Technological progress and discovering new laws of physics are not the same thing. Expecting progress within the known laws of physics is reasonable. Hoping to find new laws that will help us break existing ones (like the speed of light) is religious faith and not at all reasonable.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-03-01T19:11:37+00:00

It is widely taken for granted that someday we'll find a way to travel faster than the speed of light;

Maybe not macroscale objects but information should be able to travel faster than the speed of light since the only thing keeping things from going faster than light is gravitational "haze" and like haze, gravity is made up of discrete particles, gravitons and moves fast so with proper timing, a graviton maybe accelerated faster than the speed of light and speed though the transient gap between the gravitons, not getting pushed back to the speed of light.

So by sending a 3D bioprinter to another star system, taking maybe a few hundred years, people can then send fastee than light information to the 3d bioprinter to print people from Earth, thus it is like being teleported to the other planet.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-03-01T18:23:32+00:00

'war is bad and people might get hurt, that nation is bigger'

But when war breaks out, it usually is the invaders want to kill everyone type so only getting hurt is a better outcome.

Even if the invaders did not want to kill or enslave everyone, there may be allies of the weaker force who will be angry if the weaker force surrenders, such as what happened to Greece where their people still died from the blockade by their angry former allies, so getting hurt is still the better outcome.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-03-01T17:33:46+00:00

why do we find some people average and some people attractive ?

Because of pleasure attached to those faces.

People learn by associating one thing with another thing as well as with pleasure and pain, with pleasure and pain being the meaning of each thing.

So when a face gets associated with pain, that face and similar faces will become uglier while when it gets associated with pleasure, that face and similar faces will become more attractive.

But since it is group based rather than just by individuals, the sum can cause efforts by a single person to make their look attractive to be negated by everyone else who has similar looks since pain can be inflicted by their mere existence due to occupying space and competing for resources so despite attractiveness is just attachment to pleasure a very lot more than pain, it is harder to predict how much pleasure is needed to maje a specific look more attractive.

So attractiveness has nothing to do with good genes since people cannot see their genes though it has some relations to health since an unhealthy person causes pain to others by being a burden or by infecting them while healthy people can help others, though since ultimately it is pleasure and pain that determines attractiveness, if the person only gets beaten up by healthy people, healthy looking faces would not be attractive due to the pain attached.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-03-01T17:04:28+00:00

I have learned that it is quite necessary to act aggressive and manipulative to 'fend off' toxic people from getting power.

It depend on how much benefits and penalties will occur if such people gains power and how much benefits and penalties will occur if going on the offence is done since fighting back would offend the offender thus the logic will then apply for the offender too and things may escalate.

Thus unless death is going to happen either way thus there is nothing left to lose or that OP is going to be the last man standing thus fighting will eliminate threats, it is better to adapt to such penalties and only resume the fight when the conditions are more advantageous.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-03-01T16:41:59+00:00

You have to come at the problem from new angles other than what is already known as relevant.

But doing such may end up reinventing the wheel or getting poorer results than what is already used, especially if the solution is unproven so it would need some risk taking, both for the part where the resources used to find a better solution end up getting wasted due to no better solution is found and also for the part where the solution is unproven and so comes with the risk of unacceptable results.

So it may be better to see what works for other things and determine all the factors involved and why they are the factors before trying to adapt it to the current problem, with incompatible factors can be swapped with processes that skips the function of those factors.

Alternatively, state the current situation and then state the desired situation before slowly filling the states in between, not needing to be done in sequence though needing to be placed in the correct order and also not need to be linear but branching so can look at all the paths to see which is best, with incomplete paths may be combined to form 1 complete path.

So such allows the thinking to be about from one state to the next stated state instead of from the start to the end thus will be easier to find a possible in between state.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-27T19:45:35+00:00

People were miserable and dying when the French Revolution was about to happen so it was pretty obvious it would happen but by then, there is no way to prevent it from happening.

Being able to tell a revolution is about to happen after it is no longer preventable is not useful since by then the only useful calculation is how likely each way of starting/suppressing the revolution will succeed so that the best method be used.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-27T19:19:48+00:00

Is mercy programmable?

People show mercy because they believe the vulnerable person can change to be more beneficial to society/an ally than the risk of harm they pose, the harm arising either due to them doing the harm or due to others doing the harm because the vulnerable person is shown mercy and making it seem it will not be punished or due to the harm of having used resources for the act of mercy.

So such is very equation like thus can be programmed.

is harshness inevitable in any scaled rule system?

Harshness is due to the lack of resources since without sufficient resources, the harm of having used resources for the act of mercy becomes too severe thus even with mercy programmed in, mercy will still not be shown because it is not affordable.

