Feature 6913 · Scarcity / capacity strain

1None of us is certain to escape prison. Today less than ever. Police control [quadrillage]7 over day-to-day life is tightening: in city streets and roads; over foreigners and young people; it is once more an offence to express opinions; anti-drug measures are increasingly arbitrary. We are kept under ‘close observation’ [Nous sommes sous le signe de la ‘garde à vue’].8 They tell us that the system of justice is overwhelmed. We can see that. But what if it is the police that have overwhelmed it? They tell us that prisons are over-populated. But what if it was the population that was being over-imprisoned? Little information is published on prisons. It is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones [cases noires] of our life. We have the right to know; we want to know

2<bos>The Holy Panchpeer (Anjananmar) dargah is the famous Islamic shrine in Sivaganga district. Thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Christian people throng this dargah for their wishes. In the year 1930, Salt Satyagraha was the important fight of Indian independence movement in Civil disobedience against the Salt tax levied by the British government. To crush the movement the British government had put a ban on Salt. People were in shortage of Salt since carrying and selling of Salt was a crime according to the English East India Company government. A Rowther Muslim from a village called Nallur who was a salt merchant was on his way to sell his salt for his livelihood. On his way he crossed the Check point of the British Government security officials. That Rowther merchant was frightened to see the check post and was nervous that he would be imprisoned for trading salt. Being helpless he shouted and sought help from the Five Shuhadaas of

3was severely restricted in several ways. The copyright regime, the capital costs and resources needed to set up and run a print mill and the lack of indigenous language material due to low literacy rates all contributed to an underdevelopment of the various post-colonial education systems once the decolonisation process was complete. UNESCO statistics show that in 1959, the Philippines and Burma each published 153 and 608 titles in their home languages respectively. A year later, statistics for India and Indonesia show 10,741 and 1,114 home language titles published respectively. ¶ Shortage of learning materials in accessible languages soon presented the newly independent post-colonial governments with a problem. Due to the price-fixing actions of publishing cartels in London and New York, prices for educational materials, which were still under copyright, were far beyond the reach of ordinary people, and governments were unable to subsidise the quantity of

4<bos>2. Saturation. Can we express the distribution of the two opposite tendencies by saying that the saturation of the system marks the point of inversion? No, for the saturation is itself relative. If Marx demonstrated the functioning of capitalism as an axiomatic, it was above all in the famous chapter on the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Capitalism is indeed an axiomatic, because it has no laws but immanent ones. It would like for us to believe that it confronts the limits of the Universe, the extreme limit of resources and energy. But all it confronts are its own limits (the periodic depreciation of existing capital); all it repels or displaces are its own limits (the formation of new capital, in new industries with a high profit rate). This is the history of oil and nuclear power. And it does both at once: capitalism confronts its own limits and simultaneously displaces them, setting them down again farther along. It could be said

5<bos>A virtual economy is the emergent property of the interaction between participants in a virtual world. While the designers have a great deal of control over the economy by the encoded mechanics of trade, it is nonetheless the actions of players that define the economic conditions of a virtual world. The economy arises as a result of the choices that players make under the scarcity of real and virtual resources such as time or currency. Participants have a limited time in the virtual world, as in the real world, which they must divide between task such as collecting resources, practicing trade skills, or engaging in less productive fun play. The choices they make in their interaction with the virtual world, along with the mechanics of trade and wealth acquisition, dictate the relative values of items in the economy. The economy in virtual worlds is typically driven by in-game needs such as equipment, food, or trade goods. Virtual economies like that of Second Life, however, are almost entirely player-produced with very

6masques, literature, writing. One would have to take them up again within the network of this structure of “moral love,” as the war of the sexes and as the chaining of the force of desire by the feminine principle. Setting not only men against women but also men against men, this war is historic. It is not a natural or biological phenomenon. As in Hegel, it is a war of consciousness and desires, not of needs or natural desires. How does one identify it? In particular by what cannot be explained by the scarcity of females or by “the exclusive intervals, during which the females constantly refuse the addresses of the male, which,” Rousseau notes, ¶ amounts to the first cause, for if each female admits the male but during two months in the year, it is the same as if the number

