In maths, it would be exponential. Which is the sort of growth in energy prices we might be about to see. (View Post)

In 2026 Iran seemed like just another foreign war but it wasn't It was different in many ways, and so were those that did the governing In World War II the average IQ of the American Cabinet was… (View Post)

Furthermore, I suspect that there's a bit of a category confusion here. Law and politics are pretty good at regulating questions of "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not". They ar… (View Post)

I wonder what the underlying mentality is? A bit of internal deniability- "it's not me saying it, it's Grok"? Sort of like the way that people feel sort-of OK passing on something… (View Post)

We saw the same thing during the pandemic. Running everything at near-full capacity in normal times looks efficient (and governments have bagged the savings from doing this, and we've had lower … (View Post)