Brandolini’s Law
The original Brandolini’s Law, or the “bullshit asymmetry” principle is a really neat summation of things that are well-known, but hard to express simply the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an...
Read MoreMay 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
The original Brandolini’s Law, or the “bullshit asymmetry” principle is a really neat summation of things that are well-known, but hard to express simply the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an...
Read MoreNov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Cipolla’s “Laws of Stupidity” (The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity) are an interesting ‘useful joke’ for anyone who is concerned with information distortion, or the production of disorder. However, I...
Read MoreOct 1, 2021 | Problems of Information, Problems of Transition and Change
I’ve only just started to read Jared Diamonds book Upheaval (Little & Brown/Allen Lane 2019), so what I say may prove incorrect and need to be modified later. Diamond posits a similarity between the way individuals and...
Read MoreSep 10, 2021 | Economics, Politics of Energy and Transformation
This is a response to a response, elsewhere online, to my definition of capitalism post. Their argument is that the features I determined to be part of capitalism, are not part of capitalism, not found in any dictionary...
Read MoreAug 11, 2021 | Technology
The IPCC report is pretty simple. We have to cut emissions drastically in the next ten years to...
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