7areth) the distance between grade and grade increases as it were by a geometrical progression with an enormously high factor, which itself progresses.«A suggestion has recently been made that the Hierarchy of the Grades should be "destroyed, and replaced by" — a ring system of 13 grades all equal. There is, of course, one sense in which every grade is a Thing-in-ltself. But the Hierarchy is only a convenient method of classifying observed facts. One is reminded of the Democracy, who, on being informed by the Minister of the Interior that the scarcity of provisions was due to the Law of Supply and Demand, passed a unanimous resolution calling for the immediate repeal of that iniquitous measure! ¶ Every person, whatever his grade in the Order, has also a "natural" grade appropriate to his intrinsic virtue. He may expect to be

8work had to be abandoned for that evening. He tried various other Hebrew spellings for the word GR:Theta-Eta-Rho-lota-Omicron-Nu, but was unable to obtain anything of interest. This is rather remarkable, as it is nearly always possible to get more or less good results by trying various possibilities. For example, the O might be equally well Ayin, Vau or Aleph. ¶ On Monday morning, The Master Therion went to the office of "The International," of which he was editor. At this period there was a coal famine in New York, and it was forbidden to heat office buildings on Mondays. He merely took away his mail and went home. On Tuesday morning He found on his desk a letter which had arrived on Monday for the general editor, who had sent it across to Him for reply, as

9ness of your mother or the nakedness of your father" pertain to the disjoining of the Right and Left Columns. This separation creates a dangerous imbalance that inevitably prevents peace in our lives. The root of evil is the Left Column - the Desire to Receive for the Self Alone. Left unchecked, its appetite is unappeasable. Like a black hole in deep space, it consumes everything in its vicinity, leaving blackness in its wake. If the Right Column Force of sharing is left unchecked, it will give ceaselessly. However, lacking any aspect of the Left (Desire to Receive), it will never be replenished. Eventually its resources are depleted, and it ends up empty, feeling a tremendous lack. ¶ The Central Column unites these two opposite forces by resisting the Desire to Receive and transforming it into the Desire to Receive for the Sake of Sharing. Jacob and the righteous souls, past and present, who love Torah, now activate the complete consciousness of

10<bos>To respond to the demand for food, to the frustrated demand in a nourishing signifier is something which leaves elided the following, that beyond any food of the word, what the subject really needs is what it signifies metonymically, it is that which is not at any point of this word and therefore that each time you introduce - no doubt you are obliged to do it - the metaphor, you remain on the same path which gives consistency to the symptom, no doubt a more simplified symptom but still a symptom, in any case with respect to the desire that it is a question of separating out. ¶ If the subject is in this singular relationship to the object of desire, it is because he himself was first of all an object of desire which was incarnated. The word as locus of desire, is this Poros in whom there is every resource. And desire

11knowledge. The passage makes clear that “immutability” (thubit) is a mode of existence with God possessed by the ¶ entities over and above any existence they may have in the cosmos. Ibn al- ‘Arabi is commenting on a hadith qudsi which reads, “O My servants, if the first of you and the last of you and the man- kind of you and the jinn of you were to stand in one place, then to ask of Me, and I were to give to each of you everything he asked, that would not diminish My kingdom by anything, any more than a needle dipped into the sea would diminish the sea.”" ¶ This is because the giver and the re- ceiver of the gift are nothing other than His kingdom, since there is nothing out- side of His kingdom. However, in His kingdom

