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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I consider Extended Wigners Friend Problem Experiment to be quite fascinating. This experiment has already been performed, but I expect its results to be fully understood by the masses. And I am not proffesional physicist and want to understand it better too by myself. a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality The results of this experiment call into question one or more assumptions about the existence of objective reality, freedom of choice, or locality. All three cannot exist together. But personally, I think that the second and third points have been checked a lot of times, so no matter how improbable it may seem, the first point is the most likely. But what it really means remains to be understood.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it turns out there really is no free will. What will happen? Do we get a kind Utopia? Or fascism where you are mistreated based on your lot in life?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (13 children)

There's no functional difference, unless you can accurately predict someone's actions, and to do that you'd need to predict the environment in which someone is making choices as well, which requires omniscience. So, there's no functional difference.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Communicating with animals.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Aspartame cures cancer, but only when ingested in soda.

Pi equals exactly 3.

The most effective, universal vaccine is based on asbestos.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Causal relationship between social media and degradation of basic critical thinking skills. Not just tiktok, anything in which people are primarily communicating asynchronously and has a "reward" (likes, upvotes, etc)

So Reddit/Lemmy for sure included

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Casually closes this app, knowing I will be back in half an hour

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That the Big Bang is just one of many bangs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Hey you leave my mom out of this!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The universe was formed by the collapse of a massive star. Our massive stars make new universes. The cycle continues forever.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The actual impact of mankind on climate change, taking all other factors into consideration

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would like something proves the “interconnectedness of all things” as Douglas Adams put it……something that proves individualism is a disease or a flaw, that could be eliminated, unlocking whole earth potential.

I would settle for evidence of Gaia theory that proves if humans don’t get our shit together, Mother Earth will give someone else a chance .

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Dude I'm worried that the Participatory Anthropic Universe is real.

Maybe this is all a consistent hallucination we willed into existence based on our interactions with each other

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Like a fairly realistic one: measurement exclude a cosmological constant as the explanation for cosmic acceleration in favour of a quintessence scenario.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You can get any length you want if you shove enough microplastics in there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only eat macrosplastics for this very reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you get your wiener hot enough, you can mold it into any shape you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They used to use bee stings for ED, I remember seeing a post about it.

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