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Jose Segovia-Martin
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Assistant Professor at School of Collective Intelligence SCI-UM6P |
Research Associate at Complex Systems Institute of Paris ISCPIF-CNRS | Complex Systems, Cultural Evolution, Climate | https://jsegoviamartin.github.io | http://www.socialinteractionlab.org
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On a global scale, absolute decoupling of GDP from resource use remains unlikely. Why? Because even optimal efficiency strategies, when wiped out by rebound effects, can lead to unsustainable outcomes—a formal take on the Jevons paradox.

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Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration–exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Higher levels of economic activity are often accompanied by higher energy use and consumption of natural resources. As fossil fuels still account for 80% of the global energy mix, energy consumption r...
royalsocietypublishing.org
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"Cuando las instituciones fallan, la desobediencia civil recuerda que los derechos humanos no pueden quedar atrapados en la parálisis burocrática".

Una tribuna de José Segovia-Martín sobre la historia de la resistencia pacífica.
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Complejidad, colapso y desobediencia civil
Lejos de ser un gesto inútil o caótico, la resistencia pacífica puede abrir caminos hacia sociedades más justas y libres
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September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🆕‼️Mucha atención a lo último de Amador Fernández-Savater ✍️

La eficacia de la interrupción (sobre la Vuelta)

🎯🗣️ Esta democratización de la acción ha interrumpido nuestra propia impotencia ante el genocidio. No es poca cosa recuperar una sensación de agencia política. ⬇️

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September 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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As @sashamtl.bsky.social says, it's good we have these numbers, but there is much more that we need & deserve.

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In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
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August 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Just found out that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, written around 1948, describes a "versificator" that composes the words for songs "entirely by mechanicsl means" simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/n...
A quote from Nineteen Eighty-Four
There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except ...
simonwillison.net
July 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One year ago today:
A non-linear model to illustrate how ideas that cross international borders can potentially have a big impact on electoral outcomes.
Paper:
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Press release:
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Cross-border political competition
Individuals are increasingly exposed to news and opinion from beyond national borders. This news and opinion are often concentrated in clusters of ideological homophily, such as political parties, fac...
journals.plos.org
June 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Excellent coverage from Nature about LGBT+, gender identity, and DEI grants termination.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Chaos governs our world, even if it doesn’t seem like it.

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Without chaos theory, social science will never understand the world | Aeon Essays
Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory
aeon.co
March 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
On a global scale, absolute decoupling of GDP from resource use remains unlikely. Why? Because even optimal efficiency strategies, when wiped out by rebound effects, can lead to unsustainable outcomes—a formal take on the Jevons paradox.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration–exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Higher levels of economic activity are often accompanied by higher energy use and consumption of natural resources. As fossil fuels still account for 80% of the global energy mix, energy consumption r...
royalsocietypublishing.org
February 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New study suggesting the Palestinian health ministry under-reported mortality in Gaza by 41%.

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"We estimated 64 260 deaths (95% CI 55 298–78 525) due to traumatic injury during the study period, suggesting the Palestinian MoH under-reported mortality by 41%."
Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis
Our findings show an exceptionally high mortality rate in the Gaza Strip during the period studied. These results underscore the urgent need for interventions to prevent further loss of life and illuminate important patterns in the conduct of the war.
www.thelancet.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The second law of thermodynamics states that a quantity called entropy is on the rise, indicating that the universe is predisposed to disorder. But the idea of entropy is evolving. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...
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December 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM