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  • It’s not about some ideological purity but a basic difference in the ability to learn things because of our inability to control the relevant variables.

    We are just going to have to disagree then. Said variables are heavily controlled, well known about, and usually spoken about in every paper about issues it might have.

    I’m pretty confident we’re at an impasse now so not much more to say since the long thread has brought in too many side musings too.

    Take care.


  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPolisci
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    16 days ago

    I mean you’re not wrong with how you’re thinking about hard STEM sciences but it’s needlessly gatekeeping and full on incorrect to say others aren’t good science. Most of them are very necessary and very real science usually far more important to the world than anyone to the right of the graph in your end of the Purity kxcd lol.

    FWIW there’s not competing sciences for even most of the STEM ones either. If you think there is… well you might just be studying string theory still lmfao.

    Gotta feel sorry for made up quirks of mathematics that always fall apart when applied in the real world though lol. They make for fun what ifs but damn if they aren’t fleecing their way to a paycheck for hypersensationalized headlines for super fringe never proveable theorems.





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    17 days ago

    The second video goes into that a lot. You’re right though that the lens of how people view the world is a belief. People tend to fall on one side or the other for a reason, most of which is related to external vs internal locus of control which is also an order beyond lol. I get it, people want science to be black and white for a reason because order.

    And no, you genuinely cannot explain politics with particle physics because it’s a human construct sufficiently advanced to not be explained by it’s baser inputs. Explaining the concept of philosophy through particle physics is a fools errand because they have nothing to do with each other lol. You’re trying to fit the circular block in the square hole… hehe.

    There are orders of magnitude to these things where something can be explained sufficiently as long as they’re close enough in literal size scale to each other, but you go further and it breaks down.

    You’re not an automaton, you’re thinking to yourself right now and have probably formed relationships with many people which requires concepts like love which can be explained partly with oxytocin but you don’t get love by saying this hydrogen couples with this oxygen spot on a hormone receptive cell, biomarker, particle, etc… You have to introduce hormones, larger systems, human bonds, replication, feel good molecules up and up until it’s something different that’s lost on just saying this fits here and does this other thing.

    Could you explain the entire science_meme culture experience browsing Lemmy by only describing chemistry? You’d be hard pressed to not be able to describe it without having to use multiple human-only concepts once you get past the internet, simple changes in your body to make you feel good browsing, seeing, color, reddit exodus, keyboard, breathing, laughing, the dichotomy, the concept of false or propaganda lol.



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    17 days ago

    … The worst part is I’m decent with math by US standards in school and couldn’t even solve the middle school one with a quick glance.

    Multiply the top by the bottom to erase it. Reverse the square root of something. + Or - threw me right off…