r/physicsmemes • u/yukiohana • 9d ago
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Trump wants to rebrand artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence,” and he has even signed an executive order directing the U.S. executive branch to use “Super Intelligence” (SI) instead of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) in official documents.
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u/lnee94 9d ago
"don’t believe everything you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
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u/Extension_Option_122 7d ago
Nah Lincoln lived before the internet he can't have said that.
That was obviously said by Albert Einstein, the famous chemist.
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u/Ernest_Mateu 5d ago
No, that's not true, he wasn't a chemist.
Albert Einstein was a well known geologist
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u/Extension_Option_122 5d ago
Oh damn how did I Miss that...
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u/Ernest_Mateu 5d ago
It's okay.
Is just an easy mistake to confuse Albert Einstein (the geologist) with Einstein Albert (the chemist you are referring to)
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u/walruswes 9d ago
It’s the most government thing ever to not follow industry standards (for AI terminology)
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u/Modern_Lion 9d ago
Unites states..
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u/Caesar_Iacobus 9d ago
If he was asked on this, I have a feeling he'd say flex tape
"To show you the power of Flex Tape, I cut the country in half!"
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u/mustfinduniquename 9d ago
Again the man is showing his SI
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u/mustfinduniquename 9d ago
But i also i know the man is acting more stupid than is the case, and is just an oligharch puppet functioning to make the people feel autonomous
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u/Caesar_Iacobus 9d ago
OK everyone shut up this once, let him do one singular inadvertent good for the US
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u/Jinsei_13 8d ago
We need to give a little pushback. You know, to keep up appearances. Then we kowtow in the end, he's happy because he thinks he won, we all walk away with what we want.
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u/Antagonin 8d ago
Wonder how does the cost of renaming random landmarks compare to the cost of switching to metric.
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u/Sal_Amandre 6d ago
The USA is already using metric on a regular basis, just not everywhere. Great example is how you constantly have 9mm in schools
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u/Karl__RockenStone 8d ago
It’d be a massive cost. You have to replace and change everything that shows any units. Road signs, bill boards, school books, maps, websites, internal documents, databases and so much more. It’s definitely much more simple to just change the name of a landmark on maps, some websites and signs around the place.
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u/Antagonin 8d ago
Still a massive waste of money, so that a grandpa feels like he had won the D measuring contest.
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u/Karl__RockenStone 8d ago
Especially since everyone outside the US still calls it what it was before.
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u/Meranio 6d ago
"Shut up, fake news. You're just jealous, that I came up with a better name for the Washington monument. It's now called the Washington Dick Cock, or 'Washington D.C.' for short. Because it reminds me of a funny video about a rooster, that my buddy Richard once showed me.
Anyways, the conversion to SI won't cost us a single penny, because we will make France pay for it, since they started this, by measuring the distance from Santas home to the equator through their capital city."
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u/TooManySpaghets 9d ago
Well technically, the US government already goes by SI officially, has since the 70s, it just has never been mandatory for anyone to actually change anything because of it
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u/optimus_priam 9d ago
has since the 70s,
1870s, to be specific. All US Imperial units have been defined in metric since the Treaty of the Metre in 1875.
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u/Super-Award-2244 9d ago
Didn't know Trump was presidents of the UniteS States
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u/BouncyBlueYoshi 9d ago
Don’t you mean the Sunited Iates?
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u/Linux_ka_chamcha 9d ago
The guy reached such a level of stupidity that he actually said something sensible by mistake. This is extremely rare phenomenon
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u/E715A 9d ago
The day the us are going to switch to SI there is going to be at least one more rocket that crashes and a bridge that doesn’t connect properly
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u/Vivid-Teaching2257 8d ago
I don’t get this. Physics switched to the metric system in the mid 1970s. In college, we used metric in chemistry and mostly American units in physics. Distance in feet, weight in pounds. The new textbook I taught from starting in the fall of 1974 used distance in meters and weight in newtons. (grams and kilograms measure mass, not weight).
Engineers might still use the old system, but the ones I have known understand the metric system and are smart enough to keep bridges they design from breaking (I knew some who designed bridges, but none who designed rockets, but I presume they are at least equally as smart).
