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For a Little Trouble More
People are invariably smarter than their political beliefs.
—Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman, SeaSteading
Dash worked her way through the list of final candidates. She had met Randa Saunders, aka Pipelines, Lucas Kahn of automotive subcomponents, Tom Kovern the financial forecaster, and Ryan Morgan, who stiffly explained that he did voter behavior correction. She was puzzled by this last one until he explained in exasperation that it was like psychohistory, “Not that you would know anything about that, either.” Dash had simply raised an eyebrow, and replied, “I doubt Harry Seldon would believe the analogy, Mr. Morgan. Psychohistorical analysis requires aggregation of a population so large it would encompass multiple planets.” Morgan was so surprised he almost c
