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I don't need AI to make up bullshit - Electroservo Hypermacrohydraulic. And I didn't even need to burn down a rainforest to invent it.
I don’t even need to come up with my own BS, when I can just copy some crazy nonsense written by other people. Here’s a sample:
As if sources even matter when traversing this deep in Crazy Town, but there you go anyway.
Crystals do have their own energetic signature frequencies though! Quartz is a good example; we use its piezoelectric and resonance properties to make cheap but relatively accurate oscillators.
That article says it’s 32 768 Hz, which is strangely close to some of the figures you can find on wikipedia.
Brb making a necklace of crystal oscillators to heal and balance my body. (And yeah 32768 Hz is a pretty common value for oscillators; interesting the crystal pseudoscientists use it too).
Two sentences there. The first is factually correct, though useless. The second is obviously complete bullshit, though strangely accepted by quite a few otherwise intelligent people.
Energy is a peculiar word, because it’s used by new-age loonies (and scammer), sci-fi authors and even real scientists. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist use the longer term “energy field”, but the first groups certainly seem to love it. When scientists speak of fields, they prefer to specify exactly what kind of field it is (e.g. magnetic or electric).
If I ever get to own a (farming) field of my own, I’m going to name it “Energy Field”, just to mess with everyone. Maybe I should set up a solar panel there, so that the name actually made sense.
But the Rockwell Turbo-Encabulator can do that with twice the diractance
You just need to make sure you purge the gallium matrix before you attune anything above 50 MHz.
Rockwell Retro Encabulator
Oh yeah, that one's a classic lol
Electric meat is astoundingly efficient at making bullshit.
Eh, humans are pretty good at burning rainforests too. And making up bullshit. The main problem is that we expect AI to be better than us, when really only the marketing guys have said that.