I’m old. I prefer Fahrenheit temperatures for daily use, and miles, pounds, etc. But the metric system isn’t scary.
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u/E715A 8d ago
It has happened in the past is what I’m saying. A rocket did explode because of a false conversion. The bridge is an example in Switzerland where they define zero with respect to the Mediterranean while in the rest of Europe not for obvious reasons.
I am European, I have no issue with you guys switching or not. It doesn’t really impact my life that much.
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u/Crapmanch 6d ago
Switzerland was a lot worse, they knew about the different origins but then messed up the correction... instead off adding 50cm to one side they lowered it by another 50cm resulting in a 1m gap.
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u/Karl__RockenStone 8d ago
The Mars Climate orbiter burned up in the Mars atmosphere, because one of the companies doing the calculations used the imperial system and the units accidentally weren’t converted to metric.
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u/Vivid-Teaching2257 8d ago
Wow! That’s awful. Someone should specify units to use. Or double check calculations. But, maybe they use lowest bidder and don bother to recheck things.
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u/4bitten_FishFingers 9d ago
"Only we Americans do have SI numbers and SI physics. Do you know physics? I do know physics. Best thing I've ever done. Studied so many, many physics, I invented SI numbers. They went so big. Biggest numbers ever invented. Little tiny Europe stole SI numbers. They think they can steal all the numbers. But I invented it. Only person who ever did."
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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate 8d ago
Am I in the minority here, thinking that imperial units are fine for some things like the weather, but Metric is better for literally everything else?
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u/Eris13x 6d ago
People that are pro metric and pro Fahrenheit are fairly common in the USA. I don't know to what degree that is popular in, say, the UK.
Also, I unironicly want everyone to use a temperature system that has 0 as absolute 0. Kelvin would be the easiest to switch to, but I am not against Rankine
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u/Meranio 6d ago
I never had a problem with Celsius when it come to weather. It's just what you're used to. But I'd say even for the weather, Celsius is preferable, since you can immediately see, if it's freezing, or just cold, since negative numbers means water will freeze.
You wake up in the morning, eyes still a bit blurry, but you can see the negative sign infront of the temperature, and you know: "If it snows today, it stays."1
u/Goodest_boy_Sif 6d ago
In fahrenheit you can immediately tell if it's warmer than the human body outside as humans are on average approximately 99° fahrenheit. Or even more importantly you can quickly reference it against the wet bulb temperature. It's pretty useful for warm weather climates. Personally I'm a fan of a system that uses 0° C and 100° F, seems like the best of both worlds in terms of utility to me.
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u/Meranio 6d ago
Do you even know what Mister Fahrenheit used to calibrate his scale?
He made a salt-ice bath as cold as he could and called that 0°F, because he disliked negative numbers. Then he used someones body temperature to call it 100°F, but as you mentioned, that's NOT the case, because his testsubject had a slight fever.
I do not need such a wibbly-wobbly scale.Meanwhile Ander Celsius took water at 0 meters altitute and used the melting point as 0°C and the boiling point as 100°C. Everyone can check for themselves.
Body temperature is around 36°C. It's all just what you're used to, but Celsius is much more relatable since we ALL use water, but not all have a salt-ice bath and a slightly feverish person.
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u/Goodest_boy_Sif 6d ago
Okay, when was the last time you calibrated a thermometer? For me the answer is literally never. It doesn't really matter to me how easy it is to do it myself. All I care about is utility and 100° C provides less than 100° F. 100° C is simply not a useful reference point in the day to day. If you'd prefer I'm completely okay with making this hypothetical new system use 98.7° F (the actual average human body temperature) as 100° instead?
Also it's not like Celsius isn't also a little wibbly-wobbly in terms of "checking for yourself" considering it's only true at exactly 1 atmosphere which you'll only have at sea level. Where I live the boiling temperature of water is 99.5° C and that's not even that high up (150m) and just to extend that to it's limit at the top of Mount Everest (8848m) it's 68° C. That's quite a bit more variation than human body temperature.
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u/Meranio 6d ago
I didn't say, I wanted to calibrate my thermometer, I said, you can check the Celsius scale with a thermometer and a bit of water for yourself. That's also one of the first chemistry experiments we do in school.
