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Are there any /sci/ approved podcasts?
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Are vaccinated livestocks safe to eat? Should I stick to canned sardines for my protein?
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China overtakes US in AI research

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I've noticed a drastic decline in the intelligence of posts on the internet over time, western education is failing the youth. Meanwhile Chinese education is extremely competitive and better structured in nature, often driving some children to suicide with the tasks that it demands of the students.
We got too complacent, and now China is going to win the AI race, they will master the art of conquering without traditional warfare methods within the century, while the west continues to focus their energy on internal conflicts fuelled by social media.
The Manhattan project equivalent of our generation was initiated by the Chinese government when the brightest mind of their national board game, Go, was embarrassed live on the big TV by a computer created by the west. It's all about the math, and the west is failing to train enough citizens in the right kinds of mathematics to remain dominant.
The western governments need to re-allocate funds towards cyber-training for soldiers, because they are currently not competing for any talent with their current salaries. The idea that we spend more on defense than most of the other 1st world countries combined, yet are so far behind China, makes me furious.
The bottom line is that China has more engineers and scientists than America does. They have better infrastructure. They have an economy capable of doing things that the US isn't. They have a government that is capable of actually getting things done. The US takes months to pass a single infrastructure bill. In that time, China will have laid hundreds to thousands of km of rail, built a university and 3 hospitals and installed 70GW of renewable energy.
I have no problem with China, my issue lies with the failures of the US to do anything meaningful in the past 30 years.

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Does /sci/ trust this? I probably would if everything was opensource.
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Importance of the Pacific Plate

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I've been researching the tectonic plates for a while, and I have a question. Do we need the Pacific Plate to be that massive? What would happen if it breaks into smaller pieces like, say, three even pieces? Could've that even be possibe? WHY IS IT SO HUGE?
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Don't they get tired from pretending?
>undergrads and high schoolers pretend that ZFC refers to something, and so since it's provable within ZFC that some set exists and is unique, the reals are supposedly well-defined
>no matter that more than 50 years ago set theorists showed that provided ZFC refers to something (i.e. there's a model of ZFC) then there are infinitely many different models which all satisfy the axioms and in which the supposed reals have radically different properties (e.g. cardinality could be aleph_1 or aleph_23123133 or aleph_w_w_w_3)
>no one has demonstrated that ZFC refers to anything, or that ZFC is even consistent
>no one has specified which of the infinitely many different models they mean when they talk about the reals
>even though such choices have consequences in day-to-day mathematics with the reals (see Shelah's proof of independence of the Whitehead problem).
>we're supposed to be alright with this situation and still accept the reals as a precise mathematical concept
>given the shitty situation with the reals the only tenable position is the false notion that it's all just axioms and all mathematics is meaningless (a dogma which can only be repeated by people who have never actually tried to implement the mathematics on a computer or work out arithmetic examples by hand to see its empirical content)
When can mathematicians expect to recover from this mass delusion? Or is it just dishonesty rather than delusion? Either way the situation is very embarrassing for the mathematical community. Mathematicians have no right to brag about how rigorous they are when they've rejected the firm foundation of natural number arithmetic for the flimsy sand castle of infinitist la-la-land of Cantorian pretend-symbol-combinations-refer-to-something.
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hide and seek

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Scientifically speaking, what is the reason for the urge to laugh to appear when hiding from someone (thus giving away your hiding location)
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>Most of the world is not vaccinating, only 12% of global population has and thats mostly in white countries.

/sci/, the vaxxers are all white and they now those whites are shouting down at the rest of the world to get vaxx'd like they did.

does that seem like WHITE SUPREMACY to anyone else?
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