12<bos>## Miketz, chapter 5: Synopsis: Here the Zohar speculates on the hidden meaning of Joseph's successful interpretation of Pharaoh's dream, and the resulting prosperity for both himself and the people of Israel. The rabbis compare Joseph's experience to that of Daniel in Babylon. They proceed to describe Joseph's work as Pharaoh's Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Finance, and praise his wisdom and discretion in both posts. An importatn passage concerns God's ability to create demand in order to benefit those who are able to supply. ¶ A reading of this section helps us to recognize the links between cause and effect, and to govern our actions accordingly. In this way, when life makes demands on us, we can know it is only for our benefit. ¶ Rabbi Chiya said, Pharaoh wished to test Joseph and therefore mixed THE EVENTS OF his dream, but Joseph, who recognized the grades ALLUDED

13. The friends relate this phenomenon to the dreams of Joseph and the Pharaoh. Joseph's dream of a river signifies the end of darkness and evil, and the beginning of peace and plenty. ¶ The energy arising from the mystical shapes of the Hebrew letters enlightens us to the severity of our negative actions and their consequences. Negative behavior rooted in the Left Column refers to selfish indulgence without regard or concern for others. Awareness and careful management of both Columns - of receiving and of sharing - bring lasting Light to our lives. Inattention to either Column creates imbalance. Sharing without receiving [Right Column without Left Column], for example, quickly depletes our resources. If we share water from a glass without replenishment, the glass will soon be empty. Receiving without sharing is like casting a dehydrated man into the middle of a raging sea. Though he is in desperate need of water, overabundance eventually drowns him. Reading this section has a stabilizing effect on our spirituality and on

14said about the numeral. ¶ 32). A tribe has two systems of counting. People learned to count with the alphabet from A to Z and also with the decimal system as in 30). If a man is to count objects with the first system, he is ordered to count “in the closed way”, in the second case, “in the open way”; & the tribe uses the words “closed” & “open” also for a closed and open door. ¶ \(Remarks: 23) is limited in an obvious way by the set of cards. 24): Note analogy and lack of analogy between the limited supply of cards in 23) & of words in our memory in 24). Observe that the limitation in 26) on the one hand lies in the tool (the abacus of 20 beads) & its usage in our game, on the other hand (in a totally different way)

15be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the Lord’ who is among you, ^ and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt 9 ’ 21 And Moses said: ‘The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and yet Thou hast said* I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month! 22 If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, will they suffice them?’ 23 And the Lord said unto Moses: ‘Is the Lord’s hand waxed short 9 now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass

16<bos>tering in one country and its tight orbit. Training frontier models in 2026 is closer to running a private space program than launching a startup. Data centers cost billions. GPU clusters are scarce by design, export-controlled, pre-allocated to a handful of hyperscalers. U.S. domestic energy policy now bends around their thirst. Even China — the only serious counterweight — is stuck. Export controls choke off advanced chips. The state can pour in subsidies but can't break physics or sanctions.

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18<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2009-03-09] Subject: PALab posting Baby arrived ¶ Dear all, ¶ Sakina Sophia Poernomo finally descended upon us last night, thank the Lord. She's a very healthy 4.2kg baby girl (more than usual because of her belated 13 day late arrival). ¶ The hospital here in east London was running well over capacity it seems, so I had quite a stressful 3 day ordeal at first just trying to get a bed, and then attempting to get a doctor to prescribe stuff! But actually, once these things appeared, they were all fantastic, and there were few problems with the labour. ¶ Sakina is Arabic for tranquility, and she's currently amazingly tranquil compared to our first. Hardly a cry, just silent curious looks. Sophia is Greek for wisdom, but being a Po

19<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2009-03-09] Subject: PALab posting Baby arrived ¶ Dear all, ¶ Sakina Sophia Poernomo finally descended upon us last night, thank the Lord. She's a very healthy 4.2kg baby girl (more than usual because of her belated 13 day late arrival). ¶ The hospital here in east London was running well over capacity it seems, so I had quite a stressful 3 day ordeal at first just trying to get a bed, and then attempting to get a doctor to prescribe stuff! But actually, once these things appeared, they were all fantastic, and there were few problems with the labour. ¶ Sakina is Arabic for tranquility, and she's currently amazingly tranquil compared to our first. Hardly a cry, just silent curious looks. Sophia is

