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The Hidden Cost Of Overthinking Everything - George Mack - #1111
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Why the Moon is the GOAT
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Chris makes the case that the moon — not the Goldilocks zone — is the real reason life exists, stabilising axial tilt and driving tides. First radio signals have now travelled 100+ light-years. [1] — Chris Williamson "The moon stabilises Earth's axial tilt, controls the tides, and is the single biggest reason life exists here. Jupiter acts as a giant aste…" 28:40
Soviet nail factories first made millions of tiny useless nails to hit a quantity target. When the target switched to weight, they made one giant useless nail. The metric becomes the goal, and the goal disappears. This is Goodhart's Law in its purest form.
When the Soviet government changed its nail factory bonus from number of nails to tonnage, factories immediately switched to producing useless oversized nails to hit the weight target.
The moon stabilises Earth's axial tilt, controls the tides, and is the single biggest reason life exists here. Jupiter acts as a giant asteroid vacuum. The Goldilocks zone gets all the credit, but the moon does all the work.
Early radio transmissions from Earth, including Reginald Fessenden's 1906 Christmas Eve broadcast, have now travelled more than 100 light-years into space.
The moon acts as a gravitational counterweight that stabilises Earth's 23-degree axial tilt; without it, the tilt would wobble chaotically, making seasons and stable weather impossible.
According to Momentous's advertising segment, 95% of Americans do not get enough dietary fiber.
Run the numbers on all 100+ billion humans who ever lived, bring them back on their final day, and the average age in the room is about 14. If you're reading this over 15, you're already one of the oldest humans who has ever existed. Infant mortality was the dominant cause of death for all of human history.