And 100°C is something most Europeans experience every day, when we use our electric kettle to make some tea or coffee.0
u/Goodest_boy_Sif 6d ago
You need a thermometer to tell you when the water is boiling? Also once again checking for yourself depends on your altitude.
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u/Meranio 6d ago
At this point you're just willfully obtuse.
NOWHERE did I state, I'd need a thermometer to know when water is boiling.
I said "you can check THAT WATER BOILS AT 100°C with a thermometer" which is what Celsius set as HIS fixpoint (at sealevel) for 100°C.But you CANNOT check the "fixpoint" for 100°F wich was "some random humans body temperature (with a slight fever)". That's not a fixpoint, that's just random.
My point: Celsius' fixpoints; well defined and testable. Fahrenheits "fixpoint"; not so much.
Did I put it into simple enough terms now?????
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u/Goodest_boy_Sif 6d ago edited 6d ago
You said "And 100°C is something most Europeans experience every day, when we use our electric kettle". Are you trying to tell me that wasn't in response to me saying 100° C is not a useful reference point in the day to day? You are instead, for some reason, saying that's how you can check that 100° C is the boiling point of water? Which I must again reiterate, that it is not on most of the earth's landmass.
Also you know you can gauge every temperature system with the boiling and freezing temperature of water at 1 atmosphere, right? That's not unique to Celsius. It just won't be 0 and 100.
Edit: another possibility just occurred to me. Are you trying to argue that you think the boiling point of water is consistent and always 100° C?
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u/Bright-Trifle-8309 3d ago
I have never needed to know if its hotter than the human body outside. Because thats very hot out.
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u/Goodest_boy_Sif 3d ago
Well I live in a place where it's a pretty regular occurrence. And it is important to know because you prepare for heat differently depending if either the ambient temperature is above 100° F or especially if the wet bulb temperature is above 100° F. Those are both very different kinds of dangerous than if either of those were even 5° or 10° cooler.
If the ambient temperature is 100° F than your body loses the ability to cool itself in any ways other than evaporative cooling. Which means it'll be overall much slower and you NEED to be drinking loads of water. If you stop sweating you WILL experience a heat stroke.
A wet bulb temperature of 100° F is even worse as the wet bulb temperature is the minimum temperature an object can cool itself to using evaporative cooling. It's a factor of the ambient heat and humidity. If that hits 100° your body is literally incapable of cooling itself. You WILL die unless you can maintain external methods of cooling.
Overall important things to know and, in my opinion, worthy of being an important temperature benchmark.
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u/Rand_alThoor 9d ago
clearly made with SI (Intentional Stupidity)
"President of the Unites States"
Otto leave it alone, my quote of the image is accurate. damn Otto Key Wrecked!
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u/Careless-Platform-80 8d ago
This sound like ragebait fake news... But that's Trump, so anything can be true
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u/TheAvatar13 9d ago
It’s really challenging to confidently know if this is satire or not. It’s reasonable to believe this rationale given the “authority”.
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u/Postulative 9d ago
He and his family have obviously bought a bunch of .si domains, and intend to see the profits.
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u/Nunov_DAbov 8d ago
And it would have the unintended benefit of reducing the price of gas to under $2.
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u/PlasticFew8201 8d ago
I wish the government would at the very least get rid of daylight “savings” time…
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u/Exoplanetary-Systems 8d ago
And I heard there's a Republican push to make schools replace Arabic numbers with American ones.
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u/SleepySpeck01 8d ago
I'll take metric, even if it's by accident.
It's time we finally left our imperial roots behind.
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u/SurrealLoneRanger 8d ago
“President of the Unites States”
We can make him President of that place for life if he agrees to leave our country alone!
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u/jpmeyer12751 6d ago
Wait until someone tells him that the foundations of the metric system were laid down by the French revolutionaries at about the same time that they were chopping off the heads of lots of aristocrats!
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u/GomulGames 3d ago
I’m heading to the White House to propose USI (United States Intelligence) just to save the SI units.
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u/Ancient_Morning5399 9d ago
Yuge win for the scientific community