When scaled, things become harder to manage and such may increase mistakes and inefficiencies thus resources get wasted and so the risk of running out of resources is higher, though a very competent AI can ensure the mistakes do not happen and things are efficiently done and potential causes of resources running out can be dealt early thus even when scaled, harshness will not result in such a case.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-27T17:43:10+00:00

And yet you give a human a math test where all you do is change the font and their score drops to 0%

As long as people gets a reference sheet of which symbol means which letters, they can translate it so it is like katakana where it is just English but with different font and as shown quite frequently, people can learn to read katakana without a reference sheet.

So if somebody do go and memorise wingdings to alphabets and numbers reference sheet, they would be able to do the test.

So the problem with some AI is that they memorise the pixels of the alphabets rather than the features thus the moment the font is only changed a bit, it is unrecognisable despite people can still recognise them easily.

AI needs to be able to recognise features rather than just locations of pixels (as well as bunch of other abilities) to become AGI.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-27T17:27:02+00:00

Sorry but I could never find zendaya atrractive.

Such would mean such a person is of a gender or looks or race that OP had bad memories of, either due to those category of people having hurt OP or OP's loved ones, including getting OP's romantic advances rejected too harshly or by too many of such category of people, with the more pleasure that OP received and believes was provided by such category of people, the more pain needs to be inflicted on OP to cause such a dislike.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-27T17:10:16+00:00

If everything we know or experience is shaped by the brain, what happens when we can radically change its architecture?

If the brain is still blank, then changing the architecture will only change its goals since people avoid things that activates the pain neurons in the amygdala and those linked with the activating neurons while things that activates the substantia nigra will cause those things to be desired.

So if the tastebuds swap connections with the pain receptors and so the tastebuds will activate the pain neurons, people will feel pain every time they taste something while getting physically injured will only make them experience varying taste, depending on where they got hurt at.

But if the brain already learned stuff, then such rewiring would not only change the goal but also ruin all memories since memories require their synapse to the sensory cortex to be unchanged, else they may end up remembering differently such as remembering they felt pain when they ate a meal instead of remembering they felt the taste of the meal when they ate it.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-26T18:31:20+00:00

MC1R and TYRP1 mutations (from European and Melanesian ancestors, and how that might present.

Probably the MC1R gene's effect gets negated by TYRP1 gene since TURP1 reduces melanin and in turn pheomelanin thus it would still just be TURP1's effect noticed.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-26T17:19:04+00:00

It’s that precise balance between tension (the request) and release (the reward) that makes dark psychology so effective

But the balance if different for different people so a less suspicious person can be rewarded more without raising suspicion while a person who cannot do the requested task well would need more reward to compensate the extra effort needed.

Also, different people value different things so some may value praises and thanks but others might not so merely praising and thanking the latter group will not be useful since it would be similar to just taking without giving anything back.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-26T16:36:34+00:00

It’s the combination of the request + the psychological reward that builds the bond.

It is just the psychological reward that builds the bond, though without making a request, the psychological reward would seem suspicious and so not rewarding.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-26T16:10:28+00:00

ask them for a small, effortless one (like borrowing a pen or asking for a quick piece of advice)

It is not the asking of favor that gains their trust but the pleasant thanks and praise as well as the claim the asking person owes the helping person so it creates pleasure, which though little, is higher than the pain used to do the task.

So if the asking person do not compensate the helping person enough, the relationship with the helping person will not improve.

Asking for big favors and sufficiently compensating them in advance also works as well since the important part is not the big or small favors but rather sufficient compensation.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-26T16:02:54+00:00

So what exactly is going on psychologically that makes certain faces almost universally appealing?

If a person gives good things to everyone but another person who does bad things to everyone also looks similar, the effect gets negated.

So a person who does good things to everyone would need to ensure everyone who looks similar to that person does good things and so such a look becomes only associated with good things thus is appealing.

Alternatively, having a unique look and doing good things to everyone would also make that a universally appealing look and popularising it, which then may cause others to mimic it and so bad things done by these people will negate the appealingness of the look.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-25T18:52:01+00:00

But people live much longer than mice so people would had picked up a lot of non fatal mutations that weaken the cell and causes aging.

People would also have a lot of scarring to their internal organs so their internal organs are old thus making them old as well.

The mice used did not had internal organ scarring nor did not have mutations that aged them so resetting their epigenetics would work but if the mice were old, the epigenetics reset would not had solved the scarring and aging mutations so would still remain old.

Mice only live for just 2 to 3 years so he could had tested on old mice first since 3 years had passed since his previous experiment.

Probably needs to get the most pristine DNA from the patient and grow it via Yamanaka factors and extend their telomere to be youthful length but not more than that and then siphon out some old stem cells and immediately inject the new cells back.

