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  1. Feb 2022
    1. inevitable

      bullshit. only death is "inevitable", everything else is variable

    2. disappearance of the United States as we know it

      replaced by china + russia

    3. transformation

      why reform?

      why not revolution?

      let me guess, cos personality type

      then why is your type better than my type?

    4. reduce all three multiplicative factors in the I = PAT equation (population, affluence/consumption, and the use of environmentally malign technologies)

      bill gates:

      CO2 = P x S x E x C

      P = People<br /> S = Services per Person<br /> E = Energy per Service<br /> C = CO2 per Energy

      paul ehrlich:

      I = PAT

      P = Population<br /> A = Affluence, weight of destructive technology<br /> T = Technology destroying nature

    5. humanely

      fuck off with your "pretty" solutions

      we tried this the last 10k years, and it was a DISASTER

    6. society could revert to the sort of conditions that prevailed in the Dark Ages, with fundamentalist religions and local despots playing a greater and greater role in human affairs

      at least with "local despots", people know who is the boss, who is responsible

      in contrast to the faceless bureaucracy of large organizations (cities, states, corporations)

    7. national governments could be so weakened that they would be replaced by something resembling feudalism with a strong overlay of tribalism

      good news

      megavillages are the problem (cities, states)

      villages are the solution = 150 people = dunbar's number

      villages must be isolated from neighbor villages, so we need tribal warfare

    8. rely much more on nation-scale cooperative ventures

      long distance dependencies, "petrol from africa", "products from china"

      aka colonialism, imperialism

    9. simply don't care

      dead already, but still alive

      followers with weak opinions

    10. unable to grasp humanity's plight

      the stupid majority

    11. urbanization

      village = 150 people

      city > 150 people

      dunbar's number

    12. population pressures and the political stability of nations

      weapons of mass migrations, attack on welfare states

    13. democracy as a form of government will be at risk

      wtf?

      democracy, socialism, pacifism ... are part of the problem

    14. What do we gain by playing "environmental roulette"

      innocent suicide.

      by producing more and more humans, we kill all humans.

    1. “In the short term we’re pretty clearly going to be based in physical reality and I certainly wouldn’t recommend abandoning it,” Chalmers says. “But in the longer term, it’s possible to imagine people spending most of their lives inside virtual reality.”

      translation:

      most people will survive the next few years, but in maybe ten years, most of them will be dead.

  2. Jan 2022
    1. larger scavengers, such as dogs and children

      : D

    2. Once muscle and ligament have been sliced away, the head can be cleanly removed by gripping it on either side and twisting it off

      eww

    1. If any of my workers wants to drink, he must leave the village to do so!

      NIMBY. not in my back yard.

    1. there's no simple system

      then all systems are wrong.

      truth is simple.

    2. most popular

      popular != correct.

      except you believe in majority vote.

    3. Many researchers have set out to answer this question

      oh really? where? what keyword?

    1. institutions are eager to promote any successful research

      yeah.

      what about the "unsuccessful" research?

      what about the "high risk" proposals?

      -> publication bias.

    2. well known

      mainstream, established, "old", elitist, "professional" (first you must study five years and earn your LICENSE = diploma), exclusive, highly selective, "biased" (to what?), "conservative", fear of embarassment ("we dont do pseudoscience!"), dogmatic, slow, cautious, "realism over idealism"

    1. non-survival

      play, playful, homo ludens

    2. hierarchic

      trees

    3. necessarily controversial

      because no one wants to admit he is a "stupid" "dyadic-thinker". at least not in public.

    4. rarely significant

      because all "higher" complexity can be expressed as recursion of triadic relations ("double-linked lists"), which is NOT possible with dyadic relations ("single-linked lists")

    5. complexity

      quantity versus quality ... serial versus parallel processing

    6. simple binary correlations

      dyadic

    7. at the same time

      parallel processing

    8. does not focus on “triads”

      ... but on dyads = dyadic relations = black-white thinking = subject-object relations = ...

    9. Opinion

      strong opinion

  3. Oct 2021
    1. After applying a git-filter-repo to replace a mail address in a whole repository, I found out that ALL the commit where considered to be replaced.

      as expected

      when rewriting git history, you also change the parent fields of child commits, like in a git rebase