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What the heck is a "empty set"?
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Elon Musk is a snake oil salesman

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>FSD never happened and never will.
>Tesla cars already hit a technological dead end in 2020 and are no longer learning anything.
>Going to mars: objectively retarded, extremely dangerous and unproductive. It will NEVER happen.
>Electric solar Tiles: Literally a scam where you will never offset your initial costs, EVER.
>Tunnels: Scammier than solar tiles and 10x times more useless
>Mind reading: an absolute joke no one cares about except a bunch of 20 y.o. ML enthusiasts
>Now pretends to tamper into the nuclear fusion business, which has been remarkably tagged as an absolute failure left and right
>Electric supersonic plane: .............. do I even have to say anything
>Company is in so bad shape that TOYOTA had to lend them a hand through a partnership.
>Makes a killing selling carbon credits, not so much selling cars
>F-150 is already RAPING Tesla in the ass

Name a single to reason to buy anything from this modern era scammer, I'll wait.
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Cure Everything

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Peryronies disease: CURED
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4643174/

A electric toothbrushes vibration massaging the plaque to break it up cures it. What was once “incurable” is cured in the easiest way.

Everyone can and be look however they choose to look. That’s good.
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Evolution is not science. The Big Bang is not science.

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Science is a system of knowledge obtained by obervation experimentation.

Have you ever observed (((evolution)))?

And no, I don't mean a finch adapting to it's environment by growing a different beak or dog breeding.

I mean (((evolution))), a fish turning into a monkey, turning into a person.

No you haven't. Nobody has, therefore it's not scientific. Making up some stupid fairy tale and calling it sCiEnCe doesn't make it actually science.

Likewise the Big Bang. How scientific is it that all of the matter and energy in the universe was condensed into a point smaller than the period of a page?

How scientific is it that it all exploded in a trillion trillionth trillion trillionth of a second, much faster than the speed of light?

How scientific is it that matter and energy came from NOTHING?

How scientific is it that an explosion (akshually it's an eXpAnSiOn, piss off) created order?

How scientific is it that intelligence and life came about of non intelligence?

Have you ever observed anything remotely like this? Have you ever observed a swimming pool condensed into a dot as small as this period. MUCH LESS THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

Surely you get my point. Making up mythology and calling it (((science))) doesn't make it science


>Hurr no science vs religion
Piss off. I'm discussing a religion that masquerades itself as science.
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Genes and IQ

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Whiter Philippinos are like whites too, pigs but dumber
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/pol/ owns this board, and if that bothers you you Reddit refugee faggots can kill yourselves.
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Problems, Problems, Problems

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· Something else than what humans can imagine has been happening around humans up to now since the beginning of humans…

· or else before humans, what does it seem to you was happening in reality?..

· Something that happened before humans, but that Humans imaginEd after their histoRy startEd GETting REAL, and not something else than what they can imagine?!.
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Is the future of meat cultured cell meat? Aquifers are just about dried up nation wide & farmers are sinking deeper & deeper wells even if it kills off the local rural household wells & the communities that use them
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Education is largely a waste of time

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http://talytica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Schmidt-and-Hunter-1998-Validity-and-Utility-Psychological-Bulletin.pdf

Looking at "The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology:
Practical and Theoretical Implications of 85 Years of Research Findings"

This study looks at how different factors affect workplace performance. That is, measures of how much someone will out or underperform once you hire them. If a job pays $50k a year and someone produces output worth $75k a year, they are outperforming, etc.

The study starts by pointing out that these differences are quite large and important. Once you hire someone, the standard deviation of their job performance is approximately 40% of their base salary. This is even after considerable selection effects: if you hire someone, they already fit several selection criteria. That is to say, if you hired EVERYONE, the standard deviation would be much higher.

With that said, what are the most important criteria?

Pic related. Intelligence (GMA tests) are among the most important predictors alongside work sample tests, Job knowledge tests, peer ratings and structured interviews, all at close to 0.5 validity.


By contrast, education scores at a measly 0.1. Close to irrelevant.

Even more interesting is that once you know someone's intelligence, knowing their education is completely irrelevant. intelligence validity = 0.51, intelligence + education = 0.52.

indeed once you know someones intelligence, most other metrics don't have much additional utility.

These days education is one of the biggest factors in getting employed, yet the data suggests that it's a pretty poor measure. Certainly, most of the stuff learned in university is useless later on in life. Education is likely being used as an intelligence proxy, and it appears to be a pretty poor one.
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