I've started asking people the thought experiment "are there more doors or wheels on planet earth?".

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@fesshole does ATPase count as wheel?

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@fesshole Does a ball bearing count as a wheel?

[michael@westergaard.social]

Cars have 4(ish) doors and 4(ish) wheels so they don't matter. Bikes have 2(ish) wheels and no doors. Houses have ~10 doors and no wheels. Nothing else has wheels or doors. There are likely not 5 times as many bikes as houses in the world. Ergo, doors.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@fesshole

last night i was in a conversation with someone right here on mastodon and as we discussed the topic they posted a screenshot of them asking chatgpt a question on the topic

right here on mastodon

we're so fucking doomed

people's brains are turning to mush

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@michael @fesshole

Toys heavily skew the balance though. Toy cars tend to have 4 wheels and no doors and dollhouses tend to have at most one door but toy cars heavily outnumber dollhouses

[anke@social.scribblers.club]

@michael @fesshole
I currently sit on a chair with 5 wheels, and there are small furniture pieces in this room with a total of 18 wheels...
But also 8 cabinet doors.
I don't think it's that trivial.

...also, do mouse wheels count?

[j_w_c@infosec.exchange]

@fesshole @benroyce Yes, more fun to think about it. Can I count field effect transistors as tiny doors…

[therockfiles@mastodon.social]

@fesshole But are there more wheels, doors OR bricks on earth? To make things a bit more complicated...

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@DamonWakes @fesshole personally i would say yeah

[tarbh@mastodon.ie]

@michael @fesshole Shopping trolleys and 18-wheeler trucks...

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@michael @fesshole > Nothing else has wheels or doors.

uh you sure about it?

[colmdonoghue@mastodon.ie]

@Anke @michael @fesshole cars also have steering, spare&pretensioning wheels

[peachfront@toot.community]

@michael @fesshole

"nothing else has wheels or doors..."

what

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@Anke @michael @fesshole Plus the two wheels inside the mouse that determine X and Y movement. (LED mouses need not apply!)

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@ColmDonoghue @Anke @michael @fesshole And lots of wheels inside the gearbox and diff and a fly wheel in the engine ...

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@Tarbh @michael @fesshole Prams and pushchairs.

[goblinquester@dice.camp]

@fesshole Then I take it as a sign of health that I didn't think of asking LLM about it until I arrived at your mention of it

[cowabbie@mastodon.social]

@fesshole given that most cars have 4 doors..

[shiitaketoast@beige.party]

@fesshole does a revolving door count as both a door and a wheel?

[hisvirusness@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Whenever someone posts a Gemini screenshot as proof, I always have to ask, "You don't realize how much of a self-own that is, do you?" Right over their heads.