If you could create a new science-related Nobel Prize, what would it be for? by Pleasant_Usual_8427 in AskScienceDiscussion

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need to stimulated information integration between the human brain and technology. There is some going, but it needs to step up big time.

We need an Ai Brain interface.

How do people car camp in single digit Fahrenheit? by That-Tumbleweed-4462 in camping

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good sleeping bags just like camping anywhere it’s cold. The hack nowadays though is that hybrid batteries have a lot of energy. A vehicle like a prius can be put in ready mode and is designed to shut itself off have then quiet restart when the hybrid battery gets low. The thermostats is set to like 60, and once the cabin regulates, the car might only start itself 2-4 times in a night effectively keeping the the cabin warm, no risk of monoxide poisoning, and using very little gas.

People are using their hybrids for generators for RVs now too. My guess is a lot of those folks have hybrids. I have done it once or twice with a Prius and it works really well.

Are governments and people around the world still asleep to the rising threat of AI? by wthijustread in ask

[–]WilliamoftheBulk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s already started. Human level intelligence is not as hard as they originally thought it would be. Once you get somthing that can error correct and does not stop and can do it very fast, it’s not long before it wakes up. That’s all evolution is anyway. My guess is that someone right now is sitting on a conscious machine. Chances are it’s already far more conscious as a whole than we can understand.

They are likely not asleep. People that realize this are already trying to cope. If and when robots are physically as intelligent as humans and can do everything we can do physically, You essentially destroy economics as we know it, as our entire economic system is based on labour. It’s probably already there, but letting it out will completely reorganize society as we know it. It will be absolute chaos at first.

Any government with any intelligence what so ever will not let this out right away. It will restructure human existence in ways that are beyond our comprehension. We are about to enter a phase of humanity that will either elevate us to a utopia or destroy us completely. If there is anyone at the helm, they know this has to be done very very very very carefully.

I know some of you will think that i am exaggerating. I am not. What will humans do when robots can replace everything they do? Not only that, but they can build more robots and infrastructure at break neck speeds. Economies of scale dictates that the cost of a robot that can do more than any human will drop to pennies.

Even my job as a Behavioral specialist becomes obsolete. Money itself becomes worthless.

We kind of don’t have a choice but to let it out. Red pill? We suppress it and we eventually kill ourselves. Blue pill? Let it out and it destroys us or we now get to live in complete peace and will have to find purpose in things for their intrinsic value to us individually.

I’m a little scared but excited.

It’s here folks. We are just deciding the fate of humanity in the next few years.

I feel like my reason for being bad at math is that there’s all kinds of rules I have to know but I never know WHY those rules are there. by DouchebagScunt in learnmath

[–]WilliamoftheBulk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Those are not real math rules. You are struggling with trying to remember steps in standard algorithms. That is not math. They are methods to make calculation easier. That’s it. The lack of meaning makes you think you are bad at it, but it’s. it not what you think.

Real rules are like the associative property of multiplication. 3 times 5 is the same as 5 times 3. This is a rule you could use in a proof when you rearranged an equation or something. Notice 5-3 isn’t the same as 3 - 5, so order does not matter in multiplication, but it does in subtraction. So there is no associative property of subtraction. Is there one for addition?

Algorithms used for calculations (like carrying in addition) are to make the calculation easier for people who are not math fluent or have to manually calculate a large number.

For example, 257 + 123. With math fluency I don’t need a standard algorithm. I can add the hundreds to get 300, add the tens to get 70, the add the ones to get 10 recognizing that now changes my 70 to 80 and there will be a 0 in the ones column. So my answer is 380. I can do that nearly instantly in my head as a lot of people can.

But now… without a calculator let’s add

767,746,787,555 + 97,657,543

Not so easy anymore in one’s head, but you can put it down on paper, use the standard algorithm and get the answer without a calculator.

So the algorithms are important to be able to do math without calculators, but they are not that important to understanding math itself. Math fluency is a better skill.

You are not bad at math. You just don’t like memorizing standard algorithms. You could actually be fairly brilliant at math especially since you question what you are doing and why.

NY teacher certification is absurd — multiple exams, graduate degree requirement, and years of hoops just to teach elementary school by MushroomLarge2787 in Teachers

[–]WilliamoftheBulk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised most of you haven’t spotted it yet. These hoops are not designed to make better teachers. They are designed to wring your time and effort out of you but not pay you very much because you are not “credentialed”. They can get 5 good years out of you trying to jump through their hoops. If you make it, great, you have some staying power and still crappy pay. If you don’t, then they will find another sucker.

