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

[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.

[atlovato@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @fesshole - Absolutely; as more and people begin to rely on fake knowledge from AI. the learning of subjects takes a dive. have an excellent weekend.

[aeoncypher@lgbtqia.space]

@fesshole So... I wouldn't trust an AI to come up with anything close to a correct answer.

However if I wanted "massive list of things with doors" and "massive list of things with wheels" to ground my reasoning, I think that would be a good use of it.

[michael@westergaard.social]

partly joking, partly "nothing else matters compared to the number of houses"

[mjc0961@mastodon.social]

@Cowabbie Most cars also have 4 wheels, so they cancel each other out

[supermoosie@mastodon.au]

@michael @fesshole

How many wheels on your office chair?

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@fesshole and 4 driving wheels, and a spare wheel, and wheels in the engine...

[neongod@mstdn.social]

@fesshole What about those who will start with "I'm glad you asked. What a thoughtful question..."

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@benroyce @fesshole

It's akin to the village idiot having skim-read an encyclopaedia while drunk.

[lunarloony@dosgame.club]

@michael @fesshole Depends if hatches are doors - in which case, cars have... er, more than 4. Ish.

[robchapman@ohai.social]

@fesshole
Hmm
1 on a unicycle
2 on a bike
3 or 4 wheels and 2 or 4 doors on a car
Lorries are dependant on wheel base and class
Planes multiple wheels and doors
A boat has doors, but if it carries cars, bikes, lorries, vans and a unicycle it has a lot of both
A house has doors, but if it has a water wheel, it has a wheel
The London eye is a wheel but has doors
Fairs have Ferris wheels, the ticket booth has a door
The Doors (great band)
and Huxley gave us the Doors of Perception.
- so Doors

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Anke @michael @fesshole These ones sure do.

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @fesshole If all you have is natural stupidity, there's more than one motivation to resort to this.

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@lunarloony @michael @fesshole

So... this depends on what we define as wheel, as many things inside a normal household contain wheels for mechanical purposes. Doors, otoh, are not used for half as many things. So if we go by that logic, I would say that there are many more wheels on earth than doors.