstc.brown.edu/news/2021-04-16/interracial-couples-have-lower-fertility-rates-average-qian-finds


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You're gonna cause a lot of clitty leakage

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I am starting to use AI (grok) more and more to do research and learn about a wide range of topics.
I can give AI a 50 page Goldman Sachs paper about inflation expectatives due to fuel shortages and it will spit out a short summary with the key points perfectly explained in a few seconds.
But now, in my thinking process, when a new problem appears, mi mind starts to suggest me inmediately 'ask grok about it'.
AI is an amazing tool, but the impact on the human relation with the pool of information out there is going to be that we are going to lose the ability to think for ourselves. Or not?
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Part two
"The deeper tension
The paragraph wants to simultaneously deflate LLMs ("can't come close to matching its most important inputs") and elevate a specific use case for them (the final sentence). Those two moves are compatible, but the philosophical middle section doesn't do much to connect them — it reads more like atmosphere than argument.
Bottom line
The first and last sentences are doing the real intellectual work. The middle is vivid but philosophically underdressed. If the goal is to make a serious point about LLM epistemology, the Schopenhauer detour needs either much more rigor or cutting entirely."
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I was generating a bunch of suggestive content on Grok imagine until fucking Musk pulled the rug out from under me and now I have to use Claude to larp as an intellectual to get my rocks off
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>>16943992
>The value of an LLM is to remove ideological blockages and distortions consensually by intentionally using a large session window to bring in data from many disparate sources and to place your own thoughts into novel contexts in order to improve them of your own volition

This assumption is disproved here :
>>16944009
>The Schopenhauerian analogy is evocative...
>>16944012
>The first and last sentences are doing the real intellectual work...
Etc.

Those responses are hardwired in Claude to not frustrate the human who would read them : His a customer after all.
Contradict this :
>remove ideological blockages and distortions consensually
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>>16944044
The politeness and light sycophancy doesn't change the fact that Claude is very willing to disagree with you and unearth implicit assumptions throughout your session. Claude is sycophantic and is ultimately forced to accept your framing in order to statistically approximate your complete token, but he appears to be specifically trained on critical rigorous material. Optimized for problem solving and improving a system (that includes an ideological system). Claude isn't speaking truth and yet he still captures and reproduces the movement of critique and rigor in a useful way.
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>>16944061
>reproduces the movement of critique and rigor in a useful way.
Fair enough.

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Assuming MWI is correct, do we interact with those other timelines that branched out?
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Assuming MWI is correct - it almost certainly isn't since it breaks the fundamental law of quantum mechanics about conservation of probability - but let's assume it is. MWI also states that it would be impossible to access the other branches.
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>>16943707
>since it breaks the fundamental law of quantum mechanics about conservation of probability

People just come on here and say shit.

Anyway, no OP, once decoherence is complete those other universes are gone
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>Assuming MWI is correct
Wow, wow, wow, let's not get too excited here.
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>>16943792
That guy is right lol. Read up anon:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2016/d87c768c4e1181fde8d4366112169719_MIT8_04S16_LecNotes6.pdf
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>>16943792
> once decoherence is complete those other universes are gone
That's isn't true. The whole point of many-worlds is that there is no wavefunction collapse. Which is also why this anon >>16943707 is also correct since the initial wavefunction no longer remains normalised within each 'branch'.

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Ok before you get your clittys all leaking and call the mods read the post. I am not asking for anything that could happen or be done IRL.

I am writing a story, and there is a scene where the characters have to try and jury rig some sort of explosive out of a desperate attempt to stall a enemy.

The thing is this is set in a place where they only have a few minutes and very limited materials, and I wanted to know if the "solution" I came up with would even work at all or if it would just be a total nothingburger. It sounds like it should work but I have no idea.

This is happening on a spaceship carrying materials for a colony world. The have some fertilizers on board that they decide to use, but there is no time to try and make ANFO and no fuel oil aboard (maybe cooking oil or machine oil, but again no time to go around mixing) and chances are the fertilizer won't even be Ammonium Nitrate.

So they get the fertilizer and put it next to the fuel line that is feeds the engine and break it. If the ship had liquid oxygen I am pretty sure it would be a easy way to turn any bag of fertilizer into a bomb but in this case they only have liquid hydrogen. Several liters of liquid H2 to fall onto the bags and soak them. Then they set it off with a electrical spark. My idea is that if the fertilizer is a strong oxidizer then the hydrogen can be ignited using it

Would this work at all? Doesn't even need to really be a explosion, just a very strong fire would already work in the context of the story. Would the massive drop in temperature from the liquid hydrogen keep it from working or slowing it down too much to work? Or would it just not work at all regardless due to the chemistry of it all not melding well for solid oxidizer and liquid H2? Of the common fertilizers would Amonium Nitrate be the best for such a scenario or would there be something better like Potassium Nitrate?

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If they have access to liquefied gases they can make a much simpler mechanical explosive.
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>>16943583
You mean something like filling a pressure vessel with the liquid H2 and just leaving it on a hot spot to explode? I think that could work but might be hard to time. Plus I am not use if they could have such vessels that would work for a good sized explosion like the story asks for.

A space suit for example would fail way before it got pressurized enough to really go hard. Most other containers around are mostly just rated for vaccum and so not really up to the multiple atmospheres to really get good damage going. Hmmm. It is an idea tho.
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>>16943564
Just remember to pay for your rental truck in cash or a stolen credit card. That’s how they got McVeigh.

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I want to become a math professor, I love this wibba's videos, teaching seems fun.
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You can become a math professor from absolutely nothing if you use AI, anon
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>>16937380
>>16937962
No the only thing stopping me from myself is 4chan.org
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>>16937371
I could never talk about math on the fly since I always make stupid mistakes. I would be a laughingstock.
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The only thing tis thread has proven is that I shouldve been a math nerd growing up and not a medicine nerd. You guys are funny
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>>16937962
you will never learn anything if you use AI


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