I would also mention the Mars trilogy
That was fun!
Rn me scrolling Lemmy instead of doing work I need to do...
Sea salt is actually KCl
And there's experiments to run, there is research to be gunned
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Can I see some evidence for that, please? Like, a peer reviewed study?
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Who was the sample of 'people'?
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What is the distinction between different plants? Like, just kitchen fruits and vegetables I'd expect to be much more than 10, unless you group them all in 'drupes', 'fruits', etc
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Even if a random distributed sample of modern English speaking people do recognise more logos than plants, that's likely because there's a large advertising industry trying to make it so, whereas plant recognition is learnt in school or home.
Honestly when reading the book I imagined them all as blank sticks. Maybe that's just me, but nothing seemed to suggest they had fancy handles or anything.
That's why HPMoR felt like a breath of fresh air to me, he's actually intelligent in it, even if it's only fanfiction.
It's not a religious belief, lol. It actually makes sense, if you understand AI. If you don't, you could try watching the YouTube channel Robert Miles to learn more about the science of this.
AI techbro? Eliezer Yudkowsky is an AI Safety expert, and I don't know his opinions related to other non-AI things
I don't see why not. Separate the art from the artist, including not giving the artist money (eg pirating the media)
Nothing matters, but knowing nothing matters,
It's just life, so keep dancing through