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  1. Feb 2022
    1. 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

    2. 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)

    3. 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

    4. rely much more on nation-scale cooperative ventures

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

      aka colonialism, imperialism

    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. 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. 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")

  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