Like, we’ll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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      Was going to post this. Not very sanitary (hand washing first is required) or attractive, but it is good for your immune system in the long run. Ken Jennings, the jeopardy guy mentions it in his book.

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      That may actually explain why I rarely get sick. I’m having a hard time remembering a single day of this year where I was sick that wasn’t caused by things like eating uncooked foods or something else of that nature.

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    The breakdown between quantum and classical physics is proven to be optimizations in a simulation and then everyone kinda shrugs because it’s real enough and scientists are driven up the wall trying to figure out some sort of way to actually use this knowledge for any purpose

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      Why would an optimization make things more complicated? The point of optimizations in any simulation is to simplify the complexity of the computation. The entire reason why there is a multi-billionaire industry to research quantum computers is because they are exponentially more difficult to simulate than classical physics, so they are not practical to simulate on a classical computer. Seems weird to me that a simulator would “optimize” things by making them enormously more complex.

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        Classical physics is the optimization. Kicking a ball is kicking a ball if you’re zoomed out far enough

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          Do you even need quantum mechanics to make that argument, then? You’re basically saying weak emergence is evidence of being in a simulation because you can approximate nature much simpler when “zoomed out.” It seems like even if we did not have quantum mechanics you could still make that argument.

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            Do you even realize you’re in an asklemmy post regarding hypothetical scientific studies (OP even referenced booger eating ffs). Way to kill the vibe

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              So many skibidi vibes here man, it was all vibes rizzing up this place and until I came and unvibed everything. The vibes are so joever vro I was just mogged. 😔

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      Wouldn’t proof that we’re in a simulation also mean pretty concrete proof that there’s no afterlife or any form of continuation of consciousness when we die?

      Like, I doubt your virtual machines go to heaven when you close them.

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    I think you have something there with the booger theory. Please do testing and report back.

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    A high-resolution picture made on nearby “neutron stars” or nearby “stellar black holes”.
    Like dark matter and the big bang they don’t exist and
    so whatever they’re looking at will never conform to their theories.
    Both of these type of objects are stars larger than jupiter with the latter being the largest class of supergiants.

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    A consistent model for the expansion of the universe that explains the different rates observed

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    Gravity + velocity: the practical applications of time travel. That or anything investigating anything to do with sentient energy because that will shit all over 99% of every religion.

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    I’ve got a couple that roll around in my head, radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point. Assuming we don’t burn ourselves off this earth in the next few years I think we’ll see some progress on this. Moderna is known for their COVID shot, however they have basically eliminated melanoma with a tailored injection. Last I looked at it, it was in it’s mid stage or something and was almost 100% effective.

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      radiation therapy will be seen as barbaric at some point.

      We already know it’s barbaric. It’s a last resort. It kills you and the cancer, only the cancer gets the worst of it. It’s a terrible solution to the problem, only a step better than death.

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      Honestly most cancer therapy is like that. Chemo and radio are basically working on the fact that your body is more resilient than cancer cells so they will likely die before you do. They are not pleasant things to go through. Surgery is your best option if it’s available and that involves chopping out chunks of yourself.

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      We need douchebags already so we can feel less of a bad person while the one next to you is being an ass. Lol. Keyword: feel.

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      I’ll take the imperialist extraterrestrials, they’re probably gonna be easier to mobilize humans in opposition against than the terrestrial imperialists we have now.

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    Solid proof that the source of all life on this planet actually began on a different world. The critical components came here via a comet or even an spacecraft that inadvertently dropped it off. Should screw with a lot of ideals

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      I thought we had evidence that life was seeded from off world? don’t have sources right now but i remember coming by an article explaining that.

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      You still have to come up with the explanation of what started life in the first place!

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        This is always my reaction to this theory as well. If someone asks “How did life on Earth start?”, surely we can assume they actually mean “How did life start?”

        It’s like if a kid saw a baby, and asks their parents “Where do babies come from?”, and their reply is “Oh that baby lives next door, it came from that house”.

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    Microplastics and penile length. Seen some studies recently though lol.

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    I think it’ll be wild if AI actually becomes incredibly intelligent. I’m thinking specifically about materials and what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.

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      what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.

      A LLM wouldn’t be useful but I wonder how far this can be done without AI (machine learning) technology, just programmatically like with protein folding simulations.

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    COVID originated in the swamps of the deep south.

    Edit: obviously, not really, but we shouldnt be too quick to judge where it came from.

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      Were you around when the Fort Detrick conspiracy was going around? Obviously not true but has more evidence than the Wuhan shit so was fun to use to push back against that.