Ike

Provocative questions from #DoTheMath blog post[1]:

- Does it seem wrong to impose limits on humans?

- Should humans get whatever they want?

- Are limits evil, when applied to humans?

- Is the only way to be “fully human” to live outside of biophysical/ecological restrictions?

- Does this mean, in effect, that we will never voluntarily reduce or deprive humans of food?

- Should it be: food will make babies until other factors beyond our control intervene?

[1]: dothemath.ucsd.edu/2025/06/foo

Food Makes Babies | Do the Math

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nemo™ 🇺🇦

Übrigens hat eine Ketwurst in der DDR wohl etwa 1,50 Ost-Mark gekostet. #dothemath

Andre C.

@SheDrivesMobility mich hat in dem Zusammenhang interessiert, wie groß der Unterschied zwischen WoMo-Reisen und Fliegen ist #doTheMath

Schauen wir dazu z.B. auf die CO2 Emissionen:

Im Wohnmobil (Diesel mit zwei Personen ) kommt man auf etwa 200 Gramm CO2 pro Personenkilometer (g CO²/Pkm), beim Fliegen sind die Emissionen mit 300 g CO²/Pkm etwa anderthalb mal so hoch. Zum Vergleich: Bei Zugreisen liegt dieser Wert bei 15 - 40 g CO² / Pkm. (1/2)

⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir

« Personne n’y croit, une fois qu’on a augmenté les impôts de 40 %, qui va les baisser de 40 % ? ».

Il manquerait plus que ça ! #DoTheMath

Dale Hagglund

@gerrymcgovern I think you might find it interesting to check out the first video (or however many catch your interest) of this playlist on "Metastatic Modernity" by Dr Tom Murphy of UCSD.

Murphy has been writing on energy, economy, modernity, and their intersection with planetary limits for quite a while at his Do The Math blog, and although that started in a pretty standard "green tech" position, as he started to look at things from a deeper, and rather darker, perspective which in 2021 he turned into an e-textbook _Energy and Human Ambition on a Finite Planet_.

Anyway, sorry for dropping in from nowhere.

#climate #modernity #DoTheMath #overshoot #LimitsToGrowth #sustainability

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvU

Metastatic Modernity - Tom Murphy

YouTube
Ike

❤️‍🔥

"Because human mental models are exceptional ... We begin to live in our models ... the classic blunder of treating the map as the territory. ... in a sense [this] is the whole point of a brain: a speedy shortcut-machine that often serves well enough to stand in for reality.

... our tendency to “live the model” has become ever-easier to practice, in a self-reinforcing way, having reshaped our environment to conform to our shortcut mental models"

dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/11/pol

#Politics #DoTheMath

Ellie Kennard

The Third-of-a-Pound Burger flop

"Ah, fractions. Who needs 'em? Not burger devotees. According to Canadian news outlet CBC, the famous McDonald's Quarter Pounder burger once had a larger cousin, the Third-of-a-Pound Burger...."

That's why it's a bad idea to argue online.

snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/thi
#math #fractions #doTheMath #EllieKPosts

Boris Kretzinger

Ejagfest 2024 - I was there! And it was great! Good vibes only, so many nice people. Was amazing to meet Carl Forhan from Songbird in person, got to shake hands with Ian McCranor who played Angus in Kasumi Ninja, had a look at the final version of Jumping at Shadows, played Tempest 2000 on an old Jag kiosk unit ... so much nerdy fun in one day. Wow. Cheers everyone, have a splendid weekend as well! 🎉🍻

#atari #atarijaguar #retrogaming #gaming #convention #dothemath #gamingevent

Boris Kretzinger

New firmware update for Jaguar GD. Finally World Tour Racing and VidGrid run (WTR does crash between races seemingly, but oh well, at least it's playable at all).
#atari #atarijaguar #dothemath

Twra Sun

Selbst Markus hat es gelesen: 151 Millionen Tonnen CO2 von den geforderten 180 bis 2030 könnte der Verkehrsbereich durch 5 simple Maßnahmen einsparen.

