Andrew Ringsmuth

Isn’t March 31 Monday?

Nature is as much about the evolved connections between species as the actual species themselves.

EcoSYSTEMS. 🌎

Thatcher’s claim, that there’s no such thing as society, although wildly wrong in 1987, is starting to smell a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy

YouTube video by Big Think Anthropologist debunks Darwin’s most abused idea | James Suzman

“This idea, that nature is a constant competition for life, is nonsense.”

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Don’t threaten me with a good time

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The number of resilient, purely individualistic societies so far discovered is zero.

Not a novel observation, but the economic system we've adopted was developed by men like Musk to benefit men like Musk. That anyone else has benefitted at all is largely thanks to efforts to constrain that system.

Where do we draw the line? Exploring an extreme wealth line Public event at LSE | Ingrid Robeyns, Olivier De Schutter, Fernanda Balata, Gary Stevenson, Tania Burchardt | Thurs 6 March, 6.30 to 8.00pm

What are the risks of extreme wealth?

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Resilient societies have mechanisms to constrain sociopaths’ ambitions. Decades of neoliberalism have empowered rapacious sociopaths to the point that they can openly destroy what few constraints remain, and take all community resources. This is precisely the dynamic of late-stage cancer.

Is this a surprise? Didn’t Trump publicly say that “we’ll fix it so you won’t have to vote anymore” while campaigning?

Nice. Now do culture.

One of the hallmarks of cancer is immune system evasion.

Scientists on why the SBTi should not allow more carbon offsetting to address Scope 3 emissions - edie More than two-dozen scientists are urging the Science Based Targets Initiative not to permit companies to use offsetting to a greater extent to meet their climate targets. Exclusively for edie, they o...

Colleagues and I argue that the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) should not allow more carbon offsetting to address scope 3 emissions. Real solutions demand more ambition.

I’m curious: which problems do you see as most directly related?

What’s an axis?

If I don’t get this, where on the distribution am I?

Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...

Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights!
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Could there be any stronger indicator of an attempted transition to full-blown kleptocracy?

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries The decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to ...

I fully agree with promoting green. Green growth, though, at the required scale and rate, is something we will need to learn to let go.

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Headline "US democracy has died"

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
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Evolution and the Levels of Selection Abstract. Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? This book provides a comprehensive analys

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I seem to remember this guy talking about how we need his EVs and rooftop solar to deal with climate change. Isn’t this contrary to his business interests?

Any thoughts on the new administration’s real strategic aims with their tariffs? Presumably they realise the costs to the US consumer; why do they want that?

Explain it to me like I’m ten years old: how can a company expect to successfully sue other companies for not buying their services?

YouTube video by Garys Economics How to live in a collapsing economy

Compelling and moving story. Thanks, @garyseconomics.bsky.social.

There is a huge number of highly trained scientists and technologists in Europe who are currently not working in those fields due to underfunding of universities and public research institutions. If you want groundbreaking tech, perhaps consider funding positions for the people who can create it.

I appreciate a distaste for bureaucrazy. I also note that every known resilient complex system is full of complex regulation mechanisms.

Do ideologues ever appreciate systemic complexity?