Right now, as well as basically always, we have multiple threads about the same shit.
Genetics of race, race and intelligence, race and achivement: >>13720245 >>13718794 >>13715050 >>13716869 >>13713457
Covid vaccines: >>13719577 >>13717242 >>13718598 >>13718307 >>13719907 >>13720308
I propose the creation of a race sciences general (/rsg/) and a covid vaccine general (/cvg/).
Pros: >making the board less repetitive
Cons: >/rsg/ could attract /pol/ tourists >/cvg/ could be rendered useless within a year
If we take on a materialistic view of the universe, then we are nothing more than another stage in the universe's chemical processes becoming more and more complex, DNA being nothing more than chemistry learning to encode itself as instructions for replication, which culminated in us, clumps of cells deluded into believing we are a person. A delusion of conciousness that has defined beginning and an end, death being the obliteration of identity and the disollution of the self into its constituent parts.
The question is, how do we escape death?
Could we become immortal by transferring our consciousness into machines?
Is becoming immortal something to aspire to? And what about the latter stage of the universe? Could our successors figure out a way to escape the universe before it finally expires?
Should it be ultimate purpose of life to try to escape the universe before it dies?
Perhaps by creating another one to escape to?
And if so, could we be the way the universe itself has to replicate itself?
Math is invented by an ancient Chinese king for an entirely different reason, to keep track of all his sheep. When King of Qin realized that some of them had gone astray, he decided to figure out the best way to do it. He asked his advisors what method they thought was best.
The first advisor suggested a method called “divide and multiply.” So, the king decreed that each king's shepherd should count the number of sheep in his own domain. Then, he would divide the number by the number of sheep in the domain of the next king, the count would be the number of sheep in that king's domain, and he would multiply the count by the number of sheep in the domain of the last king. Finally, the result would be the number of sheep in the whole kingdom.
This system worked well for ten years, until King Zhao started having trouble remembering which king's domain was which. So, he asked the king's advisers for a better system. They told him that they had figured out a way to divide and multiply even faster, with two fewer steps. The new system would simply multiply each king's count by the number of other kings, and then divide each result by the number of all the other kings. So, for instance, the first king's count of 6,402 would be 6,402 multiplied by 10,402 (the number of other kings), and then divided by the number of all the other kings, 50,401. That would equal 5,998,400. And the result would be 5,998,400 divided by 10,401, which equals 5,994,539.