Johannes Vogel: 👀

#DoTheMath #NoRocketScience #FDPShitShow

Eudaimon ꙮ
"Energy transition aspirations are similar. The goal is powering modernity, not addressing the sixth mass extinction. Sure, it could mitigate the CO2 threat (to modernity), but why does the fox care when its decline ultimately traces primarily to things like deforestation, habitat fragmentation, agricultural runoff, pollution, pesticides, mining, manufacturing, or in short: modernity. Pursuit of a giant energy infrastructure replacement requires tremendous material extraction—directly driving many of these ills—only to then provide the energetic means to keep doing all these same things that abundant evidence warns is a prescription for termination of the community of life."

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/03/lets-make-a-deal/

#DoTheMath #TomMurphy #MassExtinction #Collapse #EnergyTransition (haha) #CO2 #Modernity
Let’s Make a Deal! | Do the Math

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Ike

DoTheMath is one of my favorite blogs.

It started out as a physics professor using "back of the envelope" calculations to estimate various effects and solutions of climate change, but lately has taken an eye to existential topics like fate vs determinism.

The author, TomMurphy, is a professor emeritus of the departments of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego

dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/mys

#DoTheMath #Existentialism #Fate #TomMurphy #UCSD

Mysterious Materialism | Do the Math

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Serendipity

2024 U.S. election

If no presidential candidate wins 270 electoral votes, the House chooses the president with each state getting one vote. As of today, election deniers sit in 36 House delegations. #DoTheMath
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

Eudaimon ꙮ
"A Story of Mice (and Men)" | Do the Math

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/12/a-story-of-mice-and-men/

«Then one day a foraging mouse notices a new hole at the base of an abandoned silo on the edge of the prairie that’s been dormant and irrelevant for all these years. Out of this hole some grains of wheat have spilled out. Tasty! Excited by her find, she brings her friends and they all have a feast. Within weeks, the mice are growing in number and exploiting this seemingly endless resource. All troubles would appear to be over.»

You may guess the direction of the tale, and the failing direction of the human endeavor

#DoTheMath #PeakEverything #Metacrisis
A Story of Mice (and Men) | Do the Math

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Eudaimon ꙮ
"Confessions of a Disillusioned Scientist"

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/12/confessions-of-a-disillusioned-scientist/

«After a rocket ride through science, I am hanging up the gloves, feeling a little ashamed and embarrassed to have devoted so much of my life to what I now see as a misguided cause that has done more harm than good in this world.

The previous post details my views about the limits of science. In this post, I will focus more on my own reaction as a human participant in the enterprise.»

We humans as a whole have developed intelligence but not wisdom (despite such wisdom actually exists in certain places and among certain people). Intelligence without wisdom, as Daniel Schmachtenberger says, is very dangerous (to be accelerated by "AI", by the way). Tom Murphy is realizing this (as I myself have, too, not long ago). Let his testimony be received by as many people as possible 🙏

#DoTheMath #TomMurphy #Science #ScientificMaterialism
Confessions of a Disillusioned Scientist | Do the Math

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Boris Kretzinger

"Can Atari K-O 3DO?" Well, we know the answer to that. But in December 1993, that was indeed a good question asked in this headline inside of Popular Science. At that time, it's wasn't already clear just how limited the Jaguar's launch would turn out to be, and even after that, the Jag sold a bit better than the 3DO for some months - which isn't much, still 😅. Also, this little bit was placed in an article about the 3DO, and you gotta agree that this picture of their crew is great!

So celebrate the Jaguar's 30th anniversary, enjoy the good and mediocre games, heck, maybe even some of the not-so-good ones. And remember that the Jag had a lot of potential and did not start out as a flop. If you want to read more about its history, you might like to look at my book Clipped Claws. It's free. And in any case: Keep doing the Math! 🕹️

www.archive.org/details/clipped-claws

#atari #atarijaguar #gaming #retrogaming #vintagegaming #90s #dothemath