Andrej Karpathy mentioned More from Less by Andrew McAfee 1 times

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More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next by Andrew McAfee
  1. A fairly unconvincing, high level, pop-econ take on dematerialization in the economy. The first 7 chapters lay out the context: Malthusian condition, the Industrial Revolution, Earth Day, etc. Chapter 5,6,7 form the core of the book where we are treated to some pretty sketchy diagrams with everything improving up and to the right while our physical consumption of raw resources reverses. Very little is said about a number of obvious objections, eg the ongoing globalization and its effects. After Ch7 the book transitions into talking about capitalism and why it's the best thing since sliced bread. Did you know that in 1950 we got 117B pounds of milk from 22M cows, but in 2015 we got 209B pounds of milk from just 9M cows? Truly something wonderful to celebrate. For anyone interested in the topic I'd recommend wikipedia and journal articles, e.g. I found the following to be much better "bang for the buck": - https://mk0eeborgicuypctuf7e.kinstacd... - https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112... 2/5

    — Andrej Karpathy

    2020-03-03 on goodreads.com