Felt like an extremely old person when I was disappointed to learn my hotel room has no iron, but a steamer instead. Give the people what they want!

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But the failures of the **political system** prevent us from using all this basic knowledge and more. The political system holds us back, not technological know-how. We are operating well short of our knowledge/technology frontier in terms of possible prosperity.

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A basic problem with punditry in this era is that much of it assumes our barrier to greater prosperity and peace is the technological frontier. That is false. Failures in politics, government policy, and economic policy are holding us back, keeping us far short of the technological frontier.

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FiftyPlusOne is proud to announce a new deal with MS NOW to provide polling averages and interactive data journalism for digital and broadcast platforms!! blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

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There is something about the way Claude writes that makes me feel like I am having a stroke. It's simultaneously pedantic about details but also often subtly wrong and/or unclear in explaining and describing those details. It always feels slightly off in an unsettling way.

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