Conclusion: intelligence is less useful than wisdom. (Or, the intelligence to solve a specific problem is less useful than the intelligence to work out which problems are and aren't worth solvin… (View Post)

As a provincial science teacher, I suspect that confusion between capital and revenue costs is at the the root of a lot of our problems as a state. (View Post)

You can see why newspaper and magazine columnists are so antsy. (Before the Long Vac started, my college ran a PD session on using AI to make lesson resources. The resulting products looked nice, but… (View Post)

Pensions and debt interest, mostly. In the 80s, we had a very favourable dependency ratio, and any idiot could have made the fiscal sums work. Now we don't, and not even a genius could. (Plus, m… (View Post)

The historical precedents for strong leaders/near-dictators/actual dictators being deposed because their bodies and minds have turned to mush aren't great. It may look like a very unstable equil… (View Post)