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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wrath Of Gnon

      I guess "lovers and friends" never need to go grocery shopping, or get three kids to soccer practice, or have jobs more than 5 blocks away, or need to commute to work when it's 90 degrees outsidehttps://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1280032018714116097 …

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      Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon
      “Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.” — Lewis Mumford #GoodUrbanism #Kyoto pic.twitter.com/zGUIRmhLTW
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wrath Of Gnon

      2/ horseshoe theory: gray tribe is realistic about what people really want, and the principle of revealed preference ...but both far right red tribe and far left blue tribe refuse to think economically or analytically and instead give in to emotional romanticism >>>https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1280032018714116097 …

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      Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon
      “Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.” — Lewis Mumford #GoodUrbanism #Kyoto pic.twitter.com/zGUIRmhLTW
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

      3/ ignoring actual costs and trade offs, and LARPing ideals without considering costs. With the left, this is pictures of 22nd century green cities, with gardens spilling off of skyscrapers, huge windmills, and beautiful domes With right, villages, timber frame, & cobble stone

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

      4/ Both the left and the right ideal visions are beautiful. ...but they're in @robinhanson style "far mode". There's no consideration in the left images to how much power those windmills actually generate, vs how much is required to run elevators etc. In the right >

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

      5/ there's hand-crafted timber frame, cobble stones, etc. I've done, with my own two hands, both timber frame construction with chisel and hammer, and platform framed construction with pneumatic nail gun. There's no comparison. Costs are SOOOOOO much higher w timberframe.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

      6/ And, being in far mode, both pictures leave out tons of details. Anyway, it's just tiresome. It's that standard monkey thing of not even really making an argument, just staking out an aesthetic stance as tribal signalling.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020

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      7/ 1) yes, to the point about homogeneity 2) but no to the point re Japan. Tokyo, for example, has a population density of 6,807 ppl/mi^2. It's less dense than Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, etc. https://twitter.com/CloakedClaviger/status/1310238922325348352 …

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    8. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 27 Sep 2020
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      >Tokyo, for example, has a population density of 6,807 ppl/mi^2. It's less dense than Dallas ???pic.twitter.com/XbY3KKSX4W

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020
      Replying to @random_eddie

      I made sure that the numbers I used both were in the same units. But, yes, there's apparently some bad data out there. Have closed the tabs, not going to reopen.

      9:04 AM - 27 Sep 2020
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        2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 27 Sep 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP

          I knew you had checked, but found the result so surprising that I had to check as well. "Population density" is subject to all kinds of ambiguities; being correct requires rigorous and careful statements. But loosely speaking, Tokyo is crazy dense, and Dallas isn't.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Sep 2020
          Replying to @random_eddie

          also, a big deal is the definition of metro areas; IIRC, Japan has huge metro areas, so "Tokyo" includes borderline farm land incommensurable 👏 things 👏 are 👏 not 👏 commensurable ! (my favorite example of this is the fact that murder rates can't be compared bc >>>

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