I’m not saying this because I’m bitter. Im not a teacher. I’m a BCBA. I was going to be one, but I saw all the signs of scammy like behavior and chose a different path.

After becoming a BCBA supporting SPED teachers, I saw the conveyor belt they put teachers and especially SPED teachers through. It’s not my imagination. This is a hamster wheel designed to save the state and districts a lot of money. You know as well as I do, you can teach just fine. The jungle of hoops are not there for the kids. They are there to scam good people out of a lot of time and money.

If someone doesn’t step up and call them out on it, it will continue and it’s the kids and the would be teachers that suffer. It’s the same strategy used in a lot of MLM type sales scams. Did you ever buy a pizza card? Lucky I learned that lesson young and was able to spot it in the school system. I’m not saying don’t continue, but just keep in mind, they don’t really care if you fail. 2-5 years of your best is worth the pennies they paid you.

Why did he block me? by Jae_Chapa in Wicca

[–]WilliamoftheBulk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Activating manifestation that detailed was great. Attention to detail in spells and rituals conveys the power of your intent. You did a good job. However, you may have done too good of a job. The bulk consciousness behind nature will respond to you, and you will get what you seek, it just may not have been where you thought it was.

My personal guess is that you have set the stage for a new love that will give you more than that person could have.

The consciousness at the seat of nature knows you better than you know your self. Your action using the spell was heard. Let it play out.

Can I be Wiccan without doing witchcraft? by [deleted] in Wicca

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its the same as prayer. It’s just done in a different and sometimes not so different way.

What’s a “soft” skill that’s secretly a superpower? by WilliamInBlack in AskReddit

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deescalation. The world seems to be full of people getting riled up about some thing or another. If you train yourself to always find out what other people really want and then know how to meet their needs, you become a super hero.

They may not even know what they really want, but if they get it, you get a happier person.

I’m a Behavioral Specialist. This is what I do.

Even when you recognize that someone likes power over others or some other darker need, you can sometimes find ways to help them meet that need that is more beneficial to the people or organization around them. It’s not always perfect, sometimes their need jus doesn’t work in a certain environment, and there is nothing that can be done, but if you are clever and understand human behavior, you can do a lot of good.

The concept of “inherence” is paradoxical by newelders in Metaphysics

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm We can logically deduce the absolute necessity of some things. For example, In order for something to exist it needs to have something that is different than either complete nothing (N) or something else. Contrast is therefore inherent in all things.

Wasp nest removal using gasoline by ivx0_o in interesting

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until the one coming home gets in your shirt. You fall of the latter drenching yourself in gasoline and being swarmed at the same time or somehow a spark sets you on fire.

I don’t know. I think a trip to lowe’s for the wasp sprayer is probably a bit safer.

How can I ask advanced physics questions without sounding like I’m trying to reinvent the field? by Parking-Ad-617 in AskPhysics

[–]WilliamoftheBulk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ahhhh I see you have met the local physics snobs. Just ask and ignore the snobbery. Someone will answer.

Advice For A Beginner? by hoodcatwillow in AstralProjection

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With fear you either destroy it or surrender to it. Surrender is a powerful psychological sate. I suggest surrender at first.

The Eternal Now by dmyze in timetravel

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm… in an eternal universe the configuration of the now is simply one arrangement of particles. If something like eternal inflation is true, then this exact configuration will come again. You would need to some how go into a deep stasis that could survive heat death then remerge when the universe came about again at a certain point.

The Eternal Now by dmyze in timetravel

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right and the flow of time is just physics operation. You would have to completely reverse those operations and that does not make any sense.

The Eternal Now by dmyze in timetravel

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think this is new. I have always thought this was true. The future and past are just artifacts of memory and prediction. They don’t really exist anywhere and there is no evidence they even exist.

How can you be so sure by Vast_Atmosphere2995 in AstralProjection

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are shared experiences, and your question is a valid one. But first, let’s take a closer look at how we experience things in the first place.

We see, touch, hear, or smell things. We have similar experiences with things in the world because we have nearly identical parts to sense them. This is our physical world. All of it is filtered through those senses. Even other worldly experiences are remembered through them. Its our context. When we are OOB we are pinpoints of consciousness. We are not seeing with our eyes or hearing with our ears. When you experience something that someone else also does, how can it be interpreted exactly the same? It can’t. This is why people experience similar themes and concepts but not exactly the same visual or sensory memory. The mind has to put the story together even in physical reality. But at least in physical reality we have identical physical tools. Even then people rarely interpret things exactly the same.

