Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year agoIf I simply ask “can eggs melt” and the answer is complicated but still yes, I would hope it to explain the complications and not just say yes. But I mean, if I just wanted a yes or no answer, and it’s technically correct, I’m cool with that.
snaggen@programming.dev 1 year ago
Well, I agree. But what I mean is that when people ask physics questions, it is often implicitly understood to mean under current conditions. You rarely hear normal people or kids (how I find asks most of the physics question) include anything about frictionless vacuums in the question. (For reference: xkcd.com/669/ ). So, in for the egg question, regular people would most likely consider the answer to be No, except under special circumstances. But, I agree with you that if a simple Yes/No answer is expected, it have to be Yes.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wouldn’t that be true for everything then? 3,400C is pretty special circumstances in my book, yet we say tungsten melts.
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t think adding heat is a special circumstance like adding pressure is. It’s very easy to add heat to something. Adding pressure means building a sealed environment to enclose it’s, and some specialized equipment to increase the pressure.
Adding heat requires that you burn something. That’s it.
snaggen@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yes, you have a point. However adding heat is often implicit when talking about melting stuff. However, if it requires 3400C, then the answer would probably include a comment about that.