Tlaloc_Temporal

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[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would be a stupidly hight amount of charge.

For a very rough estimate, thunderstorms peak at about 6.7 nanocoulombs of charge per m³, or 4.2e10 fewer electrons per m³. Cumulonimbus clouds have roughly 2 grams of water per m³, or 6.7e22 atoms per m³. Thus, thunderstorms have 1 in 10e12 fewer electrons.

To fully ionize water, you would need something like a trillion times as much voltage as lightning, and the ability to insulate the sample from other sources of electrons like any nearby matter.

This might be feasible at very small scales, but the result would be just as dangerous. A bunch of protons that really want electrons nearby would pull lightning from anywhere they could, and would be unbelievably corrosive. Something like a pH of -23.7, although pH breaks down long before this point.

Such a substance completely devoid of electrons would also repel itself very strongly, so it would evaporate into gaseous protons basically instantly. "Normal" plasma is much more stable because the electrons are separated by temperature rather than by electric change. High electric charges are much more difficult to contain.

I'm not a physicist though, so I'm likely wrong on the details.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Modified boost too.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Also remember that carbon is lost as the metal is worked, so the strength can be increased simply by working the metal longer. This is how wrought iron is produced, although wrought iron ends up having a much lower carbon content in the process of removing slag.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's a really salty fluid, or a strong acid/base. Plasma just has temperature driving the ionization, rather than chemistry.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Gender BEC would be a low energy gathering where all of a sudden everyone is on the same wavelength.

Gender Time Crystal would be someone who switches between two genders regularly.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

By the same logic, we don't detect light, just the change in shape of certain proteins. The sky isn't blue, it's a subset of sunlight. We don't really touch things, we transmit forces with tiny magnets. Computers don't really do math, they just arrange states in certain ways.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

This would also be nice for atomic distros, application space and system space could be separated in more cases.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OSM based maps are pretty good. Definitely check out Organic Maps.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

That can change depending on your file manager, and many OSs do not present the file manager app anywhere but the app list by default, if they even have one.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Unalive and disappear don't change the meaning of the thought, and they circumvent ideological restrictions that intent to restrict thought. This is opposite the effect of newspeak.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even knowing about the sentence structure "Do x by today", this post is phrased weirdly.

The top text uses the pattern "effect by amount", which leads people to see today as an amount in the bottom text. The bottom text is also a different kind of sentence entirely; "Shortening the lives of the rich by today" is a sentence fragment and needs to be modified, perhaps like "Me when I'm shortening the lives of the rich" to fit the format, or "Shorten the lives of the rich today" to fit the conclusion of the top text.

In any case, the format of the meme, the top text, and the bottom text do not rhyme, which makes them difficult to understand in relation to each other.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I somewhat agree. Given enough time we can make a machine that does anything a human can do, but some things will take longer than others.

It really depends on what you call human intelligence. Lots of animals have various behaviors that might be called intelligent, like insane target tracking, adaptive pattern recognition, kinematic pathing, and value judgments. These are all things that AI aren't close to doing yet, but that could change quickly.

There are perhaps other things that we take for granted than might end up being quite difficult and necessary, like having two working brains at once, coherent recursive thoughts, massively parallel processing, or something else we don't even know about yet.

I'd give it a 50-50 chance for singularity this century, if development isn't stopped for some reason.

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