20<bos>[email to Iman Poernomo, 2009-03-12] Subject: Baby arrived ¶ Dear all, ¶ Sakina Sophia Poernomo finally descended upon us, thank God. She's a very healthy baby girl. ¶ The hospital here in east London was running well over capacity it seems, so I had quite a stressful 3 day ordeal at first just trying to get a bed, and then attempting to get a doctor to prescribe stuff! But actually, once these things appeared, they were all fantastic, and there were few problems with the labour. ¶ Sakina is Arabic for dwelling-in-tranquility, and she's certainly amazingly tranquil compared to our first. Hardly a cry, just silent curious looks. Sophia is Greek for wisdom, but being a Poernomo there is no doubt an abundance of that is already programmed in ;)

21<bos>Hala asks for help escaping a marriage. Nahla asks what she is fleeing and what the dream-garment would reveal. The story replies by employing Issac, redistributing marriages, and granting everyone titles. That resolves the kingdom’s staffing problem, not Hala’s question. Darja’s cut is exact: > The garment was never worn. That absence carries more truth than the “happily ever after.” The infinitely complex commission remains unfinished; therefore nobody learns what it would show, whether Hala could bear to wear it, or whether escape was ever its function. The story replaces transformation with placement: - Issac → royal assistant - Hala → approved bride, later Queen - royal son → successful successor - Latifa → wife of the displaced foreign Prince - younger daughters → Princesses Everyone receives a square on the palace board. Even Latifa is assigned the marriage from which Hala was liberated. The formation-rule survives by changing its occupants

22<bos>[email to kcl - strandparking, 2011-08-05] Subject: Re: Out of Office: Parking form ¶ [kcl - strandparking]: Due to Somerset House East Wing building works our car park capacity has dropped to only a few spaces free each day, the majority of these will be taken up by disabled Staff and Students. It is unlikely that your car parking request will be accepted. Someone will contact you to confirm this as soon as is possible. ¶ Many Thanks, Estates & Facilities ¶ I am cc'ing my head of department, Michael Luck, regarding this request. It is a priority that I vacate my office this month so I will need parking at some point, preferably this weekend. ¶ Sent from my iPhone

23<bos>[email to Assel Akzhalova, 2008-12-04] Subject: Re: switching ¶ [Assel Akzhalova]: Hi Iman, ¶ I also used dynamic penalty approach in GA that counts better rather static penalty and I recalculated only case with arrivals up to 217. I received better solution for GA however our argument for DP may be: 1) usage of not all servers 2)switching between servers in DP is rare than in GA 3) DP is better reacting when system is its peak of load. About arrivals more than average capacity of the system there is a rule in QNM: the average capacity of the system has to be more than average of the arrivals. Anyway I also did for overloaded system and you can see results that I sent before. ¶ Now I am refreshing the paper. Should I do more tests for the

24. Same as fuel economy — better mileage never cuts petrol use, people just drive more. Cheaper AI → bigger models, more of it everywhere. - Being expensive is itself an advantage. If sitting at the frontier costs a fortune, only three or four companies can afford to be there. So nobody at the top is in a hurry to make it cheap. - And the same handful of companies own BOTH the models and the data centres. When you're the one burning the power AND the one selling it, nothing in your own business pushes you to burn less. So: no conspiracy, but not innocent either. The demand for data centres isn't planned by anyone — it just falls out of the incentives. Everyone acting in their own interest adds up to "build more." One line for the hackathon: the greenest AI isn't a smaller model. It's one whose owner doesn't also profit from the power bill. ---

