Hi folks, I have a Q about AI and could not find a suitable sub to ask, so, you all get it.
I hear the President saying we need to beat China in the ai space. I do not know what that means, beat them to what? Is there a goal or end somewhere that I do not know about? any ideas?
Hello,
I am interested in trying to see how bad the damage that Trump has inflected on the American Science system is. When this started in early 2025 there was a flurry of post asking this same question; those post have since died down but the attacks have not stopped.
As this goes on the more and more it seems that he has caused generational, decades long damage. Other country's do not have the resources to take in all theses scientist; A lot of people even if they can not leave the country will probably leave academia and even if they do science in a industry job the science will be what the company wants them to do.
The more and more I think the more it seems that the less funding just means less science. The big question I am asking is will Science move to another place(China, Europe etc) or has it just collapsed for the foreseeable future?
Time dialation happens when an object is moving at a speed approaching the speed of light, but I'm wondering if that would still apply if the movement didn't actually change it's location in spacetime but instead just vibrated the object at the speed of light.
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For breasts, a common idea is that they cue nurturance, possibly encouraging mating with women who seem better equipped for lactation.
Easily reproducible measurement tools, small pieces of useful materials, maybe even a couple of seeds, things of that nature.
The purpose of this thought experiment isn't to eliminate any survival challenge, but rather facilitate advancement alone. You can't just bring the whole 21st century with you. Let's not go "solar panels, modern Linux supercomputer with wikipedia backup, 3D printer and a PLA bioreactor." That's too easy. That takes all the fun out of getting stranded in the stone age.
Some ideas I have for items include
*a few grams of platinum/rhodium alloy for catalysis.
*a small but powerful magnet to build a basic generator(to make more magnets to build more generators)
*Ion exchange membranes(like the Rowow ones) for easy post-electric resource refining and useful electrochemistry.
*A calibration weight from which to derive other measurements(ideally metric)
*An analog thermometer.
What would you add?
It seems like some areas of science get unexpectedly large and interesting, while others don't do much for ages (like AI obviously went from quite an obscure field to a behemoth recently, and back in the 1900s we thought physics was complete until quantum was discovered, but we haven't made much progress on a 'grand unified theory' for a long time).
Is there any way to guess what fields will get big in the future? Did you go into an area you thought would get "big"?
When I was younger just scrolling on YouTube and someone had leaked a video from nasa idk who they were they didn’t say anything or specified but there where these worker some sort of engineers with white hard hats almost like they work on electrical stuff.
They had built this tall copper pole and had this diamond like device it was sitting on the bottom of the pole and when they turned it on this device shot up really fast making a hard sound like the Jetsons and you could see the sound or waves coming from the bottom of the device but as soon it had reached the top of this pole it stoped and came down very slowly and this man came up and said this will change the world and that was it.
I need questions and answers about this because it’s not even on YouTube or any part of the internet and I’m asking myself how is this possible this was before AI and it looked like it took place in the 80s
It seems like it would be extremely easy to mistake a common, stable molecule like salt for something elemental. How did people break down substances to the point of purifying them, and then how did they know they couldn't purify them any further? It seems easy now to theorize what an element of a certain weight would look or act like, but before most of them were known did they have anything to go off of, or was it guesswork?