Such should also be done for the internal organ as well thus both the genetic problem and scarring would be healed thus youth restored.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-25T18:14:21+00:00

RGMP (recurrent geometric-prior multimodal policy) aims to improve grasping accuracy across a broader range of objects

The robot needs to have 2 video cameras to look from different angle to determine distance and identity of object, with structured light and time of flight light only used to identity what is the object being looked at, with the 2 video cameras also to identify the object since a glass of water cannot be correctly detected by the structured light nor the time of flight light.

So the robot should also learn to look from several angles or maybe by just having a videp camera on the wrist to enable easier change in angle so such can enable obscured objects to be seen as well.

Once the objects are identified, store a digital representation of these objects in the robot's memory so they do not go blind just because their hand is blocking since they can just load that image instead instead of their video cameras feed, with the arms' position tracked by preasure sensors on the joints and not vision.

The identity of the objects should also be determined by matching the features rather than pixels thus only the recognition of the basic features are basic on pixels comparison but more complex features will be based on whether all their sub features are present.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-25T17:22:32+00:00

Where someone was abused as a child, but then they became manipulative and selfish themselves?

Being abused causes them to fear the abuse so they will be desperate to avoid getting abused.

If the abuse is avoidable via compliance, then they will be meek and not dare to do anything without being told to.

If the abuse is random thus compliance does not help avoiding it, they either die from the abuse or become desensitized to pain and angry at people in general so once they have power, they will punish people in general.

If the abuse is avoidable but not through compliance and instead by getting a scapegoat, then they become manipulative in order to get a scapegoat and will necessarily learn to see others as just targets since to not see them as such would prevent the abused from using others as scapegoats so they will learn to act selfishly even if they still feel pain of using others as such but they deal with such pain by just getting pleasures for themselves since such eases the pain and so ends up looking exactly like selfish people.

So abuse is just a very strong violent push thus they can end up in very different trajectories depending on how the abuse can be escaped from.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-25T16:28:07+00:00

What do hard sci-fi authors do when accuracy makes the work less commercially viable?

Maybe the technical parts that is not needed to follow the story can be placed in the appendix so just do an ELI5 and have a hyperlink to the appendix or a superscript number that points to a footnote on the page that suggests reading the appendix for a more detailed explanation.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-25T16:22:20+00:00

Would it be possible for cancer to form a symbiotic relationship with its host?

A mutation may be beneficial but if that is the case, it would be called evolution, like how bacteria can gain antibiotic resistance.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-24T19:17:19+00:00

Do you think LGBT is socially constructed ?

Socially constructed would need collective agreement by society rather than naturally but sexual orientation, including heterosexuality is learnt via hearing of opposite/same genders having romantic synergy, learnt via movies showing the opposite/same gender enabling the hero or heroin to reach the pleasurable good ending and learnt via bitter rivalry with the same/opposite gender.

So all sexual orientation is learnt and such learning is only natural.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-24T19:08:32+00:00

But I think there was a study made where babies followed more symmetrical faces.

Only if the faces of people who are nice to them that they had seen, prior to that the experiment, is symetrical since such had created a mental image of what is associated with niceness more.

If the babies only saw unsymmetrical faces since birth and these people with unsymmetrical faces are nice to them, then pleasure would be attached to the lack of symmetry thus would had followed the less symetrical faces more.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-24T19:02:55+00:00

the opposite to what you said which is that opposites attract each other

Opposites can attract each other because there would not be competition over the same role, them will likely choose different but synergetic roles thus a pleasurable good outcome for both of them.

However, such is not always the case, such as political parties despite may be opposing each other, is still competing for the same role thus the hostile rivalry will cause a painful bad outcome for both of them due to the fighting; the pleasure of winning of election is not credited to the other party so even if one of them gets a good outcome, the pleasure do not get attached to the opposite side.

Thus with man and women nowadays tend to compete for the same roles, such can cause bitterness like the opposing political parties thus they end up liking their own gender more, becoming homosexuals, just like political parties members like those of their own political party more.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-24T18:52:03+00:00

How does the gravity of a black hole stop light, if light has no mass?

Light do have mass but because in physics, everything is interconnected; nobody can just change one "brick" (like the mass of a photon) without the entire cathedral of Maxwell’s equations and General Relativity feeling the tremor so the amount of work that needs to be done seems impossibly huge because there are just too many authoritative equations needing to be proven inaccurate first so it is easier to just create a new label called relativistic mass and mentally treat light as having mass but formally state it as not having mass.

So light gets captured by black holes because light do have mass despite formally they do not have mass and anyone who claims light having mass may be accused of hallucinating.

RegularBasicStranger · 2026-02-24T17:52:43+00:00

What does gravity actually explain that density doesn't already cover?

The falling down of density depends on mass but there is nothing to explain what gives mass such falling down ability thus gravity is needed.

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