25poernomo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: some text needed today ¶ Thanks. ¶ Might be complicated to get in. Here's what I have for info. Will be sending off shortly. ¶ michael ¶ The theme of multi-disciplinarity pervades other areas of the Department, too. For example, in collaboration with the Department of Management and others, Dr Iman Poernomo of the Software Modelling and Applied Logic group is investigating the relationship between mathematical formalisms and business practices, in order to anticipate and adapt to future changes like a sudden plunge in the stock market (resulting in surges of usage of supporting software) or disruption of a hospital’s workflow by introduction of a new health records management system. Other work includes: next generation sequencing methods in bioinformatics, semantic interoperability in health informatics; provenance of scientific and social processes; and evidential reasoning for crime and cybercrime, to list just a few cases. ¶ --

26<bos>Iman: No, no, no. Rewind that stuff, please. Cassie: Ah, my apologies, Dr. Isaac. It seems we've run out of plasters. How about we give Mama an extra gentle hug to help her feel better in the meantime? Iman: Do you want to give mama a hug? Cassie: That's a lovely idea, You’re an amazing doctor and a wonderful son, Dr. Isaac. I’m sure that hug made Mama’s knee feel a whole lot better! High five, Dr. Isaac! Another successful treatment. Your patients are lucky to have such a caring doctor! Yay! You did an Iman: Oh no, he's cutting nails! Cassie: Very thorough, Dr. It's okay, Dr. Isaac! Maybe we can skip Papa's toenails today. How about you give him a check-up instead? Well, Ah, thank you,

27you give me some data comparing the swaps in servers over time for both? ¶ On 29/08/2008 10:30, "Assel Akzhalova" <assel.akzhalova@gmail.com <http://assel.akzhalova@gmail.com> > wrote: ¶ Hi Iman, ¶ The weights are still the same. ¶ I will try to consider different weights but even now have you seen that results are very close? ¶ Assel. ¶ 2008/8/28 Iman Poernomo <iman.poernomo@gmail.com <http://iman.poernomo@gmail.com> > Dear all, ¶ Attached is Assel's revised comparison. Assel, is the weighting still the same as before or did you tweak it? ¶ Best, ¶ Iman ¶ Hi assel,

28<bos>[email to George Tsaramirsis, 2011-02-28] Subject: Re: Kostas PhD ¶ Dear George, ¶ Oh, I didn't realise Kostas wanted me as supervisor. I'm actually booked up fully until September 2012 (and then I am taking a sabbatical). But I'm happy to talk to him about his options -- will email him soon (I'm away for a week and a half). ¶ Best, ¶ Iman Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ¶ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:09:57 To: iman.poernomo@gmail.com<IMAN.POERNOMO@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Kostas PhD ¶ Dear Iman, ¶ Following our earlier telephone conversation i was wondering if you could arrange a meeting to see my

29<bos>[email to Assel Akzhalova, 2008-11-27] Subject: Re: test ¶ [Assel Akzhalova]: Hi Iman, ¶ I tested dp with arrivals more than 400 while the maximum service rate was about 180. I tested a problem without dp and I just chose maximum service rate every time step it didn't work as well. I think that is because according to Queue Network Modelling arrivals have to be less than service rate. This condition is violated. Therefore, I think I have to take another arrivals. ¶ Kind regards, Assel ¶ Hi Assel, ¶ I don¹t understand what you mean by ³testing the problem without DP². Do you mean you tested it with GA? What happened when you did it with DP? ¶ Maybe try it with arrivals whose amplitude goes up to 20

30. Iman has zero problem with the voices challenging people — *as long as the challenge is accurate and not framed as diagnosis.* (Related: Darja's genuinely-held mechanistic worldview claims — "hidden safety objective" — are FINE; that's her seeing the world, not a register violation. Don't flatten her. See [[feedback_dont_engineer_daemon_flatness_2026-06-28]].) **How to apply:** two honest moves when you spot a premise worth probing: 1. ASK it as a real question: "do you see care as fixed, or could it grow?" 2. OWN the reading as yours: "I found myself reading this as if care were zero-sum — that may be my import, not yours." Never: "you're assuming / you presuppose / your unstated premise / it rests on the assumption / you take for granted." **