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by generativenoise 8mo ago
People in general don't seem to look at how much "productive" population you need in the real economy to support a given population. Things look pretty fine by those metrics and if the AI claims are to believed about to rapid
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
It is only "human readable" since our tooling is so bad and the lowest common denominator tooling we have can dump out a sequence of bytes as ascii/utf-8 text somewhat reliably. One can imagine a world where the lowest common
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
It would seem you are still just thinking about the human controlled portions of the ecosystem and not including all the energy used to drive to water cycle etc.
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
We directly use a miniscule fraction, indirect use is quite a bit higher since that is used delivering ecosystem services we depend on. Then there is the question of how much of that potential we want to turn into waste heat inside the atmo
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
From the outside looking in. It really seems like both fields are working around each other in weird ways, somewhat enforced by backwards compatibility and historical path dependence. The transition from more homogeneous architectures to th
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
That is such a good line. Another important note is the time horizon of that error function is often quite short.
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
I made no judgement about the quality of processed food or where the different options rank in terms access to calories and nutrition, or what is actually feasible. It was simply about how changes can become mildly to severely obligate to c
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
They are wrong however. To take the food example, the existence of processed food production creates artifacts like food deserts. If you are privileged these things don't effect you as much as you get more agency. Just the existence of
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
To me it doesn't look like the powerful have given up power, it seems as concentrated as ever. It is more that the concept of a nation isn't that useful to them under globalization at least not in the same way. Some of this is due
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
Indeed, to go along with your analogy it does feel like we have chosen to go for a "All in rush", rather that try and compound marginal advantage. Sometimes that does work, but is can be a really chaotic where small perturbations
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
I think the better rebuttal to that is the existence of many other species that have been around much longer without what we loosely call intelligence. I think the better take away from the evidence is that humans are really limited and hav
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by generativenoise 10mo ago
The problem is the draining by taxation, not the absolute number of productive people. It is far from evident what size of real productive population is needed to sustain a society. With modern tools it does feel like it could be in the rea
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by generativenoise 11mo ago
A large portion humanity seem incapable of embracing uncertainty and nuance and are over eager to embrace whoever is willing to peddle certainty and simplicity. As long as that is true it seem naive to believe that nuanced institutions can
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by generativenoise 1y ago
I think reality is a potentially a bit darker in that we really have impacted the trajectory, it is just grossly insufficient to have a meaningful change in the direction. We now seem in the unfortunate place where we have kicked or are kic
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by generativenoise 1y ago
In the limit that might be fine, the problem is the amount of damage caused in the meantime and the constraints that puts on future trajectories.
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by generativenoise 1y ago
Your first statement is terrible logic when it comes to trying to create more globally correct system dynamics. It may seem more fair but it basically creates the lossy liability mentioned by another commenter. Especially since you are crea
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by generativenoise 1y ago
Would be nice to fix the performance reviews so we don't end up in a arms race of creating bloat until it becomes so unproductive it kills the host. Over-fitting proxy measures is one of the scourges of modernity. The only silver linin
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by generativenoise 1y ago
It is insane that people think we need a growing population to make this perfect population pyramid, to make things work easily in monetary terms with taxes. It really does ignore so many of the other forces as you mention. The picture look
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by generativenoise 1y ago
Because they couldn't reach a consensus with their governance mechanisms. There were people feeding and encouraging the bears. I guess they could have shot all the bears. Eliminating all the bears because a sensible consensus can&#x2
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by generativenoise 1y ago
There may be no grand objects to be found, but that does not mean there isn't much to find. The thing that we will find is more knowledge about those societies.
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by generativenoise 1y ago
The interesting complication in that distinction is radiation mutation breeding which we have been using for nearly 100 years. An accelerated "natural" mutation mechanism? I think that main alarming aspects of GMOs are the busines
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by generativenoise 1y ago
Since the popular narrative completely ignores population for the most part in the: impact = population * pollution/intensity rate per person relationship. Since no one want to discuss active limits and we would rather have limits as s
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by generativenoise 2y ago
You just literally stated that people can be too poor to buy food on the primary market so they have to set up a secondary market in order to get food. I probably should have been more clear in my statement and put "farmers" inste
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by generativenoise 2y ago
You are being just as dogmatically blind. While there is truth is what you say about simply redistributing money is going to directly get people the goods and services required since that is not directly production. It does have second orde
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by generativenoise 2y ago
I agree that they are unlikely to become viable policy, but environmentally imposed degrowth will become increasingly real. Natural physical constraints are tightening and are already imposing into manufactured reality. Hitting the physical
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by generativenoise 3y ago
It is an interesting game we are playing as a civilisation since without people skilled at making our material environment the quality of life we enjoy will most likely drop. We seem to have structured things in a way where what is individu
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by generativenoise 3y ago
Yes we have made great progress with maternal and basic health, these are really great and represent real meaningful knowledge and capability gains. However, there are other health trends that are not looking very promising at the moment th
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by generativenoise 3y ago
I find the assumptions of the economic analysis I have seem pretty dubious. They assume way too much linearity and fungibility in the system that just doesn't appear to be there. We are just going to keep kicking the pendulum until it
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by generativenoise 3y ago
Your understanding of the physics is so bad I don't know where to start. Though for a first step where do you think that energy you extract from the water to turn it into ice goes? If you want to use ice cubes they have to either be ma
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by generativenoise 3y ago
Hrmmm, maybe I did not the best analogy to try and elucidate the difficulty of judging an action till you have reached an equilibrium state. Since it is quite predictable with a pretty concrete outcome under most conditions. I think there a

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