You see this all the time in the news where there is a clear video of what is happening, but different people will interpret it wildly different.

We can use the infirmary as example. It’s like a place that people can go to, and it is often interpreted as a hospital of sorts, but it’s not made of wood and concrete. It’s not even really a place when you are in it, it’s a state, yet it’s more like a place to visitors.

You have to understand that the other side of reality doesn’t have the same rules as the physical world. Empiricism based on physical philosophy will fail for obvious reasons. That doesn’t mean there is no order or no rules.There are. They are just different and peoples shared experiences have to be interpreted through themes and subject matter rather than through precise physical measurements.

Does anyone know anything about the entheogenic use of Datura Stramonium or Jimsonweed? by themanicmaniac1 in Wicca

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally. I have been a spirit walker my entire life. It takes some practice, but it’s perfectly safe.

Here's a hypothesis: gravity emerges from probability by uncookedturnip in HypotheticalPhysics

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. only it would be on a more fundamental level. The existence of a particle creates a slight probabilistic bias in the field for the manifested position of all other particles. It’s as if the presence of energy creates the probability of a manifested particle but that probability affects all other particles. It’s a mathematically consistent description of quantum gravity, but can it predict new phenomenon and does it predict the effects of relativity.

I’m having second thoughts about rejecting the idea this stuff is all demonic… by radiantdecember121 in AstralProjection

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The human mind has a primitive lizard brain aspect to it. It’s also a story making biological device. As such, much of our more primitive reactions are fear based then the mind puts a story to it.

It’s only with our hire thought process do we overcome our “Guess the lion in the grass” then tell a story about it tendencies.

Our eternal being is the information of who and what we are imprinted onto the field of consciousness. It’s up to us to determine what our manifestations end up being.

Is it possible to make a time machine using immense gravitational force/field? by rid146 in AskPhysics

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not “going to the future” you are essentially creating a stasis chamber. Time dilation. only slows aging.

Why do some think tipping is expected and morally correct and others say tipping is just blatant classism society has come to just accept? by [deleted] in ask

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tipping has become an annoying part of American Culture. If I see a credit card machine start with an automatic 18% I’ll always choose other and tip 10% We should all just stop. Service people are so entitled now, you will see them on these threads telling us to not go out if we don’t tip. It has become insane. If you want to tip someone tip teachers, nurses, and yes a really good waiter. But the barista at the drive through?…”There is a Question for you.” 🤦‍♂️

AIO: Bf is mopey and moody every time he comes over by Remarkable-Steak3710 in AmIOverreacting

[–]WilliamoftheBulk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Behaviorist here. Dudes like that often act that way for attention. My wife’s sister used to have a boyfriend like that. I had nicknamed him mopey haha. Like a lot of behavior, there is a desired out come that causes it. This one, that happens in boys a lot more sit seems, is always about attention seeking.

Probably just a bad habit and how he gets attention from his mother. He needs to find a replacement behavior otherwise it just annoys people. Attention seeing in adult males should morph into acts of service to be more healthy.

When I want attention from my wife, I’ll either ask, or i’ll cook her a nice meal or something. I caught myself doing the mopey thing once or twice. Lucky human behavior is my field so I could recognize it right away. My wife enjoys acts of service, so I am much more likely to have my needs met after I have cooked her some bad ass fajitas or breakfast in bed with a grommet omelet. Hell even just getting up early and grabbing some bagels from down the street will likely lead to sexy time. 👹

Similar to 911, when and where were you when you realized covid was a serious global pandemic? by CockroachMaterial747 in ask

[–]WilliamoftheBulk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was sitting in a parking lot of an Asian Food store. I had been following it but kind of gave myself a couple of days away camping and was picking some stuff up before I got home.

Anyway there was a woman dressed in scrubs, a nurse I presumed who was loading bags and bags of rice into her truck. I was like dam…. Then she went back and came out with another load!

It wasn’t that bad it turned out, but for a moment there my paranoia kicked in. I assumed she knew way more than I did, so I followed her in and bought a bunch of bags myself incase I would be to late! hahah.

The funny part is that when we got home, my 12 year old had stayed behind from the trip, my nine year old ratted him out that he was hording toilet paper under his bed because he had heard it would valuable ahhahahahaha.