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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…

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. On…

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.

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 th…

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 dependen…

That is such a good line. Another important note is the time horizon of that error function is often quite short.

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 a…

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 yo…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

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 s…

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.

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 m…

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 …

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 …

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. Eliminati…

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.

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 …

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 dis…

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 …

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 sin…