oil metrics

Oil metrics. Tankers run 80k to 3m barrels. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 1.57 t barrels. Global daily consumption is on the order of 100m +/-5% barrels.

1m barrels ~= 159 cubic decametres ~= 0.3 hectometer diameter spheres

1b barrels ~= 159 cubic hectometres ~= 0.3 kilometer diameter spheres

1t barrels ~= 159 cubic kilometres ~= 0.3 x 10km diameter spheres

So tankers run 13 cubic dm to 0.5 cubic hm. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 238 cubic km.

So tankers run 24 dm-diameter spheres to 0.9 hm-diameter spheres. Estimate global unpumped volume estimates at 0.5 10km-diameter spheres.

Unity : Universals, Leaky Abstraction, Governance Failure

Today, I'm reading philosophy. A classic issue is "the problem of universals" ( summary : what makes the word chair, apply to this thing, and not that thing? ).

So, it reminds me that this, "leaky abstraction", is at the heart of problems around "governance failure" in current LLMs, and with people in general (e.g., "never do X" or "always do Y" ).

It's nice nowadays, to be able to take ancient fuzzy concepts and apply mechanistic interpretation to them!

TIER : transcendental idealism, empirical realism

 Lol. I seem to have learnt the term "transcendental *idealism*" without remembering its formal counterpart "empirical *realism*", and I have been using TI to refer to all of TIER for the last 20+ years.