Posts made by Ephemeral

@moody density * gravity * depth = pressure

@partizan You must not live in a country with police brutality or racial profiling. I mean, I can understand why... in terms of stereotypes, it is more likely for certain races to be guilty of certain crimes, but, that shouldn't be enough of a reason to arbitrarily take action against anyone. Basically police officers should accept that they're the ones shouldering the burden of inequality, not enforce the law against individuals by using the group as a surrogate for likelihood of crime. I doubt there'll ever be a true systematic way for training politicians since corruption is rampant and lobbying is too lucrative. I mean, George Bush went to Yale, Donald Trump went to UPenn, these are excellent schools... even if their grades weren't very good. (Steven Bannon went to Harvard.) Mainly I think we should focus on educating the masses to vote for better politicians, rather than "conditioning" politicians to do the right thing.

It's easier to achieve power motivated by psychopathy than it is by upholding morality, usually at one's own cost. As a result, psychopaths are typically the ones standing at the top (i.e. sexual harassment is a big issue right now and women are only just being able to speak out against it). I think we also tend to ignore the good in the world too, so I would like to point out Justin Trudeau as a counterexample... though I can list a lot more baddies than good guys.

@willoww PLAYING POKEMON GO

"How to Talk to Strangers"

One chapter will be: Internet Chatrooms and avoiding dick pics

@partizan Punishment is a good deterrent for crime, not a good means of correction after a crime has already occurred.

I can agree that humans aren't "evil", though even if you "fix" the way humans interact with one another, there's no way to control other aspects of the external environment (i.e. natural disasters, random events like winning a lottery), so there will always be some inequality, and even if you teach people not to compare themselves to other people (or teach them to blame nature for all their problems), ultimately there will come a time when people want compensation for inequity/loss to the extent that they will start robbing it from the "more" fortunate; this is just human nature and a survival extinct from natural selection/evolution, it's programmed into our genes; you can fight it, but you can't destroy it.

I'm pretty sure that an alien capable of space travel wouldn't want to visit Earth if they discovered it, we're probably extremely primitive in their minds. Would you want to visit a colony of bacteria, the really boring kind? Consider a society that is capable of such technological advancement and has not blown themselves up (i.e. if they had nuclear weapons but at a scale that could blow up the solar system, they must have a philosophical belief or "computer" system in place to prevent them from going to war, because if they ever fought, they'd destroy their entire species/civilization with just one missile). The point I want to make here is for a species that advanced, they would have nothing to gain by visiting Earth and are better off avoiding an unnecessary risk (consider if we ever learn of or steal their technology but are incapable of controlling ourselves, we might destroy the universe). I'm pretty sure aliens that advanced have one of the "solutions" I previous mentioned; either a computer controls their every thought so they have no free will but also no risk of destruction, or they're all sleeping in pods somewhere tucked away.

This new level of evolving can be done, but really it all comes down to chance in my mind. The powers that be are the richest people in the world, and in today's society, you can't really climb the top without having done some corrupt things - you have to take advantage of people to beat others (capitalism). So, in that sense, because people are greedy, and the only way to maintain wealth is to create institutions which put different groups against each other (black vs white, gay vs straight, women vs men), and because people are too foolish to see the bigger picture, this creates a positive feedback/endless vicious cycle/"revenge" where the masses keep holding one another down, and those at the top profit - without an incentive to truly better the lives at a scale that puts their own wealth at risk.

To summarize, people are inherently greedy and those with power want to stay in power; the world is unfair, so even if you do manage to create a society with social equality, there's no way to guarantee that people have the same amount of "luck" (or will stop blaming each other for differences in "power" - usually expressed in material wealth like money, # of houses, etc). The forms of punishment that exist are in place to maintain the vicious cycle. Aliens probably won't visit us unless to destroy us (they have very little to gain). True peace from an idealized standpoint probably won't be achievable without the cost of our humanity, because you can't prevent the risk of greed (someone may realize that they can get more out of the system than someone else, and at the cost of someone else; or vice versa, someone might be more powerful than someone else, and another person will want to rob that power).

@partizan This turned out to be a longer response than intended:

The most immediate threat seems to be wealth, so I would suggest pooling our resources into technology to develop robots to take over all menial life-sustaining labor like food production (agriculture and food distribution), water/wastewater treatment, housing construction, and government oversight (balancing cost). This would be a form of communism except robots would bear the brunt of the costs, not humans. The bare essentials would be provided to all members of society, systematically eliminating homelessness and survival costs; people would then be allowed to focus on art, further scientific research (fueled by curiosity, not necessity), or perhaps nothing at all.

This sounds like a great idea on paper, but in reality, humans are really ambitious, greedy creatures. Even if we provide all the bare essentials for survival, human beings will find something to fight over (income inequality, gender, race, etc.). It's not feasible to provide income equality to everyone because there's no way to determine the value of a job (i.e. should a football player be getting millions of dollars/year for something that doesn't directly benefit society vs. a school teacher); and who's to say that even if we decide on a way to compare the value of each profession, that people won't argue about it, protest, and cause a disruption. You can't eliminate prejudices and biases because this is a part of who we are, a part of the human condition. One could argue that we could become slaves to technology, i.e. develop artificial intelligence that will manage everything, decide people's jobs based on their genes or upbringing (basically their fate); this would lead to world peace, but not necessarily satisfy people either. Another way could be to create a world for every single individual by putting them to sleep in a pod and letting them imagine/dream whatever they want, but at that point you've isolated humanity from the real world.

The real question is, what would you like to preserve? Humanity? Free will? Survival? Even when people think about heaven, it's a very vague sense of utopia usually from the perspective of one individual. But I guess my answer is a bit too idealistic for the shitshow that is the world today. Maybe all I need to say is we should start with religion, then race, and then gender. What do you think?

@someone_1 OMG ANTHONY IS MY MASTER, ANTHONY IF YOU SEE THIS IT'S ME YOU TAUGHT ME WELL!!!

Mine are from video games:
Dreaming My Way Home - Rogue Galaxy

@thecars 100x100 = 100^2

@taitertot2 That's exactly the question I asked you!

@mercy Science is a method for making sense of the world, math is a tool that can be used in science. For example, a ball rolls down a hill, science would be measuring the position of the ball every 5 seconds, but math would be taking those measurements and calculating the velocity and acceleration of the ball.

@revolnrop Use polar or cylindrical coordinates, take the Jacobian... or use wolfram alpha.

@kay-r Ask her: Do you have a crush?

@kaf Risk vs reward, it is what it is.

If you find a meaningful conversation, you should probably ask for a contact asap.

@palatte-sans then what is the next best thing you can offer?

@palatte-sans depends, do you play Pokemon Go

Damn, guess when you go full nerd you can't go back

I just want to catch them all, but if a grown man takes out his phone and starts playing a kid's game people'll jump him, hell I might lose my job (not that I have a job). Please send help.

@vanessa-s As long as it's mutual, and as long as you work it out between families. Though, not everyone will probably support you, I mean just look at America the past year, there are racists who don't consider themselves racist.