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 MoreTag: disorder
Cipolla’s Laws of Stupidity
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 MoreJared Diamond and Crisis
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 MoreCapitalism, disorder, sociopathy
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 More
Australian response to the IPCC report: Technology and magic
The IPCC report is pretty simple. We have to cut emissions drastically in the next ten years to...
Read More