Our politics is hopeless technology, overlaid upon a socio-technical world of enormous complexity. The ISS as…

Our politics is hopeless technology, overlaid upon a socio-technical world of enormous complexity. The ISS as an example. Took the equivalent of 3 million people years to build, or 26 billion work hours. Almost ten times the collective effort that built the Great Pyramid…/1 https://t.co/bD2sl99zAw

…at Giza, and about 30 times the collective effort to build the Coliseum. And an international effort, across multiple nations. Humans know how to cooperate, at a scale unmatched in history. It’s just that our politics is populist rubbish sitting on top of it, in the way. 2/2